July 12, 2004
EMINEM GETS SIRIUS WITH HIP-HOP CHANNEL
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amInterscope Records and rap star Eminem are teaming with satellite radio broadcaster Sirius to launch a hip-hop music and lifestyle channel. The deal, slated to be announced today, is part...
BLOOMY BOUNCE - UPSET AT TRANSITION, TOP EXEC EXITS NEWS SERVICE
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amWhile Mayor Bloomberg is absent from his media empire, some of his loyal executives are becoming upset over what the caretaker managers are feeding them. One of the most trusted...
STARR REPORT
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amOn Pat's shoulders Pat O'Brien will be flying solo as the lone anchor/host of "The Insider" - but that's fine with him. "It's all on my shoulders, which I like,"...
WE'RE NOT WORTHY OF '90S 'LOVE'
July 12, 2004 | 4:00am"I Love the '90s" [** 1/2] Two and one-half stars) Tonight through Friday night at 9 on VH1 NOW that VH1 has blown through the '70s, '80s and '90s, it...
CLOSET CASES - INTRODUCING THE UNKNOWN DESIGNERS HOLLYWOOD LOVES; STARS' HIPPEST DESIGNERS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amMISCHA Barton could have worn any designer in the world to the Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Awards. But instead of calling Gucci or Prada, she decided to wear a dress from...
NEW LOOK - 'JOEY' SET WITHOUT 'FRIENDS'
July 12, 2004 | 4:00am"IT'S LIKE GETTING A DIVORCE FROM SOMEONE YOU'RE STILL IN LOVE WITH," LEBLANC SAID OF THE "FRIENDS" FINALE. MATT LeBlanc, star of the NBC spinoff "Joey," confessed yesterday he's still...
'KIDS' STUFF - NEXT GEN OF NEWSIES HIT NY
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amAN all-kids newscast, starring the sons and daughters of prominent broadcasters, has finally cracked the New York City market. "Teen Kids News" is co-anchored by Paula Zahn's teenage daughter, Haley...
RED-LIGHT CAM CALL
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amTwo state lawmakers yesterday urged doubling the number of red-light cameras in the city, following an accident that left a Queens boy in critical condition. Nicholas Ho, 12, was on...
TWINS' DEATH BAFFLES COPS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amAn initial autopsy report did not uncover what caused the tragic deaths of 18-day-old Brooklyn twins who mysteriously stopped breathing as they slept in their bassinet, sources said yesterday. According...
CONSERVATIVES PUT GOP ON THE SPOT
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amNEW YORK Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long has issued an unprecedented ultimatum to the Republican-controlled state Senate: Take an immediate stand on controversial issues, or risk losing Conservative support. The...
HIV ALARM FOR MID-AGE BLACKS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amBANGKOK - The middle-aged black man is emerging as HIV's newest face, especially in Manhattan. More and more black men between the ages of 40 and 54 are testing positive...
STIR-RING APPEAL - WOMAN IN PLEA FOR LOST MEMENTO OF 9/11 SISTER
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amHeartsick Erin Jackman has issued an urgent appeal to New Yorkers - begging them to find the ring that was her cherished link to the kid sister she lost in...
FAN-TASTIC MAKEOVER FOR TUNNEL
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amAfter 65 years on the job, the Queens Midtown Tunnel's 23 original ventilation fans - each the size of a small car - are exhausted. The carbon-steel blades will be...
EDWARDS' STAR TURN - PRAISES KERRY'S 'NAM SERVICE IN SOLO TV AD
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amSen. John Kerry's campaign is taking the unprecedented step of pushing its vice-presidential pick into a solo performance under the spotlight, in a new television ad aimed at convincing America...
FILIPINOS DEFY HOSTAGE PERIL
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe Philippines yesterday ruled out an early withdrawal of troops in Iraq even as an execution deadline set by captors of a Filipino truck driver came and went. There was...
LIBYA STIFFS APPLE - $28M DOUBLE-CROSS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amLibyan strongman Moammar Khadafy's government convinced city officials to drop more than $28 million in back property taxes against its diplomatic headquarters - only to later renege on its end...
GOP CASH BEEFS UP NADER'S ACCOUNT
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amWealthy Republicans who have ballooned President Bush's campaign war chest are also stuffing the coffers of Ralph Nader - the major thorn in Sen. John Kerry's side. Devout Bush-backers so...
'DIRTY' WEAPONS FEARED SMUGGLED OUT OF IRAQ
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amUnconventional weapons material may have slipped past the Iraqi border into neighboring states during the war, and terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is probably hot on its trail, Iraq's national...
TERROR THREAT SPURS PLANNING FOR ELECTION DELAY
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amFearing an al Qaeda strike, U.S. counterterrorism officials are exploring ways to delay the presidential election if necessary. With no such authority currently on the books, officials in the Homeland...
TEEN TRAIN TRAGEDY - GAL PAL SEES KID DIE ON LIRR TRACKS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amA college-bound high-school basketball star was struck and killed by a Long Island Rail Road train as his longtime girlfriend watched in horror. Dowling College-bound power forward Isaiah Stanton, 17,...
'DRUNK' DRIVER HITS L.I. COP
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amA hit-and-run drunken driver struck a Patchogue police constable, critically injuring him, after the village's annual fireworks display, cops said yesterday. The driver got away at first, but witnesses helped...
'OZ' STRIKES ITS OWN DEAL
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amProducers of "The Boy From Oz" broke ranks with their colleagues yesterday and signed an agreement with Actors' Equity that will allow their show to go on if actors strike...
HAMPTONS DIARY
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY raised the stakes for the party of the summer. Calvin Klein's Saturday-night housewarming at his new $29.9 million oceanside mansion on Meadow Lane had the jaws of even the...
CALL TO DOUBLE RED-LIGHT CAMS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amTwo state lawmakers yesterday urged doubling the number of red-light cameras in the city, following an accident that left a Queens boy in critical condition. State Sen. Frank Padavan (R-Queens)...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A homeless man was stabbed to death yesterday - by a man in a wheelchair he tried to mug, cops said. The would-be mugger, whose name was withheld,...
FAMILY KAYAK CAPSIZE HORROR - BOY SEES DAD DROWN
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amA weekend kayaking trip turned tragic when a Manhattan man drowned in front of his horrified 13-year-old son after their boat overturned upstate, cops said yesterday. Layton Ledgister, of Harlem,...
ROCKEFELLER SCION DIES
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amConservation visionary Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, a Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal winner, died at his Manhattan home yesterday. He was 94. Rockefeller, a grandson of oil magnate John...
WRONG-WAY DRIVER MAKES A MCMESS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe slogan at McDonald's may be "I'm lovin' it" - but two customers definitely weren't lovin' it yesterday afternoon when a car smashed into a fast-food eatery in Oakdale, L.I....
BLOOPS OOPS: NYPD SAYS ABC BROKE PROMISE
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amRed-faced NYPD brass yesterday tried to dump blame for the department's televised "24/7" bloopers on ABC News, insisting the network reneged on promises to not make it look bad and...
TV TO AIR SLEUTH'S NYPD BOO! TALES
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amThere are roughly 35,000 cops in New York City, but only one who polices the dark side - the occult. Now his life is being turned into a TV show....
11 SLAYS ARE FLUKE, KELLY SAYS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amA spate of murders in the Big Apple over the weekend was unusual - considering the city's ever-plunging crime rate, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday. "The rash of homicides...
ALEX 'DEAD AGAIN' - HAMILTON-BURR DUEL RE-ENACTED IN JERSEY
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amIt was 200 years after the most famous gunfight east of the OK Corral, and Aaron Burr once again gunned down Alexander Hamilton under the bluffs of Weehawken yesterday. On...
SPIDEY ON TOP FOR 2ND WEEK
July 12, 2004 | 4:00am"Spider-Man 2's" webbed feat at the box office continued over the weekend as it again grabbed the top slot with a $46 million take. Spidey's tidy second-week lock on the...
COCKTAIL OF DEATH - WOMAN POISONS BROTHER-IN-LAW WITH ANTIFREEZE; LETHAL MIX DISGUISED AS COCKTAIL
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amA woman was charged yesterday with mixing her brother-in-law a deadly drink of pineapple juice, maraschino cherries - and antifreeze, police said. Maryann Neabor (right) allegedly served the cocktail of...
HOSPITALIZED LOVE FEARS JAIL'S NEXT
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amCourtney Love could be discharged from Bellevue Hospital as early as today - but she's terrified she'll be thrown in jail the moment she's released, her lawyer said last night....
LADY WHO 'NETS SPIES - SHE CRUISES WEB LOOKING FOR TERRORISTS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amSpc. Ryan Anderson thought he was e-mailing an Islamic extremist when he sought information about joining al Qaeda, but his letters were actually being read and recorded by a bubbly...
MAFIA BANNED MURDER - HALTED HITS UNDER HEAT
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amAS THE sensational Bonanno-Massino trial draws to a close this week, I will reveal one shocking secret about New York's mobdom. At one time, the heads of the five families...
NYU'S NO IVY - BUT IT'S COVERED IN GRASS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amIt appears NYU "pot princess" Julia Diaco is accused of dealing dope at a college in a community that masters in marijuana. New NYPD statistics show police made 5,707 drug...
PATH-FINDERS - RIDERS UP AT STATIONS RESTORED AFTER 9/11
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amRidership is on the right PATH at two stations that saw service cut off by the 9/11 attacks. The number of commuters who use the temporary World Trade Center station...
FED-UP CONSERVATIVE BOSS WARNS STATE GOP
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amNEW YORK Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long has issued an unprecedented ultimatum to the Republican-controlled state Senate: Take an immediate stand on controversial issues, or risk losing Conservative support. The...
CURTAINS FOR 'RAISIN'
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe teary-eyed Broadway cast of "A Raisin in the Sun," led by rapper-turned-thespian Sean Combs, joined in prayer together behind the curtains before heading out for yesterday's final show. "We...
HOSTAGE GETS A REPRIEVE
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amA militant group holding a Filipino truck driver extended its deadline two days and now says it will kill him tomorrow unless his homeland immediately withdraws its troops from Iraq....
LETTERS OF LOVE - GIRL, 8, WRITES TO ILL KIDS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amShe was born in southern China eight years ago and was only a few hours old when she was found abandoned on a street corner and taken to an orphanage....
BLAIR: I WOULD BE PM AGAIN
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amTony Blair says he's not going anywhere. The British prime minister, who has been under fire for siding with the United States in Iraq, told The Sun in London that...
HAMILTON'S TRIUMPH - FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amTwo hundred years ago today, Alexander Hamilton - principal founder of the New York Post and arguably the most remarkable of America's Founding Fathers - died of a bullet wound...
MONEY-PIT PRISON - FUROR OVER $18M FACE-LIFT FOR EMPTY B'KLYN JAIL
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amCall it the Brooklyn House of Contention. The fabled 10-story jailhouse at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Boerum Place has been "temporarily" closed for about a year - but...
SCHOOLS' NEW PRENATAL PLAN
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration this fall will beef up prenatal care and other services for 400 pregnant students to encourage them to stay in school and not drop out. The Department...
DEGREES OF DANGER - CITY'S MOST CRIME-RIDDEN CAMPUSES
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amLocal college students are learning a lot more these days - about violence, illegal drugs and booze on campus, according to explosive crime data obtained by The Post. Under federal...
THE KING'S QUEEN & THEIR PRINCESSES
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amLisa Marie Presley is about to get the Hilton sisters all shook up - Elvis' little girl says she'll never, ever let her own daughter turn into a "dumb twit"...
KILLER DEBT - VICTIM OWED SUICIDE SLAYER MONEY: COPS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amA fight over money sparked the bloody encounter between two young Queens men that ultimately cost both their lives. Andrew Giummo, 22, was shot in the chest on 63rd Road...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amIt was a bird-brained move that pilot Harry Griffing will never forget. The 21-year-old Ohio flier, bringing mail to four Lake Erie islands, needed 20 stitches to his face after...
CHOICE NOT THE GREATEST
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amMAJOR League Baseball, since the war in Iraq began, has devoted its seventh inning stretch to asking players and patrons to stand in thoughtful and respectful acknowledgement of our men...
LIBERTY WIN IS CRYSTAL CLEAR
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amLiberty 77 - Mercury 69 Depending on whom you ask, Crystal Robinson has as much defensive ability in her little finger as some WNBA players have in their entire bodies....
CALL HIM MEAN MO GREENE
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - We can't say that Maurice Greene was the World's Fastest Man going into yesterday's 100-meter finals at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. Tim Montgomery, Greene's arch-rival...
MEDALLIST BREEZES IN DWYER
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amFlashing the speed of an Olympic gold-medalist miler, Medallist rocketed through scorching fractions under Jorge Chavez to win yesterday's Grade 2, $150,000 Dwyer Stakes at Belmont Park by 3 3/4...
MARION STILL TALK OF TRACK
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amNOTES SACRAMENTO - By the time yesterday's competition in the United States Olympic Track and Field Trials began, the one question that had been asked more than any other in...
SHEFF HAS BIG BLAST AFTER HE'S BUZZED
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe axiom that it's better to get even than angry has always applied in baseball, where a player's best revenge for being thrown at is to get a hit. After...
DUQUE DAZZLES IN YANK ENCORE - BOMBERS WELCOME ORLANDO WITH FIVE-HOMER BARRAGE
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 10 - Devil Rays 3 The Yankees don't forget old heroes like Orlando Hernandez, and El Duque certainly hasn't forgotten how to pitch. The Cuban-born righty, making his first...
HATHAWAY'S CATCHING ON
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amSome guys impress in the New York-Penn League by throwing it hard or hitting it long or running faster than a Cyclone roller-coaster car. And then there's Brooklyn Cyclone catcher...
LIKE OLD TIMES FOR EMOTIONAL HERNANDEZ
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amAND you thought Old-Timers' Day ended Saturday. George Steinbrenner has always envisioned himself as baseball's Gen. George Patton. Like Patton, he knows his men must have guts before they can...
GREEN'S STOCK SOARS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amABCD CAMP Danny Green entered the Reebok ABCD Camp at Fairleigh Dickinson in Hackensack as just another good player who several Big East schools were after. He left as one...
NEW MANTRA: CHEAT, THEN YOU GET BEAT
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - The lawyers can't argue a 10:23 in the 100-meter dash, the courts can't overturn it. No panel, aided by its own wind or not in the zeal to...
SHAQ AGENT: DEAL TO MIAMI IMMINENT
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amNets CEO Rod Thorn sees "the biggest force in the game" invading his territory. Orlando GM John Weisbrod won't have any sleepless nights, but it's still not his preference. Indiana...
MATCH GAME FOR K-MART? - NETS LOOK LIKELY TO MEET RIVAL OFFERS FOR KENYON
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amDon't be so quick to wave good-bye to Kenyon Martin in New Jersey. The Nuggets are trying to pry Martin away from the Nets through a sign- and-trade scenario, a...
MUSSINA VEERING AWAY FROM DL
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Mike Mussina doesn't think he needs to be put on the disabled list, and neither do Yankee officials. Due to soreness in his right elbow, Mussina missed yesterday's...
BENCH-TIME FOR JOSE - HOWE SITS HOT BAT IN FIRST-HALF FINALE
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Jose Reyes knocked three hits on Saturday, had eight hits in his last 20 at-bats and looked ready to get on a nice little tear. Until...
BREAKING DOWN - METS SLIDE TO FOURTH AT ALL-STAR HIATUS
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amMarlins 5 - Mets 2 MIAMI - The Mets lost two out of three games here, are now in fourth place and won't see the standings change again until Thursday....
LEITER PILES UP PITCHES
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amMIAMI - Forty-five pitches. Forty-five pitches is fine for three innings of work. Forty-five pitches is OK if it's what a bullpen throws all game. But 45 pitches in one...
POSADA PULLS UP WITH ACHY ANKLE
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe good news for Jorge Posada was the home run he hit in the second inning of yesterday's 10-3 rout of Tampa Bay, and the RBI single that followed in...
WEIRD FINISH LIFTS 'CLONES
July 12, 2004 | 4:00am10 INNINGS: Cyclones 3 - S.I. Yanks 2 The wackiest play of the season, the one that ended the Brooklyn Cyclones' 3-2, 10-inning victory over Staten Island last night, started...
BLAMING MEDIA FOR LOST CHANCE
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - Unlike for the mother of his child, there was no golf cart waiting at the other side of the fence for Tim Montgomery. A day later, Montgomery's walk...
GREECE FOR GREENE; MONTY'S SENT HOME - TRIALS STUNNER: TIM'S SHUT OUT AS MO COPS 100
July 12, 2004 | 4:00am"I don't know what he did. ... I can only speak on myself. I ran a pretty good race." -MAURICE GREENE ON TIM MONTGOMERY SACRAMENTO - We can't say that...
U.S. TRIPLE-JUMP MARK TO HURD
July 12, 2004 | 4:00amNOTES SACRAMENTO - USA Track & Field has been yearning for a positive story to emerge from these trials to take the focus off the cloud of steroid investigations and...