July 20, 2004
MARTHA'S SHARES SLIP 7%
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amIt appears as though Friday's rally was too much of a good thing for investors in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. The stock traded down 7 percent yesterday, after climbing 37...
APPLE SLASHES PRICE OF NEW, LONGER-PLAYING IPOD
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amSteve Jobs is sacrificing tens of millions to keep his wildly popular iPod music players on top - and cheaper to buy than rival players. The Apple Computer chief yesterday...
TUNING IN MUSIC - CLEAR CHANNEL MULLS LAUNCH OF A RECORD LABEL
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amRadio and concert giant Clear Channel has been considering starting its own recorded music company, The Post has learned. The move has been under consideration for months within Clear Channel,...
SEC STALLS EXCHANGE IPOS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe initial public offering of electronic stock exchange Archipelago has been trapped by a debate in Washington over who can own big pieces of publicly-traded markets, sources told The Post....
UPROMISE AIDS U.S. SAVERS WITH INDIAN SECRET
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amUPROMISE is a service through which Americans can earn money through purchases in U.S. stores to put their children through college - usually in the United States - so that...
JPM TO ROLL BACK ITS NYC PRESENCE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amJ.P. Morgan Chase, a historic pillar of downtown real estate and employment, plans to shed up to a whopping half-million square feet of Lower Manhattan office space in the wake...
NASD FINES 3 BIG FIRMS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe National Association of Securities Dealers yesterday fined Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup $250,000 each for failing to produce documents during 20 arbitration cases between 2002 and 2004. The...
MARTHA'S BAD NEWS: STOCK CLOSES OFF 7%
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amIt appears as though Friday's rally was too much of a good thing for investors in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. The stock traded down 7 percent yesterday, after climbing 37...
APPLE SLICES NEW IPOD PRICE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amSteve Jobs is sacrificing tens of millions to keep his wildly popular iPod music players on top - and cheaper to buy than rival players. The Apple Computer chief yesterday...
NEWSDAY, HOY AX 2 TOP EXECUTIVES
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amTribune Co. ousted the publishers of Newsday and Hoy yesterday - on the same day Newsday ran a lengthy exposé about a growing circulation scandal at both papers. Ray Jansen,...
ADVERTISERS BLAST PAPER
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amAdvertisers are fighting mad that Newsday is still charging top ad rates in the midst of its growing circulation scandal. Now they're fighting back by demanding rate concessions and, in...
REEL DEAL DUE ON AMC CHAIN
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amJ.P. Morgan Partners LLC is close to snapping up AMC Entertainment in a transaction valued at about $1.4 billion, The Post has learned. The private equity arm of J.P. Morgan...
STARR REPORT
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amDoug's diggin' it Former "Melrose Place" regular Doug Savant hasn't lacked for meaty roles since leaving the Fox series in 1997. In fact, Savant, who played openly gay social worker...
4-ALARM INFERNO - 'RESCUE ME' BEST SINCE 'SOPRANOS'
July 20, 2004 | 4:00am"Rescue Me" [****] (Four stars) Tomorrow night at 10 on FX FORGET for a minute that "Rescue Me," Denis Leary's great, gritty new drama is in part inspired by my...
ROMAN A CLEAVAGE - UNDER THE COVERS WITH 'STAR' AUTHOR PAMELA ANDERSON; PAM HAS WRITE STUFF
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amTONI Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates - and Pamela Anderson. Yes, the buxom blond actress has added author to her ever-growing résumé with the release of "Star" (Atria Books, $24), a...
FESTIVAL FEVER - POST MOVIE CRITIC MEGAN LEHMANN PICKS THE TOP FIVE FILM FESTS THAT YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF (AND THEY'RE ALL WELL WORTH THE TRIP)
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amLET the hordes have their Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. Did you know that more than 400 film festivals unspool around the globe each year? And the path less...
WHAT'S AILING 'SIX FEET UNDER'? - CREEPED OUT BY LATEST, BRUTAL EPSIODE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S only five episodes into the new season - but fans are already over "Six Feet Under." The four-year-old HBO drama, about an eccentric family running a funeral home in...
'SURVIVOR: CANADA'?
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amSURVIVOR" could be headed to Canada, eh. Series creator Mark Burnett says the venerable CBS reality show could be hitting the Great White North as soon as fall 2005, which...
'DREAM' ON
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amIF you were up at 1 a.m., you might have seen "Dream Job" winner Mike Hall (right) make his debut on ESPN's "SportsCenter." Hall, a 22-year-old college senior, won ESPN's...
A PUBLIC TOILET TRIUMPH
July 20, 2004 | 4:00am'A triumph of civilization over anarchy: public restrooms in the Times Square subway station. ' IF anyone still needs convincing that Times Square has put its dark age behind it...
STATE POLS PASS BILL TO END COLLEGES' RELIANCE ON SATS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe state Legislature has passed a bill that would limit the state and city university systems from using the SAT or other high-stakes tests as the major criteria in determining...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amYes, that was a naked man running down a Tennessee street - and yes, he was covered in melted cheese. Cops in Maryville caught Michael Monn, 23, fleeing a pool...
FATHER-SON MENTAL-HOME BILKERS GUILTY
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA father and son pleaded guilty yesterday to siphoning off almost $2 million from a Queens home for the mentally ill that they co-operated. Sherman Taub, 59, a disbarred lawyer...
TAX-CHEAT PODIATRIST'S FEAT FAILED HIM: DA
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn foot doctor yesterday became the latest suspect bagged in the Manhattan DA's ongoing investigation of businesses that use credit cards tied to offshore bank accounts to evade taxes....
HILL: I'LL BE DEM TICKET CHEERLEADER
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - tapped by John Kerry to speak at the Democratic convention next week - vowed yesterday to be a "strong voice in the chorus" that cheers...
TIMES SQ. SUBWAY BLAST HURTS COP
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA small pipe bomb packed with gunpowder and BBs exploded in a subway station last night, injuring a transit cop and throwing several blocks near Times Square into chaos. A...
CONVENTION DEAL FOR BOSTON COPS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - As the brawl between Boston's mayor and its cops threatened to plunge next week's Democratic convention into chaos, state officials stepped in yesterday to settle the feud. The...
PARTISAN MISTAKE - 9/11 COMMISSION'S ARROGANT ERROR
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amTHE 10 members of the 9/11 Commission are releasing their big report this week. Under other circumstances, the issuance of this document could have made them the toasts of America...
ASSASSIN KILLS JUDGE IN ISRAEL - VICTIM CALLED FOR TERROR FINES
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A Palestinian terror group claimed responsibility for yesterday's unprecedented slaying of a senior Israeli judge who recently suggested the Palestinian Authority be fined for homicide bombings. But Israeli...
W. EYES IRAN TIE TO 9/11 - 'HARBORING QAEDA'
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that the United States is investigating whether Iran was involved in the 9/11 attacks as he pressed the case in the war on terror...
MIKE KA-YACKS ABOUT BX. PARK
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe city broke ground on a $3.2 million park in The Bronx yesterday - the first waterfront park to be built in Hunt's Point. Hunt's Point Riverside Park, which will...
'88 SLAY-CASE TWIST - KILLER'S LAWYERS SAY MURDER WEAPON WILL CLEAR HIM
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island man who has spent nearly 15 years behind bars for the notorious murder of his millionaire parents began another bid for freedom yesterday when his defense team...
GAL-SLAPPED CITY GUARD $LAPS BACK
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA male correction officer who says he got beaten up by two hulking female co-workers is suing the city for $5 million - claiming his bosses retaliated against him for...
MAJOR PLANNING GROUP RIPS W. SIDE STADIUM PROPOSAL
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA plan to build a football stadium and convention center over the West Side rail yards was blitzed yesterday by one of the city's leading planning groups, which said the...
PATH TRAIN HITS BARRIER IN N.J.
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA PATH train derailed as it pulled into Hoboken Station yesterday, leaving seven people injured, officials said. The train, which was coming from the World Trade Center Station, slammed into...
B'KLYN WOMAN MOWED DOWN BY SUV
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amAn impaired elderly woman was pinned under a sport utility vehicle in Brooklyn yesterday morning in front of horrified friends and neighbors. Kathleen McLaughlin, 67, was on her way back...
'DEADBEAT' MILLIONAIRE: I'M BROKE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amTo his wife, Upper East Side developer Barry Marcus is a deadbeat dad who has tens of millions of dollars stashed in overseas accounts and owes his two teen kids...
DEAD L.I. GIRL'S MOM RAN RED LIGHT, COPS SAY
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amAn ignored red light and an unused seat belt led to the death of 10-year-old Tabitha Araunjo in a vicious car accident Sunday afternoon in Suffolk County, police said yesterday....
TELETHON 'CONS' CAUGHT
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amTwo Manhattan women pilfered the credit-card information of at least 60 supporters of a public-television fund drive and then used it to splurge on $12,000 in airline travel packages, prosecutors...
MIKE HIRES MORE CHARTER CHIEFS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration has recruited educators from one of the nation's best charter schools to replicate their success in the Big Apple, sources said yesterday. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein today...
MCCAIN BACKS 'GIRLIE MAN' GOVERNATOR
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amLONG BEACH, Calif. - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) defended California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday for calling Democrats "girlie men," saying the Terminator deserved some slack for his quip. Schwarzenegger, locked...
BRUNO BACKS BOOST IN MINIMUM WAGE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said yesterday for the first time that he will support a boost in the state's minimum wage - a major step toward an...
'DWI'-DAD OUTRAGE - DITCHES CRASH CAR, ABANDONING HURT DAUGHTER, 6: COPS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA drunken driver who just got out of prison smashed into another car and immediately ran off - heartlessly abandoning his critically injured little girl, officials said yesterday. Stephen McCoy,...
NOT-SO-BADFELLA - JUDGE HAILS GOTTI BRO AND SLASHES SENTENCE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amAs goodfellas go, Richard V. Gotti isn't that bad, a federal judge has found. The reputed Gambino capo left court grinning yesterday after Brooklyn federal Judge Frederic Block drastically cut...
FEDS CAN SEND THEIR ROYAL FLUSH DOWN THE TOILET
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amGERRY SHARGEL, a lawyer who has represented a lot of goodfellas, put it this way: "There is a continual saga of a scorched-earth policy towards the Gottis." Well, what else...
FDNY'S HOT WHEELS - STAR'S FUND DONATES MOBILE UNIT
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amDenis Leary not only plays a firefighter on TV, but he supports them in his real life. Yesterday at Rockefeller Center, Leary handed the FDNY the keys to a high-tech...
COPS PROBE CONDO 'SEX CLUB'
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amPolice and at least one elected official are scrutinizing whether people are accepting money for sex at a kinky S&M club being run from atop a ritzy, family-friendly building in...
BUSH COURTS INDY-PENDENT VOTERS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In the midst of a super-tight re-election race, President Bush yesterday got a close-up look at a vehicle that can blow opponents away: the red, white and blue...
NIGHT CLUB RAPE - WAITRESS' ORDEAL AT NEW HOT SPOT; WAITRESS RAPED AT TRENDY NIGHTCLUB
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA cocktail waitress at one of Manhattan's hottest new nightspots was viciously raped by two men in backstage VIP lounge after allegedly being drugged, The Post has learned. A security...
L.I. OVERDOSE KILLER COPS PLEA
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA man suspected of murdering two Long Island men with lethal heroin injections plea-bargained yesterday to one murder charge - and is now expected to testify against a former girlfriend...
SHOTGUN SIEGE - EVICTEE FIRES ON MARSHALS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA 63-year-old Queens man, depressed over the death of his mother, fired three shots at his apartment door as a city marshal and his landlady stood outside with eviction papers...
WITNESS TO HORROR - EX-CON'S FRIEND FINGERS HIM IN SLAY OF N.J. TEEN
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amPolice busted a New Jersey man for the murder of 16-year-old Brittney Gregory after an eyewitness told them he saw the vicious ex-con kill the high-school junior - one of...
JFK JR. RIVAL BUSTED - 'DWI' CRASH IN L.A.
July 20, 2004 | 4:00am"The Other Man" Michael Bergin was busted for drunken driving in Los Angeles on Friday - the fifth anniversary of the plane crash that caused the untimely death of his...
POST DRIVER, 23, KILLED IN CRASH
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA New York Post deliveryman was killed in Brooklyn yesterday when the van he was driving struck a guardrail and flipped over, police said. The 23-year-old man, whose name was...
HAMPTONS DIARY
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amNEW charges have been added to the rap of the drunken Star Room ejectee who had an eye-popping showdown with East Hampton cops outside the club Saturday night. The culprit...
'DEMO'CRATS WIN - JUDGE BOOSTS GOP-GALA PROTESTERS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA judge yesterday handed a victory to protesters at the upcoming Republican National Convention, ruling cops cannot unreasonably restrict access to demonstrations or search bags unless there is "a specific...
GEEZER BEATS, RUNS DOWN WIFE: POLICE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amAn elderly Lakeview man struck his estranged wife with a cane during a fight, hit her with a car - then backed up and hit her again, Nassau County police...
DEAD L.I. GIRL'S MOM RAN RED LIGHT: POLICE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amAn ignored red light and an unused seat belt led to the death of 10-year-old Tabitha Araunjo in a Long Island traffic accident Sunday, police said yesterday. Tabitha was in...
ASSASSIN KILLS JUDGE IN ISRAEL
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A Palestinian terror group claimed responsibility for yesterday's unprecedented slaying of a senior Israeli judge who recently suggested the Palestinian Authority be fined for homicide bombings. But Israeli...
KILLER COPS PLEA, WILL TESTIFY VS. EX
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA man suspected of killing two Long Island men with lethal heroin injections plea-bargained yesterday to one murder charge - and is now expected to testify against a former girlfriend...
DEMS PUT NYERS IN CHEAP SEATS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - What does New York get for pumping $13.5 million into the Kerry campaign? Crummy seats at the back of the convention hall. The bulk of New York's 284-member...
HIT-RUN GETS EX-COP 4 YEARS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA former city cop was sentenced to four years in prison for hitting and critically injuring two people in The Bronx with his car before driving off, officials said yesterday....
TIMES SQ. BLAST INJURES OFFICER
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA small explosion in a subway station last night injured a cop, throwing several blocks near Times Square into chaos. A police spokesman insisted that authorities do not believe the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Police yesterday released a sketch (above) of the coldhearted thief who swiped a nun's purse in East New York three days ago. Sister Ngozi Ohaeri, 41, was mugged...
'DEADBEAT' TYCOON SAYS HE'S BROKE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amTo his wife, Upper East Side developer Barry Marcus is a deadbeat dad who has tens of millions of dollars stashed in overseas accounts and owes his two teen kids...
TEEN SHOT DEAD ON B'KLYN PLAYGROUND
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA 15-year-old Brooklyn boy was shot and killed on a basketball court in Highland Park last night, police said. Larry Hill was playing ball with another teen at about 8:45...
PARRA LANDS ON MET DL
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amMet Notes At first, it sounded suspiciously like one of those NBA phantom injuries. Jose Parra was placed on the DL before last night's game to allow Scott Erickson to...
HOLDING PATTERN - 'ZONA WON'T DEAL UNIT BEFORE FINLEY
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Yankees fans frightened by what the team's starting rotation looks like shouldn't expect Randy Johnson in time for the Red Sox series this weekend at Fenway Park....
HAWKS SWOOP IN - ATLANTA MIGHT STEAL DAMPIER FROM KNICKS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amErick Dampier flew yesterday to Salt Lake City, where the Hawks are playing their summer league. There, Dampier was to be wined and dined by the Hawks brass - GM...
SHEFF SEEKING SHOT
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Gary Sheffield will ask the Yankees' medical staff for a second cortisone shot to relieve the pain in his left shoulder. "It's eating me up,"...
LOOPER BLOOPER - BRADEN FLUSHES ERICKSON'S SOLID DEBUT
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amMarlins 6 - Mets 5 Scott Erickson's timing has been awful since he's been a Met, and Braden Looper was just plain awful last night. After Erickson exited from a...
GREAT SCOTT! - ERICKSON BIG SURPRISE IN RETURN TO MOUND
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amScott Erickson may not have single-handedly shored up the leaky back end of the Mets rotation, but his stunning return to the majors last night showed he could be a...
ISLES INK PAPINEAU
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe Islanders made Justin Papineau, a restricted free agent, the first signing of the summer yesterday when they inked the promising young forward to a one-year deal. The Isles still...
INTENSE CRYSTAL INSPIRES LIBERTY
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amLa'Keshia Frett was only a member of the Liberty for a couple of days before she realized how important Crystal Robinson was to the team. "I knew from playing against...
GIVE TYSON A BREAK - DESERVES SHOT AS JOHNSON SPOTLIGHT GLOWS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amA COMMITTEE of politicians, boxing experts, actors and entertainers gathered in Washington last Tuesday to announce the filing of a petition seeking a posthumous presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, the...
MEET KING O' DENIAL
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - It was a great Olympic trials, because nobody tested positive. So far. "We have asked every day and [the United States Anti-Doping Agency] has reported every day," USA...
SHOULDER PAIN HAS SHEFF SEEKING SHOT
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Gary Sheffield will ask the Yankees' medical staff for a second cortisone shot to relieve the aching in his left shoulder. "It's eating me up,"...
HAMILTON HARDLY 1-SHOT WONDER
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amON Saturday night, with much of the mainstream golf world scrambling to figure out who Todd Hamilton is and why he was leading the British Open through 54 holes, Ernie...
GOOD-BYE, GARCIA - METS DUMP KARIM, TAKE CHANCE ON ORIOLES' RELIEVER
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe Mets jettisoned one spare part yesterday in Karim Garcia, but that doesn't mean their roster is any less cluttered - or improved. The acquisition of righty reliever Mike DeJean...
NETS LOOK THROUGH BARGAIN BIN
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe post-Kenyon Martin era for the Nets is beginning with small steps, not giant strides. With low-cost the key phrase, the team yesterday spoke with free agent swingman Rodney Buford,...
YOU'RE FIRED (UP)! - KAZ ON TEAR SINCE THE DONALD'S DISS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amKaz Matsui has played just over half a season of major-league baseball, so the jury is still out on the Japanese shortstop. But if the last month is any indication,...
MARLINS SWIMMING THROUGH ROUGH CURRENTS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amMARLIN manager Jack McKeon went to the taping of the ESPYs, that pseudo-awards show, Wednesday night in L.A. thinking his team was going to provide him with another victory -...
JOHN PUZZLED BY S.I. YANKS' LATEST LOSSES
July 20, 2004 | 4:00am1ST GAME: Mah. Valley 7 - S.I. Yanks 3 2ND GAME: Mah. Valley 4 - S.I. Yanks 1 A game-time rainstorm canceled the Staten Island Yankees' bid for four straight...
WITH KENYON GONE, NETS LOOK FOR BARGAINS
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amKenyon Martin said it was time for a change. And as he was talking about that to the media in Denver, his new home, folks in his old stomping grounds...
UNIT DEAL ON HOLD UNTIL FINLEY GOES
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Yankees fans frightened by what the team's starting rotation looks like shouldn't expect Randy Johnson in time for the Red Sox series this weekend at Fenway Park....
WHAT A WASTE! - METS CAN'T BACK UP SHANE'S 3-RUN BLAST
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amOn the same day the Mets traded away half of their former right-field platoon, the other half showed why he's still around. Hours after seeing Karim Garcia dealt, Shane Spencer...
ANOTHER REASON NOT TO BELIEVE
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amEVERY time you want to believe the Mets are true contenders, they turn into pretenders. If they were in the AL East, they would be booed out of New York....
GARCIA'S DEALT FOR DEJEAN
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets jettisoned one spare part yesterday in Karim Garcia, but that doesn't mean their roster is any less cluttered or improved. The acquisition of right-handed reliever Mike...
GRAMAN'S NO HELP - ROOKIE HURLS HIMSELF OUT OF ROTATION
July 20, 2004 | 4:00amD-Rays 9 - Yankees 7 ST. PETERSBURG - Andy Beal started for Columbus last night. Maybe he will hurl for the Yankees Saturday at Fenway Park. That's because Alex Graman's...