October 12, 2004
FEDS TOOK A DIVE IN DIVA INK EXPERT CASE
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amFEDERAL prosecutors took a dive in the case against the Martha Stewart ink expert. That, at least, is what friends and fans of Stewart are now thinking and discussing among...
DESIGNING MEN TAKE RAP FASHION UPSCALE
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amUsher liked the RyanKenny suit, a seersucker with rainbow-colored pinstripes, so much he wore one to MTV's Total Request Live and another to the Teen Choice Awards. Jay-Z wore $5,000...
ABBOTT SWALLOWS DIET BAR MAKER EAS WITH $320M BID
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amAbbott Laboratories struck a $320 million cash deal to buy EAS Inc., a top maker of nutrition bars and dietary supplements, from investment firm North Castle Partners. The pharmaceutical giant...
MYSTERIOUS SALE OF 57TH ST. BUILDING FOR $14.25M
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amIN infinitely complex Manhattan, the apparently simple sale of a small building on a glamorous Midtown block can often conceal a tangle of agendas and might-have-beens. Take 50 E. 57th...
MERCK NEEDS NEW RX FOR CEO
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amEmbattled drug giant Merck is seeking miracle cures for its own ailments - in both its executive suite and development labs. With its stock hit by the costly recall of...
E-MAILS PROBED IN BEAR INQUIRY
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amBear Stearns is probing records of a half dozen of its top officials in the wake of federal investigations of whether the firm let big insiders feed illegally on mutual...
SICK KIDS VS. DISNEY IN 'PETER PAN' DUSTUP
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amIt's a story that would make Peter Pan glad that he never grew up. Walt Disney Co. is caught in a feud with a U.K. children's hospital over the copyright...
FEELING THE LOVE - 'DESPERATE' JOINS AN ELITE CLUB
October 12, 2004 | 4:00am'DESPERATE Housewives" has done what only a handful of TV shows have ever done - debuted as the No. 1 show in the country and kept right on going. Some...
WATCH SIX TIMES THE TELEVISION
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amSONY has unveiled the ultimate digital record ing device - a monster machine that can record six TV channels for almost a week straight. The 1,000 gigabyte hard-drive device attached...
LAST MOVIE HIT CLOSE TO HOME
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amFOR his last film, Chris topher Reeve chose a topic he knew well - paralysis: the toll it takes and the courage it inspires. The made-for-TV movie, which he directed...
PLASTIC & PROUD - HE SPENT $25,000 TO GO FROM DUD TO STUD
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amSTEVE Carl used to be an ugly duckling. But after spending $10,000 on plastic surgery, plus another $15,000 on personal training, Carl transformed himself from a grumpy, 230-pound "big cake...
MARY KAY & VILI ENGAGED
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amMary Kay Letourneau is engaged to her boy-toy former student - and has the ring to prove it. The temptress teacher, who started having sex with her Vili Fualaau when...
QUEENS GIRLFIGHT ENDS IN FATAL STABBING
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA 15-year-old Queens girl was stabbed to death last night in an angry dispute over a boy, police said. The victim, Frances Hynds, was one of three teenage girls involved...
CITY HMO PREMIUMS IN SICKENING $URGE
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - HMO premiums in New York City soared over the past year by as much as 35 percent, boosting subscribers' health-care costs by hundreds - and sometimes thousands -...
MARTHA'S LONELY DAY IN PRISON
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amALDERSON, W. Va. - Martha Stewart was alone for the holiday. The imprisoned doyenne of domesticity had not a single visitor yesterday - even as the visiting room at the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe PC police are alive and well in Carmel by the Sea , Calif., where a group of women 51 to 84 posed for a nudie calendar to raise $30,000...
GIRLS' FIGHT TRAGEDY
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA 15-year-old Queens girl was stabbed to death last night in an angry dispute over a boy, police said. The victim, Frances Hynds, was one of three teenage girls involved...
HE FLEW HIGH AS AN ACTOR & PERSON
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S worth noting that Christopher Reeve landed the role of his career after it had been turned down by the likes of James Caan, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford...
BRAWL ENDS IN FATAL STABBING
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA man was fatally stabbed last night in a fight in the Rockaways, police said. The altercation, with two other men, started shortly after 11 p.m. near the corner of...
QNS. GI DIES IN SANDSTORM
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man, who was stationed in the relative safety of South Korea last summer, was killed Sunday just weeks after his regiment was sent to Iraq, the military said...
FREED FIEND STRIKES - KIDNAP MASTERMIND
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA Taliban commander who was freed from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay earlier this year has returned to terrorism, surfacing in Pakistan where he is threatening to murder two...
EGYPT EYES 'COCKTAIL OF TERRORISTS' IN RESORT BLASTS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Egyptian investigators believe a dormant al Qaeda cell came to life to carry out last week's Sinai hotel bombings with other Egyptian terrorists. Arab newspapers quoted the investigators...
VICTORY IS SWEET FOR LAURA BUSH
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amIt's Bush in a landslide! No, not the election for the White House - the Family Circle cookie bakeoff pitting challenger Teresa Heinz Kerry against incumbent First Lady Laura Bush....
JFK RAIL LINK NIXED - POLS AX FUND PLAN
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A corporate tax bill that doles out tens of millions of dollars from Alaska to Florida stiffs New York City by excluding a critical measure that would have...
PUNISHED GIRL BLOWS AWAY MOM: COPS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA 12-year-old Texas girl - enraged at being grounded - killed her sleeping mother with a single rifle blast to the face, cops said. The girl's 10-year-old brother called 911...
SMOKING GUN - ABC'S ABCS OF MEDIA BIAS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amCONSERVATIVES are up in arms about the memo written by the chief politics producer at ABC News, which leaked out on Friday. They shouldn't be. Mark Halperin's memo is very...
VELELLA D-DAY LOOMS - HEADS MAY ROLL
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amCity investigators are expected to determine this week whether a city commission broke any laws when it sprung former Sen. Guy Velella from jail early, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. The...
GIRLS OUTDRINK GUYS: STUDY
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amScientists shattered a major drinking myth yesterday as they revealed that women are better at holding their alcohol than men. A study by the Kentucky University found men's loss of...
THE ROLE OF A WIFE-TIME - 'DESPERATE' GAL IS A STAR OVERNIGHT
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe hottest star of fall's hottest show is no longer desperate - or a housewife. "Desperate Housewives" sexpot Eva Longoria, recently divorced from her actor hubby, Tyler Christopher, is having...
BID TO END SLAY SILENCE - GRAND JURY EYED TO NAIL GRID-KID KILLERS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amProbers stymied by the murky murder of college grid star Mark Fisher yesterday vowed to bring the case before a grand jury in a bid to force key witnesses to...
-RUDY RIPS KERRY - 'HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN TO THE INNOCENTS THAT WE'LL HAVE AN ACCEPTABLE TERRORISM LEVEL?' (M)-NUISANCE NONSENSE - RUDY RAGES AT KERRY'S CRACK ON SLASHING LEVEL OF TERROR (S, LCF)
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday ripped John Kerry for saying he could live with a "nuisance" level of terrorism and demanded the Democrat explain that "to the innocent...
B'KLYN BOY DIES AFTER VAN ACCIDENT
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA 10-year-old Brooklyn boy was killed yesterday after being hit by a minivan while walking down a Flatbush block with his aunt, police said. Christopher Smith was crossing the street...
BOY STABS MOM TO DEATH: COPS - 'DUG A GRAVE' AFTER FIGHT OVER GAL PAL
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA troubled teen stabbed his correction-officer mother to death when she tried to lay down the law after finding out his older girlfriend spent the night, Long Island cops said...
TATUM TOME RIPS EX & DAD
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amJohn McEnroe was a self-absorbed pothead, his ex-wife Tatum O'Neal says. "When he wasn't playing, he was sometimes in a pot fog," the actress reveals in her sensational autobiography, "A...
MCGREEVEY $TIFFING JOHN IN JERSEY
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amSoon-to-resign New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey is doling out only $25,000 from his state Democratic party's $2.5 million war chest to help John Kerry, even though recent polls show a...
AMERICA HAILS A MAN OF ZEAL - CHRIS REEVE PRAISED FOR COURAGE & PASSION
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe nation poured its heart out yesterday over the death of Christopher Reeve - fondly remembering the strapping star who brought Superman to life, and who then became a real-life...
RECORD MURDER DECLINE - MIKE'S PREDICTION
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amMurders in the city this year could be the fewest "since we started keeping records," Mayor Bloomberg boasted yesterday. The mayor made the year-end prediction for 2004 during a speech...
B'BALL DEATH PUZZLE
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amMystery surrounds the death of Ken Caminiti, the three-time baseball All Star who died in The Bronx over the weekend. The city Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy yesterday, but...
RIVERA BARES GRIEF - 'DEVASTATED' YANKEE MAY MISS BIG GAME
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amMariano Rivera said he feels "tired, devastated and weak" following his family's freak double-electrocution tragedy, and couldn't say whether he'd be able to pitch in the Yankees' postseason showdown with...
MANNY, JOHNNY DRIVE SOX
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amJohnny Damon, the official sound bite of the Red Sox, was asked about oddsmakers installing Boston as the ALCS favorite. "We're not allowed to bet on baseball," Damon said with...
SLAIN GRIDDER MEMORIAL - KIN WILL MARK YEAR SINCE B'KLYN DEATH
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe shattered family of tragic college grid star Mark Fisher is set to mark the one-year anniversary of his murder today by holding a prayer vigil on the Brooklyn street...
'GOTTI' LOT YIELDS HUMAN BONES
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amFour human bones were unearthed yesterday at a reputed Gambino family burial ground on the Brooklyn-Queens border, where FBI forensic teams have been digging for eight days. Bureau spokesman James...
RIVERA BARES GRIEF - 'DEVASTATED' YANKEE COULD MISS SOX GAME
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amMariano Rivera said he feels "tired, devastated and weak" following his family's double-electrocution tragedy, and couldn't say whether he'd be able to pitch in the Yankees' postseason showdown with the...
'RECORD' MURDER DECLINE
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amMurders in the city this year could be the fewest "since we started keeping records," Mayor Bloomberg boasted yesterday. The mayor made the year-end prediction for 2004 during a speech...
COP PASSED HS 'RAPISTS' WITH GIRL
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA New Jersey cop may have seen two high-school football players in a Montclair park with the 15-year-old girl they're accused of raping - without realizing the teen was in...
FIRE DEATHS AT 77-YR. LOW
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe number of people killed in fires this year has dropped by nearly 35 percent to its lowest level in 77 years, FDNY officials said yesterday. From January to September,...
GIRL'S KIDNAP FRIGHT - SHRIEKS THWART S.I. THUG
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amEvery parent's worst nightmare almost became a reality yesterday afternoon on a quiet Staten Island street as a man tried to kidnap a 5-year-old girl by pulling her over the...
TRAGIC PLAYTIME - VAN KILLS FUN-LOVING B'KLYN BOY, 10
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA mischievous 10-year-old Brooklyn boy was killed after being hit by a minivan apparently just minutes after sneaking out of the house to go play with friends in a park,...
DEAD MAN LIVES - WEIRD SLAY MIXUP
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amCall it the case of the dead man walking. At 6 a.m. yesterday, a man was shot dead outside a Brooklyn restaurant. Cops identified the victim as Ariel Reyes. At...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A 25-year-old man was busted yesterday for firing a bullet at a man who bumped into him as they walked along a Chelsea street, police sources said. Francisco...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: HISTORIC HISPANIC PLACES
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amHispanic culture is recognized and celebrated all over our country. Here are a few great historical places of Hispanic origin. Perhaps you've heard of Los Angeles, Calif., Santa Fe, N.M....
JETSONS JITNEY - JERSEY EYES HIGH-TECH TRANSIT PODS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amIt's "The Jetsons" meets mass transit. Travelers could someday hop into an oval-shaped capsule and zip off to work or the store, as part of a proposed transportation project in...
DEATHS BY FIRE PLUNGE - CITY'S FEWEST IN 77 YRS.
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe number of people killed in fires this year has dropped by nearly 35 percent to its lowest level in 77 years, FDNY officials said yesterday. From January to September,...
SACK THESE DESIGNERS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amDutch design duo Victor & Rolf need their heads examined. The limelight-loving designers sent a model down the catwalk at the spring/summer 2005 Fashion Week in Paris wearing a florist's...
NO PROBLEM - 'STROS BASH BRAVES, REACH NLCS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 5: Astros 12 - Braves 3 ATLANTA - Houston, there is no problem. After failing to win a series in its eight previous postseason appearances, the Astros finally tasted...
ARIZA'S KNICK STOCK ARISING
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES The whispers why Knicks rookie Trevor Ariza fell in the draft, into the mid-second round, centered on his supposed overbearing mother. If that's the case, those GMs should...
PAUL SCHWARTZ' GIANT REPORT CARD
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amHigh marks for allQUARTERBACKS Remarkable how Kurt Warner (18 of 33, 217 yards, 1 TD) has reinvented himself in the second chapter of his ca reer. Tosses beautiful lobs and...
MERCER GOING ALL OUT
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe Nets' tight intra-squad scrimmage was winding down. Pride, bragging rights and maybe an extra lap for the losers were all that lay on the line. But it meant more...
MARK CANNIZZARO'S JET REPORT CARD
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amA SWARM OF B's QUARTERBACKS Chad Pennington (31 of 42, 304 yards, 1 TDs, 1 INT) did just about everything right until he threw fourth- quarter INT that sparked Buffalo...
COUGHLIN'S WINNING GAMES - & HEARTS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amIn slightly longer than a month's time, Tom Coughlin has transformed the Giants from a skeptical team that viewed him with either disdain or distrust into a group that now...
BROWN, FLAHERTY MOURN CAMINITI
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amYankees Kevin Brown and John Flaherty, who played with Ken Caminiti in San Diego, spoke glowingly yesterday of the former NL MVP who died in The Bronx Sunday at 41...
JINXED CARTER LOOKS LOST FOR SEASON
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES For the third consecutive year, it looks as if Tim Carter's season has come to a premature end because of an injury. The third-year Giant receiver left Sunday's...
OMAR PAL RUDY UP NEXT FOR AMAZIN'S
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amRudy Jaramillo's first audition will come on Friday. The Mets will interview their second managerial candidate three days from now when Jaramillo, the Rangers' vaunted hitting coach, comes to New...
SERIES STOPS FOR NO ONE
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amTHE baseball goes on, blissfully unaware of mitigating circumstances, no matter how terrible or tragic. The series all of baseball has coveted for 12 months begins tonight as scheduled. The...
YANKEES MAY GO MINUS MO; RIVERA'S GAME 1 STATUS UNCERTAIN
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe Yankees are girding for the possibility Mariano Rivera may not be available for Game 1 of the ALCS tonight against the Red Sox at a sold-out Yankee Stadium. On...
JET GUARDS HURTING
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets' victory over the Bills on Sunday was a costly one. After going the first few weeks of the season staying relatively healthy, the Jets will likely...
4-0ERS SHOULDN'T LOOK PAST 49ERS - EDWARDS WARNS HIS JETS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amThe goal for Herman Edwards this week is to seek out a mini-goal to attract his players' attention, because the 1-4 San Francisco 49ers might not be enough - particularly...
THIS ACE ISN'T IN BOSS' DECK
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amGEORGE Steinbrenner wants every trophy in the case and one at each position, too. Curt Schilling, the primary reason a fourth consecutive World Championship got away in 2001 before he...
KIDD AT POINT OF NO RETURN
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amTHOUGH no trade conversation actually took place between the Nets and Mavericks in early August, which is contrary to widespread reports, Mark Cuban was seriously considering the acquisition of Jason...
DUQUE NOT SURE FOR 4
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre and Mel Stottlemyre liked what they saw from Orlando Hernandez in a bullpen session yesterday, and left him on the ALCS roster. However, they stopped short...
FLASH SET TO SHINE
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amOn any other team, the possible loss of a closer the stature of Mariano Rivera would be devastating. But the Yankees are not any other team. They can turn to...
JOHN ON THE SPOT - SMOLTZ LEADS BRAVES ON, OF[[U4]]F MOUND
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amATLANTA - He is the last remaining pitcher of the famed rotation responsible for most of the Braves' 13 consecutive division titles. Greg Maddux is now a Cub and Tom...
CURT: ANKLE'S NOT GONNA SLOW ME DOWN
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amAccording to an observer, Curt Schilling walked into Yankee Stadium's visiting clubhouse the same way he navigated Fenway Park the past few days: with a limp. Call it a hobble...
MOOSE IS THE MAN
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amEver since Mike Mussina has been a Yankee, the pitching staff has been loaded with pitchers who possess sexier or more sensational stories. Roger Clemens, "The Rocket," was zeroing in...
MO'S MATES FEEL HIS PAIN
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amMariano Rivera looked into Luis Sojo's eyes Saturday night and knew he had a kindred spirit. Earlier this season Sojo lost his mother and a nephew who died in a...
YANKS: LOSE TO SOX? NOT US
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amLOOK into the eyes of the Yankees yesterday and this is what you saw. "Not us. We don't want to be the first Yankee team since 1918 to let the...
BLOOD BOILS - FIREWORKS READY TO EXPLODE IN GREATEST FEUD IN SPORTS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amSOMEBODY up there likes us, for giving us once-in-a-lifetime theater like this twice in one year. For pure, unadulterated electricity, intensity, drama and, oh yes, hatred, Yankees-Red Sox is Ali-Frazier...
TOO MUCH IN YANKEES FAVOR - TORRE GIVES BOMBERS BIG ADVANTAGE
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amIf not this year, when will the Red Sox beat the Yankees in October? Las Vegas has installed Boston as the favorite to win the ALCS that opens tonight with...
HOW TO STOP THE SOX
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Yankees and Red Sox played before a packed house and overstuffed press box the first week of March in Fort Myers. Their initial regular-season matchup of 2004, on April...
LETHAL WEAPONS - SCHILLING, MARTINEZ TAKING AIM AT BOMBERS
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amTwo of baseball's most dynamic pitchers are taking dead aim at the Yankees. Curt Schilling and Pedro Martinez form Boston's double-barreled shotgun, and the Red Sox were given time to...
BUCKY: I HATED EM
October 12, 2004 | 4:00amTHE mere mention of the name Bucky Dent sends shudders throughout Red Sox Nation. The man they remember 26 years later as Bucky "Bleeping" Dent hit the historic three-run homer...