November 6, 2004
VORNADO STAKE SENDS SEARS UP 23%
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amThe shares of Sears, Roebuck & Co. soared 23 percent yesterday, marking its biggest one-day gain in more than three decades, after a real estate investment trust disclosed that it...
BACK TO WORK; JOB GROWTH, RISING PRODUCTIVITY CHEER MARTS
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amHiring is on a sharp upswing, heading toward a recovery that could be stronger than many investors expected. The latest government data yesterday on payrolls said companies added about 337,000...
GOOGLE'S ADS IN TASTE TESTS
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amGoogle Inc. has taken the unusual step of making its advertising policy public after getting criticized for rejecting some ads. Like a lot of companies, Google nixes firearms, tobacco and...
MARKET REPORT
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amGET your new 3-BR homes on 5,000-square-foot lots! Ample parking, boats, shopping malls, parks, water views - just $600,000 (but rising fast). Yes, it's looking like Brooklyn is the new...
MY NEW HOME
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amYOUNG FAMILY SEEKS AFFORDABLE 2-BR ON UWS WHAT THEY BOUGHT: 825-square-foot 2-BR, $462,050 SEARCH TIME: 6 months IF a penny saved is a penny earned, then Josh and Jennifer Carter...
GIMME SHELTER
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amDiddy in the city IT didn't take Sean "P. Diddy" Combs very long to escape the sleepy suburbs. Now the hip-hop impresario has agreed to buy a three-bedroom condo at...
CLEANING OUT EVERYTHING - HELP WITH AN ESTATE SALE
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amLOSING a loved one can be devastating. And to make the experience tougher, sometimes you may have to deal with the estate on top of everything else. "It's so hard,...
SWEET EMBRACE; 'DEVELOPMENT' RETURNS
November 6, 2004 | 5:00am"Arrested Development" Tomorrow night at 8:30 on Ch. 5 (two stars) I used to like "Arrested Development," and now I don't. So shoot me. This series was the critics' darling...
GET OUT YOUR COWBOY HATS AND COCKTAILS
November 6, 2004 | 5:00am"Dallas Reunion:Return to Southfork" Tomorrow night at 9 on CBS/Ch. 2 (two stars) TOMORROW night, the major players in every body's favorite old soap, "Dallas," reunite (well, those that haven't...
TARA NEEDS HELP - WITH PLASTIC SURGERY
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amTALK about a wardrobe malfunction. As photos of peek-a-boo party girl Tara Reid and her unsightly bare breast made the rounds on the Internet yesterday, the inevitable questions arose: How...
LET THE SUCKERS RUN. LET'S HAVE BRUNCH!
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amIn tomorrow's 35th annual New York City Marathon, there are those who run - and those who brunch. If you're of the latter category, and you're looking to enjoy a...
THIS GUY'S GOT A TOUCH OF GLASS
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amYou already know the voice. Tomorrow you can see the face of Ira Glass, the host of National Public Radio's "This American Life." The quirky radio reporter, who's a Dave...
DASH TALKING - THE REAL BOY BEHIND THE REEL BOY
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amIn "The Incredibles" (see Family Film Guide), one of those superheroes-in-hiding is a boy named Dash. All he wants to do is be able to use his superpower - the...
TRAILER SPARK: LATEST 'STAR WARS' TEASER TANTALIZES EARLY BIRDS
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amSTAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH (fours stars) THE hottest new attraction in movie theaters this weekend isn't a feature - it's the smashing first trailer for the...
FALLUJAH D-DAY DUE; WOMEN AND CHILDREN TOLD TO EVACUATE
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -U.S. troops blocked roads and took up offensive positions outside Fallujah and urged women and children to leave the city yesterday as American forces readied for the biggest military...
SURVIVOR'S ALL-NIGHT SLAY ORDEAL
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA young Bronx woman cowered in a bathroom all night - terrified a gunman who had just killed his ex-girlfriend would burst through the door and kill her as well,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amAn Arkansas inmate escaped twice in one week - including once after his wife had a forged letter authorizing his release faxed to the jail from a McDonald's. Tristian Wilson,...
CYBER TEEN IN KID-PORN BUST
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA Long Island high school student was busted yesterday for running a computer server that allowed users to download child porn, authorities said. Brian Safran, 17, of Poquott, was charged...
NANNY 'CHOKE' HORROR; TOT ABUSE ON VIDEO
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA nanny was caught red-handed on video slapping, kicking and smothering a 10-month-old girl on Long Island, while the tot's parents were at work, police said. The nanny allegedly used...
FALLUJAH D-DAY DUE - WOMEN AND CHILDREN TOLD TO EVACUATE
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. troops blocked roads and took up offensive positions outside Fallujah and urged women and children to leave the city yesterday as American forces readied for the biggest...
BLOOMBERG CUTS UP CITY'S 'OFFICIAL CREDIT CARD' IDEA
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amDon't toss that American Express card just yet. A competing "official credit card of New York City," a revenue-generating idea advanced by city officials last month and reported in The...
ISRAEL: NO WAY THIS TERRORIST GETS JERUSALEM BURIAL
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amThe top Muslim cleric in Jerusalem said yesterday Yasser Arafat wants to be laid to rest in the holy city - but Israeli officials say no way. "He will not...
POLL FAVORS HILL & RUDY IN THE NEXT PREZ STAKES
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are the strongest 2008 presidential contenders in their respective parties - by a mile, the first post-election poll showed yesterday. Clinton...
7 CHARGED IN INMATE DEATH
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amSeven prisoners at Rikers Island were charged yesterday with the beating death of a mentally disabled inmate last month, police said. Tyree Abney, 21, who had been serving time for...
700 IMMIGRANTS WERE HELD IN ELEX-TERROR ALERT
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. immigration authorities arrested more than 700 people on immigration violations and the FBI put hundreds more Muslims and Arab-Americans under surveillance as part of an effort to...
ARAFAT $TASH CLASH; WIFE & AIDE BATTLE FOR $1B WAR CHEST
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amAs Yasser Arafat lay dying yesterday in a French military hospital, his wife and a top financial adviser battled at his bedside over the estimated $1 billion he has stashed...
JUDGE KOS MOB KILLER'S PLEA DEAL
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA 27-year prison sentence would be too kind for an admitted Bonanno hit man with two mob murders under his belt, a judge ruled yesterday. In a surprise decision, Brooklyn...
TEEN SLASHED AT BROOKLYN SCHOOL
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA 15-year-old boy was slashed in the neck at a Brooklyn high school yesterday as he was leaving a gym class. Cops were told another boy attacked him without saying...
BILL: WHY BUSH WON; EX-PREZ LAYS OUT PLAN FOR DEM REBOUND IN '08
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amFormer President Bill Clinton, in his first comments on President Bush's re-election, yesterday urged Democrats not to "whine" about the outcome, but to find a "clear national message." Clinton also...
SITTER'S ANGUISH ; CAREGIVER HAUNTED BY DEATH OF STROLLER BABY
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amThe shell-shocked baby sitter whose 2-year-old charge was run over by a van Thursday said the gruesome death will haunt her forever. "I feel horrible because he was with me,...
VELELLA SNIVELED AS COHORT LEFT JAIL FIRST
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amWhen one of his co-conspirators got out of jail early, former state Sen. Guy Velella - who was later sprung from jail early himself - complained it wasn't fair. Manny...
DISGRACED MCG'S NEW LIFE OF LUXURY
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amNew Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey is ready to start his new life as a private citizen - and he has his bachelor's pad all picked out. McGreevey, who will leave...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amBROOKLYN (s,l) *** Above is a picture of a sexual predator who raped a woman in a cellphone store in Greenpoint and is wanted for attempting a similar crime six...
HAUGHTY CHIRAC SNUBS IRAQI PM
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amFrench President Jacques Chirac weaseled out of a working lunch held yesterday by European leaders with the prime minister of Iraq - in a snub not just to Iraqis but...
A LOTTO GALL; L.I. HEALTH AIDE 'ROBS' GRANDPA, WINS $5M JACKPOT
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amLydia Moore started Livin' Large a little too soon. The Long Island health care worker was charged yesterday with stealing $113,000 from an elderly patient to finance regular junkets to...
WISTFUL SEARCH FOR LOVE PROVED BETH'S UNDOING
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amSHE had everything. And it amounted to nothing. Elizabeth Lochtefeld possessed natural beauty and gobs of money. She traveled the world, got a "secret" tattoo, and possessed "a smile as...
'WRONG KILLER' SUES B'KLYN DA
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man, who served 11 years for a murder he says he didn't commit, has slapped the city and District Attorney Charles Hynes with a $150 million civil rights...
LICENSE TO KILL; 'DWI' FAKE ID PROVES FATAL
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amThe Long Island teenager accused of killing two friends in a drunken car crash bought beer with a perfect fake ID - and officials say she's not the only New...
KIM PERJURY CHARGES OUT
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA federal judge yesterday tossed out some of the charges against rapper Lil' Kim, who faces trial for covering up for a business pal involved in a shooting outside a...
ALL-NIGHT ORDEAL OF TEEN IN SLAYING
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA young Bronx woman cowered in a bathroom all night - terrified a gunman who had just killed his ex-girlfriend would burst through the door and kill her as well,...
GRUESOME BLUDGEON SLAY IN QNS.
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA 43-year-old Queens woman returning to her apartment yesterday morning made a shocking discovery - her father's body bludgeoned on a living-room couch, neighbors and police said. The grisly find...
YOM KIPPUR ARSONIST GUILTY
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA man who torched a Brooklyn building last year for $100 - leaving nearly 100 people, including eight Hasidic families, homeless on the eve of Yom Kippur - has copped...
HUSKY MAULS BABY; GRUESOME BX. ATTACK
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA month-old Bronx boy was hospitalized yesterday after a dog repeatedly bit his groin as he lay in bed, police said. The baby, Steven Gibson, was lying on a bed...
MAN ADMITS YOM KUPPUR ARSON BLAZE
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA man who torched a Brooklyn building last year for $100 - leaving nearly 100 people homeless - has copped a plea for 1 to 3 years in prison. In...
TREE CRUSHES MAILMAN
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA New Jersey postal worker was killed on his route yesterday in Midland Park when a large tree toppled in high winds and crushed his truck, police said. The worker,...
A CHEAT SHEET TO ACE THE BIG RACE
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amIf you hate running, if you like doughnuts and if you love beer, you can still be a top finisher in tomorrow's marathon - or at least you can try....
JUDGE TAKING BYTE OF JACKO EVIDENCE
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - A neutral third party will tear apart computer files seized from employees of Michael Jackson, a judge ruled yesterday, during a tedious, day-long evidence battle. Judge...
MCGREEVEY PICKS OUT NEW APT
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amNew Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey is ready to start his new life as a private citizen - and he has his bachelor's pad all picked out. McGreevey, who will leave...
JUSTICE TO MOB WIDOW - JUDGE KOS THUG'S DEAL
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amA 27-year prison sentence would be too kind for an admitted Bonanno hit man with two mob murders under his belt, a federal judge ruled yesterday. The surprise decision tossed...
IRAQ-BOUND CAPT. GETS 'HONORABLE' OUT
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amThe Army waved the white flag in federal court yesterday and gave a decorated captain with eight years of service an honorable discharge - after trying to block his retirement...
POLL FAVORS HILL & RUDY IN NEXT PREZ STAKES
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are the strongest 2008 presidential contenders in their respective parties - by a mile, the first post-election poll showed yesterday. Clinton...
DON COULD BE GONE - MAY BOLT YANKS OVER MONEY, FAMILY
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amMel Stottlemyre isn't the only Yankee coach wrestling with a money issue. Don Mattingly, who completed his first year as the hitting instructor, is thinking about not returning for a...
NOTHING BUT NETS ; ANGRY THORN SAYS NO TO UNMOVABLE 'ZO
November 6, 2004 | 5:00am2 OVERTIMES Nets 111 Bulls 106 CHICAGO - Nets president Rod Thorn was controlled, choosing his words very carefully when discussing Alonzo Mourning. But Thorn was adamant in his response...
BOMBERS LET LIEBER GO FREE
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES Unable to reach a multi-year deal with Jon Lieber, the Yankees allowed their second-best pitcher to jump into a very shallow free-agent pool yesterday when they didn't pick...
ARVADA, EUROS HEAD L.I. FIELD
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amBased on her victory in the Sept. 5 Glens Falls Handicap at Saratoga over Film Maker, who finished a solid second to world champion Ouija Board in the Breeders' Cup...
CHRISTIE WON'T KICK UP FUSS OVER WINDY STADIUM
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Steve Christie has been around the NFL long enough to know the horror stories regarding the wind at Giants Stadium. "As a kicker, one of the first things...
BAD BACK COULD KO CHREBET
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amJET NOTES Wayne Chrebet was downgraded to questionable after the Jets receiver experienced more pain in his lower back yesterday, threatening his availability for tomorrow's game in Buffalo. Chrebet did...
REVVED-UP KNICKS SET TO ROCK GARDEN
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amThe Knicks unveil their new brand of athletic basketball tonight in their home opener at the sold-out Garden against the Celtics. The question is whether they unveil a new brand...
KENNEDY'S COVERED BIG DISTANCE TO ARRIVE IN NY
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amTrack veteran Bob Kennedy will make one of the most anticipated running debuts in memory when he finally steps up to 26.2 miles in tomorrow's New York City Marathon -...
IN THE NICK OF TIME ; GREISEN GLAD FOR SHOT AT STARTING
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amNick Greisen is set to start tomorrow, something he has been expecting to do since July. But after going through the preseason as the Giants' top middle linebacker, he was...
INJURY KO'S SJU'S MAYBANK
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amAt last week's Big East Conference basketball media day, St. John's guard Daryll Hill was asked which new player had impressed him the most. As is the case when Hill...
AT LAST, THE REMATCH
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amThe long wait for the rematch between Kostya Tszyu and Sharmba Mitchell finally ends tonight when the two meet for the IBF junior welterweight championship in Glendale, Ariz. Showtime will...
CURTIS CARRIES ON ; WEATHERS LATE-SEASON CONDITIONS
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amLike the postman, Curtis Martin does not let the elements deter him from the swift completion of his appointed rounds. As a matter of fact, the worse the weather gets,...
AFTER THE TONE SURVIVES
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amTrack started out "good," upgraded to "fast" for fourth race; seventh race came off the turf, resulting in world-record 12 late scratches.1ST RACE - Run Along Sonny, 4-5 choice, was...
VIN KEEPS OPINION BOTTLED UP
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Vin Baker will keep his real thoughts on the Celtics inside. He just feels blessed that Isiah Thomas, James Dolan and the Knicks saved his career. The Celtics,...
AMBASSADORS STILL SEEK SOME ASYLUM
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amH.S. FOOTBALL Stevenson enters its season- ending game today with an 0-8 record and has been outscored by its opponents by an astounding 419-6 margin. Still, head coach Dennis Mercorelli...
WALLY'S WORLD CRUMBLES DOWN - RAP SHEET COSTS D'BACK SKIPPERJOB AFTER 4 DAYS
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amIt took Wally Backman 45 years to land his first managerial job. It took the ex-Met sparkplug four days to lose it. It's all over for Backman in Arizona, as...
LEITER'S KEEPING OPTIONS
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amAl Leiter is still a pretty safe bet to pitch for the Mets next season. But the veteran lefty is still protecting himself in case things don't work out at...
ANGRY NETS SAY NO TO UNMOVABLE 'ZO
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Nets president Rod Thorn was controlled, choosing his words very carefully when discussing Alonzo Mourning. But Thorn was adamant in his response to buyout proposals received from Mourning's...
JERSEY PREVAILS IN 2 OTS
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amCHICAGO - There were thoughts creeping in about how easy it would be to fold. There were flashbacks of hideous defeats, which in Nets lore is commonplace. But there was...
YANKS GAMBLE ON LIEBER
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amUnable to reach a multi-year deal with Jon Lieber, the Yankees allowed their second-best pitcher to jump into a very shallow free-agent pool yesterday when they didn't pick up an...
MOURNING: OF COURSE KIDD WANTS OUT, TOO
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES CHICAGO - And then there's Jason Kidd. While reports of Alonzo Mourning's unhappiness with the Nets' situation come in almost hourly, Kidd isn't exactly all warm and fuzzy....
NETS JUST SAY NO TO UNMOVABLE 'ZO
November 6, 2004 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Nets president Rod Thorn was controlled, choosing his words very carefully when discussing Alonzo Mourning. But Thorn was adamant in his response to buyout proposals received from Mourning's...