May 28, 2005
SONY SEEKING A VIDEO $LIDE
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amSonyBMG is in talks with MTV and Yahoo! about a deal that could help the music giant recover more of the costs of making music videos. SonyBMG chief Andy Lack...
RUNNING IN PLACE ; WAGES ARE UP, BUT INFLATION ERODES GAINS
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amConsumers are plunging into an upbeat summer with paychecks slightly fatter and plans for a record surge in short holiday trips close to home. Economists predict more spending ahead due...
AIG SHARES SOAR ON HOPES WORST IS OVER
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amApparently getting shredded in a civil lawsuit filed by state regulators is good for business. Embattled AIG shares yesterday closed out their second-best week since mid-February, rising 4.9 percent, as...
STUY HIGH! BED-STUY NEARS THE MILLION DOLLAR MARK
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAt a Brooklyn open house earlier this month, a dozen or so would-be buyers examined a brownstone for original details, discussing renovation possibilities and debating rental incomes for the upper-floor...
GIMME SHELTER
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amA SIRIUS PROPERTY After a well-documented search, Howard Stern has finally found his Hamptons property - minus a house. The shock jock, who's been through the real-estate wringer trying to...
CAPTAIN COOK - DON'T CROSS THIS FRY GUY IN 'HELL'S KITCHEN'
May 28, 2005 | 4:00am"Hell's Kitchen" Monday night at 9 on Fox/Ch. 5 * * * (three stars) ON his new Fox reality show, "Hell's Kitchen," British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay wastes no opportunity...
RYAN GONE FROM 'GOOD DAY'
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amJIM Ryan, the longtime co- host of Ch. 5's "Good Day New York," is leaving the show. His last day is Tuesday, but he won't be sleeping late after he...
HIT THE DECKS! NOTHING CAN BEAT NYC'S HOTTEST SAILS
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S a geographical fact: Manhattan's an island. A fairly small island, at that. We tend to forget this, unless we're kvetching about the Saturday-morning lox line at H&H or awkwardly...
SECRETS OF THE 'SISTERHOOD' - HOW FOUR STRANGERS BECAME BEST FRIENDS PRACTICALLY OVERNIGHT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amDon't sweat the pants. Granted, no pair of jeans - no matter how stretchy - could ever fit four friends of radically different sizes. But as fans of "The Sisterhood...
WE'VE GOT GAME
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amTOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL: CHAOS THEORY Format: Xbox, PS2, GameCube, PC Multiplayer: Yes. Rated: Mature What's it about: The biggest threat in 2007 is information warfare. As super spy Sam...
DEAL NEAR TO GRILL OIL PROBER
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Congress and the United Nations are close to a deal to end the showdown over access to an investigator who quit a commission investigating the oil-for-food scandal, The...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amSome crafty smugglers tried to slip more than 750 pounds of cocaine into the country by packing it in fiberglass molds painted to look like plantains. But Customs agents at...
BANK-SPREE FUGITIVE BROUGHT BACK
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amA suspect in at least four Long Island bank robberies in as many weeks has been extradited back to New York yesterday after being busted in Georgia at a routine...
HOLIDAY WEEKEND WARM-UP TO A MEMORIAL MONDAY
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amIt's going to be a nice holiday weekend, weatherwise, compared to what we've been having, according to the National Weather Service. "It will be dry, for the most part," NWS...
CLUBS' LOSING HANDS; COPS RAID POKER DENS
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amVice-squad cops flushed out a full house of high-stakes gamblers at two secret upscale poker clubs that catered to pro gamblers, power brokers and celebrities alike, nabbing 39 employees on...
TEEN HURT IN HARLEM DRAG-&-RUN
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amPolice are looking for a driver who critically injured a teen passenger early yesterday in a possible drag-and-run - a twist on the recent hit-and-runs plaguing the city. A black...
YAHOO THE BUTT OF SMUT SUIT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAn Oregon woman is suing Yahoo Inc. for $3 million because she claims the online company didn't remove unauthorized naked photos that were posted by her ex-lover. Cecilia Barnes, 48,...
SLAY RAP ON COP ; LT. INDICTED INDEATH OF TENANT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAn NYPD lieutenant was indicted yesterday for shooting his tenant to death in his Brooklyn building after a squabble over back rent. Shamik Walton - an 18-year NYPD veteran -...
MONSTER GUILTY OF MA & SON MURDERS
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was convicted yesterday of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and drowning her 6-year-old son under the guise of teaching him how to swim. Larry Smith, 33, was found...
I.D.-IOT RICH KID ; NAILED IN FAKE LICENSE $CAM
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe 18-year-old son of one of the city's most high-powered commercial real-estate brokers was charged in Manhattan yesterday with running a lucrative bogus-driver's-license ring - out of his father's Murray...
WACKY POL 'POO-POOS' BABBLE BILL
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAn angry city councilman raised eyebrows yesterday by resorting to bathroom humor to make a point about the council's ridiculous legislating. Councilman James Oddo (R-S.I.) fumed in a press release...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** Police yesterday were searching for a man who disappeared from his Melrose apartment building. Castano Hamilton (above), 36, who police say suffers from depression, was last seen...
PAKISTAN SAILOR IN PARK SEX BUST
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amPakistani sailors asked cops for help locating a missing seaman - and found him in a Central Park jail cell last night, where he had been busted for allegedly assaulting...
HARLEM MAYHEM ; COPS KILLSUSPECT IN SHOOTOUT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amA suspect who bolted from cops trying to question him about a robbery was killed in a furious shootout in Harlem that also left two innocent bystanders injured, police said....
COPS HUNT DRIVER IN CAR-DRAG TRAGEDY
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amPolice are looking for a livery driver who critically injured an 18-year-old passenger early yesterday in what may have been a drag-and-run - a twist on the recent spate of...
DA: WIFE SLIT HUBBY'S THROAT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAn indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn court yesterday charging the teenage wife of a slain hospital cop with slashing her husband's throat. Lory Scott, 19, was wearing her silver wedding...
JACKO DA GETS IN FINAL SHOT WITH ACCUSER-KID VID
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson's young accuser had the last word at the singer's sex trial yesterday, as both the prosecution and defense rested their cases after jurors saw...
JAILED POST HASTE - NO BAIL IN BOMB THREAT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAn Upper East Side newsstand owner charged with threatening to bomb The Post for running pictures of Saddam Hussein in his underwear will spend Memorial Day - and much of...
PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE - BUCKET TOT PLACED ON RESPIRATOR
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe family of a 10- month-old boy who nearly died after tragically falling in a mop bucket prayed for a miracle yesterday as the little tyke clung to life on...
TEEN WIFE SLIT HUBBY'S THROAT: DA
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAn indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn court yesterday charging the teenage wife of a slain hospital cop with slashing her husband's throat. Lory Scott, 19, was wearing her silver wedding...
NEIGHBOR RESCUES MOM & KIDS FROM BRONX APT. INFERNO
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amA hero neighbor - who once dreamed of becoming a firefighter but was thwarted by his asthma - braved flames and smoke to rescue a mom and her three young...
BLIGHT AT THE OPERA - TOP MET DONOR BUSTED
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAlberto Vilar, a hotshot millionaire money manager and the Metropolitan Opera's largest benefactor, was hauled before a federal judge yesterday on charges he stole $5million from a client - and...
JAIL FOR LOHAN'S LOSER DAD - DWI BRAWLER BLAMES KIN AS HE GETS 4 YRS
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amTeen star Lindsay Lohan's dad, Michael Lohan, was yesterday sentenced to 1 to four years behind bars for drunken driving, contempt of court and assaulting his brother-in-law. In a Nassau...
CLINTON EASILY CLEARS FIRST HURDLE ON ROAD TO '08
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a solid political win yesterday when her former top moneyman was acquitted of fudging costs for a lavish 2000 Hollywood gala, experts...
ONE HILL OF A VICTORY - EX-AIDE CLEARED ON $$-RAISE RAP
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former national fund-raising director was acquitted yesterday of lying about a lavish Hollywood gala for her 2000 Senate campaign. Jurors said federal prosecutors...
BUCK NAKED - CREEPY CHASE EXEC NABBED IN THE NUDE
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amA JPMorgan Chase sales exec wore nothing but a condom when he jumped from behind a tree on a popular New Jersey biking-and-hiking trail - but he didn't realize the...
500 FLEE FUMES AT QNS. SCHOOL
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amMysterious fumes forced more than 500 kids to evacuate PS 183 in Rockaway Beach, Queens, yesterday after school officials reported smelling gas, officials said. Four children were hospitalized complaining of...
KIDS FROM FAILING SCHOOLS WILL GET TRANSFER OPTION
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amParents of some 183,000 city kids entitled to transfer out of their substandard public school under federal law will be able to request transfers for the upcoming school year beginning...
TEACHERS HOPE TV BLITZ 'ADS' UP TO NEW CONTRACT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amLocked in a contract dispute with the Bloomberg administration, the city's teachers union will blanket television airwaves beginning Tuesday with commercials calling for a new pact. The $500,000 publicity drive...
MAKE-OR-BREAK FRIDAY FOR STADIUM BACKERS
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amD-Day for the West Side stadium is next Friday, Mayor Bloomberg revealed yesterday. That's when the state Public Authorities Control Board is expected to meet again to vote on whether...
PETER PAN CAN TIP OFF BELMONT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe probable starting field for the June 11 Belmont Stakes will come into sharper focus today when eight 3-year-olds clash in the Grade 2, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes at a...
BAD-BOY LAIMBEER A KNICK LONGSHOT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amShock coach Bill Laimbeer acknowledged in a report yesterday he interviewed with Isiah Thomas for three hours last Sunday in New York after his club played the Liberty. Before the...
PISTONS FEELING HEAT ; POOR OUTING HAS DETROIT REVVED UP
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Chauncey Billups, painfully, watched a tape of the Eastern Conference Finals Game 2. There he was, big as life, throwing the ball away - a lot -...
SUBDUED OLERUD DONS SOX
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amJohn Olerud doesn't seem to fit the "idiot" profile. But after being called up by Boston yesterday, the strait-laced first baseman has switched sides in the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. After...
BUZZ IN THE AIR MUST BE BOSOX ; BRONX SEES POWER SURGE
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAfter three nights of flatness in the seats, the intensity returned to Yankee Stadium last night when the Red Sox invaded The Bronx. It made no difference that the World...
TIME FORA-ROD TOSINK SOX
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAlex Rodriguez dismissed the line of questioning as "ridiculous" coming into this weekend's series with the archrival Red Sox that with his bat sizzling he'd be able to really inflict...
A REAL TRIPLE THREAT - REYES ON RECORD THREE-BASE PACE
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - When people called Jose Reyes a player who comes along once in a generation, this is what they meant. With two more triples on Thursday night, Reyes managed...
SURGING AS BOSTON BAKES
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE is a core group of Yankees - smaller and smaller every year - that understands the burden the Red Sox carry this year. Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams, Mariano...
STRANGLES SCARE HITS BELMONT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amWhat's next for NYRA, plague of locusts? Suspected case of "strangles," highly contagious equine bacterial disease that struck Churchill Downs, Palm Meadows and Delaware Park so far this year, forced...
TROUBLED TWINS
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHEIR former Diamondbacks ace is a worry, so is their championship closer and their explosive, expensive offense has been much more expensive than explosive. Sound familiar? The Red Sox showed...
WALTON WHACKS WAGNER
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amPSAL PLAYOFFS Walton 17 Wagner 7 Pedro Gonzalez has seen his baseball season end in both his sophomore and junior years in the same way: with a loss to Monroe....
TORRE BOUNCES GIAMBI BACK TO BENCH
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre's nightly juggling of the lineup left Jason Giambi on the bench and Bernie Williams as the designated hitter last night against Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield....
BELTRAN, KAZ STILL GLUED TO THE BENCH
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI -For the sixth straight game, Kaz Matsui and Carlos Beltran weren't in the starting lineup last night. Willie Randolph said that Matsui (neck strain) told him he's...
NEWEST STARTERS FACE OFF
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amPedro Martinez plays for the Mets, Derek Lowe is with the Dodgers, and Curt Schilling and David Wells have been in and out of action all season, so Boston's 2005...
MARIANO RETURNS TO FORM
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amAll was right again in The Bronx last night as Mariano Rivera racked up his 12th save of the season. It wasn't so much the fact that Rivera got the...
REYES HAS BECOME REAL TRIPLE THREAT
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amMETS 1 MARLINS 0 MET NOTES MIAMI - When people called Jose Reyes a player who comes along once in a generation, this is what they meant. With two triples...
UNIT CAN'T FIND HIS PLACE
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amHE REMAINS a humble servant to the greater Yankees cause, one unassuming spoke in the wondrous pinstriped wheel, a self-effacing supplicant. Once again last night, Randy Johnson asked not what...
CAN-DO; ROOKIE ROBINSON BLASTS BOSOX
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amROBINSON Cano spent about three hours a day last July playing for Columbus and what felt like every other waking moment hearing in one form or another that he was...
BIGGER FISH TO FRY ; METS WIN, BRACE FOR MARLIN ACES
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amMets 1Marlins 0 MIAMI - The JV portion of this series is now over for the Mets, who must face Dontrelle Willis and Josh Beckett tonight and tomorrow. If those...
RED SOX HIT DECK IN SIXTH
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amBefore last night, when was the last time you saw an inning end with five straight hits? When was the last time you saw five straight hits produce just one...
YANKEES' SIXTH SICKENS BOSOX ; PAIR OF DEFENSIVE GEMS SPARK BOMBERS' TRIUMPH
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 6Red Sox 3 You could visit many corners of the Yankees' universe last night and leave with big positives. Randy Johnson's velocity finally surfaced after two months in mothballs....
PLAXICO CLEARED IN TAX SNAFU
May 28, 2005 | 4:00amIn what his tax attorney described as a "bureaucratic snafu," Giants receiver Plaxico Burress was issued an arrest warrant because of unpaid taxes and suffered a day's worth of bad...