June 4, 2005
JOHN MACK TO CHAIR PEQUOT
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amJohn Mack, forced out from high-profile roles at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse Group, continues to prove that there are plenty of second chances in American business life, joining leading...
OIL SPIKE FUELS SLUMP IN JOBS
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe economy's usual culprit - high-priced oil - is wiping out far too many jobs and could stifle summer spending. The number of new jobs created in May was barely...
APPLE LOSES JUICE AS IPOD SALES FALL
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amReports of slowing iPod sales weren't exactly music to Apple shareholders yesterday. Shares plummeted 5.7 percent in the opening hours of trading yesterday after a Goldman Sachs report predicted that...
NEW SAKS PROBE; EXCESSIVE CHARGES TO VENDORS UNDER SCRUTINY
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amSaks Inc. has opened a second investigation into its dealings with vendors that goes far beyond an original probe, the company said yesterday. The new inquiry will look at the...
GIMME SHELTER
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA publisher clears house A $28 million estate has just gone on the market in the bucolic Bedford area, a price that tops other prized "hilltop properties" in the leafy...
MY NEW HOME
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amOPTIMISTIC NEWCOMER LANDS CONDO STUDIO - WITH DREAM VIEWS She Bought: Upscale Upper West studio in the Park Millennium, $515,000 Search Time - Four months TODAY, Elena Korol has a...
ALIENRESURRECTION - 'THE 4400' RETURNS WITH MORE OF ITS MYSTERIOUS POWER
June 4, 2005 | 4:00am"The 4400" Tomorrow night at 9 on USA * * * ½ (three and one half stars) EVERYTHING about this series is improbable - from its premise to its very...
WE'VE GOT GAME
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amJADE EMPIRE Format: Xbox Multiplayer: No. Rated: Mature (blood and gore) What's it about: In the mythical ancient world of the Jade Empire, you're a martial arts student, learning fighting...
A NEW BOOK HAS MOON MAN A-BUZZ
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMost grade-schoolers today are more familiar with Buzz Lightyear than with Buzz Aldrin. But a new, gorgeously illustrated book authored by Aldrin - the second man to walk on the...
A DOG SHOOT
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amWe're a month away from the true dog days of summer, but city hounds are about to get their shot at stardom. Authors Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen ("America...
FISTS OF FURY FEST KICKS UP A STORM
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMartial arts are all the rage lately, with films like "Unleashed" and "Kung Fu Hustle" kicking up a storm at the box office. This weekend, you can check out the...
3RD- & 5TH-GRADERS TO FACE STATE AND CITY TESTS
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amCity third- and fifth-graders might have to take twice as many standardized reading and math tests next year to determine whether they will be promoted, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein warned...
TEARS FOR TRAGIC QUEEN ; HUNDREDS AT B'KLYN STAB GIRL'S WAKE
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe 11-year-old Brooklyn girl killed by her 9-year-old "godsister" after a scuffle over a rubber ball was remembered yesterday by hundreds of mourners as a "bright young lady" who was...
FIRETRUCK RAMS COP; OFFICER IN SERIOUS CONDITION
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx cop who was heading to his night shift duty at the 42nd Precinct station house was seriously injured last night after his car collided with a fire truck...
FIRETRUCK RAMS COP ; OFFICER IN SERIOUS CONDITION
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx cop who was heading to his night shift at the 42nd Precinct station house was seriously injured last night after his car collided with a fire truck that...
EVIL COKE-CARTEL THUG GETS 33 YEARS
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA thug from Belize will spend 33 years behind bars for running more than 12 tons of coke into the United States. George Enrique Herbert was sentenced Thursday after a...
TRIO NABBED IN 'RANDOM' L.I. SLAY
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amNassau County police have arrested three men in connection with the vicious gang-related murder of an innocent man in Glen Cove in May. A nearly three-week investigation into the killing...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA man siphoning gas from a dump truck at night in upstate Thurman really blew it. He stupidly flicked on his lighter to see how full his gas can was...
30 INJURED IN WASH. HTS. BLAZE
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThirty people were hurt, none seriously, when a smoky predawn fire swept through a Washington Heights apartment building yesterday. The three-alarm blaze broke out on the ground floor of the...
SACKED OIL-FOR-FOOD STAFFER: I'M A PATSY
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The lawyer for a U.N. staffer fired for wrongdoing in the oil-for-food scandal insisted yesterday that his client acted on orders of higher-ups and is being used as...
BLOOMY AND PIRRO WILL SPEAK AT FULANI FEST
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amLenora Fulani's inflammatory remarks about Jews haven't diminished the luster of the Independence Party - both Mayor Bloomberg and Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro are speaking at a party event tomorrow...
AGONIZING MISHAP ; HOIST HURTS WORKER
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA construction worker was injured yesterday morning in Times Square when a hydraulic hoist went haywire - and saved by a co-worker who took control of the malfunctioning machine. Willie...
THE SON OF $CAM - BERKOWITZ SUES HIS 'THIEVING' EX-ATTORNEY
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amSerial killer David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz is suing his former lawyer for allegedly stealing his most cherished personal items - including bar mitzvah pictures, his last will and testament,...
'MOM-SLAY' L.I. GIRL, 12, MUST STAY IN JUVE LOCKUP
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe 12-year-old Long Island girl accused of strangling her mom after being told to clean up her room was arraigned in Family Court yesterday - and ordered to remain in...
CITY'S QUICK 'CHECK'; TAX DEADBEATS PLUNGE
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe number of city property-tax deadbeats has plummeted 22 percent this year - in part because homeowners are barred from receiving their $400 rebate unless they settle their debts, Bloomberg...
FINAL ROAR FOR BX. ZOO SEA LION
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amBandit, a California sea lion who stole the show at the Bronx Zoo with his poolside personality, has died. The 26-year-old, 700-pound mammal had for several years been on medication...
$20M PILLOW CASE: ALLERGIC GUEST SUES WALDORF
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amAn Irish businesswoman is accusing The Waldorf-Astoria hotel of nearly killing her - with a feather pillow. Eileen Boulger, 36, a bridal-shop owner with a deadly allergy to feathers, is...
PETRA'S BRAVE TSUNAMI RETURN ; SURVIVOR IS ALL SMILESIN THAILAND
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amPetra's back and making life in southern Thailand a little bit sunnier. Scarcely five months after the stunning swimsuit model broke her pelvis during the deadly tsunami - and survived...
HARLEM HOUSING BOON
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amStrivers Gardens, a luxury condo building on West 135th Street, is a reality - finally. "It's a dream come true, where people can aspire to live in a place that...
SARGES BARGING IN TO RAISE MONEY FOR MIKE'S GOP RIVAL
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe police sergeants union has sent out an unusual mailing asking members to donate to Republican mayoral candidate Tom Ognibene, who is challenging Mayor Bloomberg. The Sergeants Benevolent Association -...
JURY GOES TO WORK AS JACKO GOES TO E.R.
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Jurors began deliberating Michael Jackson's fate yesterday - after hearing the defense close its case by blasting the screwball singer's accusers as being out for "the...
MOB SON GUILTY OF '89 SLAY; SHOT QNS. TYCOON
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens jury convicted the son of a reputed Luchese associate yesterday of gunning down his mom's millionaire boyfriend, 16 years after the cold-blooded murder. The panel of eight men...
TESTING KIDS TWICE - 3RD- & 5TH-GRADERS TO FACE STATE AND CITY EXAMS
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amCity third- and fifth-graders might have to take twice as many standardized reading and math tests next year to determine whether they will be promoted, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein warned...
BLOOMY: THIRD AND INCHES FOR STADIUM
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday the city is "close on our negotiations" to hammering out a deal on the stadium by Monday - with assurances that lower Manhattan projects get built...
RUSSIAN 'STRIP' PIMP GETS JAIL
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man who forced Russian immigrant women to dance nude at New Jersey strip clubs was sentenced yesterday to five years in federal prison. Lev Trakhtenberg, 41, admitted to...
JUSTICE FOR VASEAN ; PATAKI SIGNS LAW FOR STIFFER DWI PENALTIES
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe state's drunken-driving laws got a lot tougher yesterday, as Gov. Pataki officially signed "Vasean's Law" - named after the 11-year-old Queens boy killed by a man who was intoxicated...
FOR DENZEL,TRAINING DAY - AS A COP
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amHollywood heartthrob Denzel Washington showed up unexpectedly at Police Headquarters yesterday to research a film role - and the pulses of some of the women in the building began racing...
KELLY'S VISIT CHEERS WOUNDED COP
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn cop who survived a volley of gunshots while making a drug bust this week is doing well after getting a bedside visit from Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday....
COFFEE KVETCH ; RABBI REFUSED JAVA AT EATERY IN '92 VINDICATED
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amRabbi Israel Steinberg didn't order instant coffee - and he didn't get instant justice. In fact it took his discrimination case concerning a cup of coffee almost 13 years to...
OPERA MAN'S BLUE$ ; CAN'T MAKE LOWER BAIL
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amPoor Alberto Vilar. The formerly filthy rich money manager and opera philanthropist couldn't scrape together enough cash yesterday even for his reduced $4 million bail and will spend his second...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amQUEENS *** Police are seeking the identify of this man (above), who underwent emergency brain surgery last March and has since been unable to speak. The mystery man was found...
COPS WOUND FAKE-GUN WIELDER
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amCops shot and wounded a man who had been waving a fake gun on a Brooklyn street yesterday. Officers spotted Jenson Brown, 37, waving the gun on Halsey Street about...
WORKER DEAD IN BLAST HORROR
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amOne worker at a Staten Island chemical warehouse was killed yesterday when back-to-back explosions sent a fireball through the roof and bricks flying, eyewitnesses and fire officials said. Six people...
DRIVER DRAGS COP IN QUEENS
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens cop was injured yesterday after he was dragged 30 feet by a motorist who had been stopped for driving with his seat belt unbuckled, police said. The incident...
FOR DENZEL, TRAINING DAY - AS A COP
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amHollywood heartthrob Denzel Washington showed up unexpectedly at Police Headquarters yesterday to research a film role - and the pulses of some of the women in the building began racing...
DEADLY BLAST ON S.I.; GARAGE WORKER KILLED
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA worker at a Staten Island auto body shop was killed yesterday when back-to-back explosions sent a fireball through the roof and bricks flying through the air. Six people working...
KELLY'S BEDSIDE VISIT CHEERS WOUNDED COP
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn cop who survived a volley of gunshots while making a drug bust this week is doing well after getting a bedside visit from Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday....
LINEUP JUGGLING FIZZLES
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Looking to spark his lifeless lineup, Joe Torre inserted Tony Womack into the leadoff spot last night against the Twins at the Metrodome. While Womack singled...
THEY'RE ALSO BX. BONEHEADS
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The Yankees took their Mental Mistake Tour to a different corner of their crumbling kingdom last night. And while it helped the Twins score the final run of...
NETS LOSING BENCH AIDE
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amLawrence Frank's Nets coaching staff, which has already lost Brian Hill to Orlando, is getting even thinner as John Kuester is set to join the 76ers. Kuester, who moved to...
METROS ARE CALIF. DREAMIN'
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe MetroStars cap a brutal stretch of five games in 14 days by flying cross-country to face the L.A. Galaxy, still undefeated at home and the MLS' best home team....
KAZ FOR CONCERN - MATSUI'S NOT SUREIF HE'S LOSING JOB
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe answer hung in the air for over a minute, as Japanese translator Nozomu Matsumoto grasped for the English words to describe a delicate situation. Kaz Matsui was asked whether,...
SHAQ RIPS BIG BEN
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amHEAT-PISTONS NOTEBOOK AUBURN HILLS - Shaquille O'Neal's bruised thigh must be feeling better because he's starting to talk trash. Shaq finally acknowledged he's not on the Big Ben Wallace bandwagon....
ORATORY WON'T GO IN BELMONT
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amA field as large as 12 or as short as eight appears in store for the 137th Belmont Stakes next Saturday, with several horses still sitting on the fence. Preakness...
WADE-ING GAME ; INJURED HEAT STAR'S STATUS STILL UNCERTAIN
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Dwyane Wade did not practice yesterday and did not speak to reporters. It probably hurts too much to do either. The Heat said it will be a...
INKSTER LEADING AT SOGGY SHOPRITE
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amGALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Annika Sorenstam's new ambition is to shoot a 54 during a round of competitive golf. That will take an average of birdie or better on every...
SJU CLOSER STEPS UP BIG
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amAs soon as St. John's baseball coach Ed Blankmeyer named his closer, Craig Hansen, to start yesterday's NCAA tournament opening-round game in Corvallis, Ore., against Virginia, teammates began approaching the...
BLUE BOWING TO COUGHLIN'S RULE
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amNo one is offering any specifics as to how mean old Tom Coughlin has mellowed, how that hard veneer has softened. This is not to say those characterizations define the...
BONDS' ABSENCE PAYS OFF
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Last August, Barry Bonds played three games against the Mets in San Francisco. He did rather well. Bonds went 8-for-12 in the series and reached base in 10...
JUNE BUGS SWARMING
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - In April, you can laugh off a slow start, a bad stretch, a poor lapse. "It's only April," the players say. In May, you can laugh off a...
DOUG A LITTLE DEEPER - MIENTKIEWICZ MAY BE BURIEDON METS' BENCH
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amThursday night, Jodi Mientkiewicz said something to her husband, Doug, that resonated. According to Doug's account yesterday, Jodi told him, "You are a good player. Hopefully someday you'll show these...
COSTELLO GIVES TOTTENVILLE A LIFT
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amHIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL Andrew Costello had pitched just three innings in the past few weeks because of tendinitis in his elbow. "I really didn't know how long I'd last or...
A-ROD BACKPEDALS
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Alex Rodriguez backed off a published report that quoted him saying he might walk away from baseball when his current 10-year deal expires after the 2010 season. In...
ACORN BOASTS STRONG FIELD
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amIt's too bad the field for next Saturday's Belmont doesn't boast quality of today's feature, Grade 1, $250,000 Acorn at mile for 3-year-old fillies. Though field is short, five of...
BOSS' CALL NOT JUST IDLE CHAT - TORRE, CASH HEAR IT FROM GEORGE
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Ticked because his high-priced stable of talent was on a five-game bender and had dropped three straight to the putrid Royals, George Steinbrenner did something very rare yesterday:...
NHL PLAYERS ARE LEFT IN DARK
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amWith negotiating committees from both the NHL and the PA having concluded their week's work yesterday in Toronto, a sense of frustration - if not confusion - resulting from an...
HANSEN GEM POWERS SJU
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amNCAASt. John's 5Virginia 3 As soon as St. John's baseball coach Ed Blankmeyer named his closer, Craig Hansen, to start yesterday's NCAA Tournament opening-round game against Virginia in Corvallis, Ore.,...
WOMACK BACK AT LEADOFF FOR YANKEES
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Looking to spark his lifeless lineup last night, Joe Torre inserted Tony Womack into the leadoff spot against the Twins at the Metrodome. It was the...
CALL OF THE RILED; JOE, CASH HEAR IT FROM FED-UP BOSS
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Ticked because his high-priced stable of talent was on a five-game bender and had dropped three straight to the putrid Royals, George Steinbrenner did something very rare yesterday:...
GLAVINE GETS SOME MORE REST
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Tom Glavine was set to pitch for the Mets last night on normal rest. But thanks to a rainout against the Giants, Glavine will be pushed back a...
METRO DOOM FOR YANKEES ; BOSS' CALL FALLS ON DEAF EARS AS SKID HITS SIX
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amTwins 6Yankees 3 MINNEAPOLIS - The Yankees took their Mental Mistake Tour to a different corner of their dysfunctional universe last night, hours after George Steinbrenner demanded answers from Joe...
BURY BUMS IN BONEYARD
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - There was a time when it would have seemed perfectly mad for George Steinbrenner to pick up the telephone as he did yesterday, third day of June, and...
CALL OF THE RILED - TORRE, CASHMAN HEAR IT FROM BOSS
June 4, 2005 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Ticked because his high-priced stable of talent was on a five-game bender and had dropped three straight to the putrid Royals, George Steinbrenner did something very rare yesterday:...