June 7, 2005
JOBS REPORT HINTS AT WEAKENING ECONOMY
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amIT is time for the employment charade to end. The Labor Department padded its May employment figures with an extraordinary 207,000 positions that probably don't exist - and it still...
VOOM SHUTDOWN COULD COST $130M
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amCablevision could shell out a whopping $130 million to shut down its money-losing satellite service known as Voom. In a regulatory filing yesterday, the Long Island cable giant said it...
FORD MODELS ON THE MOVE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amFORD Models, home to such beauties as Christie Brinkley and Stephanie Seymour, is on the move. This fall, the face factory will leave behind SoHo for Flatiron, moving to 111...
NEWSDAY CUTS PRICE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amNewsday, still limping from its circulation-pumping scandal, is chopping its newsstand price in half to 25 cents in four of the five boroughs. The lower-priced paper is not being offered...
HEARST ROLLS OUT WEEKEND
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amHearst is kicking off an ambitious test in the women's lifestyle arena with its launch of Weekend magazine on June 14. "We felt people are hungry for one destination magazine,...
AIG IS CRACKING - FEDS FLIP GENERAL RE HEAD TO HELP IN PROBE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amCriminal investigators are beginning to close in on AIG. The executive of Berkshire Hathaway's General Re, the man who created the false documents used by AIG to allegedly pretty up...
SAC'S COHEN'S $600M TOPS PAY LIST
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amWhen it comes to what the top hedge fund traders earned last year, the very rich got substantially richer, according to Trader Monthly magazine. And S.A.C. Capital Advisors' Steven Cohen...
PAPERS LAUNCHING OWN SEARCH SITES
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amA handful of U.S. newspapers are trying to break the grip Google and Yahoo! have on the lucrative online advertising business by launching their own services. Long Island's Newsday is...
BLACKBERRY SHAKE - MICROSOFT TARGETS HANDHELD HEAVY
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amBlackBerry's days of dominating wireless e-mail may be numbered. Microsoft took aim at the popular mobile business tool yesterday by announcing it would be giving away upgrades to its Outlook...
APRIA IS BACK ON BLOCK
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amApria Healthcare Group Inc., one of the country's biggest home healthcare providers, is going back on the block, The Post has learned. Nearly a year after putting takeover talks on...
UPS SAYS 'OOPS!' - CITI LOSES FINANCIAL RECORDS OF 3.9M CUSTOMERS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amPersonal financial information on 3.9 million Citigroup customers has disappeared from a UPS truck in what experts say could be the nation's biggest heist of identity data. UPS clamped a...
TWO MANY JOHN PAULS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amABC is rushing a Pope John Paul II movie into production - to compete with a similar CBS project. ABC's movie hasn't been officially announced yet, but word of it...
STARR REPORT
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amO'Briens in the a.m. Bill Hemmer is leaving CNN, as expected, and will be replaced on "American Morning" by Miles O'Brien, who'll coanchor with Soledad O'Brien. Hemmer, a 10-year CNN...
HOW FAST CAN YOU GET 'FIRED'?
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amIf you've turned sour from the lack of laughs on TV, take heart. There's finally a hilariously dopey reality/competition show with a premise that's as funny as the execution, "Fire...
ANOTHER SURVIVOR ON THE ISLAND
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amTHE castaways on "Lost" are about to gain a new starlet. ABC has confirmed that Michelle Rodriguez is joining the cast of the show. Her character, Ana-Lucia Cortez, appeared briefly...
'LOST' POUNDS - CASTAWAY HURLEY DROPS 30
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amALL that time eating tiny meals while on the mysterious island on "Lost" is beginning pay off for Hurley. Actually, it's been a low-carb diet that's helped Jorge Garcia shed...
GLAM-O-RAMA - FASHION OSCARS ROCK NEW YORK
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amLast night, the international fashion elite showed how cool they really are. Despite hair-frizzing humidity and makeup-muddying heat, guests at the CFDA's annual "Fashion Oscars" barely broke a sweat as...
RAPPER IS GAME FOR A FIGHT
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amTHE truce is over between 50 Cent and the Game. At Sunday's Hot 97 Summer Jam concert, the Game rekindled the soap opera dramatics between the two - which escalated...
'HOWL' HAS SPIRITED FANS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN Hayao Miyazaki's dreamy animated movies open in his home country of Japan, rabid fans turn out "Star Wars"-style, in around-the-block lines. His latest, "Howl's Moving Castle," shattered records there...
GAME FOR A FIGHT
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amTHE truce is over between 50 Cent and the Game (above). At Sunday's Hot 97 Summer Jam concert, the Game reignited the soap opera dramatics between the two - which...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN - GOSSIP, HOT TOPICS AND OTHER NEWS YOU'LL USE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amI'LL CONNECT YOU JUST one year ago, aircraft manufacturer Boeing debuted Connexion by Boeing, the world's first in-sky internet service, on Germany's Lufthansa airlines. Now, the company has switched on...
ARMED RAPE FIEND ATTACKS LOST WOMAN, 21
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan woman trying to find a railroad station on Long Island was lured into a wooded area and then viciously stabbed by a man who tried to rape her....
NYER IN U.N. OIL PROBE - LINKED TO SCANDAL FIRM
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A wealthy New York oil trader is being probed after investigators uncovered new information linking him to a British politician and an oil company embroiled in the U.N....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amAn off-duty cop on a Sunday drive saw something awfully familiar - his recently stolen Volkswagen Jetta. Patrolman Ethan Bernardi, of Charleston, S.C., whipped his cruiser around, pulled over the...
SCHOOLS TO DRESS UP FLAGPOLES
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amAfter getting dissed four years ago by pre-9/11 city education officials, Old Glory is about to get the golden touch from flag-waving educrats. The city Department of Education has bid...
SMILING 'KILLER' - SEALS HIS FATE AS HE SPURNS PLEA DEAL IN HORROR SLAY OF LONG IS. BIZMAN
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe last member of a vicious band of toughs - who helped stab and shoot a Lynbrook businessman to death last year - smugly refused a plea agreement yesterday, forcing...
POT RX SNUFFED - SUPREMES: FEDS CAN PROSECUTE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe medical-marijuana movement in New York and other states went up in smoke yesterday when the Supreme Court ruled that the feds can prosecute pain sufferers who toke up on...
HOOK AND MADDER - BRAVEST FINALLY GET ROPES
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amJEANETTE MEYRAN, widow of firefighter Lt. Curt Meyran, had a blunt message for Fire Commissioner Nick Scoppetta: "Meet me at the cemetery." Mrs. Meyran said Commissioner Scoppetta had contacted her...
STATE OF KIN-FUSION - JACKO DAD LOST OVER AWOL SON
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Without warning, Joe Jackson - the man Michael Jackson has painted as an abusive Daddy Dearest - stomped up to the courthouse here yesterday morning on...
TEMPLE MOUNT RIOT - STONE HURLERS HIT JEWS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli police stormed the Temple Mount yesterday after Palestinian worshippers pelted Jewish visitors to the shrine with rocks. Police quelled the riot with stun grenades, but Palestinian President...
WEST SIDE BLUES - NYC: WHERE NOTHING EVER GETS DONE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amTHE song lyric by the late Fred Ebb that seems to crystallize the romance of living in New York - "I want to wake up in the city that never...
VILE 'PERV' BUST - RAPED INFANT: COPS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amA twisted Ohio lawyer who cops say raped a 4-month-old infant, took pictures of the heinous act and then fled to New York was nabbed yesterday living under an assumed...
B'KLYN SNAKE GOES SLITHER & YON
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amResidents of Boerum Hill got a sssssssurprise yesterday as a 4-foot snake slithered out of a parked truck's front grille. The stowaway serpent seemed bent on exploring the Brooklyn neighborhood...
'SLAIN' GAL FOUND ALIVE AFTER 7 YEARS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amA heartbroken Texas couple who spent seven anguished years believing that their missing daughter had been murdered have discovered that she was living in Kentucky and had simply never bothered...
TERROR FROM ABOVE - FALLING METAL KOS MAN
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amA mechanic was critically injured when he was struck in the head by a 20-pound metal plate that fell five stories as he repaired an elevator at a Midtown company...
WHITESTONE DRIVERS LOSE A LANE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amDrivers on the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge should expect added delays over the next year, as the MTA repairs the 66-year-old span's roadway deck. Construction on the $136 million project kicked off...
UNSTEADY FREDDY BRINGS OUT THE DEMS' BIG GUNS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amMayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer yesterday tapped two veteran political consultants to help rev up his stuck-in-the-mud campaign. Nick Baldick, the chief of John Edwards' vice-presidential bid, will be the new...
HEAT'S ON 'COCAINE' FIREMAN
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe city's fire commissioner said yesterday that he hasn't decided the fate of a Bronx firefighter who crashed his rig while on cocaine - after an administrative judge ruled he...
BIG APPLE CRIME FALLS 4 PERCENT
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amNew York remains the safest big city in America - and it's become even safer, according to new FBI statistics. Crime in the Big Apple fell 4 percent last year...
DAD SLAIN OVER $100 DEBT: COPS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amA 22-year-old father of four was shot dead by his pal in a Chelsea elevator - over a $100 debt, cops and residents said yesterday. Johnny Rodriguez died at 8:30...
FERRARO PAYS MORGY BACK - BY ENDORSING FOE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amTwo decades after Robert Morgenthau forced a guilty plea from Geraldine Ferraro's husband on fraud charges, she returned the favor - by endorsing the Manhattan district attorney's opponent, Leslie Crocker...
MOYNIHAN HATED HILL AND HER LIES: BOOK
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his wife despised a "duplicitous" and ruthless Hillary Rodham Clinton, who they believed would do anything to advance herself, according to...
AMBULANCE WILL BE ON HAND FOR VERDICT
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amCourt officials aren't taking any chances with dilapidated defendant Michael Jackson - they've ordered an ambulance to be at the ready when a verdict is reached in his sex-abuse trial....
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A 20-year-old man accidentally shot his teenage friend yesterday after trying to impress her with a gun. The 15-year-old girl was hit in the shoulder at 6:30 p.m....
DROWN PALS' GRIEF - THOUGHT TEEN 'WAS PLAYING'
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amJermaine Cohen liked to play pranks, so when pals saw him bobbing up and down in the pounding surf off the Rockaways, they thought he was just kidding around. But...
HUMILIATED BLOOMBERG IS THROWN FOR A LOSS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amAs humiliating defeats go in politics, it would be hard to find one to top the ignominious end to Mayor Bloomberg's West Side stadium dream. The mayor spent much of...
LADIES GET BATHROOM BREAK
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe "potty parity" act - which mandates approximately two ladies' toilets for every men's toilet in most public places - was signed into law yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg. "Since time...
'SEX'-RATED STARS - HOT SHOTS JOLIE & BRAD 'BED DOWN'
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amLooks like Brad Pitt is keeping his hands to himself as Angelina Jolie relieves the bare-chested hunk of his silver automatic. This sizzling photo from the July issue of W...
CROWE-MAGNON MAN GOES APE - COPS: HITS N.Y. CONCIERGE WITH PHONE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amHot-headed, hell-raising movie star Russell Crowe spent the morning sleeping on a blanket on the floor of a police holding cell after hurling a telephone at the concierge at a...
MIKE EYES QUEENS TO SAVE OLYMPICS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe city's intense decade-long bid to land the 2012 Summer Olympics went into free fall yesterday, but Mayor Bloomberg indicated he's open to building a stadium in Queens to save...
BLOCK SHOCK AS HOUSE COLLAPSES
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amPart of a building collapsed in Brooklyn yesterday after the floor caved in because it was not connected to support beams, authorities said. The collapse occurred at around 4 p.m....
ROWDY STAR'S OTHER MAJOR 'HITS'
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amLast week, the ever rough-and-ready Russell Crowe vowed he was going to rein in his short temper and sharp tongue and stop brawling. "I don't want to get myself into...
SILVER & BRUNO SACK STADIUM - DEM'S CONCERN OVER GROUND ZERO FIX DOOMS DEAL
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amLegislative leaders yesterday killed Mayor Bloomberg's plan for a West Side stadium - with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver claiming the project would have stunted lower Manhattan redevelopment. The $2 billion...
NYPD TITAN TARTAGLIA DIES
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amLegendary NYPD Detective First Grade John Tartaglia, who helped solve some of New York's most infamous crimes, has died at 79 after a brief illness. Among the cases he worked...
OLYMPICS PANEL: OUI LIKE PARIS BEST
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amParis is the front-runner to win the 2012 Olympics - and New York has become an even longer shot, thanks to the defeat of the proposed West Side stadium, an...
EX-BEAU BUSTED IN SLAY OF GIRL, 17
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx man is under arrest for allegedly killing his former girlfriend, whose body was found in a Westchester parking lot by her parents. Elizabeth Butler, 17, of North Salem,...
'BABY-RAPE' SLEAZE IS ARRESTED
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amA twisted Ohio lawyer who cops say raped a 4-month-old infant, took pictures of the heinous act and then fled to New York was nabbed yesterday living under an assumed...
STRAY SHOT HITS MOM BREAST-FEEDING BABY
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman who was breast-feeding her son was shot in the mouth - just inches from her baby's head - when a stray bullet smashed through her bedroom window,...
SEN. PAT 'HATED' HILLARY - BOOK'S SHOCKING CLAIM
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his wife despised a "duplicitous" and ruthless Hillary Rodham Clinton, who they believed would do anything to advance herself, according to...
'KILLER' NIXES PLEA DEAL AT LAST SECOND
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amAn ex-con accused of invading a home and stabbing a Queens grandfather to death backed out of his plea deal just before sentencing yesterday. "I just wanted to get it...
SHOT COP'S COWARD PARTNER 'RAN': VIDEO
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe partner of a cop who was shot in Brooklyn last week is under investigation after he was caught on NYPD surveillance tape apparently running away from the shooting scene...
PELOSI PAL KILLS - DANNY'S DWI LAWYER HITS L.I. TOURIST: COPS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe son of a retired Long Island police official - and an ex-prosecutor who defended Danny Pelosi - was busted for killing an elderly woman in a fiery DWI wreck...
'KILLER' PULLS A REVERSE - KOS PLEA DEAL IN COURT
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amAn ex-con accused of invading a home, stabbing a Queens grandfather to death and leaving his parole papers behind backed out of his plea deal just before sentencing yesterday -...
SCULPTURES IN THE SKY
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amAppearing as floating figures, fiery sunset streaks or rolling fog, clouds are a major player in mother nature's sky show. Today's Classroom Extra page takes a look. Clouds begin to...
DUMARS: WE WORE 'EM DOWN
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amHEAT-PISTON NOTEBOOK MIAMI - Ex-Knick Antonio McDyess cried in the Pistons' locker room last night. Detroit coach Larry Brown went around the packed maze of reporters, high-fiving each player. Lindsay...
JOHNSON ADMITS KEEPING 'EM CLOSE NOT GOOD ENOUGH
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Randy Johnson didn't want to look, because he didn't need to look. He'd already given up 314 home runs in his major league career right up to the...
HEAT WAVE BYE - PISTONS POWER PAST WADE, SHAQ TO FINALS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amGAME 7: Pistons 88 - Heat 82 MIAMI - A wincing Dwyane Wade gave the Heat all his strained rib muscle would allow; he gave Game 7 a third quarter...
BOMBER BATS STILL BRITTLE - LIFELESS YANKS FALL UNDER .500
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amBrewers 4 - Yankees 3 MILWAUKEE - At this rate, the Yankees will be sellers, not buyers when the trading season swings into full bloom. If the Yankees can't beat...
KEV MAY MISS START VS. CARDS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MILWAUKEE - Kevin Brown's 40-year-old body is barking again. And a left shoulder problem could be loud enough to force him out of his next start Friday in...
NETS TO WORK OUT 16
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amAnd now the draft workouts for immediate help begin. The Nets have scheduled workouts for 16 prospects, many regarded as certain first-round picks, in preparation for selecting 15th in the...
'ALEX' WORKS HARD
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amBELMONT NOTES All spring, racetrackers at Belmont Park have been reading about the rigorous two-a-day training regimen that trainer Tim Ritchey has laid out for Afleet Alex, the heavy favorite...
BOARDING CALL - SHAQ REBOUND WAS HEAT'S DESIRE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - As the hours ticked down to the tip-off of last night's Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, Heat coach Stan Van Gundy called on Shaquille O'Neal to...
NICK NIXES FAVE EDGE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amHorses racing at the track where they are stabled are said to have the "home-court advantage" in races like Saturday's 137th Belmont Stakes over runners shipping in for the event....
ARUM KEEPS AN EYE ON TYSON
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amHIS prized fighter Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico is making his Garden debut Saturday night, but Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is also interested in what happens that same night...
MARTINEZ GUNS FOR 'STROS TONIGHT
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amA few weeks ago, Met bullpen coach Guy Conti wanted Pedro Martinez to get an MRI on what turned out to be an inflamed right hip. Eventually, Martinez consented to...
ELI TAKING CHARGE - JINT AIDE: MANNING GROWING AS LEADER
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amIf their young quarterback ascends to the greatness the Giants believe he can reach, figure a telling scene in the Eli Manning Story will be Kevin Gilbride's now-historic decision to...
GRAVES' SHORT LIST INCLUDES AMAZIN'S
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets are one of three finalists for the services of released reliever Danny Graves. An online report yesterday said the Mets were competing with the Braves and...
KNICKS EYEBALL PROSPECTS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amKnick President Isiah Thomas, coach Herb Williams and the club's army of scouts descended on Chicago yesterday for the four-day pre-draft camp that begins tonight with 60-plus prospects. It's unlikely...
PUSHING DWYANE TO LIMIT
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amHEAT-PISTON NOTEBOOK MIAMI - The Pistons planned to make Heat guard Dwyane Wade work as hard as possible on defense to exploit his rib strain in last night's Game 7...
WOLFPACK GRAB DAVIS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amLarry Davis never thought of himself going to North Carolina State during his junior year. It wasn't until the Wolfpack's coaching staff took notice of him in recent months during...
WAITING OUT WEST
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amEVEN those who might remember the Alamo can't seem to recall the Spurs. You know: Western Conference champs . . . favored to win their third NBA championship in seven...
CAN'T TREAT THIS STAFF DEFECTION
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - It's just a cruel joke, really, that on the day Kevin Brown suffered the latest meltdown in a season in which the Yankee pitching staff has been as...
MOORE WAITS FOR FOE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amMoore Catholic will be in tomorrow's CHSAA baseball championship round, but the Mavericks have to wait another day before they find out who their opponent is. The Xaverian-St. Francis Prep...
CASH: CHANGE THE CHANNEL! - GM: YANKEES 'TOUGH TO WATCH'
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - You think it's been difficult to look at the Yankees when one lifeless loss follows another? Try being GM Brian Cashman, one of the men who put together...
NO RESTFOR TOM RIGHT NOW
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Ever wonder what the definition of a gamer is? It's Tom Gordon last night at Miller Park, where the Yankees went into a game against the Brewers having...
THORPE EYES 3-PEAT
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amTake it from Jim Thorpe: Winning the $1.5 million Commerce Bank Championship at Eisenhower Park for a third straight year won't be easy. "It's going to be tough," said Thorpe,...
UNWATCHABLE - CASHMAN BLASTS BOMBERS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - You think it's been difficult to look at the Yankees when one lifeless loss follows another? Try being GM Brian Cashman, one of the men who put together...
SHAQ NOT ABLE TO REBOUND
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amHEAT-PISTON NOTEBOOK MIAMI - As the hours ticked down to the tip-off of last night's Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, Heat coach Stan Van Gundy called on Shaquille...
AMAZIN'S HAVE LEAD IN GRAVES RACE
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Danny Graves pursuit is nearing its conclusion, and the Mets went into last night thinking they were the leading candidates to sign the reliever. As it is,...
METROS GETTING RAZOV
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe MetroStars' search for an established forward is finally done, as The Post has learned the club completed its on-again, off-again trade for Columbus' Ante Razov. The Crew striker had...
KEV MAYMISS START VS. CARDS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MILWAUKEE - Kevin Brown's 40-year-old body is barking again. And it might be loud enough to force him out of his next start Friday in St. Louis. Brown,...
HEAT WAVE BYE - TENACIOUS PISTONS POWER BACK TO FINALS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amGAME 7: Pistons 88 - Heat 82 MIAMI - Dwyane Wade gave all his strained rib muscle would allow, played a third quarter to remember. He could not get the...
APPLE'S NOW PEDRO TOWN - RIGHTY'S PITCHING AND PERSONALITY STEAL N.Y. SPOTLIGHT
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amNew Yorkers catch on quickly. The season is only two months old, and this is already Pedro's Town. Omar Minaya dreamed it would be like this. He felt Pedro would...
BELMONT BLITZ - ZITO GUNS FOR UPSET WITH 3 LONGSHOTS
June 7, 2005 | 4:00amIF AT FIRST you don't succeed with five horses in the Kentucky Derby and three in the Preakness, why not fire three more horses in the Belmont Stakes? When you're...