December 26, 2005
EXECS GA-GA OVER GOOGLE, IN FITS OVER SPITZER
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amAs the year closes, the business world weighed in with its annual list of the top stories about itself. Google is a phenomenon, Alan Greenspan wields the most power, and...
FOX: IT'S A 'GUY' THING
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amIN another first for "Family Guy," Fox plans to air the show's direct-to-DVD movie - even though it's already been out for months, according to Variety. "Family Guy Presents Stewie...
CHEAP TRICK$ - HOW TO FIND POST-HOLIDAY HOT BARGAINS; SET SALE FOR GOLDEN DEALS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amSTARTING today, for one month, New York will turn into a bargainhunter's paradise. From Macy's to Bloomingdales to Saks Fifth Avenue, department stores are getting ready to clear out their...
APPLE CYBER STORE - OFFICIAL E-SHOP PLAN
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe city is creating a Web site to market a slew of official merchandise, The Post has learned. Everything from snow globes and mouse pads to gift wrap and hair...
BLOOMY CLAUS VISITS BX. KIDS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amSick children at Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx got a Christmas surprise yesterday when Mayor Bloomberg dropped by to read. He read "10 Christmas Lights" by Teresa Imperato. Marline Gabriel,...
FAMILY RELIVES TIME OF TERROR - NYERS RETURN TO DEVASTATED THAI BEACH
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amLast year, Todd Everts was napping on the beach in Phuket, Thailand, on Christmas Day as his family played in the ocean. The next day, they ran for their lives...
BEAUTY & THE BEAST - GAL DIES AFTER BEAU SLAP
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amA 27-year-old city employee died early yesterday morning after she was slapped by her boyfriend and collapsed outside her father's birthday party in The Bronx, cops and family said. "It...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amQUEENS * A man was shot dead by a thug who accosted him on a Woodside street early yesterday, police said. Samuel Castillo, 32, was gunned down at the corner...
WINDOW SUIT VS. COPS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx man claims that a cop who busted him on pot charges last year pushed a gun into his chest, forcing him to step backward and fall out a...
TRANSIT COP IN DWI BUST
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amA transit cop was arrested on drunken-driving charges yesterday following a car accident in Brooklyn, police said. Robert Vargas, who is assigned to Transit District 33 in Brooklyn, was involved...
BODYBUILDERS BUSTED - ASSISTANT'S CHARRED BODY IN CAR
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amA Las Vegas "Bonnie and Clyde" bodybuilding duo murdered their personal assistant, burned her body and then went on the run, authorities said - but cops caught up with the...
HOLIDAY JOY TURNS TRAGIC - UNCLE KILLED IN HIT-RUN AFTER TOY DELIVERY
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amAn elderly Brooklyn man was mowed down by a hit-and-run driver early yesterday as he walked home after delivering Christmas gifts to his precious grandnieces and nephews. Neville Mills, 70,...
AROUND WORLD, A DAY FOR PRAYERS, FEARS AND TEARS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amIn his first Christmas message, Pope Benedict XVI warned against technological advances made in the absence of religious belief. "Today we can marshal vast material resources," he said, addressing thousands...
HOLIDAY JOY TURNS TRAGIC - UNCLE DIES IN HIT-RUN AFTER TOY DELIVERY
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amAn elderly Brooklyn man was fatally mowed down by a hit-and-run driver early yesterday as he walked home after delivering Christmas gifts to his precious grandnieces and grandnephews. Neville Mills,...
BOY, 7, SEES RAPIST KILL MOM: BX. COPS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amA rapist who was paroled last summer stabbed a 22-year-old Bronx woman to death, then plunged the knife into her dad's chest before slashing his own arms yesterday - all...
DUDS AND STUDS FOR POLITICS '05
December 26, 2005 | 5:00am'TIS the season to name the biggest winners and losers of New York state politics for 2005. The annual list was compiled with the aid of journalists, lobbyists, political consultants...
'TORTURE' CHARGES DON'T HOLD UP - LOOKING AT GITMO FROM THE INSIDE
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amGUANTANAMO BAY - A delicious cooling breeze from the azure Caribbean made it feel like vacation time . . . but this was no holiday. Photojournalist Matt McDermott and I...
9-YR. COMA VICTIM FACES NAMELESS GRAVE
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amA crime victim who died after nine years in a coma will be buried in a potter's field unless someone can identify him. City cops are seeking the public's help...
HARLEM RADICALS PROBED
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A small left-wing group operating out of a storefront in Harlem has drawn scrutiny from international terrorism investigators for joining in a global fund-raising drive for the "armed...
COPTIC VISA-NIX SCANDAL - EMBASSY PROBED
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The State Department has launched an investigation into whether hard-line Islamic employees at the U.S Embassy in Egypt are working behind the scenes to deny visas to Coptic...
HILLARY JOINS THE IPOD REVOLUTION
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Now you, too, can groove to the greatest iTunes hits of Hillary Rodham Clinton (left). Sen. Clinton is hitting the world of MP3 players with a 14-track best-of-her-speeches...
'MAFIA' COP HAD A MOLE - GOT NYPD INTEL
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amJust months before being exposed as an alleged Mafia hit man, one of the accused mob cops bragged about a high-ranking NYPD member slipping him unauthorized identification under the table,...
UNION-SLAP JUDGE UP FOR PROMOTION
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn judge who levied a $1 million-a-day fine against the striking Transport Workers Union and threatened to toss its leaders in jail is set to move up in the...
BIRD-FLU PREP QUIZ - CITY BIGS IN SURVEY OF FIRMS' VIRUS PLANS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amCity officials have been reaching out to businesses and organizations to spur them to make contingency plans in case of a bird-flu outbreak here. The Office of Emergency Management and...
'RAPIST' SUED BEFORE TRIAL
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amIf a Bronx rape victim can't have her day in Criminal Court, she's preparing to nail her attacker in Civil Court - an unusual preemptive move in a rape case,...
TRAGIC BEGGAR HONORED
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amHundreds of New Yorkers gathered at Grand Central Station yesterday in memory of Mama Doe, a panhandler whose death 20 years ago became a symbol for the vast number of...
HELP TROOPS PHONE HOME
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amAMERICANS looking for a way to offer some holiday cheer to our troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan might want to consider the USO's Operation Phone Home - a program...
2 COPS IN BRIDGE PLUNGE - TRAGEDY IN JERSEY CITY; JERSEY COPS DRIVE OFF BRIDGE INTO ICY RIVER
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amA police vehicle plunged off a drawbridge into an icy New Jersey river last night, sparking a massive search for two cops who disappeared into the murky waters, authorities said....
PESKY SABRES START ISLES' WEEK
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amISLES at SABRES - Tonight 7:00 - FSN2; WLIE (540) The Islanders have lost all three games against Buffalo so far this season, so you would imagine the Sabres are...
WEAK POWER PLAY DOOMING DEVILS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amDEVILS at LEAFS - Tonight 7:30 - FSN WFAN (660) The Devils' wish list this holiday season was long and far-reaching. They need a new coach to replace Larry Robinson,...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amRUTGERS vs. ARIZONA STATE Tomorrow ESPN, 8:30Insight Bowl line: ASU - 10. Angle: The Scarlet Knights (7-4) have waited 27 years to play in a bowl game and the oddsmakers...
LOST OPPORTUNITY
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amGIANT REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: More accurate and crisp passing from Eli Manning (23 of 41, 244 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT), who should have had two more TDs and 86 more...
BROWN HAS GOOD VIEW OF RIVALRY
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Larry Brown, who coached the Nets in the early 1980's, knows the obsession they have about the Garden's team. "It was the biggest game for us," said Brown,...
STAYING OVER NHL .500 CRUCIAL FOR BLUESHIRTS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amKANATA, Ont. - Enough already about the measuring sticks against which the Rangers can evaluate themselves. Vancouver a measuring stick? Colorado, maybe? How about a New Jersey squad against which...
ASU STAR REMAINS ON STRAIGHT & NARROW PATH
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amDale Antoine Robinson learned early on what it meant to be locked down. His father, Dale Edward Robinson, was a corrections officer on Rikers Island for 15 years, assigned to...
NO MORE DOLAN OUT - COFFERS CLOSING ON EXORBITANT KNICKS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amLarry Brown sat down with Knicks owner James Dolan last Wednesday at their Westchester practice campus. The head coach met with Dolan, top Cablevision executive Hank Ratner, Garden president Steve...
NO WIN, BUT JINTS ARE IN - STILL, BACKING IN NOT ENOUGH FOR BIG BLUE
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amThere's a split among the Giants as they gear up for their cross-country trip to Oakland for a chance to finally clinch the NFC East title. Some do not care...
NO PAT ANSWERS FOR ACHING JETS - LAST MNF ON ABC A COLORLESS MATCHUP
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amWhen the schedule was first announced, tonight's game immediately stood out. It was going to be a postseason game within the regular season. It was going to be everything. Patriots...
KIDD FORTIFIED BY GARDEN FORAYS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amIt may fall under the category of ancient history, but it's relevant today. When Jason Kidd arrived in New Jersey for the 2001-02 season, he promised the Nets would no...
NEW ENGLAND DIDN'T LET INJURIES IMPEDE SUCCESS
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amTHE Patriots have been bound, gagged, chained in a weighted trunk, dropped deeper into the deep blue sea than any depth chart has ever gone and still have come up...
LOSS OF BLACKBURN LEAVES ONLY 3 LB'S
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Rookie linebacker Chase Blackburn was released yesterday morning from a D.C.-area hospital, and returned to New Jersey accompanied by head trainer Ronnie Barnes. Blackburn has a severely sore...
GIMME A CALL - ARMSTEAD TO JINTS: I CAN HELP
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amJessie Armstead said he has his bags packed and is merely a flight away, back home in Dallas with his heart having never really left the Giants, the team he...
GIANTS FEEL THE JITTERS - ANGST EVIDENT AS SEASON HANGS IN BALANCE
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amThere's a split among the Giants as they gear up for a week sure to be filled with pent-up anxiety, followed by a cross-country trip to Oakland for a chance...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe weather put this burglary suspect's getaway on ice. Shawn Tarr, 29, was nabbed after his car got stuck on the icy driveway of a Scarborough, Maine, home he had...