January 9, 2006
REFCO REDO TO RING IN ABOUT $6M FOR GOLDIN
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amFormer New York City Comptroller Harrison Goldin stands to be the biggest winner in the Refco debacle, after it filed court papers last week seeking to pay him $685 an...
MORE HOWARD; LAUNCH ADS SCARCE IN BID TO BOOST DEMAND
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amSirius Satellite Radio is selling just a handful of ads during shock jock Howard Stern's show in hopes of pumping up demand and eventually prices. The satellite broadcaster is telling...
GALECKI MAKES BOLD ENTRANCE ON N.Y. STAGE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amNOW we know what Darlene saw in David. Johnny Galecki - best known as David, the sweet, befuddled boyfriend with the Eraser head hair from TV's "Roseanne" - makes his...
IT'S A-'LIVE' - 'SNL' GETS ITS GROOVE BACK
January 9, 2006 | 5:00am'SATURDAY Night Live" suddenly has a chance to live up to its own hype. Coming off of two warmly received shows at the end of 2005, the 31-year-old sketch comedy...
TOO EARLY FOR PERFECT COUPLE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amWeekends with Maury and Connie" Saturdays at 10 a.m. on MSNBC ** ½ (two and a half stars) And on the sixth day, Maury Povich rested - no paternity tests,...
STARR REPORT
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amSteering the ship Janet Annino, an 18-year veteran of "En tertainment Tonight," will execu tive-produce Ra chael Ray's up coming syndicated show, which kicks off next fall. Annino worked her...
CANDY GRAHAM - THE NEW 'SEX AND THE CITY' HAS PLENTY OF 'REASONS' TO TUNE IN
January 9, 2006 | 5:00am"Emily's Reasons Why Not" Tonight at 9 on ABC/Ch. 7 * * * (three stars) UNLESS you were struck down by a bus, you couldn't have missed the ads on...
WORKOUT WHAT GYM IS RIGHT FOR YOU
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amCrunch Equipment: Solid, if older, machines that tend to be crammed together throughout the gyms. Classes: Futuristic and fun, always with a gimmick. Trainers: Devoted, hardworking staff - in excellent...
THE PERFECT FIT - BEST NEW GYM ROUTINES KEEP YOU IN STEP
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amNever mind getting in shape make a New Year's resolution not to be bored out of your mind at the gym. After all, there are only so many times you...
DOCS DEBUNK SUICIDE RISK OF PROZAC
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amProzac and other antidepressants do not increase the risk of suicide, researchers say. In fact, the Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative found that unnecessary concern based on unfounded claims often causes...
HAMPTONS BATTLE TO SAVE RINK
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amEast Hampton residents are fighting to keep open a popular skating rink local government wants to close down. The rink, which opened last winter, offered locals a recreational outlet during...
DRUNK DRIVER FLEES DEAD PAL: COPS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amA boozed-up Long Island driver ran from the wreckage of a horrific crash in Queens yesterday morning - leaving his dead buddy inside the car, authorities said. Reginald Gustave, 23,...
'HOSTEL' REACTION AT THE BOX OFFICE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amGuts, gore and gratuitous nudity conquered the box office as the gross-out horror flick "Hostel" debuted at No. 1 over the weekend. The R-rated shocker, about a group of horny...
SOMETHING FISHY; W. SIDE AQUARIUM TO FEATURE LOCAL SEA LIFE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amIt looks like a scaled-down version of the ill-fated West Side stadium - but instead of hosting sports teams, this 1,000-square-foot building will house schools of fish. Get ready for...
'DRUNK' FLEES CRASH; LEAVES DEAD PAL
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amA boozed-up Long Island driver ran from the wreckage of a horrific crash in Queens yesterday morning - leaving his dead buddy inside the car, authorities said. Reginald Gustave, 23,...
CRACKING DOWN ON TAMI-FAKES
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amAmerican customs officials are trying to block an influx of phony flu pills, a report says. Last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 250 parcels of possibly bogus...
HOPEFUL 'NOTES'; DOCS WILL WAKE ARIEL FROM COMA WITH MUSIC
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Doctors are banking on an age-old therapy - playing sweet strains of music - to test Ariel Sharon's responses when they try to bring the soldier-statesman out of...
EX-PM PERES BACKS OLMERT TO LEAD NEW PARTY
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday won the endorsement of veteran Israeli politician Shimon Peres to lead their Kadima party into an election in three months. Peres, a...
'MOB' FED'S HO-DOWN; POP GOT HOOKERS FOR AGENT, SAYS SON
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amThe FBI agent under investigation for his relationship with a trigger-happy mobster was provided with special favors - including a booze- fueled party with hookers - according to bombshell testimony...
IRAQ TREKKER TO COPYCATS: STAY HOME
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amThe Florida prep-school junior who survived sneaking to Iraq to see the effects of the war firsthand apologized to the military yesterday for the inconvenience he caused, and warned others...
POPE'S SHOOTER SET TO GO FREE; TURKEY OKS PAROLE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amThe man who shot Pope John Paul II will be released from a Turkish prison Thursday, after a court decided he had completed his sentence with time served for the...
WATER FOR CHOCOLATE IN BOXCAR SPILL
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amThere was plenty of cocoa for a brisk winter day along Brooklyn's waterfront yesterday - if you like your chocolate cold and briny. A barge began taking on water and...
SLAY SHOCKS QUEENS FAMILY; BELOVED SON SHOT ON BROOKLYN STREET
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amA mild-mannered Queens man was shot dead yesterday as he walked down the street holding hands with his girlfriend, police and relatives said. Gavin Morris, 24, was shot twice about...
ISLAMIC-CULTURE TRAINING FOR NYPD
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amNew York's Finest hostage negotiators are getting cultural training on dealing with Muslims. The team of about 100 negotiators spent a day last month at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn,...
SWANNY GOES FOR GOVERNOR
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH LAST Wednesday night, at the Heinz History Center here, football hall-of-famer Lynn Swann literally threw his hat (well, baseball cap) into the ring - announcing his candidacy for governor...
INTEL, LIES & TREASON; SHOW US BUSH'S VICTIMS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amACCORDING to the Democratic Party's leaders, we all have been betrayed by the Bush administration's Big Brother intelligence tactics as evil government operatives invaded the privacy of innocent Americans. Stop...
W.VA. MOURNS MINERS; FUNERAL-HOME WORKER SEES 'SO MANY, I CAN'T KEEP TRACK'
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amFamilies began burying their loved ones yesterday throughout the coal-mining towns surrounding Sago, where 12 men died tragically last week. Six funerals were held yesterday. Five more are scheduled for...
PATAKI 'FURIOUS' AT PIRRO OVER 'EMBARRASSING' SENATE FIASCO
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amBAD blood has developed between Gov. Pataki and former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, whose hapless U.S. Senate campaign turned into a national "embarrassment" for the governor. "They haven't...
TEMPS HITTING THE NIFTY 50S
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amNew Yorkers can stop sweating, briefly, about the high cost of home heating this week - with temperatures expected to reach onto the 50s. "If you're paying high heating bills,...
WATER-FOR-CHOCOLATE RIVER DUNK
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amThere was plenty of cocoa for a brisk winter day along Brooklyn's waterfront yesterday - if you like your chocolate cold. A barge began taking on water and tipped over,...
MAIMED BY TWO TRAINS; $50M LIRR SUIT
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amA Long Island man who lost an arm and a leg after falling onto the train tracks in Brooklyn says being run over once is bad enough - but getting...
JACKO SUIT'S A HOOT; ZANY ALLEGATIONS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amSANTA ANA, Calif. - Michael Jackson, having licked kiddie-sex charges just months ago, has been quietly fighting molestation claims made by a young man who says Jacko forced him into...
N.Y. CRITICS GO COUNTRY
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amThe New York Film Critics Circle's annual award gala had a decidedly down-home flavor last night, as films about cowboys and country singers took top honors. Ravishing Reese Witherspoon, who...
COPS WILL CONFRONT BRANCATO
January 9, 2006 | 5:00am"Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato Jr. and his co-defendant in the murder of a police officer are going to get the audience of their lives today at Bronx Supreme Court: a...
ARNIE AND SON IN BIKE CRASH
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger received 15 stitches to his lip yesterday after he and his son were involved in a motorcycle accident near their Los Angeles home. Schwarzenegger...
GUNS IN THE PARK; THUGS STRIKE IN CENTRAL
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amGun-wielding thugs brazenly staged robberies at two popular Central Park locations early last night, authorities said. The attacks were 30 blocks apart - one near the Bethesda Fountain at 72nd...
STUDENT WINS TRANSFER BATTLE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amAn autistic teen whose request for a new school was denied by the Department of Education, prompting the censure of the superintendent of special education, should be placed in another...
NORMAN WILL STAY SILENT TO THE END
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amProsecutors hoping to get Clarence Norman to sing about the sale of judgeships will hear only the sound of silence. The dethroned Brooklyn Democratic Party boss will not look to...
COUNCIL'S NEW BOSS IS MAKING AN ARTFUL ENTRANCE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amAnyone who doubts a change is coming under new City Council Speaker Christine Quinn need only look at her office walls. "Kim is picking the pictures," Quinn said of her...
BLACK HAWK DOWN; 12 AMERICANS DIE IN CRASH; 5 SLAIN BY REBELS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amA dozen Americans perished when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in a sparsely populated stretch of northern Iraq yesterday, and gunfire and roadside bombs killed five Marines near Fallujah, authorities...
ALITO GOES ON SENATE GRILL TODAY
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito goes on the Senate hot seat today. with Democrats promising a bare-knuckle brawl - and possibly a filibuster - to block his nomination....
CHIP OFF THE OLD STONE; MICK'S SON SHARES HIS DAD'S TALENT
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amIf Mick Jagger ever decides to hang up his microphone, this adorable little boy could easily take his place onstage. Although he's only 6 years old, Lucas Morad Jagger, the...
E-GAD! NO WONDER WORKERS ARE DISTRACTED
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amWith the distraction of e-mail, pagers and the Internet, workers are going nuts just trying to stay on task. A team led by University of California researchers tracked 36 office...
BIG EASY MAYOR 'MISSING'
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amWhere's Ray? That's what participants of The Wall Street Project were wondering yesterday about New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who said he'd attend as a special guest. "We all went...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amTHE BRONX *** A man was charged yesterday with starving his pit bull and tying it to a hot-water pipe in his Edenwald apartment, authorities said. An ASPCA special agent...
PATAKI-PIRRO WAR - BAD BLOOD OVER SENATE DEBACLE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amBAD blood has developed between Gov. Pataki and former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, whose hapless U.S. Senate campaign turned into a national "embarrassment" for the governor. "They haven't...
RUN OVER TWICE - $50M SUIT FOR LIRR HORROR THAT COST ARM & LEG
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amA Long Island man who lost an arm and a leg after falling onto the train tracks in Brooklyn says being run over once is bad enough - but getting...
W.VA. MOURNS MINERS - FUNERAL-HOME WORKER SEES 'SO MANY, I CAN'T KEEP TRACK'
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amFamilies began burying their loved ones yesterday throughout the coal-mining towns surrounding Sago, where 12 men died tragically this week. Six funerals were held yesterday. Five more are scheduled for...
BUSH IN DESPERATE HUNT FOR LOBBYIST PIX
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amIf a picture is worth a thousand words, how much does a snapshot of a crooked lobbyist and the leader of the free world go for? The White House doesn't...
'SKINS: WE NEED TO DO MORE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amTAMPA - The Redskins were understandably giddy over their wild-card victory over the Bucs Saturday afternoon, but among the offensive unit it was a bittersweet celebration. Advancing to Sunday's divisional...
HAPPY NEW YEAR ; KNICKS STAY PERFECT IN '06
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amThe stars are aligning for Stephon Marbury and the Knicks in the new year - with yesterday's thrilling 120-116 matinee win over the Sonics at the Garden the latest shining...
SONICS COACH RIPS INTO HIS OLD RAMS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amBob Hill won only 38 games in his disastrous four-year run at Fordham, but the new Seattle head coach has some advice for the Bronx school. "It's not a Division...
ELIAS RETURN HAS DEVILS DOMINATING AGAIN
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amAnd now, suddenly, when opponents have Patrik Elias to fret over, the other Devils are starting to chip in. It is always so, and it should make Lou Lamoriello reconsider...
SOMETHIN' SMELLS IN SWAMP
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amAT the end, the Meadowlands looked like a Jets game in late December, not a Giants playoff Sunday in early January. The faithful were sprinting for the parking lot, dashing...
SMITH A ONE-MAN SHOW ; SPEEDY WR SINKS GIANTS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amSteve Smith looked ready for his close-up after his Panthers dismantled the Giants, 23-0. The 5-foot-9 receiver strolled on to the podium after the game wearing a white Burberry hat,...
ESPN CREW NOISES BEST
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amIT'S the greatest incongruity in modern mass media. ESPN, dedicated to covering sports, butchers every sport, almost every time. The anticipation of Saturday's Redskins-Bucs on ABC was tempered by a...
RJ HURT; VOWS TO FACE SPURS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES TORONTO - Richard Jefferson promised he'll play tomorrow in San Antonio. And he did so for the same reason he vowed the Nets would turn their struggles around:...
VINCE'S VICTORY; CARTER PLEDGES WIN, THEN DELIVERS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amNets 105Raptors 104 TORONTO - The Nets were all but dead numerous times in the closing minutes of yesterday's game with the Raptors. While a long-shot hope for a tie...
JINTS RIP COACHES
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amPanthers 23 Giants 0 Standing behind a lectern, analyzing a game he wanted to forget, Tiki Barber, in full public view yesterday, stated, "I think in some ways we were...
HASLETT, VITT ON MENU
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amThe Jets, according to Jim Haslett, were said to be entertaining and interviewing the former Saints coach over dinner last night and are expected to speak with him further today....
PERPLEXED PLAX GETS SHUT OUT
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amWhen Plaxico Burress stepped on the Giants Stadium field for the first few series of Big Blue's NFC wild-card game with Carolina and saw single coverage, his eyes lit up...
SLY FOX, PANTHERS LEAVE WITH SMILE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amWhen John Fox walked into the cramped postgame interview room yesterday, microphones and tape recorders surrounded him. The Panthers coach looked around, smiled and said, "I forgot about this New...
CLUELESS JINT DEFENSE RUN INTO GROUND
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amThe Giants have long prided themselves on their defense, their stout stubbornness against the run. But in yesterday's NFC wild-card game, Carolina gashed them all afternoon on the ground, running...
BROWN'S RIP GOT STEPH MOTIVATED
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Larry Brown continued to downplay his past criticisms of Stephon Marbury and believes his hatchet job on the Knicks point guard in Orlando was not done intentionally to...
BLUESHIRTS GET SYKORA FROM DUCKS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amThis is the kind of trade made by a general manager whose team exceeds expectations over the first half of the season and whose organization contains enough prospects that some...
'O' WEARS BLANK LOOKS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES As badly as the Giants played across the board in yesterday's 23-0 playoff loss to the Panthers, members of their offense were incredulous at just how pathetic they...
YOUNG GUNNERS ENERGIZE GARDEN
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amNOT every young New York athlete fell on his face yesterday. Knicks rookies Nate Robinson, David Lee and Channing Frye have this little ritual before games. "We go out and...
IT'S TIME FOR JETS TO BOOT BRADWAY
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amSO, Jets fans, the fate of your beloved and tortured franchise rests in the very incapable hands of Terry Bradway, who at the moment is the face of the troubled...
MCGINEST FINEST WHEN IT COUNTS
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amIf there's one common denominator to the Patriots' dynasty success the last four years it's this: They are a team in the truest sense of the word, with many moving...
DOWN GOES CARSON ; STEELERS KO PALMER, RALLY PAST CINCY
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amSteelers 31Bengals 17 CINCINNATI - The Bengals waited 15 years to play a playoff game, largely for the arrival of a quarterback who could win one. Then Carson Palmer lasted...
BENGALS: HIT ON QB NOT DIRTY
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amCINCINNATI - The Bengals waited 15 years to play this playoff game, largely for the lack of a quarterback who could win one. Then Carson Palmer lasted two offensive plays....
DOWN GOES CARSON - STEELERS KO PALMER, RALLY PAST CINCY
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amSTEELERS 31 BENGALS 17 CINCINNATI - Carson Palmer went down and Ben Roethlisberger rose. Who knows what Palmer, in his first playoff game in his second NFL season, might have...
SHAKY STORM MARCH TO REAR ; HOYAS RIP DEFENSELESS JOHNNIES
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amG'town 79St. John's 65 When the madness strikes in March and the hottest ticket in town is for the Big East Conference Tournament in the Garden, these are the losses...
FUTURE MURKY FOR SJU'S HILL
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amDaryll Hill missed his fifth game of the season last night with a knee injury that started out as no big deal and now leaves the St. John's guard unsure...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 9, 2006 | 5:00amA bank robber was nailed after the teller who gave him a duffel bag stuffed with cash also tossed in a global positioning satellite device. The device used satellite signals...