May 1, 2006
SWEEPS STAKES - TV BIGS PULL OUT THE STOPS IN RATINGS RACE
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe major networks are rolling out super-sized episodes, cliffhanger finales and doomsday movies in hopes of breaking a dead heat with just a few weeks left in the ratings race....
JOB-SEARCH LIMBO - AVOID THE POST-SCHOOL BLUES WITH THESE TIPS FOR COLLEGE GRADS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amSPRING is here, which means the stakes are rising for college seniors - and the pressure's on. As the "real world" becomes more visible and graduation looms in a matter...
ADMIT DE-FEET
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amSOME feet are hot and some feet are not so hot. Maurice Hines' danceical "Hot Feet," which limped enthusiastically into the Hilton Theatre last night, is barely lukewarm. Conceived, choreographed...
LANDON FAMILY FINALLY GETS EMMY
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHE most emotional moment of the Daytime Emmys the other night may have been Jennifer Landon - daughter of the late Michael Landon - getting the award for best young...
STARR REPORT
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amPaws to consider "Veronica Mars" star Kristen Bell was at last week's 9th Annual ASPCA Bergh Ball "Happy Paws for the ASPCA Cause," sponsored by Chopard. Kristen was there with...
'SOPRANO' LOVE IS SO WRONG
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amJulianna Margulies drove a hard bargain, but Tony Soprano wouldn't close the deal last night on "The Sopranos." In her first appearance on the HBO mob opera, the former star...
O'DISCOUNT - 'THE VIEW' GOT ROSIE FOR $2 MIL
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amROSIE O'Donnell's arrival on "The View" is great news for one important group of people - the bookkeepers at ABC. Insiders say she will be paid only $2 million a...
REEL STERN - PINT-SIZE HOWARD TAKES FILM PRIZE
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amLAST week three little kids accomplished something the FCC and CBS could never do - they made Howard Stern cry. Well maybe he was just a bit misty-eyed. "They got...
GREAT BRITAIN - HAIL BRITANNIA! SPRING LOOKS JUMP THE PONDL DRESS TO AN ENGLISH BEAT
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHE British are coming! On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art throws open the doors on its new Costume Institute exhibit, "AngloMania," and kicks off the opening tonight with its...
ELIOT IN A ROMP (WITH GOP VOTERS)
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Eliot Spitzer holds double-digit leads over his two potential Republican challengers - and that's just among GOP voters, according to a stunning new poll that's yet to be...
MARRIAGE A (WEB) HIT - FAME FOR CHOPPER PROPOSAL
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amEric Palatnik knew that his marriage proposal - a giant, hand-painted sign atop an abandoned Queens factory - was special, but he never thought it would earn a place in...
FOCUS ON SPY-CAM LANDLORDS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amLandlords are resorting to a new weapon in their war with tenants over rent stabilization - hidden cameras. "The whole building is paranoid now," said Bryan Lurie, who last week...
'MURDER' MAY BE MISHAP - SCIENTIST MIGHT HAVE FALLEN INTO TANK
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe unsolved death of a chemist at a New Jersey water-treatment plant - long considered a murder - may have been just a tragic accident, investigators have revealed. The "strangulation"...
'IDOL'D' SINGER'S POP FREED - BEAUTY'S FELON DAD DUE TO BE UNCAGED TODAY
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amSTARKE, Fla. - The jailbird dad of ousted "American Idol" wannabe Kellie Pickler is getting the boot as well - from prison. Clyde Pickler, as long as he didn't belt...
SPITZER AIDE'S E-WAR - RIPS 'NUTTY' CRITIC
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Eliot Spitzer's attack-dog spokesman went into overdrive to discredit John Whitehead after the chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. publicly complained last year that Spitzer threatened him,...
'RV' MOTORS TO TOP SPOT AT BOX OFFICE
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amComedy topped terrorism at the box office, as Robin Williams' family-vacation flick "RV" debuted at No. 1 over the weekend, ahead of Hollywood's first major 9/11 movie, "United 93." "RV,"...
JOEY: AFFAIR ALSO AMY'S FAULT - INFAMOUS EX-LOVERS WILL CONFRONT EACH OTHER TONIGHT
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amJoey Buttafuoco stubbornly refused to take full responsibility for bedding teen paramour Amy Fisher - and revealed that he long wanted to "twist her neck" after the "Long Island Lolita"...
ZARQAWI'S BECOMING HOLY TERROR
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amAbu Musab al-Zarqawi, the maniacal killer responsible for unrelenting terrorist attacks in Iraq, is trying to reinvent himself as a quasi-religious leader, an Iraqi insurgent says. The insurgent, who uses...
NO GA$ RELIEF IN SIGHT: TEAM W.
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten called surging gas prices a "very large problem" that likely won't be solved any time soon. "It's not going to...
CHANDRA'S PARENTS TURN TO 'NET FOR CLUES FIVE YEARS LATER
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amChandra Levy's parents have launched a Web site in a bid to nail the fiend who killed the Washington intern, who vanished five years ago yesterday. Robert and Susan Levy...
BUSH IS JUST YOSH-ING
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Oh, my Yosh! Some of President Bush's nicknames for new Chief of Staff Josh Bolten are so off color that Bolten can't say them on TV. "The repeatable...
SON OF SAM IS A JAIL GOD - FOLLOWERS FLOCK TO SERIAL-SLAY 'GURU'
May 1, 2006 | 4:00am"Son of Sam" serial killer - and self-proclaimed born-again Christian - David Berkowitz has become a spiritual guru for throngs of followers who are seeking his religious "guidance" from behind...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Two cops were hospitalized after their patrol car collided with another vehicle on the Upper East Side early yesterday, police said. The officers were heading westbound on East...
SPITZER CO-OPTED
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amAbout 50 co-op owners protested outside Eliot Spitzer's office yesterday, charging that the state attorney general and governor wannabe abandoned them in favor of real-estate moguls. The protestors, mostly Russian...
ERIN GO BYE-BYE - IRISH LEAVING NYC IN DROVES
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe Big Apple is losing its brogue. In a stunning reversal, hordes of Irish immigrants are waving goodbye to the Statue of Liberty and heading home. "A lot of them...
MINISTER WARNS ON 'SCAM' KID
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amTwo Connecticut pastors are willing to baby-sit a jailed NYU student accused of big financial frauds if he is released pending trial - but a German minister warns that years...
SUBWAY THIEF 'VANISHES'
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA Houdini-like purse snatcher pulled off the perfect subway robbery yesterday, cops said. He stole a pocketbook from a woman at the Broadway-Lafayette stop on the Sixth Avenue line at...
SMOKER, 87, DIES IN CIG FIRE
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amAn 87-year-old "incurable smoker" died yesterday, the lone victim of a Queens rest-home fire sparked by his falling asleep in his wheelchair while holding a lit cigarette, police said. The...
ILLEGALS SHIRKING ON A 'CHAIN' GANG
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThousands of immigrants are expected to walk off the job today to rally, and many will form a "human chain" across the city, in hopes of showing Washington what they...
POOCH POUNDED - COPS PUT BITE ON QNS. MAN IN CHIHUAHUA CRUELTY
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens brute was busted on animal-cruelty charges for beating his girlfriend's Chihuahua nearly to death - in order to get back at her after a fight, authorities said yesterday....
JUST CALL HER SAN JUAN HILL
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In her latest move to woo Latino voters for her re-election and potential 2008 White House bid, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has quietly signed on to a measure...
PIXEL-PERFECT 'WITNESS' - RUN-OVER TEEN WINS SUIT WITH ANIMATION VID
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe best witness to a teen girl being run down by a bus wasn't a person - it was a 3D animated program created afterward. The video gave a civil...
RETIRED OFFICER IN ATTACK BUST
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA retired correction officer was arrested yesterday for allegedly pistol-whipping a motorist after a Long Island car accident, police said. During an argument, Sheala Watford pulled out a licensed handgun...
600G LOVE 'SCAM' - GAL, 83, 'BILKED'
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA 35-year-old prison inmate and his mother have been charged with bilking an 83-year-old woman out of $600,000 by concocting a phony May-December romance between the octogenarian and the inmate....
BLOODY BORDER GAME CROSSES THE LINE
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amAs if the immigration debate weren't hot enough, a controversial e-mail is circulating on the Internet, linking users to a violent video game that challenges players to kill as many...
EX-DET. RIPS TOP INTEL COP - SAYS FBI SHARES INFO
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA former top detective yesterday insisted that the FBI routinely shares information with police, despite what the NYPD's anti-terror intelligence czar reputedly charged in an obscenity-laden tirade that led a...
TRAGIC BOY BLUE - COP KID, 9, SHOOTS SELF
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amAn NYPD cop's young son shot himself in the face yesterday with his father's gun - and was on life-support last night, sources said. Nine-year-old Tyler Dunne was at his...
YACHTS OF QUESTIONS - ANDY'S MYSTERY MARINA JOB
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amAndrew Cuomo, the front-runner in the state attorney general's race, works for a little-known real-estate banking firm - and his decision to keep coy about some of its investors has...
S.I. POL MIA FOR HALF OF COUNCIL ROLL CALLS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA city councilman from Staten Island has compiled the worst attendance record of any member - blowing off almost half of all meetings last year, The Post has found. Andrew...
TWIN TOTS IN POOL HORROR
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amFour-year-old New Jersey twins were clinging to life early today after they were found floating in their backyard pool, cops said. The boy and girl, whose names were withheld, were...
EASTER GANG CRISIS - EATERIES SHUT
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amPolice, unable to contain a Times Square street-gang invasion, advised several restaurants to close down early "for safety reasons" on Easter Sunday, The Post has learned. A 24-hour McDonald's on...
BEASTLY BEAU BATTERED CHIHUAHUA: COPS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens brute was busted on animal-cruelty charges for beating his girlfriend's Chihuahua nearly to death - in order to get back at her after a fight, authorities said yesterday....
BROOKLYN BOOM! - POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS JOLTED BY PROPANE BLAST
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThree 100-gallon propane tanks atop a Downtown Brooklyn police station and adjacent firehouse exploded in a fireball yesterday, sending chunks of metal flying and cops and firefighters scurrying for cover....
RUDY 'CAMPAIGNING' IN IOWA
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Giuliani is expected to dip his foot into the 2008 presidential waters today by touring parts of Iowa, site of the nation's first caucuses. He's scheduled to appear...
ZARQAWI BECOMING HOLY TERROR
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amAbu Musab al-Zarqawi, the maniacal killer responsible for unrelenting terrorist attacks in Iraq, is trying to reinvent himself as a quasi-religious leader, an Iraqi insurgent says. The insurgent, who uses...
NEW YORKERS REIGN ON 'TOP 100' POWER LIST
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe Big Apple looms big on Time's list of the world's 100 most influential people - with 16 New Yorkers making the grade, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Diddy, Katie...
BEAU BEAT GAL'S TINY DOG: COPS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens brute was busted on animal-cruelty charges for beating his girlfriend's Chihuahua nearly to death - in order to get back at her after a fight, authorities said yesterday....
SPITZER SKIPS SATMAR BRO
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amEliot Spitzer seemed to snub one side of the simmering Satmar sect war by sitting shiva only with one of late Grand Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum's sons in Brooklyn yesterday. A...
ALIEN JOB WALKOUT IS CHAIN REACTION
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThousands of immigrants are expected to walk off the job today to rally, and many will form a "human chain" across the city, in hopes of showing Washington what they...
SAM A 'HOLY' $#!% - SERIAL-SLAY JAIL 'GURU'
May 1, 2006 | 4:00am"Son of Sam" serial killer - and self-proclaimed born-again Christian - David Berkowitz has become a spiritual guru for throngs of followers who are seeking his religious "guidance" from behind...
'SPY-CAM' LANDLORD
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amLandlords have a new weapon in their war on rent stabilization - hidden cameras. "The whole building is paranoid now," said Bryan Lurie, who last week found a camera hidden...
COP'S SON, 9, SHOOTS SELF IN HEAD
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amAn NYPD cop's son shot himself in the head yesterday with his father's gun - and was on life-support last night, sources said. Nine-year-old Tyler Dunne was at his home...
QNS. MAN STABBED FOR HIS CELLPHONE
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA gang of about 15 thugs beat and stabbed a 20-year-old man playing handball with his pals in Queens after he refused to hand over his cellphone, cops said. The...
CITY SUED FOR JACOBI STILLBIRTH
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx woman has sued the city, saying doctors at Jacobi Medical Center ignored her warnings that her intrauterine device was inside her while she was pregnant - and that...
'VAMPIRA' STALKS QNS. HIGH - BLOODLUST GIRL BITES SCHOOLMATES: SUIT
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA twisted teenage vampiress attacked three girls who attend her Queens high school - savagely sinking her teeth into their necks in a series of bizarre bloodlettings, a shocking new...
N.Y. HIGH SCHOOLS AMONG NATION'S BEST
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amStudents in Westchester and Long Island go to some of the best public high schools in the country, according to a new campus ranking that places college preparation above classroom...
S.I. HIGH-SPEED HAVOC - POLICE PURSUIT ENDS IN CRASH
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA shooting led to a wild high-speed car chase as cops pursued four suspects through quiet residential streets on Staten Island. The mayhem began at about 7 p.m., as a...
BROOKLYN BOOM! - BLAST JOLTS POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThree 100-gallon propane tanks atop a Downtown Brooklyn police station and adjacent firehouse exploded in a fireball yesterday, sending chunks of metal flying and cops and firefighters scurrying for cover....
9/11 TRAUMA DROVE TEENS TO BOOZE, CIGS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amCity teens most devastated by the Sept. 11 attacks drank more booze and smoked more cigarettes than their peers to help deal with the trauma, an explosive new study has...
HARVARD LOVES A THUG
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amHARVARD University has a bizarre idea of how to advance the education of its grads: Instruct them to bow down to North Korea's paranoid dictators and show proper "respect" for...
LET AL-ARIAN ROT - HE HELPED MY DAUGHTER'S KILLERS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amFLORIDA professor Sami Al-Arian - who has pleaded guilty to fund-raising and other support for the the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad - is set to be sentenced today. He...
MONSTER MARKET - NEW B'KLYN SUPERSTORE SET TO OPEN
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amA Civil War-era warehouse along the gritty Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn is being majestically transformed into a Fairway supermarket, luxury apartments and office and restaurant space. The Post got...
GAS BLAST RATTLES BROOKLYN
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThree 100-gallon propane tanks atop a downtown Brooklyn police station and adjacent firehouse exploded yesterday (above), sending chunks of metal flying and cops and firefighters scurrying for cover. "I thought...
CO-OP OWNERS DISOWN ELIOT
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amAbout 50 co-op owners protested outside Eliot Spitzer's office yesterday, charging that the state attorney general and governor wannabe abandoned them in favor of real-estate moguls. The protestors, most of...
KRSTIC IN THE MIX
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amYou looked at the Nets at the beginning of the season and saw Jason Kidd, Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson. Heartburn, indigestion, posterior pain for any opposing defense. But it's...
JETS HIGH ON SMITH
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets believe they might have unearthed another Antwaan Randle El with their first pick in Day Two of the NFL Draft. Missouri quarterback Brad Smith broke the...
LEANIN' ON D'BRICK WALL - FERGIE, LEINART FOREVER LINKED
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHE TOP of the 2005 Jets' draft will be defined by two things: * For how long and well D'Brickashaw Ferguson plays and how many Pro Bowls he's voted into....
SPELL OF SUCCESS - GIANTS FEEL GOOD ABOUT NAME GAME
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHIS WAS no Tom, Dick and Harry draft for the Giants, who during this past weekend added a Mathias, a Sinorice, a Gerris, a Gerrick and one Guy. As spell...
ACCORSI BASKS IN FINAL DRAFT
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Unless something unexpected transpires, this past weekend's NFL Draft was the final one orchestrated by Ernie Accorsi, the Giants GM since 1998. The draft is Accorsi's Super Bowl,...
FLAG ESPN FOR DRAFT DAY DRIVEL
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amSO HELP us, we tried. Once again, we tried to watch ESPN's coverage of the NFL Draft. We even put ourselves on the clock. But not for long. We recognize...
FLOYD SINGING APRIL BLUES
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Yesterday morning, Cliff Floyd sang a never-released remix of "Love Train." "People all over the world - help me get some [doggone] hits," Floyd crooned before...
BROWNS TAB EX-CANARSIE STAR
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amLeon Williams was considered the best college football prospect to come out of New York City in 25 years when he left Canarsie four years ago, but the linebacker didn't...
D-DAY DRAWING CLOSE FOR ELIAS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amIt's such a warm, cozy story when the home-drafted and -developed kid turns into a superstar. It's such a cold one when he leaves as a free agent. That possibility...
APRIL POWERS - DESPITE LOSS, METS TAME TURNER DEMONS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amBraves 8 - Mets 5 ATLANTA - They passed the test - but they didn't ace it. The Mets didn't bury the Braves yesterday, even though they had umpteen chances...
SORE LEFT WRIST KO'S SHEFFIELD
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When Joe Torre penciled Bernie Williams into the lineup yesterday morning in place of Gary Sheffield, the manager had no idea when his regular right fielder would return....
JUMPY GEORGE - BOSS BLASTS UMP, MLB AFTER WIN
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 4 - Blue Jays 1 There were a lot of people mad at inexperienced home plate umpire Adam Dowdy yesterday. An ejected Joe Torre screamed in Dowdy's face. Blue...
JOHNNY ON THE SPOT - AS USUAL, FIRST PLACE WILL BE ON THE LINE AT FENWAY
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amHad enough of "What's It Going To Feel Like For Johnny Damon Going Back To Fenway Park?" Considering the stir Damon's return to New England's living room has caused and...
IN THE END, FOCUS WILL BE OFF DAMON
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHEY are tied. Of course, they are. It seems as if the Yankees and Red Sox have been deadlocked for about four years now. The Rivalry renews tonight in Fenway...
DEVS HIT WHERE IT HURT
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amLOOKING behind one more time before looking ahead. Let Martin Rucinsky be Exhibit A in making the case that limited disclosure is the best policy regarding playoff injuries, even if...
THE HEAT'S ON 'DEREK'
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Brother Derek may be the Toast of the Coast and reigning favorite to win the Kentucky Derby, but when the gates fly open Saturday he's going to be...
FUNNY CIDE GUTS OUT WIN
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe gutsy gelding Funny Cide showed everyone that he still has the will to win as he was passed by Gold and Roses at the top of the stretch but...
NAMES HAVE CHANGED, BUT RIVALRY REMAINS
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The last time everyone gathered in these musty confines, the familiar feelings of inescapability and destiny were crowding into every crevasse. In front of his locker, hurrying to...
TRAINER: BARBARO IS READY
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - If a trainer's confidence is a telltale sign his horse will run well in the Kentucky Derby, then Michael Matz' dark bay colt Barbaro, unbeaten in five starts...
BAFFERT PAIR GO ON COAST
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - After perhaps the busiest morning of workouts in Kentucky Derby history, when a dozen hopefuls drilled Saturday at Churchill Downs, there was little morning action under the Twin...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 1, 2006 | 4:00amOfficials at an Alabama elementary school are trying to get their students' grades up - by forcing them to cut their bangs. They claim long bangs impair vision and inhibit...