May 6, 2006
NASCAR: NAME THIS RACE IN 50 WORDS
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA lot of companies have a Nascar race named after them. Now one fan will get the naming rights. Canadian whiskey Crown Royal, which holds the title sponsorship to the...
FEDS TARGET LEGAL EAGLES
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe class action law firm of Milberg, Weiss, Bershad & Schulman is bracing for the ultimate nuisance suit: The federal criminal indictment of two of its name partners, according to...
CIPRIANI CANCELS PARTY SITE ON HUDSON PIER
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amBanquet king Giuseppe Cipriani is abruptly backing out of his chance to run Manhattan's biggest event-and-catering site, on a Hudson River pier. Sources said he grew impatient at the nearly...
ERR 'JORDAN'; CLIFFHANGER SEASON FINALE NOT QUITE A SLAM-DUNK
May 6, 2006 | 4:00am"Crossing Jordan" Tomorrow at 10 p.m. on Ch. 4 (one star) JORDAN gets charged with murder, but the real crime of tomorrow night's episode of "Crossing Jordan" is its cliffhanger...
SHE'S DA MOM! MOTHER'S DAY GIFTS FOR EVERY MAMA
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amYEAH, yeah - it's the simple things that really count. Except on Mother's Day. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, requires you to find the perfect way to...
CHILDREN TRIUMPHANT ONSTAGE
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amTHE opera "Brundibar" was performed under the worst of circumstances - by children imprisoned at Terezin, the Nazi concentration camp. For the next two weeks, you can see a new...
4 WOUNDED IN B'KLYN GUNFIGHT
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA gun battle inside a Brooklyn housing project spilled out of an apartment and raged over several blocks, leaving four people wounded, police said. An 18-year-old man was shot in...
L.I. MAID 'RAISES' HELL
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA live-in maid and baby sitter, turned down by her Long Island employer when she asked for more money, wrote her own $100,000 raise - using her boss' checkbook, police...
LIQUOR BICKER COMING TO A HEAD ON LICENSING
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe head of the city's tourism bureau, joined by advocates from the nightlife industry, yesterday urged state lawmakers to resist amending liquor-licensing laws to make it tougher for city establishments...
I'M FIGHTING FOR ALL WOMEN; RAPE VICTIM A DNA CRUSADER
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amIt's been almost four years, and still, every day Isa Cekic remembers the horror - the blood trickling from a cut above her right eye, the pain and the humiliation....
'MASSAGE' MOM IN HOOKER BUST
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island mom has been busted for running a house of prostitution disguised as a massage parlor out of her home office - at times with her teen son...
LONGSHOT SUOZZI EXTOLS 'HIGH CONGESTION' TOLLS
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amUnderdog Democratic gubernatorial wannabe Tom Suozzi yesterday came out in favor of the politically unpopular idea of charging motorists for driving on major roadways into New York during high traffic....
HOSP FOR THE SICK & FAMOUS
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amPatrick Kennedy is headed to what's been called the world's most famous hospital, the sprawling Mayo Clinic based in Rochester, Minn. Ronald Reagan had annual checkups there as well as...
A WHINE FROM THE WUSS OF CAMELOT
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amWHAT a wimp. Even by the exceedingly high standards of scandal pioneered by the House of Kennedy, Rep. Patrick is no JFK. When he played bumper cars in our nation's...
B'KLYN PERV PANIC; NEW 'ABDUCT' TRY
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe mood went meshuganah yesterday in the south Brooklyn area being terrorized by a pedophile prowler as two men in a car approached an 11-year-old boy, sending him screaming for...
ELIOT TAKES A 'PASS' ; DUCKS TEACHER NOD
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Eliot Spitzer abruptly canceled plans to receive the endorsement yesterday of the state's largest teachers union because of an ongoing investigation of...
'SPEED' KILLED BIKER; BUT BRIDGE-PLUNGE PALS DISPUTE COP ACCOUNT
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe man who plunged to his death off the Williamsburg Bridge - a father to 11 kids - was traveling "at a high rate of speed" on his motorcycle when...
DAD RIPS BX. COP-SLAY THUGS
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe father of an off-duty cop mercilessly beaten by thugs in a Bronx White Castle restaurant - and then shot dead by a fellow officer when he brandished his weapon...
'THIRD' STRIKE; 'BAD SAM' PREYED ON LOWER E. SIDE BLDG.
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA brazen "bad Samaritan" sex fiend - who tricked his way into his victim's East Third Street apartment by claiming he'd "found" her checkbook, which he'd stolen the previous week...
MIKE: SCALE DOWN THE WTC MEMORIAL
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amIt's time to go back to the drawing board at Ground Zero and locate the proposed museum and visitor center in the lobby of the Freedom Tower, Mayor Bloomberg suggested...
SERIAL MUGGER BEHIND DEADLY WASH. HTS. ATTACK
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amOn the day his latest victim died, police linked a brutal mugger to four previous elevator attacks on elderly residents in Washington Heights. Police said all of his victims were...
GOSS TOSSES IT IN AS CIA BOSS; STUNNER AMID INTEL SCANDAL & FEUD
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday after a storm-tossed tenure marred by a growing scandal and rising tensions with intelligence professionals - including his boss. Goss' resignation...
2 FACES OF STRIP 'KILLER' ; 'HELPFUL & CARING' TO VICTIM'S FATHER
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe father of slain stripper Catherine Woods said the psycho personal trainer charged in her killing seemed "caring" when he called months before the Upper East Side murder to warn...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** Police are trying unravel the mystery surrounding the shooting death of a man inside a Soundview building, authorities said yesterday. Jason Martinez, 21, was shot once in...
SCHOOL SURF'S DOWN; WEB GUY SACKED
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe schools analyst whom Mayor Bloomberg criticized for freely surfing the Web at work was canned yesterday by Chancellor Joel Klein. Klein ignored Judge John Spooner's recommendation for only a...
STAR WARS' LUCAS A LIVING DOLL
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amUse the force, Lucas. "Star Wars" creator George Lucas has been cloned - in 3½ inches of plastic. The galactic guru of all things related to The Force is now...
NYPD KIN IN DRUG BUST
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amFour members of a law-enforcement family found themselves wearing the handcuffs after a drug raid on their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment. Fatima West, 31, an NYPD school safety agent, and her brother...
FAINT PATRICK: I'M AN 'ADDICT' ; * REP. KENNEDY OFF TO REHAB FOR PILLS * 'CAN'T REMEMBER' WAKING OR CRASHING
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy yesterday made the stunning claim that he can't remember anything about his late-night car smash-up - blaming it on his "addiction" to pain drugs as...
MAILMAN IS STAMPED AS BAD & GOOD
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amSeveral folks along the route of a Brooklyn postal worker charged with stashing and burning mail recalled missing some pieces - though a few praised him yesterday as a first-class...
HOT 97 UNDER THE GUN; SUES LANDLORD
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amHot 97 is firing back at its landlord. The radio station's owner, Emmis Radio, filed suit against the station's landlord yesterday, accusing it of discriminating against its often-violent visitors. The...
SCHOOL SURFER SACKED; KLEIN KICKS WORKER
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe schools analyst whom Mayor Bloomberg criticized for freely surfing the Web at work was canned yesterday by Chancellor Joel Klein. Klein ignored Judge John Spooner's recommendation for only a...
MOB COP WILL MAKE CASE FOR POOR DEFENSE
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amMob cop Louis Eppolito will be allowed to air his gripes about his flashy former lawyer Bruce Cutler - who he says defended him poorly at his murder trial. At...
WILD WEST SIDE HORSE CRASH
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA spooked carriage horse ran amok on the West Side last night, leaving a wake of wreckage. "It was just wild - the horse knocked its cab on its side....
GOSS TOSSES IT IN AS CIA BOSS; AIR FORCE MAN LEADS CANDIDATE PACK
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday after a storm-tossed tenure marred by a growing scandal and rising tensions with intelligence professionals - including his boss. A senior...
SICKO LICKER ATTACKS GIRL, 9
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA teenage pervert on a bicycle horrified a 9-year-old Queens girl yesterday when he rode up to her as she made her way to school - and licked her face....
MIDTOWN'S DUCKY DAREDEVILS
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amNew York made way for a dozen newborn ducklings yesterday. Just hours after they were born in a planter (inset) outside The Plaza, their mama mallard led them single file...
BLOOMY RIPS 'DOMAIN' POISONING
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amStill on the warpath to protect eminent domain, Mayor Bloomberg warned yesterday that the construction industry would collapse if Congress makes it harder for cities and states to seize private...
DAD SLAMS COP 'KILLERS'
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe father of an off-duty cop mercilessly beaten by thugs in a Bronx White Castle restaurant - and then shot dead by a fellow officer when he brandished his weapon...
'SPEED' KILLED BIKER - BUT BRIDGE-PLUNGE PALS DISPUTE COP ACCOUNT
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe man who plunged to his death off the Williamsburg Bridge - a father to 11 kids - was traveling "at a high rate of speed" on his motorcycle when...
MIDNIGHT RUN ; WALK-OFF DOUBLE BY WRIGHT ENDS 14-INNING THRILLER
May 6, 2006 | 4:00am14 INNINGSMets 8Braves 7 David Wright finally ended the exhaustion last night. Wright rocketed a game-winning ground-rule double to center with two outs in the bottom of the 14th inning,...
REYES SMACKS BRAVES 5 TIMES
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amBobby Cox whistled and held up four fingers. The Atlanta manager wasn't going to take a chance with Jose Reyes, not after he stroked five hits in his first five...
HISTORY LESSON ; DEVS DON'T WANT TRIP DOWN MEMORY PAIN
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amRALEIGH - A franchise matters when it has history, so the Devils matter. With history, though, come ghosts, and the Devs are taking on their second straight demon, having already...
UNION HAS 'ROID RAGE
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amSteroids threaten more than the baseball record book and the general integrity of the game. It now jeopardizes what has been the best working relationship between the Commissioner's Office and...
SIZZLIN' BO VAULTS TO TOP
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amGOLF CHARLOTTE - Bo Van Pelt is hardly intimidated seeing his name atop the leaderboard at the Wachovia Championship at the Quail Hollow Club. He did, after all, get there...
NETS TURN UP HEAT IN TIME TO BATTLE MIAMI
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amThey both say they grew. They both say they learned. They both say they came together through adversity. Only one can advance. The Nets and Heat rested yesterday after completing...
EARLY START FOR BELMONT
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amWith Churchill Downs having an 11 a.m. post time today, Belmont Park will have self-service terminals available for wagering beginning at 10:30 this morning. Select mutuel windows will open at...
VYING FOR THE LEADING ROLE ; SPEEDBALLS LOOK TO RUN AWAY WITH ROSES
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The first Saturday in May is finally here, so sip your mint julep, shed a tear when they play "My Old Kentucky Home," place your bets, and brace...
HARVICK STAYS WITH RCR TEAM
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amFor the past year, NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick has had to answer the same question over and over: Whom will you drive for in 2007? That question was finally answered...
NEW STAR IN 'CIDE' SHOW
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - On this day three years ago, a humble New York-bred chestnut gelding named Funny Cide seemingly dropped out of the skies and electrified the world with a dazzling...
PHILLY AWAITS BILLY NEXT WEEK
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mets closer Billy Wagner said he's not certain what the worst thing he'll hear will be when he goes back to Philadelphia on Tuesday. "I don't know," Wagner...
OSCAR HINTS BOUT COULD BE HIS LAST
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - During a 1993 train ride from Philadelphia to Washington, George Foreman and HBO pay-per-view boss Mark Taffet had a discussion about the prosperous marriage between pay-per-view and...
SHOWING UP SET
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK LOUISVILLE - Roy and Gretchen Jackson, who race their horses under the nom-de-course Lael Stables, are the first owners in history to start two undefeated horses in the same...
NEW 1ST FOR 'PERFECT' HURLER
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amAfter following up two straight perfect games with a one-hitter against Cardozo on Monday, Bayside's Anthony Velazquez will next take the mound at Shea Stadium. The junior right-hander, who made...
OAKS TO 'LEMONS'
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - After charging from off the pace to light up the tote in yesterday's Grade 1, $500,000 Kentucky Oaks aboard Lemons Forever - at 47-1 the longest shot on...
UNION HEAD: 'STUPID' UMP NEARLY PERFECT
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - George Steinbrenner will never believe it. Joe Torre isn't buying it. But according to QuesTec, the system used to evaluate umpires, Adam Dowdy, the fill-in umpire...
BONDS STUCK ON 712
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Balls were flying out of Citizens Bank Park last night, but none of the ones hit by Barry Bonds. The Giants slugger made his first trip east, beginning...
CRY OF RELIEF ; MO PLUGS UP LEAKY PEN AS YANKS HOLD ON
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 8Rangers 7 ARLINGTON - Joe Torre wasn't fully aware that he was dropping Alex Rodriguez a notch in the batting order when he told Lee Mazzilli to put the...
RANDY WANTS ANSWERS - YANKEES ACE CAN'T EXPLAIN HIS STRUGGLES
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Before today's running of the Kentucky Derby, the Yankees appear to have a major question mark developing at the top of their rotation. And don't think for one...
VICTOR SPOILS - ZAMBRANO DOESN'T INSPIRE CONFIDENCE AMONG METS FANS
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amOn paper, it's a mismatch. Victor Zambrano is pitching opposite Atlanta ace Tim Hudson this afternoon. Zambrano has struggled virtually his entire career; Hudson has soared. Other than Brian Bannister...
PHILLY TAKES IT EASY ON BARRY U
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Maybe Philly has softened. Barry Bonds came to town last night with the Giants, sitting two home runs shy of Babe Ruth for second place on the career...
OSCAR HINTS BOUT COULD BE HIS LAS
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - In 1993, George Foreman was on a whistle-stop tour to promote his fight with Tommy Morrison when, during a train ride from Philadelphia to Washington, he and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA piggish woman, her boyfriend and her two kids were booted from a $5.95 all-you-can-eat buffet in a Chinese restaurant in Urbandale, Iowa - because they left too much food...