June 20, 2006
LI'L BLACK LIES - FEDS THREATEN CONRAD OVER ASSETS AND $$
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amDisgraced newspaper baron Conrad Black should have his bail revoked because he lied to the government about his assets and recently failed to make a mortgage payment on his Palm...
NHL AGREES TO PUT PEPSI ON ICE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amPepsi is ready to clean up hockey players and push them onto the ice as the new pitchmen for its chips and drinks. The National Hockey League yesterday unveiled a...
INTERNET RACKET TRADER JAILED
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA notorious Internet trader convicted of driving down stock prices with help from a rogue FBI agent cried uncontrollably yesterday as he begged a Brooklyn federal judge to keep him...
THE DAY OUR COLUMNIST TOOK THE PLUNGE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amI swear that this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but: I came face to face with the Plunge Protection Team and lived to tell about it. As...
RACKETEERING 'NET TRADER GETS 11 YEARS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA notorious Internet trader convicted of driving down stock prices with help from a rogue FBI agent cried uncontrollably yesterday as he begged a Brooklyn federal judge to keep him...
IPG TO SEEK KIDS ONLINE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amAd giant Interpublic and popular online hangout Facebook are close to forming a partnership to help both companies figure out how to market to elusive young consumers. The two companies...
MARVEL GOES FOR THE GREEN
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amForget the Fantastic Four - here come the Fantastic Five Thousand. Marvel Entertainment is marketing its entire army of superheroes, some 5,000 characters created over more than half a century,...
CONFLICT WEIGHED IN BID FOR UNIVISION
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amSeveral major television networks are threatening to throw cold water on the $12 billion auction for Spanishlanguage broadcaster Univision just days before a winning bidder is announced. As final bids...
WTC GRADE FOR MOODY'S; MOODY'S SIGNS UP AT 7 WTC
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amIN a major breakthrough for Larry Silverstein, Moody's Investors Service and the developer have signed a term sheet that will likely lead to a 600,000-square-foot lease at 7 World Trade...
VONAGE ZAPPED AGAIN - VERIZON CLAIMS PATENT
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amTelecom giant Verizon is accusing Vonage - the upstart Internet telephone company whose new stock has been dragged through the mud by investors - of stealing its patented technology. The...
NYSE GIVES SHORT-SELLERS FAIR WARNING
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange's regulatory unit says it will soon take on short-sellers, a senior official said at a conference yesterday. Oversight chief Susan Merrill kicked off the NYSE's...
N.J. SURPRISE AT TIMES SQ.
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA dark-horse candidate from New Jersey has emerged as the prospective buyer of the Milstein brothers' famous empty pit at the southeast corner of Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street -...
NO RUSH - THE RIGHT PLACES TO VISIT AT THE 'WRONG' TIMES; OFF-PEAK EXPERIENCES
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amWHAT could be better than a winter romp through tiny, starstudded Anguilla? Hollywood types mingling with high-rolling captains of industry, luxurious villas with staff at the ready, and that blue...
MINI ME! - LEAN, MEAN, BEST-OF GUIDES ARE ALL THE RAGE. IN LONDON, WE PUT THE NEW CROP TO THE TEST
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amLONELY PLANET THE GREAT: A remarkably easy-to-read and insightful mini-version of a typical LP guide. As ever, their attention to detail is quite good, and their picks spot on. Plus,...
BEACH 4 SALE - SUMMER'S HERE, AND THE CARIBBEAN'S EASY. CHRIS BUNTING GOES SHOPPING
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amOCHO RIOS, JAMAICA What: RT air, 3 nights for $439/pp When: July 24-Oct. 30 Info: spiritvacations.com Ocho Rios is cheerful yang to Kingston's grimy yin. With cascading waterfalls, dolphins, scubarific...
STARR REPORT
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amFairly Dickinson Janice Dickinson, former supermodel? OK. But Janice Dickinson, photo editor? Well . . . On tonight's "Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency" (Oxygen), Dickinson is adamant about booting an aspiring...
A LOST W'KEND IN SPORTS LAND
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amIF you spent the weekend in sports TV heaven - you had company. Tiger Woods' absence from the U.S. Open drove a wedge into the tournament's viewership - but the...
MISS USA 'UNCOVERED' - SECRETS OF PAGEANT GIRLS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amSINCE we come from New York City, where beauty pageants are as popular a form of entertainment as monster-truck racing and cow tipping, it's only natural to be fascinated by...
FROGGY BOTTOM - 'WONDER PETS' ROAR INTO KIDS' TOP SPOT
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amTHE queen of kids TV - "Dora the Explorer" - has been overthrown. These strange-looking characters - called "The Wonder Pets!"-have come out of nowhere to become must-see TV for...
BUMPY BRIT WELCOME FOR PAULA
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amPAULA Abdul has been in England for just a few weeks and is already getting battered by the British tabloids. "Everyone always thinks that they might be more civilized over...
SUPERSIZE ME! - GIANT UMBRELLAS, BAGS LEAD TO WAR
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amNEW Yorkers have baggage - massive sized baggage. Giant backpacks, umbrellas the size of studio apartments and double-wide, all-terrain strollers are just some of the expanding accessories crowding up the...
IT TAKES A VILLAGE (THEY HOPE)
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amINSIDE Grand Center Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall - but miles away, emotionally - is a thatched-hut chapel with crude benches and a few boxes of tissues. You'll need them. For it's...
PEPPERS ON FIRE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amNEVER have the Chili Peppers been this red hot. The little Southern California alt-rock band that made its mark with the groundbreaking "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" back in '91 -...
MOVIES NEXT JOB FOR IPOD
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amAFTER revolutionizing the way we purchase digital music with 2003's launch of the iTunes Music Store, Apple's aiming to take a bite out of the DVD industry by offering up...
STILL GOTTA PAY TO PLAY, STUDY FINDS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA study released yesterday reinforces the all-too-familiar notion that you gotta pay if you wanna play in government - by showing that those doing business with the city at the...
EMISSIONS BILL
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amBuses and emergency vehicles operated by the Corrections Department will be exempted from lower emission requirements, under a bill signed into law yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg. The mayor also signed...
QUINN SLAMS RENT-HIKE BID
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn took the unusual step yesterday of testifying before the city's Rent Guidelines Board - and came out strongly against raising rates on rent-stabilized apartments. "If...
CHAT SLAY BUST - MURDER AT MCD'S
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amAll he did was strike up a conversation with a girl at a Harlem hip-hop party - but that innocent chat cost a young man his life, police sources said...
FIRE KOS POWER ON PARK AVE.
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA manhole fire in the Upper East Side knocked out power for residents of 12 buildings yesterday, leaving them without elevators and air conditioning on one of the hottest days...
'BABY KILLER' - MOM BEGS IN VAIN FOR HER CHILD'S LIFE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00am"Don't kill the baby! Don't kill the baby!" Those were the desperate pleas of a terrified Brooklyn mom after her deranged boyfriend began plunging a knife into their beautiful, year-old...
MEMO TO ALBANY: PUT KIDS FIRST
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amAS the Albany legislative session races to a close this week, lawmakers are failing to act on a measure that could allow thousands of publicschool children to escape the trap...
JIMMY CARTER - 39TH PRESIDENT, 1977-1981
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe peanut farmer from Plains, Ga., was a dark-horse candidate who won the presidency. JAMES Earl Carter was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Ga., and was the first...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police are looking for a bandit who pistol-whipped a Lower East Side store worker during a botched robbery, authorities said yesterday. The thug walked into a shop on...
'SON OF SCAM' PROBE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe "Son of Scam" lawyer who falsely claimed to be a point man during the 2004 tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka is under investigation for possible ethical violations - a...
VAN MA HOUSE SEARCH - COMPUTERS SEIZED
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA half-dozen detectives yesterday descended on the Staten Island home of the man accused of letting his suicidal wife drive a minivan - with their two kids inside - off...
COPS SEIZE COMPUTERS FROM VAN MOM'S HOME
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA half-dozen detectives descended yesterday on the Staten Island home of a man accused of letting his suicidal wife drive a minivan off a Bear Mountain cliff last Wednesday. Rockland...
APPLE AIMS TO PLEASE - N.Y. IS POLITEST CITY
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amNew York can claim the lowest crime rate of any large city in America. It can boast of a real-estate boom that's energized all five boroughs. But is it possible...
SUBWAY 'RIPPER' INDICTED
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA Manhattan grand jury indicted accused subway stabber Kenny Alexis yesterday on charges of attempted murder, assault and robbery. The most serious charges against the 20-year-old Haitian, who is in...
ANTENNAS ON SCHOOL A HARD 'CELL'
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens parish removed some of the 23 cellphone antennas on the roof of its parochial school yesterday after worried parents raised hell over health concerns. But the issue is...
POD 'SLAYER' BLAMES CUZ
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen on trial for killing another boy over an iPod admitted he instigated the deadly street-corner robbery, but told the jury he only wanted to impress a tough...
$8.5M SLAP AT MT. SINAI
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA Manhattan jury has ordered Mount Sinai Hospital to pay $8.5 million to a Putnam County mom who was left severely brain damaged by negligent care. The jury found Mount...
MIKE GIVES W. A POCKET VETO - PRIMPS THE PREZ IN JFK MEET-GREET
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amIt might look as if Mayor Bloomberg is trying to pick President Bush's pocket - that's one way to get more federal homeland aid for the city! - but actually,...
'JILTED' COP IN HARASS BUST - 'THREATS' TO PROSECUTOR
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA retired top NYPD lieutenant and family man was busted on charges he harassed his mistress - a prominent Queens prosecutor - with "threatening" phone calls during their blustery breakup,...
TOUSSAINT STRIKES UP LABOR BAND
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amSome 32 years after getting booted from high school and fleeing his native Trinidad, Roger Toussaint was welcomed back to his homeland yesterday as an icon of the labor movement....
GOVS' HOTLINES MISS NO-CALL LIST
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe Department of Homeland Security set up hotlines to each of the nation's 50 governors, but then forgot to add the numbers to the federal Do Not Call Registry. Delaware...
PET-SHELTER HEALTH RISK
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amAnimal Care and Control, the agency contracted by city officials to promote pet adoptions and run animal shelters, has problems keeping the critters healthy, an audit by the city comptroller...
MCD'S SLAY SUSPECT NABBED YEAR LATER
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amAll he did was strike up a conversation with a girl at a Harlem hip-hop party - but that innocent chat cost a young man his life, police sources said...
JERSEY PROBES 'SON OF SCAM'
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe "Son of Scam" lawyer who falsely claimed to be a point man during the 2004 tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka is under investigation for possible ethical violations - a...
TERROR LAWYER DEMANDS FEDS' 'EAVESDROP' FILES
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amConvicted terror lawyer Lynne Stewart wants to force the feds to reveal whether they used the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program to gain access to her personal phone records....
BUS HITS CYCLIST DODGING TAXI
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA bicyclist who apparently swerved to avoid a taxi door swinging open into traffic was sideswiped by a city bus yesterday sending the man under its front wheel and crushing...
FIREWORKS COP BUSTED
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA NYPD officer was busted and his car was seized after he was caught in a sting that targets New Yorkers who travel out of state to buy illegal fireworks...
B'KLYN BEEP HEART SCARE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amBrooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is recovering from blocked arteries after doctors inserted two stents to keep them open. Markowitz, 61, checked himself into Maimonides Hospital on Saturday after experiencing...
SPENDING SACKS OF MONEY - DIVORCING STRAHANS LAVISH KIDS, SELVES
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amGiants sack star Michael Strahan says his estranged wife is spoiling their twin toddlers. Jean Strahan says her two-timing hubby is spoiling himself. Each itemized the other's "exorbitant" spending at...
'PERV' HIT WITH $5M BAIL HURDLE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amHere's one judge who doesn't want an accused child rapist walking the streets before his trial. Justice Robert Doyle set $5 million bail for Larmar McClendon at his arraignment yesterday...
BUSH WARNS IRAN NUKE KOOKS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday drew a line in the sand, warning Iran that it risks "progressively stronger" international sanctions unless it ceases enriching uranium that could be used for weapons. Bush...
BX. GI FACES ITALY SLAY RAP
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amRome prosecutors want to proceed with a murder trial for a Bronx GI charged with shooting an Italian intelligence officer last year at a Baghdad checkpoint. Mario Lozano, of the...
BRONX SOLDIER MOURNED
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amFamily and friends yesterday paid tribute to an Army Reservist from The Bronx who was killed earlier this month in Iraq. Sgt. José M. Velez, of the Fort Totten-based 773rd...
'I'LL KILL YOU ALL' - DRUNKEN RICH TEEN PLOWS JAG INTO CLUB PATRONS: COPS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA boozed-up rich kid tossed from a tony Long Island bar jumped behind the wheel of his Jaguar and sneered, "I'll kill you all," before plowing into a crowd of...
DIRECTV OFFERS DEEP 'DISH' FOR TUBE JUNKIES
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amIt's like the marathon for couch potatoes. For a mind-boggling $7,500 a year, DirecTV subscribers can have access to absolutely every offering available from the satellite-TV company - a new...
SCHOOL CONSENTS TO 'SEX ED'
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amUnder pressure from a group of seventh-grade girls demanding sex education, a South Bronx principal has agreed to launch an HIV/ AIDS-prevention course before the end of the school year....
DOWN HILL IN POLLS - WAR SUPPORT TAKES TOLL
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's approval rating has fallen to an 18-month low, as she comes in for increasing criticism for backing the war in Iraq, a new poll...
NYPD BEEFS UP FLATBUSH
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe NYPD has dispatched 100 extra officers to the troubled Brooklyn precinct that leads the city in shootings this year, The Post has learned. The decision to thicken the Blue...
RAPE VICTIM PLEADS FOR DNA DATABASE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - A Queens woman who was the victim of a still unsolved rape met with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday in an 11th-hour plea for passage of legislation requiring...
DOWNTOWN'S 2010 VISION
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amAfter years of delays in rebuilding lower Manhattan, downtown officials are launching a bold new ad campaign that paints a rosy view of what the area will look like in...
ELIOT IN SPLIT WITH DEMS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Sending a message that he wants to reduce the influence of special-interest groups, gubernatorial hopeful Eliot Spitzer broke with top Democratic lawmakers and several powerful unions yesterday by...
POL PAYERS CITY PLAYERS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA study released yesterday reinforces the notion that you gotta pay if you wanna play in government - by showing that those doing business with the city were the biggest...
YANKEES' PEN IS RUNNING DRY
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA- All his bullpen chambers were filled again with bullets last night, said Joe Torre, who took one for the team Sunday that hurt, even off his bulletproof vest. Mariano...
A LITTLE LATE, TORRE RESTS WEARY BERNIE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Joe Torre probably got carried away watching the life in Bernie Williams' bat Friday night against the Nationals, as Williams went 4-for-5, homered and drove in...
WRIGHT, REYES COP NL HONORS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Two Mets shared NL Player of the Week yesterday. David Wright and Jose Reyes were co-winners of the prize, as Reyes hit .500 with nine runs and three...
METS WASTE DUQUE GEM
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe pitcher was unassisted on one rare double play, but the entire game could have also been scored that way - 1-unassisted - because Orlando Hernandez was all alone and...
IN RETURN, NADY'S 'NOTHING' SPECIAL
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES In his first game back from the DL last night, three of Xavier Nady's at-bats came with men on base. But the right fielder didn't bring anybody in....
CTK'S DAVIS AWAITS WORD
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amLarry Davis is scheduled to head to Seton Hall early next month, but whether he will be preparing for this season remains to be seen. The former Christ the King...
NETS LOOK AT OSU FORWARD
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amWhile Big Ten Player of the Year Terence Dials of Ohio State auditioned for the Nets yesterday, the pre-draft workouts had a decidedly local flavor with the presence of Seton...
DOTEL'S RETURN DELAYED
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES PHILADELPHIA - The bullpen boost the Yankees thought they were going to get from Octavio Dotel is going to be delayed. And while the club doesn't believe the...
NETS LOOK AT BUCKEYE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amWhile Big Ten Player of the Year Terence Dials of Ohio State auditioned for the Nets yesterday, the pre-draft workouts had a decidedly local flavor with the presence of Seton...
NBC ADDING NHL GAMES
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amOn the heels of last night's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup, NBC has decided to add four more regular season games and three more post-season dates beginning next season....
KASTOR TO RUN N.Y. MARATHON
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amDeena Kastor - the U.S. record-holder and Athens bronze medalist in the marathon - will run the New York Marathon on Nov. 5. After a tough 2005 Chicago win, she...
MICKELSON'S CADDIE: DRIVER WAS ONLY CHOICE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amAll of the Monday morning quarterbacks have come out of the woodwork, saying Phil Mickelson should never have hit driver on the 18th hole Sunday at the U.S. Open at...
BROWN HAS NO SAY FOR KNICK DRAFT
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amIn another drive-by interview yesterday one block from the Knicks' Westchester practice facility, Larry Brown said he is willing to give Isiah Thomas his input into next Wednesday's NBA Draft...
REF-AND-TUMBLE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amMIAMI - Upon further re view, I finally figured out who fouled Dwyane Wade Monday morning on the deciding play of Game 5-Jerry Stackhouse. No, wait, this just in from...
DOTEL DELAYED - TENDINITIS PUSHES BACK RELIEVER'S RETURN
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The bullpen boost the Yankees thought they were going to get from Octavio Dotel is going to be delayed. And while the club doesn't believe the triceps tendinitis...
BOMBERS BATS COLD IN THIRD STRAIGHT LOSS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amPhillies 4 Yankees 2 PHILADELPHIA - Sunday they were killed softly. Last night they died from an overdose of breaking balls. When it comes to hitting, the Yankees are having...
BATS FAIL BOMBERS IN THIRD STRAIGHT LOSS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amPHILLIES 4 YANKEES 2 PHILADELPHIA - If the Yankees were hitting against the Liberty Bell, that famous crack wouldn't be in place. Legend has it that the clapper struck the...
THEY MAY FLY HIGH WITH BURNETT BACK
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA HARD-THROWING righty returns from a long layoff Thursday and could greatly imperil the Yankees' playoff chances. His name is not Roger Clemens. While the sports world fixates on Houston...
WRIGHT, BELTRAN EARLY MVP CANDIDATES
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe Mets have never had a pitcher throw a no-hitter, and the franchise has never had a National League MVP winner. At least one, if not both, of those hexes...
BULLPEN, BATS LOSE MAGIC TOUCH
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amThis year, Chad Bradford nearly always kept runners on base from scoring. But last night he couldn't. And unfortunately for the Met hitters, they were also unsuccessful with men on...
JOSE WELL ON HIS WAY TO STARDOM
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amBEYOND the centerfield wall, a crane rises above the black wall known as the batter's eye. That crane is a sign of the future, signifying that construction will begin soon...
DON'T POP THE CORKS JUST YET
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amIF CURRENT All-Star voting holds, the Mets will have four starters in David Wright, Paul Lo Duca, Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran. They own an 81/2-game lead in the NL...
DON'T POP THE CORKS JUST YET, MET FANS
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amIF CURRENT All-Star voting holds, four of the eight position starters for the National League will be Mets. The team holds an 8½ game lead in the NL Least. Life...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 20, 2006 | 4:00amA man whose junk-filled apartment in a swank Arlington, Va., high-rise building has been declared "unfit for human habitation" is suing to move back in. "So I have piles of...