March 29, 2008
NY BANS DNA PATERNITY TEST
March 29, 2008 | 10:50pmAn over-the-counter DNA paternity test now offers unknowing families peace of mind - in every state but New York. Identigene, a Salt Lake City-based genetics company, released an at-home paternity...
BREAST BOOST IN A BOTTLE
March 29, 2008 | 10:50pmNow you can get a boob job on your lunch break. Instant, non-surgical breast implants might become as ubiquitous as manicures, with a new serum that grows your bust by...
BYE THE HORNS
March 29, 2008 | 10:50pmHonk if you hate horns. Residents of one of the city's noisiest neighborhoods are honking mad at hacks who lean on their horns - so they're cooking up creative ways...
3 DOWN: Duncan, Girardi and Yankee Health
March 29, 2008 | 9:49pm1. My suspicion was that the Yankees kept Morgan Ensberg rather than another sub middle infielder such as Cody Ransom or Nick Green because they were uncertain if Shelley Duncan...
MADAM-PAL BUST
March 29, 2008 | 8:28pmThe alleged second in command at a high-end hooker ring that serviced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was busted today after a night on the lam, officials said. Pretty Bronx brunette...
EPL Round 32: Saturday Fixtures
March 29, 2008 | 5:24pmIn other Barclay's Premiere League news, it was the bottom half of the table putting on some the best performances as clubs fought to stay clear of the drop.Birmingham 3...
Arsenal Refuses to Fall
March 29, 2008 | 5:08pmArsenal is the only EPL club often without a single Briton in its starting eleven. While Gunner fans are loyal to their side regardless of its roster, it's a club...
Derby County Done For
March 29, 2008 | 5:01pmWhen you hear that Derby and Fulham are facing each other, the last thing that comes to mind is "Wow, that sounds like a great fixture." Surprisingly, though, it was...
Isiah mailing it in
March 29, 2008 | 2:21pmBy MARC BERMANMailing-it-in Isiah Thomas chose again not to practice today as the Knicks hit Atlanta following their official playoff elimination Friday in Canada.Not that I would've been there anyway....
3 UP: Loria, Girardi and Pelfrey
March 29, 2008 | 12:29pm1. In my column in todayâs Post, I revisit the Jeffrey Loria-Joe Girardi tiff and their momentary rapprochement on Friday night. I continue to believe, as I wrote in this...
'PIERING' INTO CAMPGROUND
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amA company that runs summer camps is optimistic that, in the next three months, it can come up with a financing plan to redevelop Pier 40 for recreational and educational...
CRANE & SIMPLE CHECKUPS
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amWorkers plan to extend a construction crane today for the first time since the March 15 disaster that killed seven people on the East Side. The crane-raising operation is scheduled...
GOV BUDGET BLOW TO $TRAPPED-HANGERS
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amGov. Paterson is taking an ax to the MTA's operating budget, leaving straphangers vulnerable to fare hikes or service cuts in the near future, officials claimed yesterday. The new governor...
POPE'S A HOLY ROLLER
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amWhen Pope Benedict comes to New York next month, he's going to need a half-pipe as much as he needs an altar. The Archdiocese of New York is planning to...
HOW OUR ALBANY ACE CRACKED THE CASE
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amNew York Post State Editor Fredric U. Dicker took one look at an Albany Times-Union story on Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno's purported misuse of a state aircraft and quickly...
AIDE'S WIFE: TOP PLOTTERS SCREWED UP
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amALBANY - The wife of Eliot Spitzer's former communications director lit into a top Spitzer aide for mishandling the Dirty Tricks Scandal, telling him a couple of housewives could have...
D.A. DUBS HIM TRICKY SPITZ
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amALBANY - Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer would have faced a grand-jury probe and may have warranted impeachment for repeatedly lying about his involvement in the Dirty Tricks Scandal, an explosive...
'MADAM AIDE' TURNS TAIL
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amCops are hunting for the alleged No. 2 of an East Side call-girl ring that serviced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer and thousands of Manhattan's wealthiest johns. Since Tuesday, when vice...
COP-SHOOT WIFE: IT WAS KILL OR DIE
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amKiller wife Barbara Sheehan - who shot her cop hubby last month in their Queens home - said yesterday she pulled the trigger to save herself from being killed. "If...
CLAN HOPES BABY GODZILLA'S ON DECK
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amNow that Godzilla has added his mystery Bridezilla to the Matsui clan, the Yankee outfielder's dad has his eyes set on the next generation of Japanese superstars. "I am looking...
'CAPTOR' DAD
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amA Bronx man forced his way into his estranged wife's apartment and held their two sons hostage for several hours yesterday, police said. Camilo Mejias, 27, went to the Creston...
MAC'S AD 'WALKS' ALL OVER FOES
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amJohn McCain unveiled his first general-election ad yesterday, suggesting he's the only presidential candidate who has "walked the walk" by serving his country in Vietnam - a veiled slap at...
'PARTY HEARTY' CROOK
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amA high-rolling manager of a company that moves cash for Wall Street firms was arrested yesterday on charges she looted $2.5 million - blowing it on cars, casinos and concerts,...
SHOT IN THE DARK
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amMapping out the path of the 50 bullets cops fired at Sean Bell and his friends is impossible because NYPD investigators did a sloppy job of accurately measuring the trajectory...
SCISSORS SLAYER GETS 5 YRS.
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amA Brooklyn woman who admitted to killing her stepfather by hurling a pair of scissors at his chest was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday. "I'm sorry," mumbled Lynda...
B'KLYN HS HONOR STUDENT STABBED
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amAn 18-year-old honor student was stabbed three times and critically wounded just before lunch yesterday at a Brooklyn high school, police and witnesses said. The attack occurred in the basement...
THIS IS NO BELLY GAFFE
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amA pregnant Oregon man who sports a beard with his baby bump insists he is "perfectly capable" of giving birth despite years of hormone treatments to make him a male....
ZIMBABWE ELEX CHAOS
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amHARARE, Zimbabwe - Soldiers took to the streets with armored cars and water cannons yesterday as Zimbabwe's security chiefs warned they were ready to confront any violence during the weekend's...
BABY NEEDS A NEW PACK OF DIAPERS
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amHey y'all, I'm knocked up, so pay up! Pregnant tween star Jamie Lynn Spears and baby daddy Casey Aldridge have registered at Babies R Us, asking well-wishers to fulfill their...
DUBYA: WE STAND BEHIND OUR ALLY
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday the flare-up in violence in oil-rich southern Iraq and parts of Baghdad presents "a defining moment in the history of a free Iraq," as...
ANOTHER HARASS 'VICTIM' STEPS ON GUMSHOE
March 29, 2008 | 8:25am"Erin Brokovich" lawyer Ed Masry was portrayed as gruff but lovable in the 2000 box-office hit starring Julia Roberts. But yesterday, in a federal wiretapping trial, an associate of Masry,...
CLOSING IN ON ANTHRAX FIEND
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amFederal investigators have focused their attention on "about four suspects" at an Army research facility in the terrifying 2001 anthrax letter attacks that showed up in the offices of two...
FAMILY-LEAVE LEADER BARES HILLARY'S BIG BILL OF GOODS
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amWASHINGTON - A senior Democratic lawmaker blew a hole through Hillary Rodham Clinton's claim that she helped pass critical family-leave legislation - just days after the candidate admitted she "misspoke"...
MOM WILL TOP DAD: CHELSEA
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amChelsea Clinton yesterday cast her own vote, saying her mom would be a better president than her dad was. The former first daughter made the comment at Lehigh Valley Hospital...
MIGHTY CASEY AT BAT FOR 'O'
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amWASHINGTON - Barack Obama won the surprise endorsement yesterday of a key US senator from Pennsylvania as the chorus grew from Hillary Rodham Clinton's colleagues to abandon her increasingly hopeless...
DEM DEAN'S 'SUPER' DEADLINE
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amDemocratic Party head Howard Dean yesterday called for superdelegates to pick sides in the nomination battle by July 1 - and warned that the caustic fighting between the campaigns is...
HISTORIC ABE LETTER ON BLOCK
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amAbraham Lincoln's stirring reply to schoolchildren who asked him to "free all the little slave children in this country" could become the most expensive Lincoln manuscript ever sold when it's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amSTATEN ISLAND ***A deranged Dongan Hills man busted for urinating in public told cops he couldn't go to jail because he had to go home and "pleasure" himself after he...
SO, JUST WHO GAVE ORDERS FOR SPYING?
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amALBANY County District Attorney David Soares' eyeball glazer of a re port on the Spitzer administration's apparent effort to off a political enemy concludes that the former governor probably told...
LOTTERY
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 767; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 5188; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 089; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 5609;...
A ROTTEN BUDGET DEAL
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amGov. Paterson and the Legislature's leaders were patting each other's backs yesterday after forging a "framework" likely to bring passage of a state budget by Tuesday's April 1 constitutional deadline....
THE DA'S CONFESSION
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amIn his report yesterday on then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer's campaign against Sen ate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, Albany DA David Soares makes a stunning admission: that he had scant interest in...
WELFARE RIP-OFF
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amPOLITICIANS have a habit of crying wolf over budget cuts - even when the "cuts" actually amount to smaller-than-desired spending increases. But amid all the other noise surrounding the final...
HILLARY HATRED GOOSING GORE
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amAL GORE, despite the lowest political pro file, is talked about among prominent Democrats as their leading candidate for 2012 if they fail this year. The Democratic consensus is that...
MCCAIN VS. PORK
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amON Friday March 21, a House Appropriations Committee Web site was so overwhelmed by legislators' wish lists that it crashed, forcing the committee to extend the deadline for earmark requests...
NYERS ON NEW FEES:
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amDoes anyone really believe that the $8 tax that Mayor Bloomberg wants to charge people for the privilege of driving in Manhattan won't go up every year ("Faith, Fees &...
PLEASE, GOV, SPARE US THE DETAILS
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amGet Gov. Paterson to a priest so he can confess his sins and the state can go on with its business ("Doobie Dave Admits Youthful Drug Use," March 25). Gary...
IT'S DILLER TIME!
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amBarry Diller officially - and finally - has the control he's always wanted. Delaware Chancery Court Judge Stephen Lamb yesterday ruled in favor of the IAC/InterActiveCorp boss in his contentious...
PREZ PLAN GIVES FED SWEEPING POWERS
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amWASHINGTON - The Bush administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of how the nation's financial industry is regulated. In an effort to deal with the problems highlighted by the current...
JC PENNEY'S PROFIT PINCH
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amJC Penney slashed its first-quarter profit outlook, sending jitters through Wall Street as it predicted the sluggish shopping environment will persist through the year. Noting that sales through the Easter...
NO OUTSIDE SHOT FOR 'BIG' VICTORY
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amWe've seen this situation before: An unbeaten colt that began his career on turf, breaking from an outside post as the favorite in the $1 million Florida Derby. It happened...
SPORTS SHORTS
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amMLB: Suspensions put on hold Major League Baseball put the suspensions of the Orioles' Jay Gibbons and the Royals' Jose Guillen on hold for 10 days, giving lawyers for players...
HONDO ON HOOPS: OOPS!
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amOn Wisconsin, on Wisconsin, on your way back home ... Hondo took a beating last night with the Badgers, whose inability to man up against mighty Davidson caused Mr. Aitch...
W. SIDE NEIGHBORS HEAD UPSTATE FOR TITLE CLASH
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amThey are located just blocks apart on the Upper West Side, yet today, St. Agnes and Collegiate will meet for the boys state Federation Class B title in Glens Falls....
LONG' NIGHT
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amHOUSTON - All those hours on the exercise bike, all those yummy desserts he skipped - it all finally paid off for Texas center Dexter Pittman. The guy with the...
INSPIRED MEMPHIS COMES UP ROSE-S
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amHOUSTON - Vulnerable? Not exactly. The mighty Memphis Tigers humiliated Michigan State and embarrassed all those naysayers who suggested they were the most suspect of the top seeds in this...
TAR HEELS' HOLE CARD
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Rick Pitino had a suggestion for Roy Williams before Pitino's Louisville Cardinals and Williams' North Carolina Tar Heels hit the court here at Bobcats Arena for tonight's...
LAVENDER COLOR FOR MUSKETEERS
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amPHOENIX - Xavier forward C.J. Anderson remembers the first time he played against Drew Lavender, in a 16-and-under AAU tournament in Ohio. "That's when I was like, 'Who is this...
UCLA WILL SHOW XAVIER THE X-IT
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amIT'S easy to buy what Xavier's selling right now. Give the Musketeers credit. Coming from an often-questioned conference - the Atlantic 10 - they have exposed three teams from the...
8TH WONDER
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amDETROIT - It's amazing the sense of Zen one feels when the 800-pound gorilla has been cast aside like an empty cup of coffee. "I am at ease now in...
'NOVA KAN.-NED
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amDETROIT - Theresa Robinson had heard about the starting lineup introductions in Allen Fieldhouse, so she made a trek to Lawrence, Kan. The first four Jayhawks had been introduced when...
ALL GOLIATHS SHOULD FEAR DAVIDSON
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amDETROIT - This is a basket ball team for anyone and everyone who holds dear to his or her heart the memory of the late Jim Valvano dancing in Albuquerque...
AVERTING DISASTER
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amVictory was mandatory, ugly beautiful to the Devils. A sixth straight loss would have launched full-fledged panic in the Jersey Boys' locker room, especially after they blew two leads in...
ISLES COULD BE SPOILER OF EAST
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amHow about a "Let's go Islanders!" chant from the Rangers faithful? The Isles, reduced to the role of spoiler, can perhaps make the Eastern Conference a little less muddled for...
GANG GREEN GIVES GUARANTEE TO COLE$
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amThe Jets yesterday guaranteed the final two years and $11 million of wide receiver Laveranues Coles' contract - averting a potential offseason headache. The move was a compromise between the...
KICK BACK
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The high leg kick was back, and so was El Duque. Orlando Hernandez reverted to trademark form in more ways than one yesterday against the Orioles....
GOTAY GOES TO BRAVES
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Ruben Gotay became the latest former Met to wind up with one of their NL East rivals yesterday when the Braves claimed him off waivers. The...
TOAST-SEASON
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amINDIANAPOLIS - All season, the Nets have talked about sustaining good play, have stressed the need for consistency. The problem always was too much talk, not enough sustaining or consistent...
RANGERS SO CLOSE TO HOME
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amIs home-ice advantage in the first round of an Eastern Conference that entered last night with a nine-point differential from first place through ninth worth the Rangers pushing hard through...
MURCER TO MISS OPENER
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amBobby Murcer is still recovering from a brain biopsy and will not be ready to broadcast the Yankees' final Opening Day at Yankee Stadium for the YES Network on Monday...
$46 MILLION PAN
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amMIAMI - When Joe Girardi replaced Joe Torre as Yankees manager, he said every player he inherited had a clean slate. Last night, Girardi stood behind those words when right-hander...
SHORT DL STINT FOR PETTITTE
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amMIAMI - Andy Pettitte will begin the season on the 15-day disabled list, but the Yankees are hoping the veteran left-hander will be able to make his season debut next...
SHAKING ON IT
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amMIAMI - It was not exactly George Steinbrenner, ego tucked away, coming to make peace with Yogi Berra at the Hall of Fame catcher's New Jersey museum. This was less...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 29, 2008 | 8:25amA Navy chaplain apparently wasn't too well versed with the Eighth Commandment, "Thou shalt not steal." Cmdr. Rudolph Cimery, 50, of Pasadena, Calif., is charged with collecting $175,000 in pay...
CHANGE OF ART
March 29, 2008 | 4:12amIF you've been hearing strange sounds around town lately - kickin' VIP parties in boutique-hotel rooms or maybe the whoosh of checkbooks opening - don't be alarmed. It's the invasion...
WHAT'S UP
March 29, 2008 | 4:12amTODAY THREE'S A CROWD (PLEASER): Why is it fairy-tale folk seem to travel in groups of three? In "Pigs, Bears and Billy Goats Gruff," Australia's Patch Theatre Company performs three...
BLOCKBUSTER BIRTHDAYS
March 29, 2008 | 4:12amTHERE was a time when birthday parties meant balloons and a Carvel Fudgie the Whale cake. Today, they resemble movie premieres. Sure, a private, late-night party at FAO Schwarz will...
CROWS STILL COUNT
March 29, 2008 | 4:12amCOUNTING CROWS Duritz - wearing a Dead Boys T-shirt, frayed jeans and a Sideshow Bob hairdo - looked like the kind of guy who hates affectation of any kind. He's...
LENO, CONAN AVOID ISSUE
March 29, 2008 | 4:12amNBC pulled out all the stops to position Conan O'Brien as heir to the "Tonight Show" throne when he appeared as a guest with Jay Leno Thursday night. The pale-faced...
PIERS STEERS 'APPRENTICE' TO BIG WIN
March 29, 2008 | 4:12amDONALD Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" capped a successful season with solid numbers Thursday night. The show's finale, in which journalist/TV judge Piers Morgan defeated country singer Trace Adkins, averaged 12.1 million...
FINAL ANALYSIS
March 29, 2008 | 4:12amPARDON me for cringing, but I just watched the final episode of "In Treatment." It was the last installment of 43 half-hours that have been running almost constantly on HBO...