May 24, 2008
PROM-RAGE ARSON
Talk about the fury of a scorned woman. A teenage girl has been accused of burning down the home of a Trenton, NJ, boy because he refused to take her...
Hull Yeah
APHull earned promotion to Englandâs top soccer league for the first time in its 104-history, beating Bristol City 1-0 today in the League Championship playoff final at London's Wembley Stadium.Dean...
Carter plays the fool
If you're interested in a good laugh, listen here as Gary Carter attempts to backpedal furiously from his blatant lobbying Friday for Willie Randolph's job. Nice try blaming the media,...
Mets call-up, start Nick Evans
After getting off to a blistering start in Double-A Binghamton, the Mets called up one of their top position prospects yesterday, Nick Evans, and started him in left field. The...
Roma Exact Revenge on Inter
By CLEMENTE LISIThe Italian season came to a close today when AS Roma retained the Italian Cup following a 2-1 victory over league champions Inter Milan at the Olympic Stadium...
YANKEES ROUT MARINERS 12-6
There is the underbelly of the schedule, and there is facing the Mariners. But who cares about fair fights at this point? The Yankees need wins and gladly will take...
SWAYZE'S BRAVE FACE
"Road House" star Patrick Swayze, 55, made his first public appearance since announcing in March he is battling pancreatic cancer. Swayze took time off from his grueling chemotherapy regimen to...
Lineups set for Mets-Rockies
It might be too late to save Willie Randolphâs job, but the Mets will try to snap their season-high five game losing streak here in Denver today when Claudio Vargas...
HIT-RUN SLAY & MIRACLE
A Jamaican immigrant who was holding a baby while walking on the shoulder of a Queens highway was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver last night- but the child...
BOY SLAIN AFTER A SWEET 16
A 15-year-old Harlem teen was gunned down early today as he clashed with a group of thugs while leaving a friend's Sweet 16 party on the Upper West Side, cops...
Evans starting in left field
Not only did the Mets call up Nick Evans from Double-A Binghamton, but they are throwing the 22-year-old right into the fire. Evans, primarily a first baseman in the minor...
Mets coverage in today's Post
Willie Randolph is safe for the time being, but the Mets are still in search of a win after a blown save from Billy Wagner (pictured) led to a 6-5...
DaMarcus Beasley leads 'Gers to Cup
By BRIAN LEWISDaMarcus Beasley's long road back from knee surgery is officially over. After missing nearly six months, the U.S. midfielder was the star of the Scottish Cup final, scoring...
Cannes: 'What Just Happened' Goes Begging As One of Its Stars Reportedly Flogs 'Che' for Palm d'Or
"What Just Happened'' a Hollywood satire starring Robert DeNiro that failed to find an American distributor with deep enough pockets at Sundance to justify the $20 million investment of Mark...
Early Box Office: Indy Gathering Momentum
Ticket sales for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' jumped 23 percent to $30.8 million on Friday from an under-expectations opening day, reports Steve Mason of Fantasy...
PUTTING POLITICS ASIDE TO WISH TED THE BEST
* I commend you on your editorial, "Prayer for Teddy" (May 21). Obviously, you are on the other end of the political spectrum as Sen. Ted Kennedy, but there is...
WAR BLINDNESS
Barack Obama must be too busy declaring victory to read a newspaper. How else can you explain his obliviousness to what is going on in Iraq at this very moment?...
VIRGINIAN EYED AS OBAMA VEEP
FORMER Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, a strong favorite to be elected to the Senate this year, has told associates that he is being considered as Barack Obama's vice-presidential running-mate. He...
'SPY' TWIST IN ISRAELI $CANDAL
Israel's corruption scandal took another bizarre twist yesterday when police said they suspected that a Long Island millionaire expected to deliver crucial testimony in court next week got Prime Minister...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK- Midday Nos. Fri.: 838; Lucky Sum: 19 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 6590; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 654; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 8562;...
NO PULSE? NO PROBLEM
A West Virginia woman taken off life support after having no pulse or brain activity for 20 minutes suddenly awoke from the clutches of death - as relatives discussed what...
BASEBALL TRADE IS PLAIN BATTY
A great pitcher may be worth 10 batters, but one minor-league hurler is only worth 10 bats. The Calgary Vipers traded right-hander John Odom because he had immigration problems that...
MEDAL OF HONOR FOR SLAIN IRAQ GI
A 19-year-old Pennsylvania soldier who unhesitatingly threw himself on a grenade and gave his life to save four buddies in Iraq will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor. The nation's...
SLICK WILL SLIDE WITH GOV NOD
The great adventures of Slick Rick through America's legal system may be over. The eye-patch-wearing rap star behind the '80s hit "La-Di-Da-Di" was granted a pardon from Gov. Paterson yesterday...
GAS-FUMERS OFF HOLIDAY ROADS
America's gas-price surge has put the brakes on New Yorkers' car-travel plans this Memorial Day weekend, but things were status quo at the airports. About 1.5 million people were expected...
ILLICIT LOVERS GO INCOG-VITO
Just days after declaring that he "needs to concentrate on healing the wounds I have caused to my wife," shamed Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella had a pre-Memorial Day rendezvous...
'VICE' $QUAD PURSUING 'O'
A leading fund-raiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday suggested there could be a risk to Barack Obama of losing in November if he doesn't offer her a slot as his...
SPRY MAC IS 'FIT' TO LEAD
John McCain's doctors gave the 71-year-old presidential candidate a clean bill of health yesterday - saying he's fully recovered from bouts with malignant skin cancer. McCain, who is 5-foot-9, weighs...
LOHAN'S LADIES' NIGHT
Lindsay Lohan and DJ to the stars Samantha Ronson may call themselves "just friends" - but they're friends who sure like to go around in public acting like lovers. Ronson,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QUEENS * Two thugs were busted in a double shooting near a Far Rockaway housing project, authorities said yesterday. Khalif McBride, 31, and Willie Howell, 21, got into a fight...
BABYSIT 'PERV' HUNTED
A staffer at an upscale Manhattan day-care center is missing after cops found thousands of kiddie-porn pictures on his home computer, police said yesterday. Fred Hardy, 29, of Hell's Kitchen,...
RUSSIAN MEANIES BID TO BAN FILM
If you thought the new Indiana Jones movie was a throwback to an earlier time, check this out. The Russian Communist Party came out yesterday and blasted the new flick...
SUBWAY-DELAY STAT PLAN ON FAST TRACK
New York City Transit is about to treat skyrocketing subway delays like a crime. The agency is planning to use a system similar to the one that the NYPD employs...
HOSP ID-THEFT DUO NAILED
Two information specialists at a Brooklyn hospital stand accused of swiping patient information to open bogus credit-card accounts and shop online while working. Jessica Paul, 23, and Jessica Darden, 20,...
Hillary Clinton's Kennedy assassination comment draws fury
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday brought up the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama - drawing a furious...
'COPPING' A FEEL
A high-profile lawyer who has spent decades defending and advocating for cops was arrested yesterday on charges he groped and sexually abused two female colleagues. Richard Dienst, 68, was charged...
HORNY TOAD ALARM
A Queens man who croaked after ingesting an alleged aphrodisiac triggered a warning from city health officials yesterday - to stay away from toad venom. The alert went out after...
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED IN LOONY TOONS BATTLE
Silly minds apparently think alike. An artist who accused a New Yorker magazine cartoonist of swiping one of his cartoons has a cartoon on his own Web site that looks...
TRIBUTE TO HERO
The first of New York's Finest to die in Iraq was honored back home in Brooklyn yesterday with an Army-base building named in his memory. James McNaughton, 27, a staff...
2ND SUICIDE SHOCK
ALBANY - A veteran State Police forensic scientist hanged himself yesterday under circumstances shockingly similar to the suicide of another state police official just eight days ago Garry Veeder, 59,...
B'KLYN 'LOVE TRIANGLE' SLAY
A fight over a girl's affections turned deadly yesterday near a Bensonhurst high school, with one suitor fatally stabbed and the other slashed and under arrest, police sources said. The...
'GAMBLING' REV RUNS OUT OF LUCK
A White Plains priest was a real holy roller - using the Sunday collection plate as his own personal gambling pot, authorities charge. The Rev. Patrick Dunne was arrested yesterday...
SLAIN QNS. GIRL WAS PREGNANT
The stray bullet that killed a Queens teen last week also took the life of her unborn child, police sources revealed yesterday. Bethea Brandon, 15, was four weeks pregnant when...
BLOOMY TO FINEST: LET'S MAKE A DEAL
There's a small window of opportunity right now for the city and the police union to negotiate a new contract and avert another tense bout of arbitration, Mayor Bloomberg said...
JUSTICE'S BLIND EYE
Criminal charges against eyeglass scion Jeffrey Cohen were dropped yesterday after the case started looking too hazy. Cohen, 30, had been charged with assault, burglary and grand larceny for allegedly...
BIG BROWN BIG HEARTS
Race horse Big Brown's owners opened up their big hearts yesterday, pledging to donate a portion of their Belmont Stakes purse to a Nassau County cop gravely injured by a...
LEHMAN CDO WOES
Lehman Brothers has a big credibility problem and may need to raise capital to earn back its Street cred, cage-rattling hedge-fund manager David Einhorn told The Post. Einhorn, who runs...
WEATHER CHAN. STORM BREWING
It didn't take Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes long to figure out how to use the $9.25 billion dividend the media giant gets from spinning off its cable unit. Just...
HOUSING SALES TUMBLE TO NEW RECORD LOWS
The housing industry tumbled deeper into its two-year recession - and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight until next year, at the earliest. A worse-than-expected outlook emerged...
THE MAYOR'S UNHELPFUL 'HINTS'
Just what kind of a probe, exactly, can an investigator produce - when his or her own boss has all but exonerated the potential targets? The city may soon find...
SAME OLD SHARPTON?
Did the Rev. Al Sharpton try to extort $500,000 from a leading rapper by threatening him with protest marches unless he paid up? Sharpton calls the accusation "absurd," but that's...
PETTITTE BACK TO HIS 'OLD' TRICKS
THE dreaded Andy Pettitte fourth inning started with a three-pitch strikeout of Wladimir Balentien, followed by Jamie Burke's weak tapper to Derek Jeter and ended with Bobby Abreu reaching up...
JOBA TO GO 2 TO 3 INNINGS
Joba Chamberlain will take a second step toward joining the Yankee rotation when he works two to three innings today against the Mariners at Yankee Stadium. Chamberlain, who hurled two...
CANO FINALLY HEATING UP
Robinson Cano was sure earlier in the week that Alex Rodriguez's return would have a trickle-down effect on the entire Yankee lineup. So far, that theory of supply-side offense seems...
YANKS MANAGE PERFECTLY FINE
The music pulsing from the machine in the middle of the clubhouse was borderline ear-splitting. Not only were the Yankees basking in the glow of a third straight victory, they...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Players ratify drug deal Baseball players approved a toughened drug agreement yesterday - the last possible day for ratification. The sides announced the agreement April 11 and owners ratified...
HONDO BAGS A BEAUTY
Hondo, who'd lost two straight, bounced back big time last night, hitting with the Rangers in Cleveland to increase his stash of dead presidents to 305 bur roughses. Today, he'll...
TOTTENVILLE, MONROE OUSTED IN SECOND ROUND
The main reason teams in New York City switched to wooden bats this season was for safety, but another result that observers expected to find was parity, as teams found...
RANGER GAME IN BRONX ON THIN ICE
The prospect of holding the NHL Winter Classic at Yankee Stadium on Jan. 1, 2009 is in the bottom of the ninth inning, with the Yankees attempting to convince the...
MARTINEZ'S DL RETURN DELAYED BY TRIP TO D.R.
DENVER - Pedro Martinez's unexpected trip to the Dominican Republic this week is likely to delay his return to the Mets' rotation. Martinez is scheduled to throw a bullpen session...
NO HOLLIDAY FOR AMAZIN'S IN COLORADO
DENVER - A change of scenery and a vote of confidence for Willie Randolph couldn't change the Mets' miserable luck last night. Matt Holliday, who had homered in the ninth...
RANDOLPH'S ON A ROCKY ROAD
DENVER - Met GM Omar Minaya made a surprise visit here yesterday, but it wasn't to fire Willie Randolph. At least not yet. Minaya did the exact opposite, in fact,...
PATH TO REDEMPTION STILL OPEN TO WILLIE
IT isn't as if Willie Randolph doesn't have role models to follow here, ones that can lead him along the path to redemption, or the road to ruin. That suddenly...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
The need for speed has no age limit. A 96-year-old great-great-grandmother got to blaze around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 180 miles per hour in a race car driven by...
YOUNG EINSTEINS
FOR most kids, science starts with a bang - via baking-soda volcanoes - only to lose its allure later, usually with their first frog dissection. No wonder teenagers tend to...
WHAT'S UP
TODAYEAST SIDE STORY: Like the neighborhood it's named for, the 13th annual Lower East Side (LES) Festival of the Arts is funky and free-spirited. Better yet, the fest is free,...
HIGH TIMES
THE rooftop explosion continues unabated, with nightlife spots working hard to convince us that tar is a perfectly acceptable substitute for sand. Here are the latest urban oases to make...
THE PARENT TRAP
ALL a book usually needs in order to make it into a TV movie is to be chosen as an Oprah Book Club selection. That and a soppy enough story...
SMALL CLUB IS PERFECT MORISSETTE-ING
YOU oughta know that Alanis Morissette still has it. In a showcase at the Cutting Room, Morissette showed off the skills that helped her sell millions and millions of albums,...
Report: Mets call up Nick Evans
According to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, the injury-ravaged Mets have called up first baseman Nick Evans from Double-A Binghamton. Evans was told of the move during the ninth inning...
Is Couture-Fedor On Horizon?
Will Affliction's next big fight feature Randy Couture against Fedor? BY GEORGE WILLISMAY 24--Those assuming Affliction's entry as a mixed martial arts promoter means a match between former UFC heavyweight...
BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE FOR AIRSHOW
I wasn't feeling the slightest bit squeamish as they strapped on the parachute and bolted me into the front seat of the stunt plane.PHOTO GALLERY: Post Reporter Goes Flying My...
Baseball America unveils first 2008 Mock Draft
We're less than two weeks away from this year's First-Year Player Draft, to be held June 5-6 and Baseball America's Jim Callis has released BA's first mock draft of the...
Omar: Willie safe for now
Omar Minaya just spoke with reporters here in Denver tonight and gave Willie Randolph another vote of confidence despite the team's 22-23 record. Minaya appeared to make clear that Randolph...
The Red Bulls talking Mr. White
â(Blanco) understands itâs a very competitive league with very athletic players. He has that ability to play that final pass, to play it behind defenders and have very athletic forwards...
The Kid does some piling on
Boy, are the buzzards circling. Willie Randolph isnât even cold yet and ex-Met Gary Carter already is campaigning for the managerial job. Carter, who is currently managing the Orange County...
Orders in for Rockies opener
Oh, by the way, the Mets have a game tonight. Amid the incessant speculation about Willie Randolphâs job security (or lack thereof), they will take send Oliver Perez (pictured) to...