February 11, 2009
RANGERS SCRATCH PRUCHA AGAIN
The Rangers had scored a total of five goals in the five-game (0-4-1) losing streak they carried into tonight's Garden match against the Caps. In those five games, they'd gotten...
STOCKS END HIGHER ON AGREEMENT ON STIMULUS BILL
Investors shuttled between optimism and pessimism Wednesday, finally betting that the government might help the economy out of recession after all. News in late afternoon that key lawmakers agreed on...
WILL SMITH MOST BANKABLE STAR
Will Smith was voted the most bankable star in Hollywood in a survey of industry professionals by Forbes.com. The financial magazine's Web site gives the actor a score of 10...
Schneider unlikely for WBC
PORT ST. LUCIE -- It doesn't look like Mets catcher Brian Schneider will be chosen for the U.S. team competing in the World Baseball Classic next month, and Schneider appeared...
TiVo Alert: 31 Days of Oscar, Day 12
Many believe Van Druten, who was gay, intended Novak's part as witch who loses her "powers'' when she falls in love with Stewart's book publisher as some sort of crypto-lesbian...
BODY DRAGGED 20 MILES THROUGH NYC
A Queens pedestrian was struck by an SUV this morning and thrown into the path of a van, which dragged his mangled body a gruesome 20 miles before the driver...
Former Mets, Yankees prospects scattered throughout BA lists
Both the Mets and Yankees have lost numerous prospects over the past few years, both through trades as well as the Rule 5 draft. That migration away from the two...
Selena Roberts and the Duke case
Those who choose to come to Alex Rodriguez's defense by shooting the messenger -- in this case Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts -- are using her coverage of the Duke...
Take that, Francesa!
PORT ST. LUCIE -- This just in: Ryan Church is no fan of Mike Francesa. Still. Church, the Mets' right fielder who spent last season battling the effects of two...
LeBron: I'm no A-Rod
The best player in baseball has just admitted to using steroids.So, naturally the best player in the NBA had to be asked a similar question. And LeBron James gave a...
ISLANDERS' MOVE TO QUEENS FLOATED
Could the New York Islanders be Queens-bound? Stranger things have happened, says Jack Friedman. It started as an off-the-cuff response that Friedman, executive director of the Queens Chamber of Commerce,...
MARY IMMACULATE, ST. JOHN'S TO CLOSE IN NEXT 30 DAYS
Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica and St. John’s Queens Hospital in Elmhurst will no longer be taking emergency room patients as of Saturday after its parent corporation failed to secure...
VAN DRAGS PEDESTRIAN 17 MILES FROM CORONA
A pedestrian was dragged 17 miles through Brooklyn and Queens Wednesday morning after being hit by one car and caught underneath a van, police and the Associated Press reported. The...
YOU NEED MORE GREEN TO LIVE IN QUEENS
New York City’s notorious cost of living is driving out thousands of the middle class in an exodus fueled not only by the exorbitance of Manhattan but Queens, too. It...
FIVE WILLETS POINT BUSINESSES TO MOVE TO COLLEGE POINT CORPORATE PARK
In a meeting with Community Board 7 members Tuesday night, the city Economic Development Corp. announced that it plans to move five Willets Point businesses to the College Point Corporate...
MADOFF INDICTMENT DEADLINE PUSHED BACK
Faced with a deadline to obtain a grand jury indictment, the government and lawyers for disgraced investor Bernard Madoff agreed Wednesday to a 30-day delay. A federal magistrate judge approved...
FAKE 'JOBA' PLEADS GUILTY
BELMAR, N.J.- A Jersey Shore man who authorities say scammed businesses by claiming he was New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain has pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge. Thirty-year-old...
Oscar Watch: 'Soloist' Buys TV Spot
DreamWorks' "The Soloist,'' a schmaltzy musical melodrama starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. that got elbowed out of the Oscar race by distributor Paramount (which wanted to lavish its...
Season 1 Winner Jay McCarroll on 'Project Runway'
"When I hear that the 'Project Runway' franchise got sold to Lifetime for $150 dollars, that makes me really sad: I know that I'm a part of that and it's...
More to come on A-Rod?
The New York Observer reports that Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts isn't done with Alex Rodriguez yet.In a profile of Roberts and how she broke the story that Rodriguez tested...
Ups and Downs
By FRED KERBERThe season is actually 65 percent complete for the Nets but folks always seem to use the All-Star break as the halfway point. You get to the break...
Worry is in the air
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Real-estate folks here and in the towns nearby like to refer to this area as The Treasure Coast, but it's easy to see why it has...
Emptying the notebook
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Some tidbits from a sleepy day of voluntary workouts here at the Mets' spring-training complex: * Daniel Murphy showed up all the veterans and several of...
Maybe Manny wasn't being Manny this time
The incident that started Manny Ramirez's departure from the Red Sox may not be as one-sided as originally reported.In late June, Ramirez pushed the team's traveling secretary, Jack McCormick, after...
'Inglourious Basterds' Trailer
Here's the trailer for Quentin Tarantino's long-threatened World War II adventure "Inglourious Basterds'' starring Brad Pitt that premiered last night on Entertainment Tonight. I found it, well, underwhelming, but I'm...
OCTOMOM LAUNCHES WEB SITE ASKING FOR DONATIONS
Before she can afford to raise 14 kids, Octomom Nadya Suleman needs to raise a whole lot of cash - so the unemployed single mother has set up a Web...
The Guggenheim Doesn't Play Itself
Here's a fascinating featurette on how a full-scale mockup Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum was constructed in Berlin for a shooutout in "The International,'' courtesy of First Showing. I only...
Gallinari gets posterized
You can really pick any moment from the Knicks giving up 144 points to the Warriors last night, but I think this picture tells the story of their awful defensive...
Ravens, Lewis ready to talk
The Baltimore Sun reports the Ravens and Ray Lewis will begin contract negotiations at the NFL Scouting Combine, which runs from Feb. 18-24.The paper reports Lewis, his agent, and GM...
DEALS: $199, Carmel's Highlands Inn
LOOK past the obnoxious triple hyphens and you'll find Carmel-by-the-Sea a fascinating place. Less than 2 hours south of San Francisco as the McLaren Roadster flies, the upper-crusted NoCal village...
Who will be the Jets QB next season?
Even those most excited by the news the Jets had acquired Brett Favre had to know it was a stopgap -- one or two years at most. And the question...
Starr Report: The Mercurial Jeremy Piven
Add this one to the "too good to be true" department. Jeremy Piven, who infamously bolted Broadway's "Speed-the-Plow" - claiming mercury poisoning from too much sushi - guests on tonight's...
CONGRESS, WHITE HOUSE REACH DEAL
WASHINGTON - Moving with lightning speed, key members of the Senate announced agreement Wednesday on a $790 billion stimulus bill to create millions of jobs, and said President Barack Obama...
YouTube Sensation to Star on 'iCarly'
Have you met Fred?Fred was the 14-year-old comedian who rose to the top of the YouTube channels with his 6-year-old shtick and helium-inspired voice.Now, Fred is the YouTube sensation who...
RUTH MADOFF PULLED OUT $15M
The wife of accused Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff pulled $15 million out of a brokerage account only days before her husband was arrested, Massachusetts' top securities regulator said Wednesday....
Olivia-Whit Smackdown: 2-0 in Favor of 'Champy'-Drinking 'Social'
Jay's band, Tamarama, plays their lackluster set while Olivia drinks champy and obnoxiously apologizes to people for stabbing them with her pointy elbows. As soon as Jay's done and the...
TORNADO KILLS 8 IN OKLAHOMA
LONE GROVE, Okla. - Emergency crews on Wednesday searched the wreckage of homes and businesses smashed by an unusual cluster of February twisters that ripped across Oklahoma, killing at least...
Report: Abreu signs with Angels
Bobby Abreu has finally found a home.With spring training a week away, Abreu signed a one-year deal with the Angels worth a little over $5 million, SI.com reports.Abreu, who played...
FBI INVESTIGATES 500 CORPORATE FRAUD CASES
WASHINGTON - The FBI is conducting more than 500 investigations of U.S. corporate fraud amid the financial meltdown. FBI Deputy Director John Pistole is describing the bureau's efforts to the...
HIT SINGLES
Valentine's Day, shmalentine's day. Buy yourself a box of chocolates and a bottle of wine, and download this soundtrack of songs for the single. (It's only sad if your apartment...
BANK CEOS TESTIFY ON BAILOUT FUNDS
WASHINGTON - The top members of a key House panel told banking leaders Wednesday they must win over a disgusted public and work harder to right the deeply troubled financial...
JETS' FAVRE RETIRES
There will be no months of speculation or tearful press conferences. Jets quarterback Brett Favre has retired -- and this time he means it. Citing an arm injury he suffered...
CUOMO BLASTS MERRILL BONUS PAY
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo accused Merrill Lynch & Co. executives of corporate irresponsibility by secretly and prematurely awarding $3.6 billion in bonuses as taxpayers were...
Woodman Returning to Europe
Woody Allen is going back to London -- where he shot "Match Point'' and two other movies earlier this century -- to make an untitled movie that may or may...
ALOMAR IN 'AIDS' SHOCK
Former Met star Roberto Alomar had unprotected sex with his ex-girlfriend while he had full blown AIDS, a sensational lawsuit charges. Read the Complaint Against AlomarPAGE SIX: DARRYL BARES MET...
3 UP: A-Rod, Jeter, Abreu
1. The dumbest discussion going on right now is whether Alex Rodriguez is a Hall of Famer or not. We may have nearly 30 years - maybe more - to...
3 UP: A-ROD, JETER, ABREU
1. The dumbest discussion going on right now is whether Alex Rodriguez is a Hall of Famer or not. We may have nearly 30 years - maybe more - to...
GOOSE: JUICE REVELATION TAINTS TEAM, PLAYER, GAME
HALL of Famer Goose Gossage said yesterday that the Yankees pinstripes have been tarnished by Alex Rodriguez's steroid storm, that the game's greatest record is tainted forever, and the sanctity...
REPORT: 3 SAY ORZA TIPPED OFF RODRIGUEZ
For once, Alex Rodriguez cannot be happy that the hits keep coming.YANKS WON'T ATTEMPT TO VOID A-ROID DEALGOOSE: JUICE REVELATION TAINTS TEAM, PLAYER, GAMESLUGGER SHRUGS OFF STEROID STORM WITH TRIP...
SLUGGER SHRUGS OFF STEROID STORM WITH TRIP TO THE GYM
It was back to business as usual for Alex Rodriguez yesterday - with the Yankees superstar acting as if massive headlines about his confession of past steroid use were no...
YANKS WON'T ATTEMPT TO VOID A-ROID DEAL
TAMPA - The Yankees say they aren't ticked at Alex Rodriguez and are not looking to void the biggest contract in baseball. Hank Steinbrenner even giggled at the idea of...
CANSECO: I WANT TO HELP
Here's a real curve: Instead of accusing more major leaguers of using performance-enhancing drugs, Jose Canseco wants to help baseball deal with the lingering fallout of the sport's steroid era....
'NAIVE' DAVID SAYS STEROID PROBLEMS IN PAST
PORT ST. LUCIE - As far as David Wright is concerned, the A-Rod steroids controversy is old news. While admitting repeatedly that he "might be naive," the Mets star said...
GARDNER READY TO FORGIVE & FORGET
TAMPA - There's no need for Alex Rodriguez to apologize to Brett Gardner. The Yankees' center field wannabe insisted yesterday that he's forgiven his drug-tainted teammate. "I know I already...
JETER WAITING FOR BIGGER AUDIENCE
TAMPA - Whatever Derek Jeter feels regarding Alex Rodriguez's bombshell admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs, he's keeping it to himself, at least for now. The Yankees shortstop refused to...
TOO LATE FOR TEJADA, CONGRESS TAKES A PASS ON ALEX
Alex Rodriguez can look in the nearest toilet, home of the U.S. economy, and give thanks that Congress probably isn't interested in hearing his steroid story. If only Miguel Tejada...
BIDDER-SWEET HEBREW TEXTS
A rare trove of 11,000 Hebrew books and manuscripts went on display at Sotheby's this week as the auction house seeks to find a buyer for what's considered the greatest...
LOTTERY MAY BET ITS MARBLES ON THE MARKET
The New York Lottery is proposing a gamble where the odds aren't always in its favor - moving its $1.3 billion prize fund into investments such as stocks, corporate bonds,...
OLD GLORY FOR TOP DOG
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Stump, a 10-year-old Sussex spaniel, shocked the canine world last night by becoming the oldest Best in Show winner ever...
AS A-ROID INQUISITION GROWS, GIRARDI NEEDS ANSWERS
I WONDER if Alex Rodriguez fully understands that was not a Mariano Rivera close the other day on ESPN. We remain, in reality, pretty close to the first inning when...
RED STORM: NICE TO CIN-CY YOU AGAIN
The Big East schedule-makers got it right by giving Cincinnati and St. John's a home-and-home series this year. They got it right because after the first meeting, an ejection-marred game...
RAM -SAY IT AIN'T SO
WHEN I called Gordon Ramsay at the London NYC Hotel last week to reserve a Friday-night table, a recorded male voice with a British accent spelled out the restaurant's booking...
NO LOVE LOST
FOR some, Valentine's Day means romantic dinners and a semi-excusable day of unadulterated cheesiness. But for the jilted and lonely, Feb. 14 packs more bitterness than the cheapest of heartshaped...
HIT SINGLES
Valentine's Day, shmalentine's day. Buy yourself a box of chocolates and a bottle of wine, and download this soundtrack of songs for the single. (It's only sad if your apartment...
DISH MAGIC MOMENT
CHAMPAGNE and lobster are a total yawn. Here are alternative V-Day dining options you're not likely to forget any time soon. Dine a deux without even having to look at...
SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THESE
WHAT have you done for me choco-lately? Thanks to a crop of new chocolate shops, the answer to that question is: plenty. From chocolate skulls to beer-soaked sweets, you'll find...
WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT
THE Husband, bless his sweet, romantic soul, is preparing for Valentine's Day like the Normandy Invasion. Flowers will die. Chocolates will be bought. And I cringe at the thought of...
HEART ATTACK
BAD candy, pricey floral arrangements and sappy greeting cards where words are spelled with number/letter combination such as 4U are fantastic - if you're Ziggy. The thing is, you're not,...
STARR REPORT
Bri's got the juice Forget A-Rod - the "NBC Nightly News" has bulked up its viewership, reaching the rarefied evening-news num ber of 10 million viewers for the fourth consecutive...
LONG 'ROID HOME
IF you thought "Tropic Thunder" was the funniest movie of the year and that everything Will Ferrell touches makes you laugh until you squirt Diet Pepsi out of your nose,...
MOVING 'RUINED' FIXED ON WAR-TORN CONGO
IN "Ruined," Lynn Nottage's devastating new play set in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, the title takes on a freshly horrifying meaning that will forever sear itself onto your...
HOPING OLD-TIME YUKS = BUCK$
LOS ANGELES - The creators of "Min sky's," a $10 million musical burning with Broadway ambitions, are betting that in perilous economic times, a good old-fashioned musical comedy is a...
OBAMA RATES
AFTER his first press con ference Monday night, Barack Obama is still pretty much the most popular thing on TV. The hour-long press conference, which aired over four networks, drew...
GRACE-FUL EXIT
KATHERINE Heigl and T. R. Knight are lea ing "Grey's Anatomy," says co-star James Pickens Jr. "Yes, she is," Pickens told Us Weekly when asked if Heigl is departing the...
BEHIND THE SEAMS
WHEN original "Project Run way" winner Jay McCarroll decided to call his new movie "Eleven Minutes," he wasn't thinking about the amount of fame that he's already used up. As...
CURRY TO RETURN AFTER BREAK
SAN FRANCISCO - Knicks center Eddy Curry broke his silence yesterday and predicted he will return to practice after the All-Star break on Monday in a long-shot bid to resume...
MARTY ON THE MEND
It's just a matter of time before Martin Brodeur returns to the Devils from his elbow injury and yesterday was another positive step, as the goalie was on the ice...
AVERY BACK ON SKATES WITH 'PACK'
In another 10 days or two weeks, his linemates could be Brandon Dubinsky and Nik Zherdev. Yesterday, however, they were named Brandon Sugden and Matthew Ford, and Sean Avery couldn't...
AVERY'S RETURN HOT TOPIC AMONG RANGERS
Although he's still technically a Dallas Star and yesterday was 91 miles away practicing with the Hartford Wolf Pack in Cromwell, Conn., Sean Avery's presence was very much felt at...
MARGARITO BANNED FOR YEAR
Jan. 24 proved to be a very costly night for Antonio Margarito. Not only did he lose his WBA welterweight title to Shane Mosley, but his boxing license has been...
VALENTIN BACK IN METS FOLD
The Mets have thrown another player into the mix to be a potential backup or alternative to Luis Castillo at second base by signing Jose Valentin to a minor-league contract,...
GO 'FORWARD': NETS NEED STOUDEMIRE
THE Nets looked headed to the land of irrelevant when they traded away Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson and began rebuilding with youth. You figured Vince Carter would soon get...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Jets cut Barrett The Jets yesterday released defensive back David Barrett after five seasons with the team. He was the first player cut by new coach Rex Ryan, hired...
BOWEN PUTS CLAMPS ON CARTER IN 2ND HALF
Vince Carter was in one of those scoring zones, the kind that had him headed for the 30-point plateau for the first time since Dec. 29. Behind Carter, the Nets...
OH, SHOOT! ISLANDERS FALL
Earlier in the year, you may have seen Doug Weight or Bill Guerin during a shootout, but fitting the current Islanders' attitude, there were no veterans involved after the Isles...
NETS HAVE SYMPATHY FOR A-ROD
Most players at last night's Nets game not only think Alex Rodriguez's apology for steroid use was genuine, but some even feel those responsible for his anonymous test results going...
NO DEFENSE FOR KNICKS
OAKLAND - Look at the bright side. The Knicks held Golden State below 150 points. Before the game, Al Harrington and Warriors coach Don Nelson continued their feud, exchanging nasty...
EXPIRED FOOD NOW 'FINE' FOOD
Westchester County has fined 21 supermarkets a total of $59,000 for selling food past the expiration dates. The stores included Whole Foods Market in White Plains, which was fined $12,250...
TOSSUP STUNS ISRAEL
Israel's long-awaited elections left the country in political chaos last night after the two leading candidates both claimed victory - and a far-right activist was in position to play kingmaker....
I WAS ANGEL OF FAKE DEATH
The girlfriend of hedge-fund swindler Samuel Israel III told yesterday how he pleaded with her to help him fake his death and get away. Debra Ryan, 45, testified in White...
BED-STUY MAKES HISTORY
A cluster of three dozen 19th-century row houses in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn has been designated the latest historic district. The city Landmarks Preservation Commission voted yesterday to approve...
TEDDY COY ON CAROLINE MESS
WASHINGTON - In his first public comments on his niece Caroline Kennedy not landing a US Senate seat, Sen. Edward Kennedy said, "That's yesterday - that's yesterday's news." Kennedy spoke...
HILL'S CHILL PILL ON IRAN
WASHINGTON - The United States and Iran have a chance to "work out a way of talking" that could lead to understandings on a range of issues, Secretary of State...
GAZA GOONS KILLED THEIR OWN: REPORT
LONDON - Amnesty International said yesterday that Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip had carried out killings, torture and abductions of people accused of helping Israel, during and after the...
O MAY LIFT GI COFFIN-PIX NIX
Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review yesterday of a Pentagon policy banning media from taking pictures of flag-draped coffins of military dead, signaling he was open to overturning the...
INFERNO AT SEA
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A tanker burst into flames yesterday after colliding with a container vessel in a shipping channel off the coast of Dubai. Two of the tanker's...
DA'S $175M IS 'FINE' GIFT
Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau yesterday proved his office pays for itself, and then some. The prosecutor handed the city a $175 million check - money his office recently collected in...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A 45-year-old man pursued and groped a 66-year-old woman in Williamsburg, cops said. Suspect Rene Lopez, making lewd gestures, approached the woman early Monday at Boerum Street and Graham...
LIVERY 'BILL OF RIGHTS'
Passengers will soon be able to tell livery-car drivers to turn down the noise, turn up the heat or get off the cellphone. The City Council is expected to approve...
STEROID BUST DRIES UP SI'S 'FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH'
A Staten Island doctor working out of a building he called the "Fountain of Youth" provided hundreds of men with illegal steroid prescriptions, collecting more than half a million dollars...
MOB 'KILLER' JUST WHACK-Y
A top Gambino hit man with a reputation for being a bit batty was so comfortable with killing that he even offered his services to the FBI, an agent testified...
SO OLD & YET STILL SO GREEN
WILL someone - please! - make the scary man leave? Just when you thought the coffin was Superglued shut on his embarrassing public career, Mark Green has burst from the...
COPS HANDCUFFED
Budget cuts and slow progress at Ground Zero have forced a delay in plans to deploy 800 officers to protect lower Manhattan from terrorist threats, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said...
'UNCARING' SCHUMER TAKES HEAT ON SPENDING
WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer came under fire yesterday after saying on the Senate floor that "the American people really don't care" about unrelated spending items that were tacked onto...
'MILLIONAIRE TAX' STILL IN PLAY WITH PATERSON
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson refused to rule out a tax hike on the wealthy yesterday, saying he would support an increase only if lawmakers first agreed to spending cuts big...
BIG PUSSY $ETTLES WITH EX
Big Pussy has made the lawsuit against him disappear. Lisa Regina dropped her $5 million civil suit against Vincent Pastore after the "Sopranos" co-star agreed to pony up $150,000. Regina's...
BASQUIAT'S DAD SUES ART 'THIEF'
The father of Jean-Michel Basquiat is suing an art dealer for allegedly pinching more than $500,000 worth of prints by the late New York pop artist. Gerard Basquiat claims that...
NEW SLAP AT POL'S PERV SON
Prosecutors will use transcripts of perverted Internet chats to try to get the son of former Liberal Party boss Ray Harding listed as a high-risk sex offender. Russell Harding -...
CONGRESS $HOPPING CARTS
WASHINGTON - "Fore!" The federal government is preparing to spend millions to purchase a fleet of small electric vehicles that critics compare to golf carts. The $838 billion economic stimulus...
WALL STREET TANKS ON BANKS
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner yesterday unveiled the White House's eagerly anticipated plan to bail out troubled banks - but Wall Street reacted in horror as stocks tumbled nearly 400 points...
COP WILL SURRENDER IN BEATING
A disgraced NYPD cop is expected to turn himself in today on charges he beat a handcuffed suspect with his baton in the lobby of an Upper West Side building...
MEDICAL 'RATION' WARNING
Patient treatment could be restricted and health-care rationed under a provision in the economic-stimulus legislation, critics say. A $3 billion Health Information Technology system included in the bill calls for...
HIGH RISE IN HOUSING UNITS
The city's housing stock increased by a record 67,792 units between 2005 and 2008, but the vacancy rate dropped from 3.09 to 2.88 percent, according to a study released yesterday....
ANTI-ARAB HARD-LINER 'THE KINGMAKER'
JERUSALEM - One of the big winners of Israel's election Tuesday is its most divisive politician, an ultranationalist settler who owes his surging political fortunes to Israeli Jews' deepening distrust...
FIRE JURY STILL OUT
Deliberations continue today in the trial of two Bronx tenants charged in the 2005 Black-Sunday fire that killed two firemen. Jurors weighing the fate of tenants Caridad Coste and Rafael...
BE MY CUT-RATE VALENTINE
Cupid is a cheapskate this Valentine's Day. Web searches for "cheap engagement rings" are off the charts in the run-up to the romantic holiday compared to last year, according to...
SHABBAT SLAY
The pregnant Upper West Side lawyer killed in a horrific double murder-suicide was in the midst of celebrating the Sabbath when her jealous lover burst in and murdered her. Debra...
'GRAFT' RABBI OFF HOOK IN DOC ASSAULT
A Long Island rabbi and businessman who helped bring down Israel's prime minister was acquitted yesterday of assaulting his dentist. Nassau County Judge William O'Brien threw out the charges against...
BRAVE GAL IDS 'HIT MAN'
The image of Mikhail Mallayev firing a gun at a Queens dentist is one that haunts public-school teacher Cheryl Springsteen - and her memory might soon haunt the accused murderer....
CLEAVER SLAY: ONE YEAR LATER
The six siblings of psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Faughey will gather tomorrow to mark the one-year anniversary of her slaughter at the hands of a cleaver-swinging madman in her Upper East...
LAND OF MILK & WHAT A HONEY!
Sports Illustrated's new swimsuit issue really raises the Bar. The much-anticipated mag hits newsstands today - with luscious Israeli model Bar Refaeli gracing a cover that is sure to send...
KIN NABBED IN EXEC RIP-OFF
A New York music exec was defrauded out of $6.8 million by a Tennessee relative who spent it on a lavish lifestyle, officials charged yesterday. Joseph Prebul, 48, was freed...
FRAUD CO-ED IN MERCY BID
COLUMBIA, SC - A Montana woman who stole a missing woman's identity and used it to attend Columbia University was trying to hide from an emotionally abusive family and start...
RANGEL KEEPS HOUSE CHAIR
House Democrats yesterday voted down an attempt to remove Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee during an ongoing ethics investigation. The Ethics Committee is...
BONG BUDS PAY PIPER
Eight of Michael Phelps' pot pals have been busted in connection with a high-flying marijuana party attended by the Olympic champion, it was reported yesterday. Richland County Sheriff's deputies have...
BUS FUSS OVER NEW HARLEM CUTS
Six City Council members blasted the MTA yesterday over proposals to cut bus service in upper Manhattan. Councilwoman Inez Dickens (D-Harlem) said "the MTA wishes to strangle us" with its...
B'KLYN COP SHOOTS TEEN GUNMAN
A rookie cop critically wounded a Brooklyn teen who had pointed a gun at him yesterday, authorities said. The officer was patrolling on East 94th Street near Clarkson Avenue in...
FLYIN'-HEARTED
President Obama has most of Air Force One's 4,000 square feet at his disposal, including a roomy executive suite. Call it first class plus. Yet, the chatty president can't seem...
EGG ON HIS FACE
The shameless California fertility doc who did all the in-vitro procedures on Octomom Nadya Suleman broke his promise to stop treatments after her sixth child, her dad charged yesterday. The...
SHOVEL MURDER
A 64-year-old Queens man was beaten to death with a shovel in his home yesterday. Neighbors had no idea why anybody would want to kill Rosario Prestigiacomo, a fixture in...
SULLY AND PAL RELIVE BIRD BLITZ
It was a scene that would have fit perfectly in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds." The pilots of miracle Flight 1549 yesterday described big, menacing Canada geese, flying as if on...
REPORT: RIHANNA HAD BRUISES IN DECEMBER
Troubled singer Chris Brown may have roughed up Rihanna before the alleged altercation that took place before the Grammy Awards early Sunday, Rihanna's friends told US Weekly. A Rihanna friend...
SCHOOL DATA AN ED. TECH WRECK
Less than three years after unveiling what they called a "groundbreaking" $30 million education data system, state officials are embarking on a costly effort to fix the problem-plagued platform. The...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This baby ox is all heart. The critter cutie, named, well, Heart, sports an unusual birthmark on his head that makes his birth "good timing for Valentine's Day," said the...
A 144-point mess
By MARC BERMANOAKLAND - I guess it wasn't a great idea for Al Harrington to get the Golden State fans involved in the game so early.Harrington, the ex-Warrior, said he...
A-ROD'S 'ROID RUSE: OUT-OF-THE-PARK LIES
THE ISSUE: Alex Rodriguez's admission to having used performance-enhancing drugs. *** The time has come for the Yankees to show the world that nobody is bigger than the game ("A-Hole,"...
FEEDING THE HOUSING-ENTITLEMENT BEAST
PRESIDENT Obama is back in messianic campaign mode. It is unbecoming. At a stimulus rally in Ft. Myers, Fla., on Tuesday, a woman named Henrietta Hughes stood up to decry...
A PLAN TO KILL BANKS
THE economy is suffering from too much debt and not enough credit, says Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. While announcing a new "Financial Stability Plan" yesterday, he noted that many firms...
NY WITHOUT WALL ST.
YOU know New York is in real trouble when it needs an economic reality check from the ex-KGB hood who rules Russia. "Today, investment banks, the pride of Wall Street,...
ISRAEL'S BIG WINNER: 'PEACE' SKEPTICS
ISRAELI voters yesterday threw a wrench into the plans of the world's peace processors - President Obama included. Tzippi Livni's Kadima Party and Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud are close to a...
SNOOZE, YOU LOSE
DAILY News Chairman Mort Zuckerman went inside the beleaguered tabloid's newsroom yesterday morning for an interview with CNN, during which he insisted that the paper was "here to stay." Shortly...
ESCADA HITS BROADWAY
Escada is coming to SoHo. The fashion firm just scored the former 7,000 square-foot Ann Taylor space at 560 Broadway. While the deal was approved by building owner Jeff Gural,...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
SEC sues The SEC sued Finvest Asset Management LLC, Finvest Fund Manage ment LLC and Grant "Gad" Grieve, the New York investment advi sory firms' managing principal, for allegedly defrauding...
GEITHNER'S SHOCK AWED MARKETS
TREASURY Secretary Tim Geithner delivered a financial shock-and-awe speech yesterday, designating up to $1 trillion to deal with the mortgage crisis, another $1 trillion for the securitization market and a...
PEPSI'S REDRAWN LOGO GOES DEEP, FIZZES OUT
To most people, Pepsi's new logo looks a lot like the old one. To the ad firm that conceived it, however, the revamped logo draws on thousands of years of...
TREASURY CHIEF PULLS BACK TARP TO SHOW US NOTHING
Newly minted Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's grand plan to revive the banking system turned out to be a whole lotta sizzle but not nearly enough steak. WALL STREET TANKS ON...
GEITHNER'S LATEST GAMBLE
First they erected a wall of American flags - 10 of them, to be precise. Hey, if you can't trust the Stars and Stripes, what can you trust? First up...
'MILLIONAIRES' EVERYWHERE
It's official: The "millionaire's tax" is now anything but. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver admitted Monday that his plan to raise state income taxes could hit New Yorkers making less than...
IN SIRIUS TROUBLE
Nearly two years to the day after announcing a plan to merge, Sirius XM Satellite Radio is plunging headlong into bankruptcy, The Post has learned. Two sources familiar with the...
NO STIMULUS ON BONUSES
Financial institutions that received federal bailout money and paid large executive bonuses would be required to compensate taxpayers under the economic-stimulus bill approved by the Senate. The $838 billion measure...
NEW CONCERT GIANT TABS ADVISER
The company created by the combination of Live Nation and Ticketmaster is girding for an antitrust fight, and has hired a top recording industry lobbyist to advise it on strategy...
Bobby Convey to San Jose official
San Jose's long pursuit of National Team midfielder Bobby Convey has finally borne fruit. The Earthquake finally landed their man today, thanks to their position at the top of the...
A CUT ABOVE
IT'S crunch time at designer Christian Cota's Garment District studio. Getting less than three hours of sleep a night and sustaining himself on a steady stream of Chinese takeout washed...
LATIN OUT LOUD
Screen and moan Stay inside with a stack of sexy films: Julio Medem's smoldering "Sex and Lucia" finds sultry Paz Vega exiled on an island. Alfonso Cuarón's coming-of-age hit "Y...
HOT TO TROT
Acrobatic drives, dramatic slam-dunks and eye-popping passes are the stock and trade of the Harlem Globetrotters. So it's no wonder that the team's most recent addition, Orlando "El Gato" Melendez,...
LOVE BITES
Raw fish and shellfish are known to be natural aphrodisiacs, which may explain why in every Latin American nation, there is at least one version of the seafood dish. Rayuela,...
Deserving but not going
By FRED KERBERThis time of year for Vince Carter usually meant packing up and trudging off for three days of non-stop interviews, photo-ops, meetings, hanging with whomever and playing a...
Survivor: Bradenton
If you're playing Red Bull Survivor, five trialists all left the team's Bradenton camp this morning. According to Red Bulls Reader, the goners are defender Ryan Mirsky (SMU), defender Tom...
SUSSEX SPANIEL IS NEW TOP DOG
A 10-year-old Sussex spaniel has become America's top dog. Stump is the oldest winner ever at the Westminster Kennel Club show. He came out of retirement only last week and...
JONES CONTRACT DETAILS
The Rangers finalized their minor league contract with Andruw Jones that will pay him $500,000 if he reaches the majors.But the Post has learned that Jones can request his release...
Valentin signed to minor deal
From JOEL SHERMAN The Mets have thrown another player into the mix as a potential backup or alternative to Luis Castillo by signing Jose Valentin to a minor-league contract, The...
METS SIGN VALENTIN TO MINOR LEAGUE DEAL
By JOEL SHERMANThe Mets have thrown another player into the mix to be a potential backup or alternative to Luis Castillo by signing Jose Valentin to a minor league contract,...
SHARK ATTACK IN SYDNEY HARBOR
THE shark which attacked a navy diver in Sydney Harbor today is believed to be a dangerous bull shark, an expert says. The 31-year-old man is believed to have lost...
RIHANNA HEARD 'SCREAMING' IN 911 CALL
R&B star Rihanna can be heard 'screaming' in the background of the 911 call made to police the night she was allegedly beaten by boyfriend Chris Brown.PHOTOS: RIHANNAPHOTOS: CELEB RELATIONSHIPS...