March 23, 2009
GIANTS TO PLAY BRONCOS ON THANKSGIVING
The Giants will spend Thanksgiving in Denver and face the Broncos Nov. 26 at Invesco Field at Mile High, the NFL announced today. It's an 8:30 p.m. nationally televised game...
'BURN'-ING UP THE RATINGS CHART
The Season Two finale of USA's "Burn Notice" raked in 7.6 million viewers--the network's biggest audience in over eight years. The finale, which aired March 5, pulled in the most...
Livan shines, Freddy struggles
From MIKE PUMA PORT ST. LUCIE -- The fight for the No. 5 spot in the Mets' rotation is still tilting in Livan Hernandez's favor. Hernandez sure looked better today...
MANY AIG EXECS AGREE TO GIVE BACK BONUSES
Nine of the top 10 bonus recipients at AIG have agreed to give back their bonuses, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today. "I applaud the employees who are returning...
Reality TV Tryouts: High drama
How to get your 15 seconds of fame."Chopped"The Food Network is looking for chefs in the tri-state area to compete in a culinary competition with a $10,000 prize.For more info:...
Denver coach wants to keep Cutler
By MARK CANNIZZAROAs the Jets continue to closely monitor the Jay Cutler situation in Denver, Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels today strongly stated that he has no intention of trading...
LETTERMAN MARRIES LONGTIME GIRLFRIEND
David Letterman is now a married man. Letterman announced at the taping of tonight's "Late Show" that he's married longtime galpal Regina Lasko, the mother of their 5-year-old son, Harry....
N.J. lawmaker takes on arena name
APA New Jersey congressman is asking Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to intervene to void a deal that would put the name of a financial services company on the proposed Nets...
Jeter back to play Tuesday
APDerek Jeter is rejoining the Yankees from the World Baseball Classic and told Joe Girardi that he wants to play in Tuesday night's game against the Boston Red Sox.The Yankees...
Cutler rejects coach's text message
The Denver Post reports that QB Jay Cutler did not respond to a text message sent by Broncos coach Josh McDaniels prior to the NFL Owners' Meetings this week.It's the...
Rozsival out 7-10 days
Glen Sather announced today that defenseman Michal Rozsival is expected to be sidelined for seven to 10 days with a lower body injury.He suffered the injury in the second period...
Giants to play on Thanksgiving
By PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants will spend Thanksgiving in Denver and face the Broncos Nov. 26 at Invesco Field at Mile High.It's an 8:30 p.m. nationally televised game (on the NFL...
LIVAN SHARP AGAIN
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Livan Hernandez appears to be close to locking up the fifth spot in the Mets' rotation. Hernandez pitched five solid innings in a minor league game...
OVER $1B IN MADOFF ASSETS RECOVERED
A lawyer for the trustee seeking to locate assets belonging to self-confessed Wall Street scammer Bernie Madoff said today that more than $1 billion has been located - far less...
DOW SOARS ON OBAMA'S PLAN TO UNFREEZE CREDIT MARKET
Wall Street got the news it wanted and responded with a tremendous rally that propelled the Dow Jones industrials up nearly 500 points. White House Rolls Out Plan to Unfreeze...
JUDGE: 17-YEAR-OLDS DON'T NEED PRESCRIPTION FOR MORNING-AFTER PILL
The emergency "morning-after pill" must now be made available to 17-year-olds without a prescription, a federal judge said today. Brooklyn Federal Judge Edward Korman found the Food and Drug Administration...
Second base: Bounce back needed
We broke down catcher and first base then took a break for the NCAA Tournament. Today, we are back with second base.At least Luis Castillo won't be leading off for...
CMM Calls Foul on 'Tree Hill'
Looks like Hilarie Burton wasn't the only one to get expelled from "One Tree Hill." "I won't be back," Chad Michael Murray tells fans on a video that was posted...
Maine works some overtime
From MIKE PUMAPORT ST. LUCIE -- John Maine was concerned enough with his recent string of bad outings to make an appearance at the Mets' complex today, even though players...
ROBIN WILLIAM RECOVERING AFTER HEART SURGERY
Robin Williams was recovering at the Cleveland Clinic after heart surgery that his doctors deemed successful, his publicists said Monday. The 57-year-old actor had an operation to replace an aortic...
NADY GETS NOD IN RIGHT FIELD
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Joe Girardi confirmed today what had been assumed by many since Yankees camp opened: Xavier Nady is the manager's right field choice over Nick Swisher. "If we...
'Amazing Race,' 'Family Guy' May Dethrone 'Kings'
It's getting awfully close to "stick a fork in it" time for NBC's "Kings." The Ian McShane drama took another nosedive in its second go-round Sunday night, averaging a measly...
Red Bulls at ESPN Zone tonight, meet-and-greets all week
The Red Bulls are at least making a real effort to build up some grass-roots support, and they've got a number of Countdown to Kickoff events being held this week....
RBNY's Celades in Spain getting visa
After the Red Bulls got stampeded in Thursday's season-opening loss in Seattle, their midfield clearly needs help. It could come in the form of Albert Celades, who was home in...
BLOOMBERG: DON'T SCARE AWAY BIG EARNERS
New Yorkers earning $500,000 or more pay for more than half of the city's taxes - and Albany should focus on cutting spending before taking from the rich, Mayor Bloomberg...
AIG BUIDING DITCHES SIGN
Workmen rolled up their sleeves at American International Group Inc this weekend to take down the most prominent sign at the downtown Manhattan offices of the embattled insurer that has...
Not So 'Desperate'
We don't know if last night's "Desperate Housewives" is she or isn't she? cliffhanger was the end for Edie Britt (Nicolette Sheridan) - ABC has confirmed Sheridan will be leaving...
GIRARDI: A-ROD REHAB 'GOING WELL'
TAMPA Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is making progress in his rehab program after right hip surgery, but is unlikely to rejoin the team before New York breaks spring training...
Chat rewind, March 23
Click on the rewind button in the graphic below to revisit my hour-long live chat on the Mets:Mets chat with Bart Hubbuch
ROSEANNE'S SITCOM COMEBACK
Roseanne Barr is hoping to return to TV for the first time since the Clinton Administration with a prime-time sitcom. Barr is teaming with former "Roseanne" producer Caryn Mandabach to...
SCHUMER FLIPS ON GAY MARRIAGE
WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles E. Schumer officially flipped on the issue of gay marriage at a dinner event last night with gay activists, his office confirmed today. "It's time," said...
New Warner Website Swamped With Orders for Vintage Movies
If you're having trouble ordering from Warner Home Video's new on-demand DVD and download site that I wrote about a couple of posts back, it's because the demand has far...
Knicks sign Center Sims
With the Cheikh Samb experiment apparently behind them, the Knicks signed Courtney Sims to a 10-day contract.Sims, who was undrafted out of Michigan, has played 13 career NBA minutes in...
GOV. PATERSON: MTA HAS NO CHOICE BUT RAISE FARES
ALBANY - That dreaded $2.50 bus and subway fare hike is right on track. Gov. Paterson said today that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority should go ahead with its so-called "doomsday...
MONSERRATE INDICTED ON DOMESTIC ASSAULT CHARGES
A Queens state senator was indicted today on domestic assault charges stemming from allegations that he slashed his girlfriend's face with a piece of broken glass, prosecutors said. A grand...
Pulse Sales: Marchesa
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The Knicks season: good, bad, ugly
Well, it's that time again.The Knicks are 3½ games out of the final playoff spot with five teams in between them and the eighth seed. If you think the Knicks...
MONSERRATE INDICTED ON ASSAULT CHARGES
A grand jury has indicted state Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D-East Elmhurst) on assault charges for allegedly slashing his girlfriend's face with a broken glass during a fight in December, Queens...
MOGUL HUBBY ACCUSED OF BEING JEALOUS OF COUNTESS WIFE
HARTFORD, Conn. - Lawyers for a Swedish countess who married United Technologies Chairman George David portrayed him this morning as a jealous spouse who destroyed her budding career as a...
ARMSTRONG BREAKS COLLARBONE
BALTANAS, Spain Lance Armstrong fractured his collarbone Monday during a race in Spain, leaving in question his participation in the Tour de France in July. The seven-time Tour champion said...
Update: Giants, Browns talk Edwards
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that Browns GM "George Kokinis confirmed that he spoke with the New York Giants last month 'about everything,' but said a trade involving receiver Braylon...
Big Stuff, Baseball's Top 10 Right Now, Right Here
Yes, the demand for a Top 10 has been so great that each day there will be a brand new Top 10 on the subject of the day.Here is the...
POET SYLVIA PLATH'S SON COMMITS SUICIDE
Nicholas Hughes, the son of poet Sylvia Plath, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after his stepmother, Assia Wevill,...
LAUER ABSENT FROM 'TODAY' AFTER BICYCLE FLIP
MATT Lauer will be out of commission until later this week, says a NBC spokesperson. The "Today" host was conspicuously absent from his duties this morning, following a cycling accident...
MUMBAI TERROR SUSPECT IS ALL SMILES IN COURT
A Pakistani man charged with carrying out last year's Mumbai terror attacks broke out into laughter today when he was asked by an Indian judge whether he understood the charges...
ALASKA VOLCANO ERUPTS 5 TIMES
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles (15 kilometers) into the air in the volcano's first emission in...
MTA FINANCE COMMITTEE TO VOTE ON FARE HIKE
Get ready to pay more for a subway or bus ride. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expected to vote this week on increasing the cost of a single ride from...
SYLVIA PLATH'S SON COMMITS SUICIDE
FAIRBANKS, Alaska Nicholas Hughes, the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, committed suicide by hanging himself, according to police and his sister. He was 47. Hughes, who was...
POLL: PATERSON SINKS WITH VOTERS
ALBANY - A devastating new poll out today shows Gov. Paterson sinking even further with New York voters, despite his recent rollback of unpopular nuisance taxes and a major staff...
Warners Opens Vault With 150 Vintage Titles on Demand
Warner Bros. is making 150 vintage titles available on demand, for download or on DVDs, starting today. Though it includes Warner Bros., RKO and Allied Artists titles featuring everyone from...
3 UP: JETER'S DEFENSE, HUGHES' FUTURE
1. Team USA manager Davey Johnson opened himself up to all kinds of grief with his faulty WBC strategy. One area that he was particularly criticized was continuing to alternate...
3 UP: Jeter, Hughes and Nieve
1. Team USA manager Davey Johnson opened himself up to all kinds of grief with his faulty WBC strategy. One area that he was particularly criticized was continuing to alternate...
WHITE HOUSE PLAN AIMS TO UNFREEZE CREDIT MARKETS
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration launched a new effort Monday to end a paralysis in lending, saying it will team with investors with the goal of buying up to a...
Wanted: Mature Star for Formerly Oscar-Winning Role. Inquire: Joel and Ethan Coen
Who will play John Wayne's Oscar winning role in the Coen Brothers' "re-imagining'' of "True Grit'' for Paramount? Variety reports that like Charles Portis' original novel, this version will be...
DEPRESSING CRIME
WILL our economic trou bles produce a significant rise in crime? It's not as certain as some suggest. The common predictions of rising crime bring to mind the eminent criminologists...
THE FRUITS OF MAYORAL CONTROL
BEFORE the current administration Joel Klein as chancellor and Michael Bloomberg as mayor New York City's public-school system suffered revolving-door leadership. Chancellors came and left in rapid succession, with appointments...
AMAZIN' SPRING BAT! REED ALL ABOUT IT!
PORT ST. LUCIE Once an apparent throw-in to the J.J. Putz trade, backup outfielder Jeremy Reed is looking like a steal for the Mets. The ex-Mariner continues to enjoy a...
BECKETT IN PEAK FORM
Josh Beckett was sharp against the Phillies. The Red Sox ace allowed four hits in five innings in Fort Myers, Fla., yesterday, leading Boston to a 3-0 victory over the...
WHERE I WORK
Job Brooklyn borough president. With a wide grin, the 63-year-old career politician welcomed us into his vast, tchochke-cluttered office inside Brooklyn's borough hall.Desk A polished, honey-colored oak number formerly used...
GO TO GREG
Q Is it essential to send a cover letter with a resume? A Is it essential to put postage on a letter? Was Abbott essential to Costello? Is jail essential...
60 SECONDS WITH KEN WATANABE,
You wrote this book to teach Japanese schoolchildren how to use critical thinking to solve problems, but it caught on big with Japan's business community. Why do you think it...
THE SCARLET B
Difficult as it may now be to believe, there once was a time when folks on Wall Street were held in high regard. The high rollers at firms like Bear...
MIZ LIZ!
Here's a short fashion story. Liz Claiborne is an iconic but stalled New York fashion brand. A giant name, it had become large, functional and sleepy. Enter the wake-up artist....
BABY LOVE
EVEN though it seems that "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" has been on forever, tonight actually marks the end of Season One . And a helluva season it...
MISHAP WHACKS THE WOZ
STEVE Wozniak, the Apple computer co-founder who has already fractured a foot training for "Dancing With the Stars," has suffered a second injury that may knock him off the show...
BAND LEADER'S SON ALSO RISES
MAX Weinberg, band leader for Conan O'Brien and long-time drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has elected to move to LA when Conan takes over the "Tonight" Show. To...
DEAF-CON 2
A reality show is nothing without personalities you love, those you love to hate, and those you want to bungee off a cliff and not spring back. In a very...
STARR REPORT
Brian-Bonnie Redux The Brian Williams/ Bonnie Hunt showmance continues Wednesday (2 p.m./Ch. 4), when Williams shticks-it-up with Hunt's dog, Charlie, for the show's cold open (the short bit that opens...
UPPER-MIDDLE-CLASS CLOWNS
'WE'RE not living in Kin shasa!" cries the well- heeled Veronica. "What goes on in Cobble Hill Park re flects the values of Western society!" Based on what precedes that...
FROM VICTIM TO KILLER, FOR OPERA . . . AND LOVE
ROBERTO Alagna is a busy man. For three hours tonight and Thursday, he's both be trayer and betrayed, slayer and slain. Luckily he does it onstage at the Metropolitan Opera,...
HOLD ME BACK JOINS FRAY
Derby prognosticators have another fly-in-the-ointment after Bill Mott's Hold Me Back, making his first start since finishing a distant fifth in the Nov. 29 Remsen, looked very much like a...
NY TO HONOR ITS PAST GREATS WHILE IGNORING PRESENT PAIN
FOUNDED in 1946, the Knickerbockers will honor the glory of past decades tonight in an elaborate halftime ceremony and ignore this decade. It's better that way. KNICKS BLOG There isn't...
JAPAN ELIMINATES TEAM USA TO REACH FINAL
LOS ANGELES America's Game belongs to Asia now. The Team USA players wanted this one badly. For themselves, their country and Sgt. Felix Perez, a wounded Iraqi war veteran the...
SABATHIA ITCHING FOR SEASON TO BEGIN
TAMPA CC Sabathia already is envisioning Opening Day for the Yankees and getting excited. It all seems tangible now. Two weeks from today, the Yankees face the Orioles at Camden...
POSADA 'THROWS' A PARTY
TAMPA Jorge Posada may not have a better day this spring, and he didn't even get a hit. "Today is special," the Yankee catcher said yesterday after throwing out three...
CBS TURNS SWITCH IN TOURNEY COVERAGE
FIRST, some historical context. No matter what complaints you have with CBS's coverage of the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, the coverage was so much better than it...
JOHAN SIMPLY SPECTACULAR
PORT ST. LUCIE What knee surgery? What elbow soreness? So much for the two issues that supposedly were dogging Johan Santana's every step this spring. Judging by his sensational outing...
DAVEY MANAGES TO LOSE THIS ONE
LOS ANGELES One by one, baseballs kept finding open spaces at Dodger Stadium, kissing open green patches of grass, dropping in front of American players, alongside them, in the gaps...
TROUBLE'S BRUIN FOR DEVS
BOSTON This time, they had no excuses, like a record-setting hangover. In the Beantown Showdown, the Devils were shown up and shown how the East is won. In perhaps their...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Goosen holds onRetief Goosen, who shot a 1-under 70, sank a five-foot par putt on the final hole to win the Transitions Championship yesterday in Palm Harbor, Fla. Charles...
NETS' PLAYOFF HOPES TAKE A HIT
LeBron James didn't attempt a shot for nearly 10 minutes. Yet the Cavs led by double digits. After three quarters, James was shooting 4-of-11. Yet the Cavs led by 16....
TOO GOOD TO BE KING FOR 'BRON TO EXIT TOWN
IT'S nice to have options. In the summer of 2010, as many as 19 teams may have the capability of paying LeBron James $102 million, with the one practically in...
POWER PLAY NO-SHOW DOOMS RANGERS
The team that has used its speed to reassert itself in the playoff race hit a speed bump last night. The Rangers were a step and a thought behind pretty...
RED-HOT ORANGE SQUEEZE INTO SWEET 16
MIAMI With each postseason game this year, Syracuse has grown stronger and stronger, leaving you to wonder if the Orange again has that same national championship magic it had in...
RESURGENT 'CATS STOP UPSTART CSU
MIAMI Talk about crashing the party. Arizona, which entered the NCAA Tournament with a 19-13 overall record and went only 9-9 in the Pac-10, got into the Big Dance, by...
MUSKETEERS BADGER WISCONSIN OUT OF TOURNEY
BOISE, Idaho Xavier needed only a small window to crack Wisconsin's plodding defense and finally pull ahead. Once the Musketeers broke through, they smothered any comeback, holding the Badgers to...
J'HAWKS ARE COLE-HEARTED
MINNEAPOLIS Playing in his hometown, Cole Aldrich was pumped up. Patrolling the post for Kansas with those long arms, the 6-foot-11 sophomore forced the Dayton Flyers into a whole bunch...
SPARTANS LEAVE TROJANS HOARSED
MINNEAPOLIS Travis Walton scored a career-high 18 points to lift the second-seeded Michigan State to a 74-69 victory over 10th-seeded Southern Cal yesterday in the Midwest Regional, putting the Spartans...
GUARD'S FTS CLINCH MIZZOU WIN
BOISE, Idaho For four unbelievable minutes early, Kim English turned the basketball court in Boise into his own private Idaho. During two excruciating free throws late, it was his personal...
BIG BEASTS REVEL IN RECORD PARTY OF FIVE
FOUR teams from the same conference have never advanced to a Final Four, but if the Big East continues its Mad March rampage, this could be the year. There never...
FIELDS LEADS PITTSBURGH TO 2ND-ROUND WIN
DAYTON, Ohio Levance Fields thanked his coach, Jamie Dixon, and teammates for "trusting me with the ball." He might have had it backwards. The Panthers needed to thank Fields for...
PITINO'S CARDS SLIP PAST SIENA
DAYTON Once, twice, three times Rick Pitino called for time, seeking to quiet the growing storm that was the Siena Saints. His mighty Louisville club, top-ranked in the nation, was...
ANDY'S ART IS 'TRASH'
Her 15 minutes of fame has come and gone, and now the value of a silkscreen owned by a former Andy Warhol muse may be headed for the same fate....
RETIRE '20- &-OUT' RULE, EX-COPS SAY
The long-cherished "20 and out" rule that allows cops to collect pensions in their 40s is a relic of the past that should go the way of the neighborhood call...
PA POLICE OVERTIME ZOOMS PAST $50M
Overtime expenses for the Port Authority Police Department passed the $50 million mark last year, records show. The PA paid $50.5 million in OT to its 1,690 uniformed officers up...
GOV PLOTS SECRET TAX HIKE ON RICH
GOV. PATERSON and legislative Democrats have secretly agreed on an $8 billion, two- year tax hike on individuals making more than $500,000 a year that will "sunset" around the time...
BULLY BUS DRIVER'S REHIRE 'DISGRACE'
A Staten Island bus driver whom the Department of Education said it permanently banned in 2006 from working with schoolkids because of his "inhuman" taunting of an autistic boy is...
'BABY M' MOM EYED IN 'CON' OF AILING ICON
A Manhattan judge has ordered an investigation into allegations of a Brooke Astor-like situation involving legendary "Lion of Wall Street" Jack Dreyfus. Justice Marilyn Shafer has already jettisoned the former...
HEART-RISK GENES
Researchers have found nine new gene variations that can make a person vulnerable to sudden cardiac death and confirmed the role of another. "Almost half were surprising new genes that...
PAROLEE KILLS 3 COPS AND WOUNDS 4TH
OAKLAND, Calif. Three police officers were dead and one was left brain dead after a parolee with a warrant out for him opened fire during a traffic stop, then shot...
MERIT SYSTEM BOOSTS KIDS
This is the first part of a series examining changes that have taken place in the public-school system under mayoral control. Mayor Bloomberg faced a firestorm of opposition when he...
NEW BOSS TICK TRICK
TRENTON, NJ Some fans trying to buy tickets to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's rehearsal shows are angry at Ticketmaster again. Dozens reported that a glitch in the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Two thugs viciously attacked a 70-year-old man in Midtown, police sources said yesterday. The unidentified men shoved the victim to the ground on Eighth Avenue at West 40th Street...
AIG BIDS FOR MORE BONUS $$
They took US taxpayers for $165 million in bonuses, and now American International Group hopes to grab another $365 million from ousted AIG boss Maurice "Hank" Greenberg to make even...
'KNOWING' GLOWING AT BOX OFFICE
Nicolas Cage again proved he knows what he's doing his sci-fi thriller "Knowing" topped the box office over the weekend, with a $24.8 million opening. "I Love You, Man," featuring...
MUST-SEE TV HOTTIES
"Mad Men" love her and the editors at TV Guide feel the same way about voluptuous actress Christina Hendricks. The flame-haired Hendricks (right), who plays the Jessica Rabbit-like secretary on...
INFERNO WIPES OUT BRONX SHOPS
Fire tore through a row of mom-and-pop stores in the Bronx yesterday destroying the livelihoods of owners who had been there for decades before it was brought under control after...
GALS' PAYCHEXXX
Here's one way to stimulate the economy. The shrinking job market is driving women into adult entertainment. Industry execs say they're getting a flood of applications from white-collar workers in...
MICK'S GRANDKIDS IN PROMO STORM
They're young, sexy mother's little helpers! Mick Jagger's daughter made no apologies yesterday for using his granddaughters in a risqué promotional video for her new fashion line. Jade Jagger, 37,...
TOP BLACK REV. BACKING BLOOMY
Mayor Bloomberg's re-election bid kicked off yesterday with the endorsement of a prominent black minister a move that cuts into the base of his leading opponent, Comptroller William Thompson. The...
PARTY LAND-USE DEMAND
The labor-based Working Families Party asked public-advocate hopefuls vying for its endorsement to agree to consult with the party before deals are cut on land use, The Post has learned....
ANTENNA IN 9/11 EXHIBIT
The TV antenna that once topped the north tower of the World Trade Center last seen riding a massive cloud of dust as the building crashed to the ground will...
ALYSSA'S DIAMOND FLINGS
Baseball-loving actress Alyssa Milano said she was charmed by some of the game's top players, and understands why some jocks would take steroids to gain a competitive edge. PHOTOS: Alyssa...
TV QUERY TAXES CHARLIE'S PATIENCE
The normally unflappable Charles Rangel blew his stack on TV yesterday, insisting that accusations about his ethics have "no merit" and "no facts." The Harlem Democrat was asked on "Fox...
KIM LEANS ON LING TO SING
The younger sister of former "The View" gabber Lisa Ling may wind up a political pawn in the looming high-stakes face-off pitting North Korea against South Korea and the United...
GIRL, 18, SHOT DEAD OUTSIDE CONEY PARTY
A gunman killed a teenage girl and shot two other revelers at a Coney Island party early yesterday, cops and witnesses said. Partygoers were gathered outside the house on Neptune...
O, 'YOU PUNCH DRUNK?'
President Obama yukked it up again when he discussed the economy on "60 Minutes" last night, prompting his interviewer to ask whether leading the nation during a recession has made...
FAREWELL, NATASHA
MILLBROOK Actress Natasha Richardson's heartbroken loved ones paid final, tearful respects to the Tony-winner yesterday at a Hudson Valley church and cemetery near the family's home. A star-studded assemblage of...
RADIO MAN SLAIN
Former WABC Radio newsman George Weber was found murdered in his Brooklyn apartment yesterday after failing to report to work for two days, sources told The Post. Weber, who would...
COUNTESS BARES ALL ABOUT MOGUL HUBBY
MARIE DOUGLAS-DAVID says her reluctance to take her husband's $36 million and skedaddle has nothing to do with greed, but her hubby's fetishistic sexual control. Douglas-David, the Swedish countess, told...
EX-BOURDAIN BISTRO SUED
The bistro chain that serves as home base for celebuchef Anthony Bourdain has been accused of stiffing a Bronx supplier out of nearly $40,000 after a DC offshoot went belly...
7 ADULTS, 7 KIDS ON MONTANA PLANE
BUTTE, Mont. - The plane that crashed in Montana, killing all 14 aboard, gave no indication to air traffic controllers that the aircraft was experiencing difficulty when the pilot asked...
JPMORGAN OKS $119M FOR JET SET
Execs at "bailed-out" JPMorgan Chase are banking on smooth flying ahead. The banking behemoth, which took $25 billion in tax funds last fall, has two new Gulfstream 650 jets on...
WILLIS, 54, MARRIES MODEL, 30
The urge to marry dies hard with Bruce Willis! The silver-screen tough guy tied the knot with actress-model Emma Heming during a private ceremony at his home in the Turks...
EYE ON CY'S 'PROBLEM' AIDE
A move is on within Cy Vance Jr.'s campaign for Manhattan District Attorney to curtail the role of a former top deputy to Robert Morgenthau, who sources told The Post...
REALITY STAR JADE DIES AT 27
LONDON Jade Goody, a reality-TV star whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a national soap opera in Britain, died of cervical cancer yesterday at 27. Goody...
CITY ZONES IN ON POL AFTER 16 YRS.
A Bronx congressman has been breaking city zoning laws for more than 16 years by illegally operating a district office in a residential neighborhood, The Post has learned. Responding to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A 350-year-old statue of a saint and former pope, stolen from an Italian church in 1990, has been found in the home of a Charlotte, NC, couple who had no...
GUNNING FOR GEITHNER
SHOULD he stay or should he go? To listen to the media and many in Congress, President Obama is about to kick Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to the curb over...
TOP SOCGEN EXECS GIVE BACK OPTIONS
Four top executives of Société Générale have handed back 340,000 stock options that they had been awarded this year to defuse a political firestorm over the payouts, the French bank...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
GM bonds GM bondholder propos als presented to the US Treasury offer the "best chance" of the automaker avoiding bankruptcy, an adviser to an ad hoc group of the debt...
SHOTGUN MARRIAGE
As the Treasury Department prepares to announce today plans to save the wilting economy, some of the private investors central to Uncle Sam's efforts are fretting they may soon regret...
WHY BAM'S BANK FIX WON'T WORK
THE Obama administration is about to unveil the anxiously awaited details of its initiative to fix the banks. But, judging from the details already leaked, the Public-Private Investment Fund (PPIF)...
GEITHNER REP RIDING ON TOXIC-ASSET PLAN
If the government's much-anticipated plan to help banks get rid of toxic assets is well received by the public and investors, the economy won't be the only thing getting a...
BEYOND AIG BONUSES: CLOWNS ON CAPITOL HILL
THE ISSUE: The House's vote to impose a 90 percent income tax on AIG bonuses. *** What a tragedy it would be if we end up with leaders like Reps....
WINNER'S CIRCLE
With the American Society of Magazine Editors handing out the National Magazine Awards next month, here's a look at some of the finalists in the over-2 million-circulation category. Susan Lyne...
WORLD TO CONGRESS: SO LONG
Meanwhile, the long-term implications of what the House did last week ex tend far beyond America's borders. Imagine: A prominent government figure surveys the business landscape, sees a company performing...
CONGRESS TO NY: DROP DEAD
The US tax code is a deadly weapon, so it's no little concern that Con gress appears to be wielding it like a careless child would. New York stands especially...
Serie A: Inter Keep on Winning
Inter just keeps on winning.Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic netted two goals to help Inter Milan restore its seven-point lead at the top of Serie A standings with a 3-0 win...
17 DEAD IN MONTANA PLANE CRASH
A small plane crashed Sunday as it approached an airport in Montana, killing 17 people, including several children, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. The single engine turboprop plane crashed...
CARGO PLANE CRASHES, BURNS ON LANDING IN JAPAN
A FedEx cargo plane has crashed as it landed amid heavy winds at Tokyo's international airport and burst into flames. A pilot and co-pilot were aboard the plane Monday but...