April 11, 2009
I LIVED WITH EX FOR SAKE OF OUR PETS
Julia Szabo, The Post's pets columnist, divorced her husband, John, in 2001, but they continued to live together for years for the sake of their six dogs. Finally, last month,...
Red Bulls call bull on CD FAS' claims
After CD FAS blasted the Red Bulls and ripped them for causing the delay in getting Alfredo Pacheco's ITC card over $30,000, the Red Bulls called bull. Managing director Erik...
Serie A: Genoa Dent Juve's Title Hopes
A goal from Raffaele Palladino with two minutes left to play put a serious dent in the title hopes of Juventus as Genoa knocked off Claudio Ranieri's side 3-2 on...
KERREY RIPS NEW SCHOOL-IGANS
The band of hooligans who launched an ill-fated bid to take over the New School are a bumbling brood of terrorists that deserve to be locked up, the university's embattled...
Game 5: Mets at Marlins
MIAMI -- The Mets look to bounce back from Friday night's walk-off loss and snap a two-game skid overall when Livan Hernandez makes his debut as the fifth starter here...
MAN PROPOSES AT NY AUTO SHOW
This love will last to Infiniti - or at least until the warranty wears out. A car-crazed couple got engaged today at the New York International Auto Show in front...
US SHIP REACHES KENYA MINUS KIDNAPPED CAPTAIN
Nineteen American sailors reached safe harbor on Saturday four days after escaping a pirate hijacking at sea, exhilarated by freedom but mourning the absence of the captain they hailed for...
Anderson is designated
MIAMI -- As expected, the Mets designated pinch-hitting specialist Marlon Anderson for assignment this afternoon to make room for Livan Hernandez. If Anderson clears waivers, he can either accept a...
JEALOUS EX-COP'S GUN RAGE
A sickly former NYPD officer flew into a jealous rage today when his city-cop wife brought home a male colleague, tried to gun the pair down in his Long Island...
SUNDAY SCHOOL SLAYING
A California Sunday school teacher was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and killing an 8-year-old girl whose body was stuffed into a suitcase found in an irrigation pond. Melissa Huckaby,...
HANG 'EM HIGH!
For a young Somali, piracy's a glamorous profession, the local equivalent of being a Manhattan hedge-fund manager a few years back: His risk is minimal, the rewards are huge -...
Seaver tossing out first pitch
MIAMI -- The Mets announced today that Tom Seaver will throw out the first pitch at new Citi Field before Monday's home opener against the Padres. Mike Piazza will catch...
PIRATES HIJACK US TUGBOAT
The head of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Program says Somali pirates have hijacked an American-owned tugboat with 16 crew in the Gulf of Aden. Andrew Mwangura says maritime industry...
Austin leaves without offer
NJ.com reports Cowboys WR Miles Austin visited the Jets on Friday but left without an offer sheet.The Web site reports, "but the meeting went well and the Jets told Austin...
Coverage in The Post
MIAMI -- New season, same old problem. The Mets stranded 14 baserunners here last night, which explains a 5-4 walk off loss to the Marlins that spoiled John Maine's strong...
'D &D' CREATOR DIES
Dave Arneson, the co-creator of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, has died of cancer. He was 61. Arneson's love of role-playing was the impulse that turned co-creator Gary...
SUICIDE THUG KILLS 5 GIS
* BAGHDAD -- A suicide truck driver detonated a ton of explosives near a police headquarters in the northern city of Mosul yesterday, killing five American soldiers in the deadliest...
SMUGGLERS' 'SOAP' OPERA
SPOKANE, Wash. -- By day, Patti Marcotte is a working mom -- dealing with the balancing act created by a 5-year-old daughter, a demanding job, a split-level house and a...
HENRIK 'SAVES' PLAYOFF BERTH
It was only appropriate that at a critical moment during a game in which the Rangers could lock up a playoff spot, Henrik Lundqvist made an outstanding save to preserve...
RED BULLS HIT HOUSTON
The Red Bulls upset Houston last year en route to their first MLS Cup final. Winless through three games this season to move into the Eastern Conference cellar, they're taking...
FALLEN ANGEL GUIDES KIM'S SWING
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Anthony Kim was eating breakfast yesterday morning when he picked up the local newspaper and began to read about the tragic death of Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart....
MASTERS WOULD BE PERRY ON TOP OF FULFILLING CAREER
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Kenny Perry, at age 48, knows his clock is ticking. He knows that winning a major championship is the one thing missing from his long list of...
JAMIE'S ADDED SCORING IS NO BONUS
As Jamie Langenbrunner approached 30 goals for the first time in his 12 NHL seasons, he took a bit of ribbing. Asked if he has a contract bonus for scoring...
BAILEY: ISLES CAN TURN IT AROUND NEXT YEAR
Josh Bailey doesn't have to look back too far to recall another season similar to the one he's gone through during his rookie year with the cellar-dwelling Islanders. Two years...
QUICK START RAISED BAR TOO HIGH FOR RANGERS
It's always about expectations. Entering the season, expectations for the Rangers were relatively modest -- say a finish between seventh and 10th. But the combination of the team's quick getaway...
NETS PREPARED TO GO ON MOOSE HUNT IN DRAFT
Nets team president Rod Thorn likely will dial NBA central casting this summer with a simple but awfully hard-to-fill request. "Get me a moose." That will be among the Nets'...
VISIT WITH PRESIDENT OVER-DU FOR KNICKS GUARD
It's good to have friends in high places. Chris Duhon is heading to the White House after the season, but not to be feted as part of a championship team....
THESE GUYS PROVIDE SOME QUICK HITS
Reggie Jackson was Mr. October. Derek Jeter was Mr. November. Dave Winfield was Mr. May, when he got on George Steinbrenner's nerves. Alex Rodriguez is looking like Winfield's heir, based...
AGING GLAVINE RETURNS TO ERASE LAST SEASON
TOM Glavine will make his first start of the season next Saturday for the Braves. He's not throwing that hard. He never has. His success is based on the lost...
WRIGHT, WILLIAMS TOO GOOD FOR THEIR OWN GOOD
Paul Williams and Winky Wright like to cast themselves as fighters constantly avoided by quality opponents because the risks aren't worth the rewards. In Wright's case it has led to...
NEW SPEED FIGS PUT DUNKIRK BACK ON DERBY RADAR
A GREAT lament spread across the land when it appeared the hot buzz horse of the Kentucky Derby, Dunkirk, could be deprived of a start because he has not won...
ROBOTS HAVE RIPE STUFF
CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- These gardeners would have green thumbs -- if they had thumbs. A class of MIT undergraduates has created a team of robots that can water, harvest and...
POOL PADLOCKED
Westchester County is building a new water park at historic Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers. This means the park's gigantic pool will remain closed this summer. Parks Commissioner Joseph Stout...
EQUINE BLIND FAITH
DEARBORN, Mich. -- Seeing-eye dogs are a nonstarter among many Muslims who consider the animals unclean, but a horse the size of a dog just might work. "This is a...
BLOOMY'S GOT GOP IN LINE
Mayor Bloomberg has snagged the support of a third GOP county leader, effectively assuring him of the party line in November, sources said yesterday. The sources said that Bronx GOP...
MARKING VA. TRAGEDY
Mayor Bloomberg will travel to Virginia Monday, the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, to lobby for tougher regulations at gun shows. The mayor's office said yesterday Bloomberg would...
YOU 'BUC'ED WITH THE WRONG GUYS: US JUSTICE LOOMS
WASHINGTON -- The standoff between hostage-taking buccaneers and a US Navy warship looks and feels like a military showdown, but as a matter of law, it's more like the aftermath...
FED RED INK SOARS TO $1 TRIL
WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department said yesterday that the budget deficit increased by $192.3 billion in March, and is near $1 trillion just halfway through the budget year, as costs...
DIPLOMACY'S A PICNIC TO PREZ
President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton look like they're about to kick back and pop a cold one instead of ponder world diplomacy in this unusual picture of the pair's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn * A thief who stole a life-size Dora the Explorer doll didn't do much to hide his crime, police said. Jonathan Ragsdale, 18, was spotted in Brownsville with the...
MEGA SALES BOOST LOTTERY
ALBANY -- Strong Mega Millions sales helped New York's $6.7 billion lottery post a slim profit last year, despite the slumping economy and lackluster sales this winter, Lottery officials announced...
PITCHER 'MURDER'
The man behind the wheel of a minivan that killed Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two friends in a horrifying hit-and-run was charged with murder yesterday. Andrew Gallo,...
GAL HURT IN LIC PLUNGE
A jewelry designer was seriously hurt when a staircase she was walking on collapsed at a well-known artists building in Queens yesterday, police and witnesses said. Nicole Gagne, 37, of...
O'S 'GLIMMER' OF ECON HOPE
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said yesterday there are "glimmers of hope" that the nation's economy is improving. After meeting in the White House with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, economic adviser...
HOMETOWN YELLOW SEA OF SUPPORT
UNDERHILL, Vt. -- The sleepy mountain town that is home of hostage Capt. Richard Phillips was awash in yellow ribbons yesterday, as his family's friends and neighbors came together to...
TEACH-UNION CHEAT SHEETS REEK: MIKE
Something stinks at City Hall -- and it can be traced to the teachers union handing out scripted questions to legislators at a City Council hearing, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday....
WINDOW RIDER SLAMMED ON LIE
A 22-year-old man hanging out of a moving car on the Long Island Expressway fell and was hit by another car that raced from the scene, police said. The car...
GAY DIVORCÉE LOSES BID FOR KID-CUSTODY RIGHTS
A lesbian who tied the civil knot with her pregnant partner in 2002 has no legal right to custody of her ex-lover's son, an appeals court ruled. Debra H. entered...
SADDAM'S 'HISTORIC' RIFLE HOME
Federal Customs agents say a pearl-handled AK-47 rifle that belonged to Saddam Hussein is being sent back to Iraq. The weapon had been in the hands of the US Army....
OLD-SCHOOL SIEGE
Protesters seized part of the New School yesterday, vowing to cripple the Greenwich Village university by barricading themselves in an almost empty building -- only to surrender with a whimper...
MADGE'S MALAWI HOME RUN
The gloves are off. If Madonna can't bring 3-year-old Mercy James to Britain, she'll move to Malawi, sources say. She at least intends to build a luxury pad there for...
BYTE-SIZED GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE
Rather than go to church to see a passion play yesterday, some parishioners used Twitter to check the status updates of the cross. Trinity Church reduced the story of Jesus...
EASTER THUGS EGGING ON GANG VIOLENCE IN TIMES SQ.
A violent Easter ritual has Times Square businesses beefing up security as they brace for a surge in post-Auto Show gang activity this weekend. Easter Sunday -- which has become...
BEATLE GAL PAL A DAY SKIPPER
Nancy Shevell's seat at the MTA is a cold and lonely place. The trucking heiress has been everywhere but the boardroom since she began dating Sir Paul McCartney, missing more...
EGAN BEGINS HIS PASSIONATE FAREWELL
Edward Cardinal Egan presided over Good Friday services yesterday for the last time as leader of the New York Archdiocese. Egan, 77, who went into the hospital last Saturday night...
BIG BRO'S WATCHING YOU DRIVEDOWNTOWN
Big Brother is watching you -- from the Brooklyn Bridge. A high-tech vehicle tracking system is being deployed on some bridges and streets throughout lower Manhattan in a traffic-monitoring program...
HERE COMES PRESIDENTIAL POOCH
President Obama and his family could be saying hello to the new first pooch as soon as Tuesday, according to a report. The president, first lady and their daughters, Sasha...
'BOSS GAL' WAS TALK OF TOWN
For quite a while, whispers were swirling that Ann Kelly was dancing in the dark with blue-collar rocker Bruce Springsteen and destroying her marriage -- but her husband chose to...
PIRATE HOSTAGE'S
The Somali pirates holding Capt. Richard Phillips hostage demanded $2 million in ransom yesterday, hours after the hero skipper tried to save himself by jumping from their boat and nearly...
METS STRAND 14, SPOIL IT FOR MAINE
MIAMI -- If it's not one thing for the Mets in the early going this season, it's another. On the same night they finally got an encouraging start from someone...
AMAZIN'S LIVAN ON THE EDGE
MIAMI -- The Mets need Livan Hernandez to be Livan Hernandez in the worst way tonight. As well as winning the World Series MVP award as a rookie 12 years...
DEVS EYE COLLEGE DEFENDER
There's little left for the Devils to accomplish in today's regular season finale, aside from chasing individual records. But tonight, after the NCAA championship game, it's believed they'll be chasing...
HENRIK 'SAVES' PLAYOFF BERTH
It was only appropriate that at a critical moment during a game in which the Rangers could lock up a playoff spot, Henrik Lundqvist made an outstanding save to preserve...
MARTINEZ WILL PLAY THIS SEASON, FRIEND SAYS
Pedro Martinez hasn't started the clock on his five-year waiting period for the Hall of Fame just yet. Though Opening Day passed with Martinez still unemployed, the right-hander fully expects...
RED BULLS HIT HOUSTON
The Red Bulls upset top-seeded Houston last year en route to their first-ever MLS Cup final. Winless through three games and in the Eastern Conference cellar this season, they're taking...
LEADERS FOLLOW THE SAME MAN
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- In a unique twist of Masters fate, co-leaders Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell are coached by the same instructor, 24-year-old Matt Killen, who is best friends with...
HONDO: LET'S GO 'MUCILS!
Hondo barked up the right tree yesterday in Colo rado, where he scored with the Rockies over the Phillies at a nice price that lowered the deficit to 70 hahns....
MAFAAZ LOOKS TO SURPRISE IN BLUE GRASS
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- John Gosden was a young trainer in California more than 20 years ago when the chatty Englishman asked Hall of Famer Jack Van Berg if he really...
CHARGED WITH CRUELTY, NEGLECT TOWARD HORSES
ALBANY -- A prominent thoroughbred breeder who once owned a Kentucky Derby favorite was charged yesterday with cruelty to animals, two days after authorities seized 177 malnourished horses at his...
KNICKS CLOSE OUT MAGIC, FOR ONCE
ORLANDO, Fla. -- At least the Knicks can play spoiler. Al Harrington scored 27 points, Wilson Chandler had 22 and the Knicks dealt a crushing blow to the Magic's hopes...
TODD ASKED TO TAKE DRUG TEST AFTER GREAT START
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- There's probably no correlation whatsoever, but it was curious. Todd Hamilton -- who performed rather poorly in his previous five Masters, a tie for 36th his best...
ANDY: NEW OL' RELIABLE
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It was this way back in the day, too, wasn't it? David Wells was the flamboyant one, half clown and half rock star. David Cone was...
CAN'T STOP YANKS PETTITTE, TEAMMATES PROVE SHADE TOO GOOD FOR ROYALS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Andy Pettitte's fastball had life and his curveball was effective when brought out of storage. Yet, when you dissect Pettitte's pitching gem yesterday at revamped Kauffman...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSMLB: Angels win one for Adenhart Jered Weaver struck out eight in a strong season debut and the grief-stricken Angels, still mourning the shocking death of rookie pitcher Nick...
A-ROD READY TO SWING MORE THAN JUST A BROOM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Yankees will be in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Monday to play the Rays, but the focus -- at least in the morning -- will be...
ROUGH NIGHT FOR HARRIS, THE MIP FAVORITE
The Nets, in their previous 32 sometimes glorious, usually tortured, NBA seasons, have won two major individual postseason awards. Both were for Rookie of the Year: Buck Williams in 1981-82...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Wonder if the survivalist behind this cache is still waiting for the Apocalypse. A man with a metal detector in a Lee, Mass., park uncovered a bag of guns buried...
THAT OLD TIME ROCK 'N' ROLL
FOR the rock hounds and graybeards who -- despite their years and adult obligations -- live by the Kiss directive to "rock and roll all night and party every day,"...
TAKE A TRIP
FROM Brooklyn to Broadway, the Age of Aquarius seems to be dawning all over again. It's a hippie-trippy explosion. And the next few months could be a second Summer of...
OUT & ABOUT
WE'RE only three days in and you already need a break from spring break? Keep the kids from driving you to distraction by filling their school-free days this week with...
THE SPICE GIRLS
Lifetime gives the ladies what they want: gut- wrenching dialogue and sultry love scenes. YOU'VE seen the ads in the subway -- the sultry, desperate young woman pawing at the...
DEBUTS DELIVER MIXED BAG
THURSDAY night's high-profile premieres on NBC and CBS didn't set the world on fire -- but didn't tank, either. Amy Poehler's much- ballyhooed sitcom, "Parks and Recreation," averaged 6.8 million...
MELORA DRAMA
'THE Office" co-star Me lora Hardin (Jan Levi nson) has joined the FX drama pilot, "Lights Out." She'll co-star as the doctor-wife of a struggling ex-boxing champ (Holt McCallany).
WHAT DEMS WON'T GIVE THE UNIONS
IF you have a long enough lever, you can move the world. That's an old saying attributed to Archimedes. But what Archimedes didn't add is that a long enough lever...
FANNING THE FLAMES
Not unlike a couple that repeatedly breaks up only to get back together again, Microsoft and Yahoo! have reentered talks about a possible advertising partnership. News of the talks comes...
WISING UP ON WIRETAPS
Looks like Barack Obama may have taken another step along the presidential learning curve. In a move that's got his longtime allies on the left fuming, the Justice Department has...
HAPPY 90TH, HUGH
When Hugh Carey, who turns 90 today, became governor back in January 1975, he warned that "the days of wine and roses are over." Little did he know. Within months,...
SINK 'EM
The latest Somali pirate crisis is turn ing into "Dog Day Afternoon" at sea. But don't laugh. It's not funny. The pirates, thwarted in an effort to hijack the US-flagged...
O ABROAD: GREAT TASTE, LESS FILLING
MUCH of the US media presented President Obama's first diplomatic tour of Europe, prolonged with a visit to Turkey and a stopover in Iraq, as a triumph. Americans are told...
BURNED INVESTORS SEEK MADOFF BANKRUPTCY
A group of burned investors can force Ponzi king Bernard Madoff into personal bankruptcy despite objections from the feds, a judge ruled yesterday. Manhattan federal Judge Louis Stanton said a...
WPP'S DELL TOLLS
Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief of global ad giant WPP Group, is scrambling to salvage the Dell account while he deals with one of the worst ad slumps in decades....
MGM WINS EXTENSION ON LOAN
MGM Mirage won a waiver from lenders to pay about $70 million on its CityCenter project without partner Dubai World, staving off for now a possible bankruptcy filing by the...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
No 'stress' In letters to the 19 banks undergoing tests of their financial strength, federal regula tors told the companies not to disclose their per formance during upcom ing earnings...
DISH, NFL SETTLE SUIT
Dish Network Corp., the second-largest US satellite-television provider, and the NFL Network reached a settlement of a lawsuit in which Dish will continue to carry football programming in its Classic...
CITIGROUP SHAREHOLDERS REBEL, TARGET BOARD
A shareholder revolt is brewing against several members of beleaguered Citigroup's board of directors. On the hit list are several current and former members of the board's audit committee, who...
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN SINCE 9/11, MR. PREZ?
*** I am outraged that President Obama does not feel we are at war with radical Islam ("O Talks Turkey," April 7). Where was he on 9/11? He now feels...
THE CASTROS' US TOOLS
CONGRESSIONAL Black Caucus Democrats went to Cuba to see what they wanted to see. Not since The New York Times reporter Walter Duranty traipsed around Stalin's Russia, filing cheery travelogues...
PUTIN'S PLAYGROUND
DON'T feel bad if you can't find Moldova on a map. Our president can't find it, either. Our befuddled secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, could find Moldova, if she wanted...
WOMAN CHARGED IN KIDNAP, RAPE AND MURDER OF GIRL
STOCKTON, Calif. -- A woman kidnapped, raped and murdered an 8-year-old girl and stuffed her body in a suitcase that was dumped in a pond just a few miles from...
Red Bulls' Pacheco, Kandji out vs. Houston
The Red Bulls will be without striker Mac Kandji and defender Alfredo Pacheco for tomorrow night's game at Houston.Kandji's sprained ankle _ suffered when he was hacked down from behind...