July 13, 2009
Jets release TE Franks
The Jets released veteran tight end Bubba Franks today.Franks re-signed with the Jets in March, but the team moved on today. Franks was with the team one season -- catching...
MOBSTER LIGHTS UP 'MIKEY CIGARS' COURTROOM
A geezer gangster who murdered nearly 20 men and ran the waterfront for the Genovese crime family showed he still has some fight in him as he testified against a...
PATERSON TO PICK CONSULTANT FOR MTA EXEC. DIRECTOR SPOT
Gov. Paterson will nominate Jay Walder, a London-based consultant, to the MTA's executive director position at a press conference tomorrow, sources said. The Senate must confirm him before he officially...
'Mini Ninjas' box art is here - hee
Game launches Sept. 8 for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PC and DS.Promotional line? "...get ready for the biggest adventure of EPIC SCALE.... and mini proportions with the smallest hero."Awesome.
COPS ABANDON GRANNY IN RAIN: WITNESSES
An Alzheimers-afflicted granny who had wandered three miles during a thunderstorm was picked up from a Chelsea nightclub by a pair of callous cops who quickly dumped her off at...
'Calling' all survival horror fans
Hudson Entertainment's got a new survival horror game called "Calling." It aims to "bring players face to face with death as they roam an alternate existence in an attempt to...
More 'Mass Effect 2' - squeeee!
Key points:-You're playing Shepard again-You're on a "suicide mission" (colonies are disappearing)-Your squad is super important now-You've got creepy new enemies-You've got new combat moves (it's all about character physics)-You've...
BLOOMBERG WANTS ANOTHER PARTY ON BALLOT
Mayor Bloomberg is petitioning to create another party. The billionaire mayor is a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent. He has already secured two ballot lines for this year's election -- the Republican line and...
THOMPSON REJECTING RAISES FOR STAFFERS
NEW YORK -- New York City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. says his office will save $1 million by rejecting raises Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently approved for nonunion city workers. The...
LAWYER: BOXING CHAMP GATTI COMMITTED SUICIDE
The attorney for Arturo Gatti's stripper wife denied today that she strangled the boxing legend and claimed the ex-champ committed suicide. In a telephone from Recife in northern Brazil, lawyer...
EAST FLATBUSH MERCHANTS BID-DING FOR CHANGE
Merchants on Avenue D and Utica Avenue are taking the first steps toward instituting a Business Improvement District. A meeting held recently at New Life Tabernacle, at the corner of...
SUPERMAN ARREST CAUGHT ON VIDEO
This Superman can't fly but he sure can flail.PHOTOS: COPS TAKE DOWN SUPERMAN Here's video of how it took four cops to subdue Man of steel Maksim Katsnelson and render...
'Parenthood' Moves to Mid-Season Launch as Star Tierney Announces Upcoming Surgery
Last week, NBC raised eyebrows when it announced that it was delaying its fall launch of new drama "Parenthood" because star Maura Tierney underwent a "medical evaluation." In an effort...
RBNY managing director Erik Stover blogs on Austria summit
Red Bull Managing Director Erik Stover and sporting director Jeff Agoos are both back stateside after being summoned to Austria, answering to the Red Bull overlords for the team's sorry...
Red Bulls ink Leo Krupnik
The Red Bulls finally announced the signing of defender Leo Krupnik today, although they're still waiting for his ITC card and can't add him until Wednesday when the transfer window...
Sarandon, Goodman to Stand By Pacino in Kevorkian Film
Susan Sarandon and John Goodman will be joining Al Pacino in the upcoming HBO biopic of Jack Kevorkian titled "You Don't Know Jack," reports THR.com. The movie will follow Pacino,...
MADOFF MOVED TO FEDERAL PRISON
Big Bad Bernie has left the building. Ponzi scheme king Bernard Madoff has been taken from his cell in a lower Manhattan federal jail and is in transit to the...
CBS Confirms Neil Patrick Harris as Emmy Host
We told you Neil Patrick Harris was eying the Emmys, and now CBS has confirmed it. Harris, who brought in 7.45 million viewers for the Tonys -- a 19 percent...
FAN POLL: YANKEES MORE POPULAR THAN METS
Pinstriped pride rules New York City on and off the field. According to a Marist poll, 53 percent of registered voters in the city support the Yankees compared to 36...
FAWCETT FRIEND TO PUBLISH DIARY
NEW YORK -- One of Farrah Fawcett's closest friends, Alana Stewart, is publishing a diary she kept as the actress battled cancer and then died last month. Publisher William Morrow,...
SARAH PALIN'S PAC RAISES $730K IN 5 MONTHS
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A report says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee raised nearly $733,000 in its first five months. A report filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission...
MOTIVE PROBED IN SLAYING OF FLA. COUPLE
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Investigators were looking at business ties for a possible motive in the slaying of a wealthy Florida couple known for adopting 12 children with developmental disabilities and...
WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN QUEENS BEDROOM
A pretty young fashion student was found mysteriously dead at her family's Queens apartment, sources said. The victim, Carmen Saldana, 23, who was set to graduate from FIT next year,...
BILL THOMPSON TO SAVE CITY $1M BY REJECTING RAISES
NEW YORK -- New York City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. says his office will save $1 million by rejecting raises Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently approved for nonunion city workers. The...
CUOMO SUES MANHATTAN EATERY OVER WAGES
NEW YORK -- State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says a popular Thai restaurant in Manhattan's financial district underpaid employees by hundreds of thousands of dollars, with some working up 72...
Was Ist Los Mit Dir, Bruno?
So Sacha Baron Cohen's take on "Zoolander" didn't set the world on fire. "Bruno" isn't exactly a flop but it was set up for a much more fabulous box-office take...
TWO DIE IN RAGING FLATLANDS FIRE
By Thomas Tracy An illegal electricity hook-up at a Flatlands home may have sparked a blaze that killed two building occupants early Sunday, officials said. FDNY marshals said that the...
NEW CEC MEMBERS PONDER THE FUTURE OF MAYORAL CONTROL
Williamsburg's Community Education Council of District 14 welcomed its newest members, Reginald Greene, Elizabeth Oyola, and Kenneth Paneto onto its board this week, as they immediately pondered state political discussions...
GRAVESEND STREET TO BE NAMED FOR BROOKLYN POET LAUREATE
Many knew him as Brooklyn's poet laureate, but to those who live in the tight-knit Gravesend community, the late Ken Siegelman was also a beloved friend and neighbor. City Councilmember...
WOMAN SLAIN BY STRAY BULLET IN WILLIAMSBURG
By Thomas Tracy One of the men allegedly involved in a Williamsburg gunfight that led to the death of an innocent bystander has been arrested. Police said that Terrance Villanueva,...
Video: Super Mario Bros. on 'India's Got Talent'
If you've thought you've seen it all, think again. On "India's Got Talent" -- the country's version of the "Got Talent" franchise -- a group took the stage to recreate...
Wright batting sixth for NL
National League manager Charlie Manuel from the Phillies announced today that David Wright will bat sixth in the lineup in Tuesday night's All-Star Game in St. Louis.Wright, making his fourth...
BOND REINSTATED FOR EX-YANKEE LEYRITZ
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A South Florida judge has reinstated the bond of former major leaguer Jim Leyritz, who was arrested earlier this month on a domestic battery charge. Broward...
NATALIE PORTMAN CAST IN 'THOR'
LOS ANGELES -- "Star Wars" co-star Natalie Portman is storming back into action films with a role in the comic-book adaptation "Thor." The 28-year-old Portman has been cast as Jane...
Townhouse tears
Is the grandiose trophy townhouse at 16 W. 12 St. cursed -- at least when it comes to love? Glam couples live there together -- and then break up.Literary agent...
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES-COUNTESS DIVORCE BATTLE RAGES ON
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The bitter divorce battle rages on. Following a four-month recess, testimony will resume this afternoon in the contentious divorce trial of a Swedish countess and the former...
HOW TO IMPROVE HR DERBY
Three things I would do to add theater to the Home Run Derby tonight:1. Make the distances worth various points. If a guy hits one 400 feet he gets one...
ASTOR 'DRAGGED' INTO ROOM WHERE SHE CHANGED WILL
A confused and frail Brooke Astor was "dragged" into a private room inside her Park Avenue home where she presumably signed away millions of dollars to her son Anthony Marshall,...
Halladay would consider pitching in N.Y.
During the press conference announcing him as the American League starter for the All-Star Game, Roy Halladay said he would consider a trade to bigger markets -- like New York...
BOMB GOES OFF DURING NORTHERN IRELAND MARCH
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Police in Northern Ireland say a small bomb has detonated in the city of Armagh as Protestant hard-liners paraded across the British territory. There were no...
CONVENTION ORGANIZER FOUND DEAD IN NY HOTEL
RYE BROOK, N.Y. -- A Florida convention organizer was found killed in his room at an upscale hotel in suburban New York where he had organized a meeting, police said...
Morning Sucks soap
With a surprise inside!"Directions for use: Gently rub this soap on your crabby ass."Ha ha ha ha ha! From our favorite jokesters at BlueQ.
COPS: WOMAN LYING IN MIDDLE OF ROAD RUN OVER BY CAR
LYSANDER, N.Y. -- Police say a 31-year-old woman has died after being run over by a car on a Syracuse-area road. Onondaga County sheriff's deputies say Melissa Larose of Lysander...
BLOOMBERG: CITY SHOULD GET $260M IN BACK TAXES
Pay your taxes! Mayor Bloomberg ripped into the State Department today for allowing foreign governments to not pay taxes on some diplomatic residences in the city. "They won't be paying...
MULTIMILLIONAIRE FACES RETRIAL FOR WIFE'S MURDER
OWEGO, N.Y. -- A millionaire upstate New York businessman is standing trial for a second time on charges he killed his estranged wife. Calvin Harris is charged with second-degree murder,...
Halladay vs. the Angels
From Joel Sherman's Hardball Blog.I do not believe the Yankees will be serious players on Roy Halladay. They have shown a disinclination to give up big prospects and pay a...
New York's Top Plays This Decade
A quick thought about the All-Star Game before we go any further:Last year there was a furor over who should close the game for the AL - Mariano Rivera (since...
Manny Acta and the Mets
From JOEL SHERMAN There will be a lot of talk about the now-fired Manny Acta being in line to replace Jerry Manuel as Mets manager. There is a bit of...
SOTOMAYOR VOWS 'IMPARTIAL JUSTICE' IF SHE'S CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON -- Her confirmation all but assured, Sonia Sotomayor pledged Monday to serve the "larger interest of impartial justice" rather than any narrower cause if she becomes the first Hispanic...
RYAN SEACREST: $45 MILLION MAN
Ryan Seacrest is now $45 million richer. Seacrest has finalized a three-year deal, worth $15 million annually, to continue hosting "American Idol" and develop programming for "Idol" producer 19 Entertainment.MORE:...
Coverage in The Post
The Mets headed into the All-Star break on a bit of a high note after Sunday's 9-7 victory over the Reds at Citi Field included a strong outing from Mike...
Ryan Reynolds: Super Hero Traitor?
For those who don't know, Reynolds starred as the sword-wielding Deadpool in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," a Fox production of characters from Marvel comics. "Green Lantern," on the other hand, is...
Studs & Duds of the week
By JUSTIN TERRANOVAIt's three somewhat depressing sports days with no meaningful baseball games being played until Thursday, but on the bright side we are exactly two months away from the...
WARHOL'S JACKSON PORTRAIT TAKEN OFF AUCTION BLOCK
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y.-- A New York art gallery has temporarily removed an Andy Warhol portrait of Michael Jackson from the auction block. The Vered Gallery in East Hampton says enormous...
CHICAGO MAYOR'S BODYGUARD CATCHES ESCAPED INMATE
GRAND BEACH, Mich. -- A convicted killer who was one of three inmates who escaped from the Indiana State Prison was caught Monday near the vacation home of Chicago Mayor...
Report: Pedro, Phillies agree to deal
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Pedro Martinez and the Phillies have agreed to a one-year deal worth $1 million that includes $1.5 million in incentives.Yahoo! Sports reported earlier that Martinez passed...
OBAMA PICKS ALABAMA DOCTOR AS SURGEON GENERAL
WASHINGTON -- The Associated Press has learned that President Barack Obama has chosen a well-known Alabama family physician, Dr. Regina Benjamin, to be the next surgeon general. An administration official...
DEMJANJUK CHARGED WITH 27,900 COUNTS OF ACTING AS ACCESSORY TO MURDER
MUNICH -- Retired auto worker John Demjanjuk was formally charged Monday with 27,900 counts of acting as an accessory to murder -- one for every person who died at Sobibor...
The Daily Whacks, Monday Edition
You can count me among the tweetin' Twitterers (or is that the Twitterin' tweeters?) now: http://twitter.com/MikeVacc*******I know this isn't going to sit well with the haters who have grown to...
HALLADAY VS. THE ANGELS
I do not believe the Yankees will be serious players on Roy Halladay. They have shown a disinclination to give up big prospects and pay a big salary in the...
ACTA AND THE METS
There will be a lot of talk about the now-fired Manny Acta being in line to replace Jerry Manuel as Mets manager. There is a bit of logic to this,...
D'Antoni needs to coddle Curry
Starting in Las Vegas summer league, you can follow me with updates on Twitter.By MARC BERMANLAS VEGAS - Eddy Curry looked good, moved good, talked good. He's lost 30 pounds...
3 UP: SABATHIA, METS PERSPECTIVE AND ANGELIC ISSUE
Yes, I am on Twitter.1. Let's play a little Pitcher A and Pitcher B game here:Pitcher A: 9-6, 4.16 ERA, 127.2 IP, 24 BBs, 117 KsPitcher B: 8-6, 3.86, 128.1,...
BOXER WIFE KO'D
Boxing champ Arturo Gatti's wife was arrested and "formally accused" yesterday by Brazilian cops who suspect she strangled him with her purse strap, as people close to the slain fighter...
MICHAEL WAS MURDERED: LA TOYA
Michael Jackson's sister reportedly believes the King of Pop was killed for his $1 billion fortune. La Toya Jackson told Britain's News of the World she "knows who did it,"...
CUSTODY SNUB FOR 'BAD' DAD
Cruel stage dad Joe Jackson won't be getting his hands on his son's children any time soon, under a secret custody deal struck by Michael Jackson's mom, Katherine, and baby...
'BRUNO' JUST FABULOU$
Gay Austrian fashion devotee "Bruno" has fashioned a No. 1 opening at the box office. Sacha Baron Cohen's follow-up to "Borat" took in $30.4 million over the weekend, according to...
IN FAILING 'HEALTH'
Rep. Charles Rangel's plan to force the wealthiest Americans to pay for much of the Democrats' $1 trillion health-care legislation failed to gain support yesterday -- even from officials in...
HONDU PREZ PARDON EYED
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Interim leader Roberto Micheletti said yesterday that ousted President Manuel Zelaya would not be allowed to return to power under any circumstances -- but could be granted...
AMY'S A LOVELY WORK OF ART
"Night at the Museum" beauty Amy Adams is classically enchanting as she strikes a Renoirlike pose in the new edition of Allure magazine. Before she played the role of a...
CITY'S OLDEN 'RINGS'
Superman still has places to change into his cape in the metropolis of Manhattan -- in one of its last four working outdoor phone booths, all along West End Avenue....
A GIANT LEAP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
BOSTON -- Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon. Now, they'll be able to watch the Apollo 11...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn * Thugs stabbed and critically wounded a man in East New York yesterday, police said. The two assailants knifed the 24-year-old man in the torso several times on Van...
4TH SHUTTLE SCUTTLE
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Thunderstorms forced NASA to delay last night's launch of space shuttle Endeavour, the fourth attempt over the past month to send seven astronauts to the International...
CRUCIFIX TAPED ON HER LIPS
The cleaning woman whose body was found in a Financial District building had been hogtied and her mouth taped shut -- left with her gold crucifix dangling over it --...
MURDERER IN ER AMBUSH
A gun-toting gate-crasher killed a man after spraying a Brooklyn party with bullets, then followed a second victim to the hospital and took another shot at him, cops said yesterday....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A parolee who robbed a Michigan bank was caught when he tried to hitch a ride from an undercover police detective, cops said. Mark White flagged down Saginaw Detective Scott...
GO TO GREG
Q My wife and I both work. We have two young kids, and we've decided one of us should stay home for the next few years while they acclimate to...
POWER POINTS
* Tax relief for freelancers City freelancers have reason to celebrate the breaking of the State Senate logjam on Friday. Among the bills passed once the Democratic majority was restored...
BLOG
Christine Rochelle, 23, was psyched about her post-graduation job: She had a sure-to-be glamorous position lined up at Viacom, home of MTV and VH1. But the party was over eight...
60 SECONDS WITH MARC HERSHON,
You say "being nice doesn't pay" and that that it's time to "embrace the hate." How can a worker pull that off without getting fired? You don't really want to...
SWNG TIME
EY, sailor! Who doesn't want to be swept off their feet? (Wearing polka dots and a pair of red patent pumps, no less.) Sure, everyone is stomping around in studs,...
STREET VICTORY FOR DARIO
Dario Franchitti won the Honda Indy on the street course in Toronto yesterday, easily holding off Penske drivers Ryan Briscoe and Will Power on a late restart for his third...
JUDGE: HATCH CAN'T TRAVEL FOR LATEST 'SURVIVOR'
A federal judge in Rhode Island says "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch cannot leave home confinement early to star in a 10th anniversary edition of the reality show. Hatch, who has...
CORZINE CONSIDERS 'APPRENTICE' WINNER FOR RUNNING MATE
RANDAL Pinkett, the only African American to win "The Apprentice," is seriously being considered as a lieutenant-governor running mate for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine this fall, according to reports...
SUMMER LOVIN'
IT'S a long way from Reading, Pa. to the French Riviera -- but that's Jon Gosselin (of "Jon and Kate" fame) and his new, 22-year-old girlfriend trooping around Saint Tropez...
KARA'S 'IDOL' SONG BOOTED
THIS year's roundly disliked "American Idol" victory anthem, "No Boundaries," has been sent home. Over the weekend, "Idol" winner Kris Allen dropped the song from the live show after just...
STARR REPORT
Everyone's talkin'Paul McCartney will make his first-ever visit to David Letterman's "Late Show" Wednesday (11:35 p.m./Ch. 2) to promote his upcom ing tour, which kicks off Friday at Citi Field...
LITTLE HEAT IN SCHEMATIC TALE OF ILLICIT LOVE
FOR an evening filled with simulated copulation, there's not much heat in the new production of "Therese Raquin." Presented by PTP/NYC, formerly known as the Potomac Theatre Project (Note to...
LIGHTS OUT ON 'DARK' COP SHOW
WHY can't writers of police-by-the-numbers dramas spend more than five minutes in a police station before they write these police procedurals that end up somehow both fantastical and, at the...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, SHAKESPEARE
SHAKESPEARE may be all about the words, but it's the images and music you remember most from "The Bard Goes Global," a well-curated film series starting Wednesday at the Walter...
MINUS RODDICK, U.S. FALLS IN QUARTERFINALS
POREC, Croatia -- The United States was ousted from the Davis Cup, and left to wonder how it might have gone had Andy Roddick been around to pelt opponents with...
DELGADO, REYES OFFER HOPE, BUT TIME'S SHORT
THE stands were empty. The grounds crew was grooming the field. First pitch was still more than three hours away. Yet Jerry Manuel was in short right field watching what...
EQUALITY IGNORED IN STALLWORTH CASE
SOCIAL, political and racial commentators and activists for years have told us that justice in this country unjustly favors wealthy white Americans, those who can buy their way out of...
OUR MAN VECSEY JOINING HOOP GREATS IN SPRINGFIELD
Peter Vecsey, the ultimate NBA insider, is heading inside the Basketball Hall of Fame. Vecsey, The Post's NBA columnist nationally renowned for his irreverent, always ahead-of-the-curve "Hoop Du Jour," will...
APPLE RUSTY AFTER RARE HOME RUNS
Fernando Tatis couldn't figure out why the fans were booing him. The struggling Mets utilityman had just smashed his first career pinch-hit homer -- his team's second blast of yesterday's...
BECKETT'S 3-HITTER LIFTS BOSOX
Josh Beckett capped a brilliant first half of the season with a three-hitter, joining teammate Tim Wakefield as the only 11-game winners in the AL as the Red Sox beat...
LANCE PLANS TO TOUR AGAIN
TARBES, France -- With the Pyrenees behind him but the toughest rides still to come, Lance Armstrong is already talking about another run next year in the Tour de France....
METS' YOUNG SS LOOKS TO BE ANOTHER JETER
ST. LOUIS -- Wilmer Flores may be the Mets' shortstop or second baseman of the future, but he's taking his cue from the greatest shortstop in Yankees history. PHOTO GALLERYBOX...
HONDO HORSIN' AROUND
Hondo stumbled into the break yesterday with yet another setback when the pitiful Pale Hose failed their assignment in Minneapolis, which shrunk the once robust wad to 175 pincays. Today,...
METS BATS FINALLY GET RED HOT
The Mets finally raised the home run apple yesterday. They also raised some hopes for the second half with a 9-7 decision over the Reds at Citi Field that sent...
JI DENIES CRISTIE SECOND U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN
BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Eun Hee Ji of South Korea made a 20-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole yesterday, finishing off an even-par 71 to claim the U.S. Women's Open....
STRICKER VICTORIOUS AFTER 36-HOLE MARATHON
Steve Stricker followed one of his best performances with 36 solid holes to win the John Deere Classic by three strokes yesterday in Silvis, Ill. Stricker, who tied the course...
SOLVING RED SOX, ANGELS 2ND-HALF KEY FOR YANKEES
WELL, if you're looking for silver linings about the second half of the Yankees' season, maybe you can start with this: They only have 10 games left with the Red...
FRANCOEUR TURNING INTO A REAL LIFT
It's been only two games, but the Mets can't help but like what they see from Jeff Francoeur. The Mets are 2-0 and have scored 13 runs in the two...
YANKEES 3 BACK AT BREAK, STILL CONFIDENT
ANAHEIM -- As they scattered for different destinations for the four-day All-Star break, the Yankees vowed losing three straight to the Angels didn't throw cold water on what they deemed...
A-ROD EAGER TO CLEAN UP AFTER REST
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- If Alex Rodriguez responds to four days of rest the way he did to two days off in June, when he returns from the All-Star break, the...
VIKES' OC VISITS FAVRE
In the latest step in quasi-retired quarterback Brett Favre's protracted dance with the Vikings, Minnesota offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell traveled to Mississippi last week with the team's head trainer to...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSMLB: Pena takes Pedroia's All-Star spot Rays first baseman Carlos Pena will take the American League All-Star roster spot of Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia, who withdrew to be...
NEW-LOOK CURRY ROLLS DICE IN VEGAS
LAS VEGAS -- The most important summer development for the Knicks occurred here at Valley High School last night. A slimmed-down, more-limber Eddy Curry joined the Knicks' summer-league team on...
HOLDER EYES CASE VS. CIA
WASHINGTON -- US Attorney General Eric Holder is considering appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's interrogation practices involving the CIA, a Justice Department official said yesterday. The...
WEAK BOOZE, STRONG FINE
You can count on ear-splitting music, eye candy and a hip clientele -- but when you go out clubbing, you can't be sure what you're getting in your shot glass....
QAEDA BIGS TARGETS OF SECRET PLAN
A secret CIA program hidden from Congress for eight years under orders from then-Vice President Dick Cheney aimed at capturing or killing al Qaeda thugs, it was reported last night....
DRIVER IN KILLER RAMPAGE
A driver who had been fighting with his wife in the parking lot of a Chuck E. Cheese cut a path of destruction through The Bronx yesterday, ramming cars and...
COUNTESS & HUBBY READY FOR REMATCH
They're baaa-aaack! The countess and her mogul are returning to a Hartford, Conn., divorce court today for Round 2 of their multimillion-dollar hate-fest. Barring a last-minute settlement -- still under...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1.) Blame It, Jamie Foxx 2.) Knock You Down, Keri Hilson 3.) Best I Ever Had, Drake 4.) Boom Boom Pow, Black Eyed Peas 5.) Birthday Sex,...
CON ED'S RE-VOLT BLASTED
A City Council member wants to know why Con Ed eased up for two years on testing city-owned traffic signals for potentially deadly stray voltage. "Regard for public safety has...
OYSTER BAR TO COMMUNITY BOARD: SHUCK YOU
An Alphabet City oyster bar is shucking the system and suing the local community board for its "arbitrary" decision to deny the eatery a full liquor license. While restaurants denied...
$260M BACK STAB
Thanks a lot, Hillary! In a surprise turnaround that will cost the city $260 million in back taxes and untold millions in future lost revenue, Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department...
TYPEWRITE & WRONG
The city is plunking down nearly $1 million on typewriters for its keystroke cops. That's right -- typewriters. Despite the adoption of high-tech equipment that can read license plates from...
1 THING RATTLES DA-HOPEFUL DAD
This is the first of a series focusing on the candidates for Manhattan district attorney -- a job held for three decades by Robert Morgenthau. Manhattan DA candidate Richard Aborn...
DOGGY DEATH FUROR
A well-known Manhattan veterinary clinic poisoned a beloved family dog with a lethal mixture of too much chemotherapy and an unauthorized blood transfusion, according to a lawsuit. Marshall Allan and...
FATTY ACID NO HELP FOR ALZ'S
Omega-3 fatty acid supplements did nothing to slow memory declines in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease, but showed promise in a study of healthy people with slight memory...
DONALD DELIVERS A 'VITCH SLAP TO GOV
JUST hours after Gov. Paterson named Richard Ravitch to be his lieutenant, Donald Trump had a message for the governor: Tell him, "You're fired." In a blistering, two-page "Dear David"...
BOMB KILLS 2 MARINES
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A bomb killed two Marines in Afghanistan's dangerous south, where thousands of American troops have deployed in a massive operation to oust Taliban fighters from the country's...
COUNCIL'S $$ GOES MISC.-ING
Despite the Big Apple's fiscal crisis, City Council members went on a spending spree with taxpayer money last year, snatching up expensive furniture, flashy electronics, wedding invitations and a bizarre...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Gas relief The average price of a gallon of gas fell to $2.56 over the past two weeks as unemployment hurt demand, sending prices down 38 percent from a record...
CITY'S G'DAY TO AUSSIE NAVY SHIPS
If you notice 400 Australians strolling about Times Square this coming weekend, don't just give them a friendly "G'day, mate" -- snap off a nice, stiff naval salute. The Aussies...
UBS GAINS GROUND IN TAX-CHEAT DATA CASE
Banking giant UBS gained a small victory yesterday in its campaign to stop the US government from forcing it to turn over records of 52,000 account holders suspected of using...
BOZOS DOLE OUT BIG RAISES
Despite a $3 billion state budget deficit and tens of thousands of lost jobs, 11 of the state Senate's highest-paid staffers got pay hikes of up to $32,000 when it...
BIBI'S PEACE BID NIXED
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday invited the Palestinians to sit down immediately to talk peace, but Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas rebuffed the call, saying that Israel must...
SOTO LOOKS LIKE A SHOO-IN
WASHINGTON -- Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings show every sign of being a walk in the park, according to senators preparing for what will amount to a nationally...
INVESTORS RACING BACK TO BONDS
Bond investors across the country are snapping up 10-year Treasury notes as expectations for a US economic recovery this year disappear. Firms from New York-based BlackRock Inc. to Franklin Templeton...
CITI'S LATEST FOE: JOE SIXPACK
Citigroup -- the club-footed giant of high finance -- is about to take it on the chin again. Citi's plan to profit from growth in foreign markets is flying in...
LET'S BANK ON POOR: POL
A Queens councilman yesterday called for a summit between banks and city officials to find a way to get financial institutions into low-income areas. "We're living in a two-tiered city,"...
YIKES! THIS IS PLANE SCARY
Now this is a close shave. An F-18 Navy jet passes an apartment building yesterday during a spectacular flyover staged as part of the hugely popular hydroplane races in Detroit....
MCNAMARA . . . GEE WHIZ
Robert McNamara was a cognitive genius; he was one of the "whiz" and "can't fail" kids -- except that he failed ("Robert McNamara, 1916-2009," Editorial, July 7). By failing, he...
SUPREMELY SPLIT
IN this week's confirmation hearings, the Senate Judiciary Committee should explore not only Judge Sonia Sotomayor's qualifications for the Supreme Court, but her views about the court's increasing failure to...
THOMPSON CAMPAIGN WINS SILVER
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has quietly pledged his support to mayor wannabe Bill Thompson, a fellow Democrat. "It was done a month ago," Silver told The Post. According to Silver's...
MAYORAL-CONTROL WRENCH
State Sen. John Sampson, the head of the Democratic Conference, will attempt to ram through several last-minute amendments to school-governance legislation in exchange for extending Mayor Bloomberg's control over schools,...
BRACE YOURSELVES FOR HIGHER TAXES
ECONOMIC policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of the second stimulus is stirring talk about the need...
100 YEARS FOR NAACP
Sen. Chuck Schumer last night credited the nation's oldest and largest civil-rights group with paving the way for the first black president. "When you started 100 years ago, there was...
KEEP BLABBERING, BIDEN: BAM'S GOT YOUR BACK
How often will President Obama have to repair the policy statements of Vice President Joe Biden ("Cleaning Up After Joe," Editorial, July 8)? If it ever crosses Obama's mind to...
SON LEADS FATHER'S FLOCK
The son of a popular, Grammy-nominated singer-pastor yesterday was formally installed to replace his tragic dad as the leader of their Brooklyn church. John David Wright, 30, was named pastor...
B'KLYN SLAY-BY-COP PUZZLE
Relatives of a man killed in a scuffle with a narcotics officer outside a Brooklyn house said they didn't know the other man was a cop until they read it...
KIM JONG IL WITH CANCER
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN reported today, based on information gathered by intelligence sources here and China....
PEDDLING LANCE
What Tiger Woods is to golf, Lance Armstrong is to cycling, which if you're running a sports mag during Tour de France time makes for a golden opportunity to get...
MARK IV MAY LOSE EAST COAST DEAL
The tollgate may be coming down on the company behind E-ZPass. Mark IV Intelligent Vehicle Highways System is in danger of losing its 15-year-old government contract because its private-equity owners...
HE RUNS, YOU PAY; HE WINS, YOU PAY ...
An interesting missive just arrived from once-and- -- he hopes -- future Pub lic Advocate Mark Green: Green, running again for the office he held from 1994 to 2001, is...
LET ST. VINCENT'S BUILD
After nearly two years of tumult and ob structionism, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission has given St. Vincent's Hospital the go-ahead to build the residential condo tower that is key...
ONE LAST THING, RANDI
Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten has a chance this week to give New Yorkers a huge parting present: She can help push through, finally, the law to renew mayoral control...
TO FIX PENSION PERIL
BEFORE staggering away from Albany last week, the state Senate delivered a pleasant surprise for taxpayers -- rejecting a well-intentioned but badly designed bill that would have allowed the state...
I Love You, Andrei Tarkovsky
I took my time going from the West Village to Lincoln Center for Sunday night's 8:30 p.m. screening of Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker'' (1979), figuring there would be lots of seats...
Mitre lights out for SWB in win
You can now follow Beating the Bushes on Twitter, including live coverage of tomorrow's Double-A All-Star Game in Trenton: https://twitter.com/NYP_Bushes**********After another stellar outing for Scranton/Wilkes Barre, Sergio Mitre may soon...
Curry: I will prove fans wrong
Starting in Las Vegas summer league, you can follow me with updates on Twitter.By MARC BERMANLAS VEGAS - You can make the case tonight was the most important development the...
BRONX DAD KILLED SAVING KID IN CHUCK E. CHEESE PARKING LOT
A man who had been fighting with his wife in the parking lot of a kid-themed restaurant Chuck E. Cheese in The Bronx sped off in a car and struck...