July 25, 2009
SECURITY GUARD STABBED AT LI STREET FAIR
Police say a family-friendly Long Island festival turned violent when a teenager stabbed a security guard in the leg. Dylan Bryan was hospitalized and awaiting arraignment Saturday after being arrested...
QUEENS MAN KILLED IN I-95 CRASH
Four people died Saturday when a pickup truck going the wrong way on Interstate 95 collided head on with a minivan headed from New York to Florida, the Georgia State...
Sheffield now OK with move
HOUSTON -- It took some doing, but the Mets appear to have calmed down Gary Sheffield and gotten him to accept a trip to the disabled list.Sheffield had testily declined...
Golden Holden leads young U.S. vs. Mexico
Follow the Post's soccer coverage on Twitter!When the young U.S. team steps on the Giants Stadium field for tomorrow's 3 p.m. Gold Cup final against archrival Mexico, they'll step into...
Sheffield to the disabled list
HOUSTON -- The Mets made roster room for tonight's starter, Jonathon Niese, by putting Gary Sheffield on the disabled list due to a strained right hamstring. Although the move is...
EX-RANGER MORRIS SIGNS WITH BRUINS
Derek Morris is the final piece of the Boston Bruins' new defense corps that will be younger and should create more offense. One day after trading 36-year-old Aaron Ward to...
U.S.-Mexico Gold Cup final sold out
Follow the Post's soccer coverage on Twitter!The CONCACAF Gold Cup final between the U.S. and archrival Mexico tomorrow at Giants Stadium is completely sold out. If you have a ticket,...
A'S 6, YANKEES 4
Gio Gonzalez worked out of trouble when Andy Pettitte could not, and a key decision by Yankees manager Joe Girardi went awry in the Oakland Athletics' 6-4 victory Saturday that...
THROGS NECK BRIDGE REOPENS TO TRUCK TRAFFIC
The Throgs Neck Bridge reopened to truck traffic Saturday, more than two weeks after the span was damaged by a fire. It has been a slow recovery for the bridge,...
Game 96: Mets at Astros
HOUSTON -- Jonathon Niese gets another chance to prove himself to Jerry Manuel and Mets management here tonight when the young left-hander takes the mound against the red-hot Astros at...
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE FAMOUS
There. I said it. Right in the headline. You are not going to be famous. Some of you, I'm sure, are rolling your eyes, thinking to yourselves: "I don't know...
MICHAEL JACKSON'S $5.5M CASH STASH
Cash-strapped Michael Jackson desperately wanted to buy a sprawling 10-acre Las Vegas estate he named "Wonderland" - complete with secret tunnels, a 20-car garage and a backyard waterfall for the...
Pedro to face Mets minor leaguers
FOXSports.com reports Phillies pitcher Pedro Martinez will continue his climb back to the major leagues by facing Mets minor leaguers in a game in Florida on Sunday.The report says Martinez...
HARVARD PROF ACCEPTS OBAMA'S BEER OFFER
Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he will accept President Barack Obama's invitation to visit him at the White House along with the white police officer who arrested the...
Lincoln Center Festival recap
Phew, it's over! The 2009 Lincoln Center Festival concluded yesterday, and it's time to take a bird's eye view of what we had. I'll focus on theater and won't mention...
Yankees, Phillies on hand for Halladay
The Toronto Sun reports the Yankees and Phillies were the only major-league teams on hand in Toronto last night to scout Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay.But there are reports that...
GEM THIEVES IN SWITCHEROO
The timing was perfect -- perhaps a little too perfect. In an elaborate heist, three crafty crooks made off with a duffel bag stuffed with $120,000 in baubles by duping...
HOLLIDAY SHINES IN CARDS DEBUT
Matt Holliday hopped off a train, joined his new team and made an immediate contribution before making good contact. Holliday went 4-for-5 with one RBI to back Joel Pineiro, and...
CHRISTIAN 'SLAIN' IN N. KOREA
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea publicly executed a Christian woman last month for distributing the Bible, which is banned in the communist nation, South Korean activists said yesterday. Ri...
NEW PUSH FOR FLU VACCINES
WASHINGTON -- All children age 6 months to 18 years should get a seasonal influenza vaccine every year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday. Dr. Anne...
IT'S DEFINITELY A GRADE A MOVE
IN the end, Mayor Bloomberg got what he wanted. He remains firmly in control of the city's schools, retains the right to control key decisions, and holds on to the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island A careless prowler was busted after leaving a palm print behind at one of the homes he's accused of robbing. Paul Bray, 33, slipped through an open front...
SPORTS LEAGUES TELL DEL.: DON'T BET ON US
WASHINGTON -- The four major pro sports leagues and the NCAA yesterday sued to block Delaware from implementing sports betting. The state's plan "would irreparably harm professional and amateur sports...
TUTORING 'LESSON'
Tutoring companies have used faulty attendance records to overcharge the city's Department of Education and don't always conduct background checks on their staff, an audit shows. The companies -- which...
JACKO'S DIAMONDS IN THE TUFT
Michael Jackson will soon be transformed from king to bling. A synthetic-gem company announced yesterday that it plans to turn some of the late gloved singing star's hair into diamonds...
AMY BEATS THE 'SLAP'
Amy Winehouse has danced her way out of a trip to the big house. The British singing star was acquitted yesterday of charges she slapped around a dancer named Sherene...
A'JAD'S 'LIBERAL' DEPUTY OUSTED
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caved into pressure from hard-line clerics and the country's supreme leader yesterday and allowed the resignation of his top deputy after a weeklong...
YANKEE RELICS $HUT OUT
Nobody wants A-Rod's locker. Competition has been fierce for signs, turnstiles and other Yankee Stadium memorabilia, but when the bidding closes tomorrow night at the auction house that Ruth built,...
RARE HOPPER BACK
LOS ANGELES -- The US Geological Survey says a population of the nearly extinct mountain yellow-legged frog has been found in Southern California's San Jacinto Wilderness. Biologists from the survey...
'MISTAKEN' O: I'LL DRINK TO UNITY
In an abrupt reversal, President Obama yesterday said he was wrong to criticize a white cop for arresting a black Harvard professor -- and he invited both to the White...
HIGH LIFE ON 'FARM' FOR O
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and his family are planning a vacation next month fit for the rich and famous on a spectacular Martha's Vineyard waterfront farm. The Obamas plan to...
CITY SIGNS UP FOR TEACHER-RATING PROGRAM
Just as federal officials begin pushing school systems to evaluate teachers based on their students' performance, the city has inked a deal with the University of Wisconsin to expand a...
GUN SCARE ON FLA. CAMPUS
TAMPA, Fla. -- University of South Florida security yesterday warned 55,000 students and staff members to stay indoors after a man called police to say he was on campus and...
MIKE, SENATE END CLASS STRUGGLE
It's a deal: Mayor Bloomberg stays King of the Schools! Bloomberg and Democratic leaders in the state Senate yesterday announced an agreement to extend City Hall's authority to run the...
ON EDGE AT HEDGE
What the hedge was going on at this place? Still more scandal oozed out yesterday from a big-bucks Manhattan hedge fund where two gorgeous ex-secretaries and the two brothers at...
CLASSY STREET SEATS? ABOUT TIMES SQUARE
Anything is better than those cheap lounge chairs. Sightseers and even hardened New Yorkers yesterday flocked to a series of shiny new seating options and tree-lined gardens along the shut-down...
IGNORANCE LED TO THIS STUMBLE
WASHINGTON -- President Obama should have known he had a nightmare on his hands the moment he began his answer to a question about the arrest of Professor Henry Louis...
REALTOR-SLAY 'COERCION' TACTIC
The accused murderess of "Realtor to the Stars" Linda Stein is taking a second shot at wriggling out of her signed confession -- announcing she wants to call a legal...
THE TALMUDIC TRAITOR RABBIS
The religious talk by a crew of allegedly crooked rabbis was anything but kosher. The rabbis and other prominent Jews captured in this week's FBI sting operation referred to money...
GRAND JURY MULLS PLAX
A grand jury has convened in the Plaxico Burress gun-possession case, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau confirmed yesterday. The DA said he was barred by law from providing any details...
POL AIMS TO TEASE
The exiled president of Honduras played an international game of Hokey Pokey yesterday, taking a few steps over the border into his country and then quickly stepping back before he...
ASTRO POWER WALK
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts outfitted the International Space Station with fresh batteries in an extra-long spacewalk yesterday, moving slowly to avoid a repeat of the trouble that cut short...
TOMB-RAIDER SILVIO 'DIGS' SEX TALK
ROME -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's private conversations with an escort, which have riveted Italians all week, may wind up getting him into trouble with Italy's archaeological authorities. In one...
WORKERS: BOVIS STIFFED US ON OT
Embattled construction giant Bovis Lend Lease is being hit with a class-action suit yesterday for allegedly stiffing employees on overtime pay. Workers for the firm, which oversaw the construction of...
OCTOMOM $HOW
Octomom Nadya Suleman's brood of 14 kids is looking at a big payday -- each standing to rake in $250 a day to star in a reality television show. Contracts...
PLEA LACKS GILLY-BRAND
WASHINGTON -- When freshmen Senate Democrats wrote to the Finance Committee to raise their concerns over the skyrocketing costs of the health-reform package now being drafted by the committee, there...
QAEDA CREATION
Before home-grown jihadist Bryant Neal Vinas left Long Island to pursue a path of terror in Pakistan, he left behind a box of mementos that were an eerie mix of...
SLAIN NJ COP IS LAID TO REST
Bagpipes skirled and hundreds of law-enforcement officers saluted yesterday as Jersey City paid tribute to a police officer killed in the line of duty. Detective Marc DiNardo, a father of...
NAKED GAL FLEES ABDUCTOR
Cops are searching for a man in the abduction of a 24-year-old upstate woman who escaped naked from his van and ran to a home for help. Saratoga Springs police...
FALLEN 'IDLE' BLOOMY: SORRY FOR SUV FUMES
Mayor Bloomberg has apologized for letting his SUVs idle. Bloomberg ordered his drivers to stop the practice this week. The Associated Press had observed the parked SUVs' engines running for...
SARGE COLLEAGUES: SCHOLAR WAS STUPID
Cambridge cops -- including a black sergeant and a Latino patrolman who were present when the Harvard professor was busted -- defended the arresting officer yesterday and rejected President Obama's...
ONE HILL TO CLIMB
AUBENAS, France -- Alberto Contador stayed in command at the Tour de France with two days of racing left while teammate Lance Armstrong remained in third place as a daunting...
JOHN MAINE SHUT DOWN, POSSIBLY FOR 2009
HOUSTON -- John Maine's season -- indeed, his future as a Met -- is getting ever more dim. The Mets don't appear to be optimistic after confirming yesterday that the...
RED BULLS LOOK TO NEW BLOOD
The Red Bulls haven't won in well over two months, a dozen-game winless streak that includes 11 MLS matches. And if they're going to snap that skid tonight against Colorado...
BERNAZARD INVESTIGATION NOT YET OVER
HOUSTON -- The Mets' "investigation" into the antics of Tony Bernazard supposedly continued yesterday while the hot-headed team vice president remained out of sight at his home in New Jersey....
HONDO'S BUCKS ON BUCS
In the words of Etta James: At last! Hondo, who had been winless since the All-Star Game, finally made a couple of trips to the winner's circle last night, hitting...
COKE STILL PHIL-ING RELIEF ROLE
Just like there was a time when people could get mortgages or watch television on any given night without seeing a reality show featuring a has-been star, the Yankees actually...
WANG MAY BE FINISHED FOR SEASON
Manager Joe Girardi isn't holding his breath that Chien-Ming Wang will return this season. Though Wang is still awaiting word from renowned orthopedist Dr. James Andrews regarding his shoulder, Girardi...
JOBA'S A-GAME GIVES 'EM 8TH STRAIGHT WIN
The reality show, "Joba and 'Mates plus 8" is a go. Eight runs scored, Joba Chamberlain into the eighth inning and an eighth straight victory last night for the Yankees....
JETER PASSES WILLIAMS ON ALL-TIME LIST
Derek Jeter looked genuinely surprised. Maybe because he was. The Yankee captain said he had no idea that with three hits last night, he passed the immortal Ted Williams on...
GIRARDI KNOWS YOU DANCE WITH WHO BRUNG YOU
IT WAS both an aside and a manager's credo uttered at once last night by Joe Girardi, who wasn't seeking to make a grand pronouncement before the Yankees stretched their...
SANTANA INEFFECTIVE; METS DROP 17TH OF 24
HOUSTON -- Even in this rapidly forgettable season, a Johan Santana start coupled with an actual, honest-to-goodness home run usually translates into a Mets victory. BOX SCOREMETS BLOGHUBBUCH ON TWITTER...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
He went in to rob a sub shop but came out with a knuckle sandwich. As the creep jumped over the counter of a Houston shop, the clerk punched him...
MINAYA HAS FAITH IN MURPHY
Going forward, general manager Omar Minaya still sees a major role for Daniel Murphy and says the organization continues to envision him as a major league starter.BOX SCOREMETS BLOGHUBBUCH ON...
GIRARDI RECALLS DAY OF KILE DEATH
Though Yankees manager Joe Girardi didn't know Darryl Kile, he announced the pitcher's death to the world. Seven summers ago, on June 22, 2002, Girardi was at Wrigley Field. A...
WALTON EYES ONE MORE SHOT
Adrian Walton took his game from the playgrounds to Fordham then to basketball outposts like Riverside, Calif., and Roanoke, Va. Now he's 28, and earlier this week he was at...
EASY WRITERS
SUMMER reading list got you yawning? Try spicing it up with writing lessons from the authors themselves. One of the many advantages of being a New York City kid is...
KNICKS LOSE OUT ON MILLER
First Jason Kidd. Then Grant Hill. Now add point guard Andre Miller to those who have spurned the Knicks for more money elsewhere.KNICKS BLOGBOSH'S MANAGER DENIES KNICKS LAUGHNIKE RETURNS LEBRON...
MMA TAKES JAB IN FIGHT TO ECLIPSE BOXING
THERE are too many people involved with mixed martial arts who love to call it the fastest-growing sport in the world and want to promote the demise of boxing. Whether...
WHAT'S UP?
Today BEFORE SUNSET: Cap off a rainy week with Solar One's Solar-Powered Dance Series. Works by 14 emerging choreographers comprise such styles as hip-hop and vaudeville, all of it performed...
BELMONT WINNER COULD RUN DOWN RACHEL AT HASKELL
RACHEL Alexandra might be the most glamorous horse in America today, but anyone who thinks she is a cinch to waltz off with next week's $1.25 million Haskell Invitational at...
PAY ATTENTION TO GAPS LEFT BY MARQUEE TRADES
YOU CAN'T be blamed if you weren't thrilled by the Brewers' acquisition of Felipe Lopez, or the Padres' export of the legendary Cla Meredith. But with the non-waiver deadline fast...
RICKEY SET FOR HALL INDUCTION
By KEVIN KERNAN COOPERSTOWN -- Rickey Henderson always moved fast with his legs and his mouth. He admits he has no idea what he's going to say in tomorrow's Hall...
Q IS A TRAVELIN' MAN
The worst part for Quentin Richardson is his summer trekking might not be over. Rev up the Q train.KNICKS BLOGBOSH'S MANAGER DENIES KNICKS LAUGHNIKE RETURNS LEBRON DUNK TAPES After being...
SEASONS TIDINGS
THIS season in the notoriously decadent Hamptons, it's been less about bling and more about bargains. Well, relatively speaking. This has been summer in the Hamptons, recession style -- where...
HARRINGTON 'LIVING DREAM' WITH KNICKS
At a Waldorf Astoria eatery Wednesday night, Knicks forward Al Harrington admits he is starving. But he will pass on the beer and the stuffed cold-cut sandwich. He orders a...
SUPER SATURDAY
SUPER Saturday just became even more super. Gossip Girl Blake Lively is co-hosting the 12th annual Hamptons shopping charity event next Saturday with Kelly Ripa, Donna Karan and InStyle's Ariel...
GOLD-EN SHOT FOR YOUNG U.S.
The U.S. and Mexico shared a charter flight to New York for the Gold Cup final, and tomorrow the region's most bitter soccer rivals will share the Giants Stadium field...
REGION'S LAX TEAM BOLTING FOR ORLANDO
The New York Titans, a member of the National Lacrosse League for three seasons, will move to Orlando, pending a vote by the league's board of governors, The Post has...
WHERE'S THE CLAMOR TO CAP CARBON?
UNFORTUNATELY, China's president had to dash home to suppress ethnic riots. Had he stayed in Italy at the recent G-8 summit, he could have continued the Herculean task of disabusing...
MELENDEZ LOSES VOICE
DETAILS are emerging on NBC's upcoming "The Jay Leno Show" -- including the ouster of John "Stuttering John" Melendez. Melendez, Howard Stern's former sidekick who joined Leno's "Tonight Show" in...
HOUSTON HAS NO PROBLEM
WHITNEY Houston broke seven years of musical silence this week, unveiling nine of the 11 tracks for her much delayed album "I Look to You." The disc, infused with a...
REGULATORY RUCKUS
The government's three top economic regulators yesterday plunged deeper into their simmering three-way squabble over who ought to become the nation's top consumer watchdog. In testimony to a House panel...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
JPM pay JPMorgan Chase's in vestment bankers will begin getting more of their pay in salary next year and less in bonuses as the bank shifts the weighting to remain...
TORY BURCH SELLS STAKE
Tory Burch sold an equity stake to a Mexican investment firm in a deal that values her fashion business at upwards of $500 million, sources told The Post. That's a...
HEARST BUYS MORE FITCH
* Hearst Corp. is buying an additional 20 percent stake in Fitch Group for $427 million. Fitch's parent, French financial services firm Fimalac S.A., said yesterday that Hearst's stake in...
LAYOFFS, SPINOFF FOR AOL
New AOL boss Tim Armstrong gave employees of the beleaguered Internet icon some more bad news yesterday, telling them that another round of layoffs could come down in the next...
RATIONING 'RIGHTS'
LET us for a moment adopt the proposition that health care is in fact a "right," as pretty much every liberal politician has told us for at least a generation....
MARTS RALLY KEEPS GOING
US stocks rose, completing the best two-week rally for the Dow Jones industrial average since 2000. The S&P 500 added 4.1 percent for the week to 979.26. The Dow average...
DOUBLE-THINKING IT OVER: AMAZON ISSUES APOLOGY
Jeff Bezos would rather be a friend to his customers than a big brother. The Amazon founder and CEO has publicly apologized for taking a page out of one of...
CITI'S LONELY LEADER
No man is an island -- unless that man is Vikram Pandit. The Citigroup CEO now finds himself increasingly without allies among the directors serving on the struggling bank's board,...
VICTORY FOR THE KIDS
New York's schoolkids won yesterday. Big-time. The deal Mayor Bloomberg and Senate Democrats announced will extend mayoral control of city schools for six more years, helping to preserve the gains...
OBAMA'S WISE BACKTRACK
President Obama made a smart move yesterday in acknowledging that his comments about the arrest of Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates, a prominent African-American scholar, may have gone a bit...
A PITCH-PERFECT PERFORMANCE
Few feats in sports can truly be called perfect -- so here's to Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle, who retired all 27 batters he faced Thursday afternoon against the...
BARNEYS NY LOSES CFO
Barneys New York said its financial chief resigned as the company's debt was downgraded further, to junk status. The struggling luxury chain said CFO Steve Feldman, a 13-year veteran of...
FASHION HOUSE LACROIX MAY GET LIFELINE
Christian Lacroix SNC, the money-losing French fashion label that filed for protection from creditors in May, may receive as much as 15 million euros ($21 million) from Bernard Krief Consulting...
STRONG MEDICINE: MOMS KNOW BEST
Many people are uninsured for a reason. Health insurance makes no economic sense for them. I'M not literally uninsured. But I started thinking hard about what ObamaCare would mean for...
MICROSOFT-ENS IN EU ANTITRUST DISCUSSION
Microsoft offered to include rival Web browsers on the Windows operating system to settle a European Union antitrust case, the EU said. Microsoft also offered to disclose information that would...
FLY US (BACK) TO THE MOON
Forty years ago, mankind marked one of the greatest accomplishments of our existence -- landing a man on the moon ("One Giant Leap," Editorial, June 20). As a tot whose...
'IDOL' KEN'S BOFFO DEAL
PAULA Abdul still hasn't inked a new deal to remain on "American Idol" -- but the show's executive producer is now a whole lot richer. "Idol" EP/showrunner Ken Warwick has...
EXAMS WE CAN RELY ON
WHEN schools and politics collide, is it ever really about the kids? In New York, the answer is usually "no." Mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson is using his position as comptroller...
MAD 'MEN'
I guess they don't call 'em maxims for nothing. "Don't judge a book by its cover," for example -- a lesson I learned going into this review. From what I'd...
BURCK'S BARE-BONES BID TO RUN THE NAKED CITY
Now I've heard everything ("The Naked Cowboy's Hat in Ring," July 21). Someone should tell this clown that if he is serious about holding a political position, he should move...
Sounds Like Affliction Is Out As MMA Promoter
UFC and Afflction Announce Collaboration Press ReleaseZuffa, LLC, owner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship "UFC" organization and Affliction Holdings, LLC announced late Friday they have agreed to a collaboration that...
COURT DOCS: OCTOMOM INKS SHOWBIZ DEAL FOR TOTS
Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman has signed agreements for each of her 14 children to earn $250 a day to star in a reality television show. The contracts filed Friday in...
CHAMBERLAIN PITCHES YANKEES TO 8-3 WIN OVER A'S
Joba Chamberlain pitched into the eighth inning and allowed two hits, Derek Jeter and Johnny Damon provided the offense and the New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 8-3 on...
MLS fines David Beckham $1,000
Follow the Post's soccer coverage on Twitter!MLS fined Galaxy star David Beckham $1,000 for inciting an incident with a fan at halftime of L.A.'s friendly against AC Milan. Four times...
Wagner, Reyes updates positive
HOUSTON -- Despite a suddenly dim outlook for John Maine, the Mets could take heart today that Jose Reyes and reliever Billy Wagner are showing strong progress while rehabbing in...