January 9, 2010
Spitzer slams Paterson for picking Gillibrand for Senate
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer came out swinging today -- slamming his successor for picking Kirsten Gillibrand to a Senate seat and calling out President Obama for meddling in the Democratic...
Rangers' Prospal could return Tuesday
BOSTON - So when Vinny Prospal tested his recently 'scoped right knee by skating on his own for 45 minutes this morning, the Blueshirts' alternate captain reported that he'd been...
Nets' next Kenyon wasn't
NEW ORLEANS – A Nets executive was watching Sean Williams go through his pre-game routine recently and raised a very valid point. "Watch Sean warm up," he said. "Have you...
Woody in Cincinnati to watch his Jets
CINCINNATI — After what had to be a difficult week as a father, Woody Johnson was back in an ownership capacity this afternoon. Johnson was in attendance for his Jets’...
Lundqvist, surging Rangers cruise past Bruins, 3-1
BOSTON - It's either that the Rangers have been blessed with a schedule over the last couple of weeks in which they've played a succession of inferior teams, or it's...
Gametracker: Jets at Bengals
Follow live as the Jets and Bengals square off in Cincinnati in a wild-card showdown.
Devils-Lightning to resume Sunday at 6 p.m.
Tomorrow at 6 p.m. the Devils will resume the game against Tampa that was suspended Friday because of a lighting failure.Friday’s tickets will be honored and ply will resume with...
Car service driver shot dead
A car service driver was found shot to death in his crashed Lincoln Town Car, close to his company's base in Queens. Police say 62-year-old Jaroslaw Bielawski was killed with...
Jets' Harris active for wild-card game
CINCINNATI — Jets linebacker David Harris was active Saturday for a playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals, allowing the Jets to have their top tackler in the lineup. Harris had...
St. John's stays winless in Big East; downed by Louisville, 75-68
LOUISVILLE -- Jared Swopshire scored 14 points and Louisville defeated St. John's 75-68 on Saturday. The Cardinals (12-4, 3-0 Big East) and the Red Storm (10-5, 0-3) were forced to...
Freeman's 28 leads Georgetown past UConn, 72-69
WASHINGTON -- Austin Freeman scored 28 of his career-high 33 points in the second half, helping No. 12 Georgetown erase a 15-point halftime deficit and come back to beat No....
Public option appears doomed
WASHINGTON — Senior House Democrats have largely abandoned hopes of including a government-run insurance option in the final compromise health care bill taking shape, according to several officials, and are...
Knicks' lottery pick Hill sits behind undrafted Landry
HOUSTON – Where does Mr. Lotto pick, Jordan Hill stand? Behind undrafted Marcus Landry, that's been made clear.In another indictment on how far Hill has fallen off the radar, Mike...
Colts' Manning wins record fourth MVP
Maybe the award should be renamed Most Valuable Peyton. Peyton Manning became the first player to win The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player honors four times. The Indianapolis Colts'...
Schumer recruited Bam before he backed Hillary Clinton: claim
Sen. Charles Schumer played both sides of the fence in the lead up to the 2008 presidential primaries -- actively recruiting Barack Obama to run as an alternative to Hillary...
Landon Donovan gets start, assist in Everton debut v Arsenal
Landon Donovan sure knows how to make an entrance. The U.S. National Team star didn’t wait long to make an impact on his loan to Everton. He not only got...
Zazi pal pleads not guilty to terror training charges
The Queens high school buddy of an alleged al Qaeda bomb plotter was arraigned in Brooklyn federal court this afternoon on two charges of receiving military-type training from the terrorist...
Bills' Marshawn Lynch accused of stealing $20 from cop's wife: report
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch reportedly has been accused of stealing $20 from a police officer's wife. The Buffalo News reported today on its Web site...
Death toll from Angola soccer shooting rises to 3
CABINDA, Angola — A goalie for Togo’s national soccer team said on French radio Saturday that the death toll from a shooting attack on the team’s bus in Angola has...
CIA bomber calls for attacks on U.S. in video
CAIRO — The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan said in video clips broadcast posthumously today that all jihadists must attack U.S. targets...
3 arrested after Heathrow bomb threat
LONDON — British police have arrested three men who allegedly made a bomb threat on a plane at London’s Heathrow Airport. Police say the Britons were pulled off an Emirates...
Hondo, Lewis ’09 Heroes
In two tightly contested events, similar to the AFC wild-card race, Hondo and Brian Lewis took home the honors in The Post’s Saturday’s Heroes college football handicapping competition. Hondo, with...
Trendsetters: Wild Card round
JETS (+21⁄2) AT BENGALS Gang Green have covered four of the past five road games, six of the past eight vs. winning home teams and eight of the past 11...
Vegas ready for wild weekend of rematches
The hotline to Las Vegas takes you inside thw wild-card weekend of the NFL playoffs, telling bettors what direction the lines are moving, and by how much. EAGLES-COWBOYS Cowboys –31⁄2:...
Monmouth sophomore plays like a beast
Perry Clark has been a Division I coach for 18 years, including five in Conference USA and four in the Big East. He has qualified for postseason play nine times,...
Yankees and Mets in Winter League action
As the hot stove continues to cook up roster turnover for the Mets and defending champion Yankees, many of the teams’ prospects and journeymen saw offseason action in the Caribbean...
Cher-ing wisdom
Cher may not be able to turn back time — but at least she can pass along years of experience to the younger generation of divas. The Oscar-winning actress was...
Ex-Yankees reliever Stanton pumped to start coaching New Jersey prep team
Mike Stanton has yet to retire from baseball officially, but he has found himself a pretty good job in the game he loves. The lefty reliever, who earned three championship...
Pacquiao-Mayweather flop hurts boxing and fighters' reputations
Moments after Manny Pacquiao earned a 12th-round TKO over Miguel Cotto in November, boxing was at the forefront of general sports conversation again. Ross Greenburg, the president of HBO Sports,...
Ed Fountaine’s Stakes Spot Plays
SUGAR SWIRL Gulfstream Park, sixth race. Grade 3. Purse: $100,000. Six furlongs, fillies and mares. Post: 3:36 p.m. LOWDOWN: Tar Heel Mom makes here first start of the year after...
Conti, Davis secure bragging rights for Holy Cross
Evan Conti thrives for the spotlight and there’s no bigger game for Holy Cross than the annual Battle of the Boulevard clashes with archrival St. Francis Prep. “I love it,”...
Mountaineers hold off late Hayes rally
There were too many positives for Tom Fraher to dwell on the lone negative. The Mount St. Michael coach watched his team outmuscle and outhustle rival Cardinal Hayes for three...
PSAL boys basketball roundup: Smith's big night keys Midwood's victory over New Utrecht
Bryan Smith had 32 points, 10 rebounds and six assists, as Midwood pulled out a big road win over New Utrecht, 75-71, in Brooklyn A South boys basketball Friday night....
Girls basketball roundup: Kolenovic propels Baruch over School of the Future
Ismeta Kolenovic had 22 points and seven assists and Jenny Yu added 12 points to lead Baruch College Campus to a 56-42 home win against previously undefeated School of the...
Finally, a favorable verdict for Judges
Dating back to last February, Cardozo had been involved in five games decided by single digits. The Judges had lost them all, finding different and unique ways to snag defeat...
Forest Hills takes positives from OT loss to Cardozo
Ben Chobhaphand never used the phrase “moral victory” in discussing Forest Hills’ hard-fought 73-67 overtime loss in Bayside to Cardozo. Yet, the Rangers coach didn’t seem overly upset, either. Clearly,...
What's up?
TODAY TEEN SPIRIT: Adolescent angst gets a new voice — 13 voices, in fact — in the New Vic’s “Once and for All We’re Going To Tell You Who We...
4 teens 2 look 4 in 2010
Dance Samantha Barriento When you’re a young dancer, talent is no guarantee for success: You need to mix it with passion and a lot of hard work. 17-year-old Samantha has...
CHSAA boys basketball roundup: Rouse, Molloy shock Christ the King
Ernest Rouse exploded for 34 points, including the game-winning layup with 15 seconds left in the fourth quarter, to lead Archbishop Molloy to a stunning upset of Christ the King,...
Rowr! Sexy ladies on the musical prowl
Coo, coo, ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson — at last there’s a show to call your own. “Cougar: The Musical,” playing tonight and Monday at the Theatre at St. Peters, is the...
The Jets set
Question: What’s the one thing more heart-racing than this afternoon’s Jets playoff game? Answer: The Jets cheerleaders — and their sexy, athletic dance moves. And now you can get as...
St. Mike's, Bishop Ford to face off on MLK Day
One of the matchups we didn’t think we would see until the postseason is coming a little earlier than expected.St. Michael Academy and Bishop Ford, two of the best teams...
St. John's Prep beats Fontbonne, creates three-way tie for first
CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens Division II has no shortage of company at the top. Junior guard Lashonda Hathorne scored 16 points as visiting St. John’s Prep dropped previously unbeaten Fontbonne Hall, 53-45,...
Improved Kennedy plays even with Bergtraum for half
Jazzarae Campbell knew one of the keys to beating Murry Bergtraum. The John F. Kennedy senior has played the Lady Blazers enough times to have a pretty good idea of...
Third the charm for late-starting Lady Blazers
Ed Grezinsky warned his team beforehard. No game against John F. Kennedy, up in The Bronx, is a walk in the park, the Murry Bergtraum girls basketball coach told his...
20 years in a row
The longest-running scripted series in prime-time history isn't "Gunsmoke," or even "Law & Order." It is, believe it or not, "The Simpsons," which turns (help me!) 20 years old tomorrow....
NY's world weekend
Devoted world music fans -- and those who just dabble in it via Vampire Weekend -- can live it up today and tomorrow when two festivals import sounds from around...
Nick fix a Jonas bonus
"Was it good?" That's what Nick Jonas asked me as he stood backstage at the Beacon Theatre on Thursday, clad in a sweaty white T-shirt just minutes after his encore...
Prez won't bump megahyped 'Lost' premiere
Good news for fans of "Lost" -- the president doesn't plan to mess up the ABC series' season premiere. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says he doesn't foresee a scenario...
Randy talks 'Idol'
There won't be anyone quite like Adam Lambert on the next season of "American Idol." Easygoing "Idol" judge Randy Jackson told reporters yesterday during a conference call that he expected...
Death hosp under watch
A Brooklyn hospital where a neglected patient died in a waiting room will undergo improvements mandated by a consent decree aimed at settling litigation over conditions there. The settlement announced...
O's 'fixes' will fail
On Christmas day, a terrorist known to our intelligence system tried to blow up 300 innocents on a US-bound flight. Our government's response is to take porno pictures of your...
Chubby puts 'twist' in Medicare plan
WASHINGTON -- The feds had to go back a bit to find just the right Baby Boomer to help publicize a new twist in the Medicare drug program -- 68-year-...
Hill's push to map out Palestinian state
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration and Jordan laid out a new tack in Mideast peace efforts yesterday, pressing Israel and the Palestinians to take on the tough issues of borders...
Un-chartered waters, unaccountable schools
* The real "UFT Charter Chicanery" (Editorial, Jan. 5) is that charter schools are just another way for fat cats to channel public money into their own pockets. Charters pay...
YouTube copyright case is on
Google Inc.'s Web video site YouTube Inc. will seek to persuade the judge in the copyright suit brought against it by Viacom Inc. that federal law protects it from being...
Vada thug a court jester
A Bronx thug tied to the shooting of 15-year-old Vada Vasquez treated his arraignment yesterday like a comedy act rather than a court date. Clivie Smith, 19, one of the...
Time to change course
A year ago, I was privileged to be one of several guests at a dinner with President- elect Obama. One thing that struck me and others, aside from his courtesy...
Business briefs
Geithner called Timothy Geithner was asked to testify before Congress the week of Jan. 18 about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's efforts to limit American International Group Inc.'s...
What Domino's can teach the GOP
This is one of those rare moments when the conventional wis dom in Washington is right. The Democrats are poised to have a bad year; the only argument is over...
No big boost for Best Buy
Wall Street continued to fret over flimsy margins at Best Buy, as the top electronics chain left its fourth-quarter profit outlook untouched despite strong December sales. Shares of the gadget...
How did 'undy bomber' get a visa?
Forget about no-fly lists, full-body scanners and air marshals. All the loud recriminations about who should have done what to stop the underwear bomber from boarding a plane to Detroit...
Arbor day of reckoning
A 101-year-old Maine man's love for a majestic tree took root more than 50 years ago and he has helped it survive numerous bouts of disease and win fame as...
Pal: Tiger will roar back in '10
Tiger Woods' former coach Butch Harmon believes the world's top golfer could return to the sport in March. Woods, who is taking an indefinite break from the golf tour, has...
NY1's Carter in new 'abuse' probe
Cops are probing an allegation that disgraced former NY1 anchor Dominic Carter assaulted his wife again -- just days after he lamented to The Post that he "dropped the ball...
O's economy 'power' play
WASHINGTON -- President Obama yesterday responded to a report that raised doubts about the recovery's sustainability by outlining a plan to create "the jobs of the future." "Building a robust...
UBS sells 299 Park stake
UBS cashed out of 299 Park Ave. on Thursday, selling its 49.5 percent stake to real estate investment firm Rockpoint Group, The Post has learned. Rockpoint paid $150 million cash...
Jacko doc prepped to face music
LOS ANGELES -- Nearly seven months after Michael Jackson's shocking death at age 50, prosecutors expect to indict the King of Pop's doctor for involuntary manslaughter, a law-enforcement source told...
Silencer on NBA gun flap
Silence is golden for the Washington Wizards' Javaris Crittenton. Crittenton has escaped suspension largely by keeping his mouth shut during a probe of allegations he brandished a gun against teammate...
7 charter schools to get OK as state nears limit of 200
The state Board of Regents is expected to approve seven new city charter schools at its monthly meeting Tuesday -- slicing to 23 the number of charters that can be...
Injury suit nags horse's owner
An "unruly" horse bolted during a guided trail ride and threw a 46-year-old Forest Hills pharmacist, breaking her arm, charges a lawsuit filed last month in Queens civil court. "They...
OTB steps up to bar with betting kiosks
In what would be the largest expansion of gambling in the city's history, the chairman of the Off-Track Betting Corp. yesterday proposed adding up to 1,300 betting kiosks around the...
StuyTown default worries 5,000 tenants
That'll hurt your credit score. New York real estate giant Tishman Speyer yesterday missed a $16 million mortgage payment for Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, raising questions about the future of...
Yahoo! CEO: I'll take a B-
Carol Bartz gives herself a B-minus in her first year as chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc., saying she could have moved faster to reorganize the company and strike a...
BlackRock bets on Saks
BlackRock raised its stake in Saks to 12.7 percent, bolstering the investment fund's profile among financial and retail heavyweights with a big bet on the luxury chain. The giant money-management...
Duke 5th Ave. manse goes on block
The real estate bubble hasn't burst for everyone. A palatial and historic Fifth Avenue townhouse that was sold to a Russian oil tycoon by the family of Doris Duke four...
Enjoy watching Peacock eat crow
Jay Leno must be getting some satisfaction out of seeing the suits at NBC -- a fourth-place network whose bosses fail upward at an alarming rate -- choke on a...
What are they so afraid of?
New Yorkers fight their own battles. So does that mean appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand isn't really a New Yorker? Well, her roots are in Albany (which could explain a lot)...
At war -- maybe
President Obama's comments Thurs day may suggest that he now recog nizes the nation is "at war" -- but his actions sure suggest otherwise. And what better illustrates this than...
Bridge 'terror' thug's Allah cry
A Queens man tied to a suspected al Qaeda-trained terrorist may have been trying to kill himself when he crashed his car into the back of another at the Bronx-Whitestone...
Brittany ma's 911 anguish
Brittany Murphy's mom sobs uncontrollably and begs for help as a 911 operator instructs her on how to perform CPR on her unconscious daughter in a tape of the heartbreaking...
Harold's Ford tough
Harold Ford Jr.'s side came out swinging today at top Democrats for trying to "bully" him out of challenging low-polling Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a primary -- as he amped...
Prada may name Kress new US CEO
Prada is close to naming ex-Bulgari executive Francois Kress to lead its US operations, sources told The Post. As The Post reported last September, Kress left his managing director post...
'Foot' brawl duo get sack
A foot model and her former porter hubby have gotten the boot from the building they said was discriminating against their forbidden love. Christina Ambers and Angel Rotger cleared out...
Mike's 'beach patrol'
Call it Tropical Storm Mike. Officials in Bermuda, where Mayor Bloomberg maintains a vacation home, are insisting that he vowed to send NYPD officers to help with the island's gang...
Companies slashed 85,000 jobs in Dec.
US employers cut 85,000 jobs in December, confounding expectations the labor market was finally stabilizing and piling pressure on President Barack Obama to spur job growth. The jobless rate held...
Thiel gets a tanning
It must have been a sad holiday season for investor Peter Thiel. The Silicon Valley investor, who turned a $500,000 investment in Facebook five years ago into gold, is having...
Pablo no! Bust over fake art
Whoever bought this painting was in for one heck of a blue period. Feds busted a Hollywood antique dealer yesterday for allegedly selling a phony Pablo Picasso painting for $2...
Sweetie 'Pie': Go bye-bye
"American Pie" star Natasha Lyonne wants the dad she says abandoned her as a child to leave her alone. The actress was in Manhattan Family Court yesterday seeking an order...
DC at-tax Wall St.
The Obama administration is floating the idea of imposing a tax on Wall Street, possibly tied to bonuses, as part of its next budget, The Post has learned. According to...
Break in Tylenol murders
In a possible break in the unsolved 1982 Tylenol poisonings, a man long considered the main suspect has been ordered by a Massachusetts judge to provide palm and fingerprints and...
Bomber's day in court 'brief'
The Christmas Day bomber had his first day in court in Detroit yesterday, but it amounted to a few mumbled words to a judge before he was whisked back to...
B'klyn stickups probed as Jew-hate spree
Jews in Crown Heights have been terrorized by a spate of gunpoint robberies fueled by anti-Semitism, police sources said. Most of the six attacks occurred during the span of a...
Conan may be Jay-walking
Conan O'Brien will likely get a sweetheart offer from a rival network when Jay Leno returns to the coveted 11:35 p.m. perch -- and Fox could be leading the charge,...
Chicken fight is on at KFC
The colonel must be rolling over in his lard-coated grave. The powers that be at Kentucky Fried Chicken have embarked upon a Civil War of Southern-fried proportions over the future...
US says Hugo is plane crazy
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says a US military plane entered Venezuelan airspace and was met by his military's F-16s, which escorted it out. Chavez is calling it...
Biden mom dies
WILMINGTON, Del. -- Jean Biden, who raised her son, Vice President Joe Biden to believe in what he called "America's creed . . . everyone is your equal," died yesterday...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Bronx--A Queens man who drunkenly mowed down a pedestrian with his red Mini-Cooper on an Eastchester street was arrested yesterday, cops said. Gerard King, 53, was driving on Gun Hill...
NEW VIDEO: Newark scare guy just wanted a kiss
Buss-ted! Cops have caught the notorious kissing bandit who caused a major security scare at Newark Airport Sunday when he strolled through a checkpoint the wrong way to give his...
Aqueduct Analysis
Today's analysis. 1. 6 fur; $12,000; clm($7,500); 4up TRIPLE GLORY drops in class after closing to finish fourth at this distance. THE MAYOR drops in class after showing some closing...
Sports shorts
NFL: Seahawks fire Mora, court USC's Carroll The Seahawks fired Jim Mora after just one season yesterday, leaving the former NFC West champs without a coach, general manager and president...
Islanders fall to Stars, 4-3 in DiPietro's return
DALLAS -- Brad Richards scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second period, Marty Turco stopped all seven shots he faced in the final period, and the Dallas Stars snapped...
Austin went for Miles
Imagine the regret by the fantasy owner who drafted Matt Forte, Steve Slaton, Steve Smith (the Carolina bust, not the Giants breakout star) and T.J. Houshmandzadeh and Jay Cutler. That...
Mysterious power outage postpones Tampa Bay's rout of Devils
For the first time in team history, a Devils home game was postponed last night after lights in the north end of the Prudential Center dimmed with 9:12 left in...
Houston: Knicks' Lee should be playing with LeBron in All-Star Game
HOUSTON -- Allan Houston sees a difference in David Lee, and it's not the gaudy numbers. Houston sees an All-Star by his definition. Houston, now the assistant to the president,...
Rangers' Tortorella sends message with Gaborik benching
BOSTON -- On Thursday night in Atlanta, did coach John Tortorella bite the hand that has fed the Rangers all season? After benching Michal Rozsival in Washington on Oct. 8...
Cowboys could end drought with sweep of Eagles
Before last week's regular-season finale, the Eagles were quietly rising in the NFC and considered perhaps the most dangerous team in the conference, surging with six consecutive victories just as...
Big-talkin' Jets out to silence Bengals
CINCINNATI — It's been just six days since the Jets' 37-0 beatdown of the Bengals at Giants Stadium, a convincing win that catapulted them into the playoffs for the first...
The Post Line
NFL Wild-Card Playoffs Today Favorite Opening Current (O/U) Underdog BENGALS 1 2½ (33½) Jets COWBOYS 3½ 3½ (45) Eagles Tomorrow PATRIOTS 4 3½ (43) Ravens CARDINALS 1½ Pick (47½) Packers...
Eagles' Reid must unload biggest weapons
PHILADELPHIA -- It's no secret the Eagles have a speed advantage they must exploit to reverse two regular-season losses to bigger and stronger Dallas tonight at Cowboys Stadium. Even if...
Bengals' Benson, Jets' Jones banged heads, fists in Chicago
CINCINNATI -- Cedric Benson knew he and Thomas Jones would be in the playoffs together. He just thought it would be on the same sideline, not the opposing. The two...
Many happy returns for Jets' new special-teamers
The Jets' special teams have weathered the loss of not one, but two return men this season. Rather than hurt Gang Green's run to the playoff, however, the new returners...
Vaccaro: Against Bengals, Jets' big mouths welcome over yawns
CINCINNATI -- I hereby make this pledge to you, dear reader: From this day forward, I will never, ever -- as in forever -- criticize or demonize or otherwise criminalize...
Trio of DTs star in place of injured Jenkins
CINCINNATI -- Kris Jenkins was offended when The Post asked him about the "no-name" players who collectively have replaced him since he was lost for the season after six games...
Doris Ryan ready to cheer for her boy, Rex
CINCINNATI -- Rex Ryan will try to beat the Bengals tonight, try to get his first playoff victory as Jets head coach, and down in Ardmore, Okla., a football-crazed mother...
D'Antoni: No need to ban card playing on trips
HOUSTON -- With the league-wide scrutiny over gambling among players that led to the Gilbert Arenas locker-room gunplay, coach Mike D'Antoni said he's not following the Nets lead and prohibiting...
Jets TE Keller's vow: 'We'll make you proud'
CINCINNATI -- Buses occupied by big-game hunters oozing swagger left the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center in Florham Park, N.J., at 1:30 p.m. yesterday for Newark Airport and the Continental...
Nets sickened by last-minute loss to Hornets, 103-99
NEW ORLEANS -- A fire broke out well before tip-off in a trash compactor, turning New Orleans Arena into a smoky mess that irritated the eyes ands lungs. So the...
Weird but true
He must have been in a hurry for that early-bird special. A 92-year-old man plowed his car through the front window of a Florida restaurant and then walked inside and...
Alabama already next year's top team
PASADENA, Calif. -- Nick Saban celebrated Thursday night. By yesterday morning Alabama's national champion coach was reverting back to his same-old successful worrying self. The Tide are the early pick...
Manhattan rebounds with big win over St. Peter's, 76-53
After Manhattan suffered through a three-game losing skid -- and giving away the last of those games by squandering a big halftime lead -- the Jaspers apparently learned from their...
Pitino: N.Y. talent key to St. John's revival
Rick Pitino saw some of the glory years at St. John's up close. He coached at Big East foe Providence in the mid-1980's after sharing a home court with the...
Cops nab man who breached Newark security
The man believed to have caused a security breach that resulted in major delays Sunday at Newark Liberty Airport was arrested Friday night at his home, authorities said, as the...
U.S. denies it violated Venezuelan airspace - reports
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that he had ordered F-16 jets to intercept a U.S. military plane that twice violated Venezuelan airspace on Friday, Xinhua state media reported. Speaking...
Sheepshead Bay leads B'klyn nabes in 2009 crime drop
Sheepshead Bay led the borough in crime reduction in 2009, according to year-end numbers. Far out-pacing its neighbors in southern Brooklyn, as well as commands in tony downtown Brooklyn, the...
Last weeks for Williamsburg's MonkeyTown
Stain Bar. Black Betty. Sound Fix Lounge. The past year has seen several intriguing performance spaces in williamsburg close. Now, add to that list MonkeyTown. A multiple hyphenate (restaurant-bar-performance space-film...
P.S. 203 troupe rocks Senior Center
Members at the Midwood Senior Center received a rollicking start to a new decade, courtesy of bright-eyed students from Public School 203 who jumpstarted Year 2010 with a concert of...
Bay Ridge before the bridge is subject of new novel
Is our childhood always golden? Does the distance created by the passage of years transmute pot metal into gold, creating halcyon days softened gently and almost imperceptibly by the action...
Good year for 76th Precinct
The 76th Precinct ended the year even better than it began it — reducing overall crime by an additional 6.5 percent.Overall, there were 550 major crimes reported in the precinct,...
Freddy Adu still draws a crowd
Give Freddy Adu this much; young buck is still a draw. Despite the fact the young U.S. attacker has struggled for playing time in all of his stops in Europe,...
Christmas terror suspect says '20 more in training'
A young Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a US airliner boasted during his interrogation that some 20 others were being trained to carry out similar attacks, CBS reported...
Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: Insert clever pun headline here
Made in the same style as the previous Zelda games to hit DS systems, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is the latest adventure in the Zelda franchise.Spirit Tracks has...