January 16, 2010
Elias leaves on stretcher in Devils' 1-3 loss to Colorado
DENVER — Craig Anderson made 37 saves, Chris Stewart and T.J. Galiardi scored and Patrik Elias was taken off the ice on a stretcher as the Colorado Avalanche hung on...
In Haitian countryside, a desperate struggle
As aid masses in Haiti's devastated capital, time is running out in rural areas where the damage is no less severe. In Leogane, frustrated men gathered Saturday with machetes and...
Thousands flee ruined Haiti capital
Haitians by the thousands jammed into rickety wooden buses and open trucks to escape the capital on today, days after a killer earthquake leveled much of the city and turned...
JFK terminal evacuated after man slips through 'secure' doors
An unidentified man carrying a bag strolled through two secure doors at JFK this afternoon without being stopped, triggering the evacuation of thousands of passengers and grounding all flights Terminal...
Elite NY team finally lands in stricken Haiti
When the twin towers came down on Sept. 11, 2001, deputy police inspector Robert Lukach was there, working on the pile, digging through the rubble for survivors. Joe Downey, a...
Obama confident on bank bailout tax
President Barack Obama expressed confidence today that lawmakers would approve his proposed tax on banks to recover bailout money, despite opposition from Republicans and the financial industry. "Like clockwork, the...
SI Ferry ends security freeze
Authorities have adjusted some security measures that were leaving late-night Staten Island Ferry passengers out in the cold. For months, police have been closing the ferry's Staten Island terminal between...
Grieving Lee wins management's respect
DETROIT - David Lee has gained new respect from Knicks management and the coaching taff with his actions from the past few days in gracefully handling tricky matters regarding his...
Gov: SUNY, CUNY should set own rates
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson says the state’s public universities should be allowed to set their own tuition rates. Right now, all tuition hikes at the State...
Paterson sends National Guard planes to Haiti
NIAGRA FALLS, N.Y. — Gov. David Paterson says he has dispatched two Air National Guard cargo planes to Haiti to assist in the relief effort. The pair of C-130 aircraft...
Clinton, Bush lead Haiti fundraising effort
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said today that America "stands united" with the Haitian people as he thanked two former presidents for agreeing to help raise billions to help rebuild...
Chaos as water reaches shattered city
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Precious water, food and early glimmers of hope began reaching parched and hungry earthquake survivors today on the streets of this shattered city, where despair at times...
Coakley's Foul Pitch
One of the great masters of politics -- former US House Speaker Tip O'Neil (D-MA) -- famously said, "All politics is local." If the public doesn't think a politician is one...
Oscar Watch: 'Hurt Locker' dominates women's night at Critics Choice Awards
The Broadcast Film Critics Association followed 90 percent of print critics' groups and gave its top award to the Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker,'' also naming Kathryn Bigelow as...
Serby's playoff Q&A with... Shonn Greene
The Post’s Steve Serby sat down with the 24-year-old rookie running back who rushed for 135 yards and a touchdown in the Jets’ wild-card win in Cincinnati last week. Q:...
Trendsetters: divisional round
JETS (+7) AT CHARGERS Gang Green have covered four of five in this series, four in a row on the road, four straight in conference, six of seven overall and...
Bets on Jets drive down Chargers line
The hotline to Las Vegas has learned, heading into the weekend of divisional playoffs, the betting public has returned to the NFL playoffs — with a vengeance. “I don’t know...
Meet a Charger: Nick Hardwick
#61, Center, 6-4, 295 pounds, Experience: Sixth year Most fans know about LaDainian Tomlinson, Philip Rivers, Shawne Merriman and a few other stars on the Chargers. Each day leading up...
Merriman to Jets: 'Bring your lunch'
SAN DIEGO — Shawne Merriman has heard all the talk this week. From Rex Ryan. From Bart Scott. From the TV pundits. Somehow his Chargers, winners of 11 straight games...
Plaintive wails from beneath the rubble in Haiti
From beneath the piles of broken concrete that was once a popular school and the reinforcement rods that didn’t reinforce came the voice of a desperate woman hoping to be...
PSAL boys basketball roundup: Van Buren shocks Cardozo at buzzer
Carl Benjamin’s 28-foot 3-pointer at the buzzer led Martin Van Buren to its biggest win in several years, a 66-63 last-second victory at Cardozo Friday night. Malcolm McGulivary had 19...
Wonder boy of Port-au-Prince
Fifty hours into its nightmare Port-au-Prince deserved a miracle. His name was Redjeson Hausteen Claude. Limp, bewildered and barely two years old, he was lifted from the rubble of his...
CHSAA boys basketball roundup: Mount falls short against Iona
Peter Aguilar scored a game-high 28 points, but it wasn’t enough as Mount St. Michael fell to defending CHSAA Class A champion Iona Prep, 84-72, in New Rochelle Friday night....
Girls basketball roundup: Markoe nets 1,000th point for MSIT
Kristen Markoe had 21 points, including the 1,000th of her career, to lead McKee/Staten Island Tech to a 64-53 win against Staten Island Academy in non-league girls basketball Friday night....
'The Hurt Locker' named best picture at Critics' Choice Awards
LOS ANGELES — James Cameron's "Avatar" and Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" won the most awards at Friday's Critics' Choice Awards, but the top honor went to Iraq war drama "The...
NBC near deal to allow Conan to leave network
LOS ANGELES — NBC neared a deal Friday with "Tonight" host Conan O'Brien to leave the network, freeing Jay Leno to reclaim the late-night show he stewarded for 17 years,...
Stanners stalled in overtime by Holy Cross
Jack Curran has been at this for awhile – 52 years to be exact. So he knows exactly what it takes to win close games late in CHSAA Class AA...
Falcons grounded by Christ the King
Bishop Ford knew what to expect, but didn’t look prepared. The Falcons knew that Christ the King would come out with early energy, especially since they handed the Royals just...
Cardiac Cross comes away with another close one
Holy Cross has three sophomores who play significant minutes, three sophomores who aren’t used to the day-to-day grind of CHSAA Class AA boys basketball. That youth and inexperience might have...
Jack attack: Rice cruises past Bishop Loughlin
In a game between the top two teams in New York City, Rice made a definitive statement Friday night in front of a packed house at Bishop Loughlin – the...
Royals race to big lead, win over Bishop Ford
Christ the King left little doubt about its feelings heading into a rematch with Bishop Ford. The players were exuding energy from the moment they stepped through the metal doors...
Trading places
She was sick of the city; I was bored with the ’burbs. So my friend Wednesday Martin and I figured we’d swap for a weekend. For starters, it was free,...
Kid stuff
TODAYHAUNTED HUDSON: If you like to be spooked, the play “Aunt Leaf” has chills to spare. Based on Hudson Valley folklore, it’s the tale of a mute young girl who...
The glow down
He’s been making Jennifer Lopez glow longer than Marc Anthony has. And in the decade he’s spent as her No. 1 makeup man, he’s gotten to know every curve on...
E! 'bling' kid
E! has ordered "Pretty Wild," which follows three teen sisters in Hollywood -- including alleged "bling ring" burglar Alexis Neiers, arrested last year and charged with breaking into Orlando Bloom's...
Solo debut a few Strokes short
In his short and sloppy New York solo debut, Julian Casa blancas didn't give a damn about stroking his fans. Instead, the Strokes frontman forgot the words to his songs,...
A man alone
In June 1981, an African- American man broke into a house in Shreve port, La., where three young girls were sleeping. He assaulted and raped the oldest, just 10 years...
Gaga Oprah cure
Pop star Lady Gaga per formed on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" yesterday -- a day after cancelling a concert at Purdue University because of an undisclosed illness. Gaga showed no...
Health 'reform' vs. the Constitution
Although Democrats think their health-care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead -- a constitutional challenge to the legislation's core. Democrats who assume it is...
Bam & the Democrats: bad news for New York
* Thank God for Michael Goodwin and the New York Post, without which the views of right-thinking New Yorkers would never be heard ("Why Do You Hate Us?" Jan. 13)....
Israeli harem sicko
When Goel Ratzon was finally arrested this week, Israelis wondered why it took so long to bust a self-styled savior who boasted of having 32 wives and 89 children. After...
'Junior' wants to start new chapter
John Gotti Jr., is dreaming of donning a new title -- children's book author. The mob clan scion said he's thinking of starting a new life now that it looks...
Moms 'earn' new respect
WASHINGTON -- The latest painful evidence of the recession is another increase -- to a record 963,000 -- in the number of working moms who are their families' sole breadwinners....
Landlords win court victory
Landlords may get some relief from chronically late-paying tenants thanks to a court ruling that appears to make it tougher for tenants to exploit the city's Housing Court to avoid...
Haiti airport chaos thwarts NY rescue teams
Instead of sifting through rubble in Haiti's destroyed capital, an elite rescue team of New York City police officers and firefighters was stuck at an upstate hotel yesterday because of...
Hood massacre report gutless and shameful
There are two basic problems with the grotesque non-report on the Islamist- terror massacre at Fort Hood (released by the Defense Department yesterday): * It's not about what happened at...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Staten Island--Two men were arrested for selling bootleg cigarettes, pills and a marijuana joint out of a New Brighton bodega, authorities said. Police, acting on a tip, got a search...
Wall St. bus hits the wall
Here's one bonus Wall Street bankers won't get this year. The X25 bus, an express line transporting financial hotshots from Grand Central Terminal to Wall Street, will soon be eliminated...
Cage's $14M tax bill
Nicolas Cage is on the hook for $14 million in federal taxes, he admitted yesterday. The actor's latest financial woes arose "due to a recent legal situation," Cage told People.com,...
O's Mideast delusion
A host of US and other en voys are rushing to the Middle East to pressure "both sides" -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi"...
A revolt in Camelot
In August, Ted Kennedy, the Lion of the Senate, the last son of Camelot, the soul of the Democratic Party, friend of the people and scourge of robber barons, fat...
Bloomy's big bonus babies
Three top election aides to Mayor Bloomberg walked off with $400,000 each in extra pay as the mayor doled out a record amount in bonuses in a record-shattering $108.4 million...
Judge won't spring Dominic
Axed NY1 anchor and wife-beater Dominic Carter will remain jailed until at least Tuesday, a Rockland County judge ruled yesterday, telling his lawyers to put in writing their request that...
Health-tax loophole slammed
Rep. Peter King yesterday slammed the "Big Labor loophole" that exempts union workers from the whopping 40 percent excise tax on high-cost health-care plans until 2018 while other New Yorkers...
Toast to survival
They raised a toast to life yesterday afternoon with glasses of vodka named for the bird that nearly killed them. One year to the minute after US Airways Flight 1549...
Banks break Wall Street's winning streak
Main Street's woes are dragging stocks back into their losing streak. The rout came after JPMorgan Chase yesterday posted deep losses on its loans in the fourth quarter, taking down...
Hilco CEO heads for the hills
One of the consumer sector's most acquisitive dealmakers is striking out on his own. Jamie Salter, CEO of Hilco Consumer Capital, which during the past two years has scooped up...
Hershey to sweeten bid
A bidding war for British candy maker Cadbury is on the verge of becoming a reality. Chocolate company Hershey is expected to make an offer next week that could top...
Gov & Shel at war
A bare-knuckle political brawl broke out yesterday between Gov. Paterson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver over who should have the authority to OK charter schools -- and it could jeopardize...
MTV joins Haiti telethon
MTV is joining the major broadcast networks and several cable channels for an all-star telethon for Haitian earthquake relief on Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. "Hope for Haiti" will be...
Raj plea club growing
Government prosecutors may soon have yet another person squealing about hedge funder Raj Rajaratnam. The feds yesterday asked for an extra month to indict three executives charged in a sweeping...
A fresh W. House veg scam
And the secret ingredient in the White House Iron Chef of America special -- stand-in vegetables. In a garden-variety produce-gate, the fresh veggies publicized as coming from the White House...
Business briefs
AIG net Former Treasury Sec retary Henry Paulson, former New York Fed Chairman Stephen Friedman and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have been asked to tes tify before a House panel...
Dimon's spitting mad
JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon yesterday blasted the White House's proposed Wall Street tax, arguing banks alone shouldn't be held responsible for a federal bailout of industries beyond the financial...
Flight 1549, one year later
The crew and passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 gathered on Manhattan's West Side yesterday to mark the one-year anniversary of the dramatic splash-landing of their goose-crippled aircraft in the...
Albany's entitlement ATM
Albany pols this week found a foolproof way of closing the state's looming $7 billion budget deficit: Ignore it. Or so it would seem: How else to explain the Assembly's...
Hoodwinked
The Pentagon yesterday served up a transparently bogus excuse for ig noring clear warning signs that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan -- the Army psychiatrist who gunned down 13 soldiers at...
J&J hit by recall, federal charges
Johnson & Johnson suffered a double whammy of bad news yesterday: federal charges of giving kickbacks to nursing homes and a national recall of Tylenol painkillers. The events helped wipe...
Judge OKs Reader's Digest reorg
The US Bankruptcy Court yesterday approved the reorganization plan of Reader's Digest Association, five months after it filed for bankruptcy. Under terms of the reorganization, which was overwhelmingly OK'd by...
Shooter's Waldorf story
A man charged with shooting a security guard at the Waldorf-Astoria was under the thumb of a schemer who fed him cocaine and put him up to trying to rob...
Club paddles stripper suit
Who knew nudie bars had such high standards? A Manhattan strip club claims two ex-dancers lack "sufficient moral character" to lead a $5 million-plus class-action lawsuit against it. Rick's Cabaret,...
B'way broadband brawl center stage
There's new drama on Broadway over the federal government's decision to reallocate radio frequencies used by stage crews and performers. Verizon and AT&T are taking over radio frequencies allotted to...
Phony NYPD cop in LI robberies
Nassau County police are on the lookout for an NYPD-cop impersonator who pulled off two robberies in Westbury. In the first case, a man and woman were confronted by the...
Bam, Rudy stump for critical Mass.
President Obama will spend some precious political capital on Massachusetts Senate hopeful Martha Coakley, stumping for the struggling Democratic candidate this weekend as Rudy Giuliani hit the Bay State yesterday...
Gilly rips ex factor
On-the-ropes Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has told people she believes two of Harold Ford Jr.'s biggest boosters are gunning for her because of her bad breakup with one of their brothers,...
Arenas' locker room taunts to teammate served 'duel' purpose
Stunning new details emerged yesterday of the chilling moment when Gilbert Arenas challenged his Washington Wizards teammate to a locker room duel -- as the troubled hoopster pleaded guilty to...
Pentagon: Army brass failed to hold down fort
A combination of religious radicalization and too little attention being paid to internal threats has left the military vulnerable to another Fort Hood-like massacre, Pentagon officials said yesterday after releasing...
Desperados are spreading fear in quake-ravaged Haiti
Fears of widespread looting and violence spread in earthquake-crippled Haiti yesterday as bands of desperate, machete-wielding survivors pillaged for food as relief aid slowly trickled into the devastated country, officials...
Bosh not giving out any hints
Chris Bosh said not to read anything into his uncontrollable laughter on a Ustream video when a caller asked about signing with the Knicks. But he hardly sounded convincing that...
Fewell fits Bill for Giants
Here is a warning for the Giants now that Perry Fewell is running the defense: You do something dumb, watch out. "If you get out there and consistently make mistakes,...
Nets’ Williams waived, jailed
On the same day he was waived by the Nets, forward Shawne Williams turned himself into authorities yesterday and was booked into Shelby County Jail in Memphis. He was indicted...
Ed Fountaine's Stakes Spot Plays
DANIA BEACH Gulfstream Park, sixth race. Purse: $100,000. Mile, turf, 3-year-olds. Post: 3:36 p.m. LOWDOWN: New York-bred City Trooper has held his own against some good state-bred stakes competition and...
Jets' Shonn Greene has know-how to finish job
Jets fans know Shonn Greene for his actions on the football field, but Calvin Taylor, a supervisor at McGregor's Furniture in Cedarville, Iowa, knows the rookie running back in an...
Thomas Jones: I'm good to go
Thomas Jones insisted his troublesome knee felt fine yesterday and said it won't be prohibitive for him tomorrow. Jones missed practice on Wednesday, though coach Rex Ryan assured reporters that...
Jets know they can't let Chargers nab momentum
SAN DIEGO -- Everyone knows it has been 41 years since the Jets captured their one and only Super Bowl. Even more eye-opening is the fact that it has been...
Nets torment with 36th loss
A group of eight protestors led by Daniel Goldstein, who has led the fight against the development of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, hoisted anti-Bruce Ratner banners last night...
Bosh proves he'll be a money player ... for somebody
Basically, says Chris Bosh, he is laughing all the way to the bank, just doesn't know yet whose bank. Everywhere he goes, people on the street want to throw the...
Former Mets catcher Stearns shedding ‘Bad’ name
The baseball landscape constantly is changing. John Stearns knows that, and to his credit he has changed with the times. He was once known as "Bad Dude," one of the...
'Schel' shocker
Herschel Walker knows some people think he's crazy, but he says those are the people who don't know his deep love for competition. That's what helped him win a Heisman...
Devils get another chance to best West
If the Devils' flight to the top of the East has cast them as supermen, then Western Conference opponents are proving to be their kryptonite. The Eastern Conference-leading Devils (32-12-1)...
Prospecting with Mets and Yankees
As the Hot Stove continues to cook up roster turnover for the Mets and defending champion Yankees, many of the teams' prospects and journeymen are seeing offseason action in the...
Knicks thumped on Italian Night
"Brutta Pallacanestro." That's Italian for "bad basketball." On Italian Heritage Night, that's what the Knicks offered up -- so lousy in that despicable first half they couldn't beat the Italian...
Boss ready for Yankees' next 'special' season
George Steinbrenner said he is looking forward to the start of the upcoming season. "I am. Aren't you?" the 79-year-old Boss said with a smile yesterday in Tampa. Steinbrenner spent...
Sports shorts
GRID: Jilted Vols hire La. Tech's Dooley Tennessee's frantic search to find a new coach is over, and the Volunteers are turning to Louisiana Tech's Derek Dooley. The son of...
Aqueduct Analysis
Today's analysis. 1. 1 mile; $23,000; clm($20,000); 4up FRAZIL was a gate to wire winner as the favorite in conditioned allowance at Finger Lakes. O'KID had the lead and tired...
The Post Line
NFL Today Favorite Opening Current (O/U) Underdog SAINTS 6½ 7 (57) Cardinals COLTS 6½ 6½ (44) Ravens Tomorrow CHARGERS 9 7 (42) Jets VIKINGS 3 3 (45½) Cowboys Home team...
Brashear benefits from Torts' 'numbers' game
The head coach of the Rangers likes to cite "numbers" when unable to provide a logical explanation for scratching players who have performed up to their capabilities. It's "numbers," John...
DiPietro up for Nassau return
Rick DiPietro has played just one game since rejoining the Islanders on their West Coast trip last week, and he has a chance to make his first appearance at the...
Saints eye slowing down high-powered Cardinals
NEW ORLEANS -- Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams is good friends with his Packers' defensive counterpart, Dom Capers. So when Williams watched the Cardinals eviscerate the Packers' defense last week...
Colts try learning from past
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Colts are trying to repress those old playoff memories. Back in 2005, they were undefeated entering December, had a bye week in early January and a home...
Jets' Damien Woody: We plan plane celebration
No one can say Damien Woody isn't confident about a Jets win this weekend. During a radio interview on WFAN with Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts yesterday, Benigno asked the...
Jets hope to steal page from '90 Giants
SAN DIEGO -- Stop me if you have heard this one before: On one side of the field stands a team with an offensive playbook that looks like a page...
Beltran, Minaya clear air about surgery
The Mets attempted to perform arthroscopic surgery yesterday on a strained relationship with Carlos Beltran. With questions flying about who knew what and when, general manager Omar Minaya said he...
Want to win? Then play like a Jet
"Play like a Jet." That's coach Rex Ryan's theme for his team, and tomorrow in San Diego the Jets again have the opportunity to make those powerful words ring true....
Rice supreme in city showdown
The CHSAA Class AA intersectional championship goes through Harlem. In a game between the top two teams in New York City, Rice made a definitive statement last night in front...
Jack Clark rips McGwire, A-Rod
Don't invite Jack Clark to the same party with admitted steroid users like Mark McGwire and Alex Rodriguez. "They're all creeps," said the 54-year-old Clark, the former Cardinals and Giants...
Weird but true
Don't eat the funny-colored snow. Snowdrifts in a Buffalo neighborhood turned a deep shade of pink after a cloud of dust was emitted from a food-coloring plant being demolished. Authorities...
Brooklyn guard sets pace for surging Pitt
By all accounts, Travon Woodall and the Pitt Panthers are on their third of what appears to be nine lives this season. The first one? Well, they appeared to be...
Against odds, survivors found in Haiti's rubble
She had already spent three days under the rubble, and by the time rescuers pulled the woman from the crumpled home, they told her crying relatives to dump her broken...
Minaya says he and Beltran 'good'
Mets general manager Omar Minaya said he spoke with Carlos Beltran and made it clear the center fielder isn’t the target of the organization’s frustration, this after the Mets claimed...
Video and quotes from Hans Backe's Red Bull intro
The Red Bulls introduced Hans Backe as head coach on Wednesday, and almost immediately sped down the Turnpike to the MLS SuperDraft yesterday. But I know a lot of you...