February 10, 2012
Sanit. man cuffed in iPad swipe
A sanitation worker was busted today after swiping an iPad from a restaurant in the East Village, cops said. Michael Maldonado, 38, allegedly pilfered the pricey electronic device after being...
First photo: Beyonce shows off baby
The world’s best-known, much-hyped one-month-old just had her coming out party. Photos of Blue Ivy Carter being cradled by mom Beyonce and proud pop Jay-Z were posted online today, along...
MF Global trustee raises tally of missing funds to $1.6B
The trustee supervising the liquidation of MF Global Holdings' brokerage said Friday that more than $1.6 billion in customer cash remains out of his grasp, more than previously estimated. The...
Fur real
On this very, very cold day, I am craving one of Yigal Azrouel's majorly oversized fur hats that he showed today. Divine.
'Toddlers' producer: 'Our show is not fake'
Producers of the polarizing reality series “Toddlers and Tiaras” are fighting back at claims their show is a fake. Earlier this week, a pageant director -- who has been affiliated...
Kimberly Ovitz
Kimberly Ovitz's front row was dotted with people from her past: J. Crew creative director Jenna Lyons, wearing a fur coat with at least three animal's tails dangling from the...
Nautica
From a design perspective Nautica never strays too far from the shore, but as common sense suggests, consistency is paramount to creativity in brand-building. To that measure, the men's presentation...
Accused UVA lacrosse murderer weeps in court
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of murdering his girlfriend was distraught when told by police she had died and kept insisting "She's not dead....
Joba makes 15 throws at Yankees camp
TAMPA, Fla. -- Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain made 15 throws in his second session on a half-mound at the team’s minor-league complex, part of his rehabilitation after elbow ligament replacement...
Jardine making most of fifth year at Syracuse
SYRACUSE -- The game was tied in the final minute of overtime as Scoop Jardine surveyed the floor and began a drive from the top of the key. The crowd...
Dad of subway bomb plotter gets prison time
A federal judge has sentenced the father of an admitted terrorist to 4 ½ years in prison for destroying evidence and lying to investigators. Mohammed Wali Zazi was sentenced Friday...
POST NBA POWER RANKINGS: Stop the Linsanity
New York and the rest of the basketball world is going Linsane over Jeremy Lin.Yes, Lin has performed well over the past three games, but to anoint him the Knicks’...
Teacher's aide busted at PS 87 on sex-abuse charges
A teacher's aide at one of Manhattan’s top public elementary schools is under arrest on sex-abuse related charges, school officials said today. Gregory Atkins, 56, had worked at PS 87...
Fashionistas flock to Rebecca Taylor
People just can't get enough of pretty! PHOTOS: REBECCA TAYLORAlways a packed house at the Rebecca Taylor show, this season seems even more so. The overflowing room, filled with industry...
WATCH: Workers fight off crook at discount store
Two workers tried to fight off a crook in a wild struggle captured on video in a Bushwick 99 Cent store, police said. The shoplifter stuffed merchandise into his jacket...
Disgraced 'ogle' teacher retires
The city's king of the "rubber room" has stepped down. Disgraced educator Alan Rosenfeld, 66, retired on February 3, after a decade of milking tax payers for a $100,049-a-year salary...
GM wins environmental approval for new $1.1B plant in China
DETROIT -- General Motors has won approval from an environmental authority group in China for a new $1.1 billion vehicle assembly plant. While the Detroit automaker says it has not...
California hedge fund chief charged with insider trading
A northern California hedge fund manager was charged Friday with making a series of improper trades in Google Inc. and other technology companies based on inside information, the latest in...
Fire might have claimed 'Gone with the Wind' items
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. — Museum officials are waiting to see whether memorabilia from the classic film "Gone with the Wind" was ruined when a fire heavily damaged the facility near Atlanta...
Judge: Laurie Fine's past not relevant in SU suit
Salacious claims about the wife of an assistant Syracuse University basketball coach who was fired after claims that he molested boys have no bearing in the slander lawsuit two of...
Red Bulls to host Tottenham July 31 or Aug. 1; included in season ticket package
Red Bulls fans _ and especially their season ticket-holders _ are about to get a nice surprise in the next week or two. The Post has learned that the team...
Mets GM keeps mocking money troubles
He’ll be here all week, apparently.Sandy Alderson continued to make light of the Mets’ money problems on his new Twitter account Friday.“Bought 4 like-new tires at chop shop across from...
Mom can return to children in India after Hudson River tot toss
There was a happy ending today for the psychotic mom who threw herself and her 19-month-old daughter into the frigid Hudson River two years ago: She can now rejoin the...
Fox Searchlight execs say 'Shame' may not pay off financially
The controversial drama "Shame" has already made $10.5 million worldwide despite its NC-17 rating. But, it's only taken in $3.5 million in the US for domestic distributor Fox Searchlight. And,...
Nazareth in clear, player ruled eligible: CHSAA committee
Nazareth’s season is no longer in jeopardy. The CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens Infractions and Eligibility Committee ruled Friday that freshman Mary Louis transfer Brittany Jackson was eligible to play and the Lady...
Rag & Bone Men
As the show began, ribbons of neon color etched across a large LED screen in rhythmic patterns. The effect was of a futuristic tapestry, and it prefaced the exquisite jacquard...
Rachel Comey
The Rachel Comey girl might affectionately be described as geek-chic. But she went edgier for fall, with long, sexy black dresses held up by clear plastic straps, a boxy gunmetal...
'Kidnap mom' takes plea deal, says swiping newborn was 'wrong'
The “kidnap mom” charged with abducting a newborn from Harlem Hospital in 1987 and raising the girl as her own for more than 20 years pleaded guilty this afternoon to...
Red Bulls' Backe: We should go for it all, Open Cup, Shield, MLS Cup
Coach Hans Backe raised Red Bulls’ fans’ eyebrows last year when he said he’d rather win the Supporters’ Shield than MLS Cup, and raised their ire when he essentially conceded...
Lopez could be back with Nets after All-Star break
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – There was a ton of news surrounding the Nets during the morning shootaround here Friday.-- For five more wins, Deron Williams would trade the All-Star selection...
No indict yet for Swedish pair accused in W Hotel sex attack
Manhattan prosecutors have held off -- at least for now -- on indicting a pair of now-lawyered-up Swedish tourists busted after a 19-year-old Texas woman accused them of sexually molesting...
'American Idol' recap: Hollywood Week, Part 1
Well, here we are in Hollywood, where the 300-plus who survived the road show are apparently in for the ride. From the sounds of these drama queens, auditioning during Hollywood...
St. John's staffer Colleary placed on leave over scalping
Brian Colleary, St. John's senior associate athletic director for external affairs/finance, is expected to be placed on administrative leave Friday by the University as part of an investigation into allegations...
Game 28: Nets at Pistons
Game Time: 7:30 p.m.Venue: The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MichiganTelevision: YES NetworkNets expected starting lineup: PG Deron Williams: 20.9 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 8.6 apgSG Anthony Morrow: 14.3 ppg,...
MTA workers bust man sexually assaulting woman on J train tracks: cops
A career criminal snatched a 36-year-old woman after she exited a J train at the Bowery station in Manhattan, tossed her onto the subway tracks and sexually assaulted her, police...
Obama signs Giffords' final bill into law
WASHINGTON -- President Obama signed Gabrielle Giffords' border security bill into law Friday with the former Arizona congresswoman at his side. The Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act of 2012, which...
Knicks' newest star getting used to 'Linsanity'
Knicks new point guard sensation Jeremy Lin admitted Friday he was still getting used to the new attention he has been getting and credited media and fans for all the...
Revival Circuit: Wild Bill at Film Forum
Film Forum opens its fabulous three-week William Wellman retrospective today with Paramount's gorgeous new digital restoration of the Oscar-winning "Wings'' (which I wrote about when it premiered on Blu-ray) running through Sunday.Among...
John Bartlett
Though an overbooked presentation space and rumored Wu-Tang Clan appearance had the line at Milk Studios backed up to the Hudson, the showing at John Bartlett made it worth the...
Duckie Brown
It was all about fusion at Duckie Brown -- and in more ways than one. Starting with brand-defining refined worker wear, the design duo sent their boy on a fantastic...
Whit
Aiming for the moon, Kate Spade alum Whitney Pozgay presented a series of space age designs at the mod west side Yotel, a venue vaguely reminiscent of the Korova Milk...
Costello Tagliapietra
While we all know to expect dresses from the boys at Costello Tagliapietra, it’s still always nice to see the next perfectly draped dress that every sophisticated lady will be...
Cynthia Rowley
A tailor for a mechanic with a sense of humor: Who knew such random things could come together and form such an intriguing fashion collection? With “mechanics, cobblers and leathermen”...
Richard Chai -- Love
Keeping in step with the show's soundtrack -- a continuous loop playing versions of The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now" -- the Richard Chai -- Love collection was a unisex...
Norwegian court orders psychiatric observation for man who killed 77 people in twin attacks
OSLO -- A Norwegian court Friday ordered that the man who killed 77 people in twin attacks last July should undergo psychiatric observation to determine his mental state before his...
Video clears B'klyn man charged with trying to run down cop
A Brooklyn homeowner charged with racing his car toward a cop and making the officer jump out of the way to save his life was himself saved by a surveillance...
Former state Sen. Nicholas Spano says he'll plead guilty in tax case
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Former state Sen. Nicholas Spano has been charged with federal tax evasion and says he will plead guilty. The Yonkers Republican was once one of New...
'Jersey Shore' recap - Season 5, episode 6
It was a family affair last night on ‘Jersey Shore.’The episode starts out with the Situation looking to stir the pot with Snooki once again. Situation calls up his good...
NYSE Euronext 4Q profit dips, hit by failed merger costs
Stock exchange operator NYSE Euronext said Friday that it was well positioned for 2012 and beyond despite a tough near-term outlook for trading volume and currencies, as it reported an...
Citigroup takes $50M loss in global interest rate probe, report says
Citigroup was forced to take a loss of at least $50 million after two former traders were accused of manipulating global interest rates, the Financial Times (FT) reported Friday, amid...
Bloomberg slams Obama for allowing states to opt out of federal 'No Child' law
Mayor Bloomberg today criticized the Obama administration for allowing 10 states to opt out of the federal No Child Left Behind law. "Taking away the requirement and the incentive to...
US trade gap widens above forecasts, hits three-year high in 2011
WASHINGTON -- The US trade deficit widened for the second straight month in December, pushed higher by rising oil prices and imports of cars and planes, official data revealed Friday....
Obama amends contraception rule amid backlash
WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Friday announced that religious organizations will no longer be required to offer free birth control to female employees next year, a shift in policy aimed...
LA police capture 'violent' Madonna stalker who escaped from mental hospital
LOS ANGELES — Police captured a man on Friday who was convicted of threatening to kill Madonna and walked away from a Los Angeles-area mental hospital last week. Robert Dewey...
Twin blasts rock Syria's Aleppo as Homs braces for offensive
ALEPPO, Syria – Twin explosions rocked the northern city of Aleppo Friday, signaling a new shift in Syria's relentless violence as residents of the besieged enclave of Homs were reported...
Israel, US successfully test Arrow missile defense system
JERUSALEM -- Israel and the US successfully tested the Arrow Weapon System, which is intended to intercept ballistic missiles from Iran, FOX News Channel reported Friday. The Israel Missile Defense...
CIA fears drone downed in Iran failed to dump sensitive data
WASHINGTON -- A CIA investigation failed to discover what caused a US drone to come down in Iran late last year and raised fears it failed to dump sensitive data,...
Judge schedules Sandusky child sex abuse trial for May 14
BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- The judge in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case has set a tentative trial date of May 14. The announcement from Judge John M. Cleland came...
Muslim extremist sentenced to life in prison for killing US airmen at Frankfurt Airport
FRANKFURT -- A German court sentenced Muslim extremist Arid Uka to life in prison Friday for the killing of two US airmen in a shooting at Frankfurt Airport last year,...
Officer who survived bullet to head leaves hospital, meets Giants star
The hero cop who miraculously survived a bullet to the head left the hospital wearing a Justin Tuck jersey — and was then treated to a surprise visit from the...
NJ school bus driver faces child porn charge
Federal prosecutors have accused a school bus driver in New Jersey with using his home computer to distribute child pornography. FBI agents executed a search warrant at 30-year-old Frank Bogner's...
Greg Kelly returns to "Good Day New York"
Greg Kelly returned to his post next to Rosanna Scotto anchoring Fox 5's "Good Day New York" this morning, thanking viewers for their support over the past two weeks. It...
Police use hamburgers to lure naked man from LA radio tower
LOS ANGELES -- A naked man climbed to the top of a radio tower in downtown Los Angeles and refused to come down from his perch for hours -- until...
Kelly back to work
He's back to work. Greg Kelly is returning to "Good Day New York" today, 15 days after he was placed on leave after being notified of rape accusations by paralegal...
Growth more important than jobs
What's the problem with the Clint Eastwood commercial "halftime in America"? According to Amity Shlaes it that gets the story exactly backwards. The ad is all about jobs, as is President...
Adriana Lima comes to Gisele's defense
Models unite! Victoria's Secret vixen Adriana Lima stood up for buddy Gisele Bundchen in an interview with ABCNews.com, saying "I think we should leave the girl alone." The support comes...
Home explode dad had 'incestuous' images on computer: detective
GRAHAM, Wash. -- Images depicting incestuous sex between a parent and child were found on Josh Powell's computer and handed over to Washington investigators just days before he brutally murdered...
PSAL girls basketball roundup: Queens Vo wins undefeated division title
Queens Vocational Tech finished its regular season undefeated. Shakirra Smith had 21 points and Michelle Rojas had 13 points to lead the Tigers to a 50-48 win over Academy of...
CHSAA/Private girls basketball roundup: Calhoun's acrobatics send CK past Vianney in OT
Bob Mackey was still scratching his head when it was over after Sierra Calhoun’s game-winning bucket. “I still don’t know how she did it,” the Christ the King coach said....
Hope for survival marks day after at Nazareth
Tears and sadness have given way to a message of hope at Nazareth. One day after the school’s board of trustees announced it would be closing the Brooklyn school due...
Mecca Challenge girls basketball schedule
The Mecca Challenge was highly successful a year ago and is bigger and better this time around. The event, run by South Shore and the Gauchos, will be bringing some...
CHSAA/Private boys basketball roundup: Mount bounces back, beats All Hallows
Mount St. Michael snapped its first slump of the season with a quality win. Omar Manhertz had 12 points and 14 rebounds and Ed Correa added 12 points to lead...
Eagle Academy: PSAL cleared us to use fifth-year player
Eagle Academy, which lost 11 league wins on Wednesday when the PSAL ruled it used an ineligible player, is saying that player, point guard Gerard Carty, was only used because...
Big Apple of my eye
Jeremy Lin isn’t the only unknown to take New York City’s sports scene by storm. Sometimes they last, and sometimes they disappear. Here’s a look at a few others who...
Rangers coach wants replay in final two minutes
Rangers coach John Tortorella, who had no comment immediately following Tuesday night’s 1-0 defeat to the Devils about the goaltender interference call against Marian Gaborik that negated what would have...
Nets lose Bogan for season
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- If you are a Nets fan, you probably are insulated against the following question. What do you want first, the bad news or the really bad...
Molloy's Gallagher gets redemption at foul line, seals win over Ford
Carolyn Gallagher had made all but one fourth-quarter free throw this season and nothing made you think that was about to change. The game appeared all but over when the...
Knicks, Lin to face Lakers, Bryant at Garden
When Jeremy Lin used to enter the Garden during his first weeks as a Knick, arena security didn’t believe he was a player. They mistook him for one of the...
LIC upsets rallying Bayside to earn spot in Queens final
Bayside thought Cantrell Barker had tied the game in the waning seconds with a rainbow 3-pointer, completing an epic comeback. Head referee Derek Maddrey, the only opinion that matterered, thought...
PSAL Class B boys basketball roundup: Fannie Lou completes memorable regular season with rout of FDA III
Corey Morgan Jr. had 18 points and 20 rebounds, Isaih Thomas followed with 17 points and five assists and Saul Crespo had 16 points as Fannie Lou Hamer topped FDA...
Garden falls in love with surprising Knicks star
The tickets were up in the old blue seats at the Garden. This was opening night for the Knicks, Oct. 27, 1984, and we had taken the train in to...
Chicago diamond heist 'straight out of Ocean's Eleven'
CHICAGO -- It was a jewelry heist right out of the movies -- a professional job that netted thieves around $500,000 in precious gems at a Chicago jewelers. The crooks...
A day after learning school is closing, Naz star named All-American
In a month of mourning and heartache, Nazareth actually got some good news. Star girls basketball player Brianna Butler was named a McDonald’s All-American yesterday, it was announced, and she’ll...
Heat check: Cardozo's track star Philson choses Miami
The warm weather and year-round training proved to be too much for Lateisha Philson to pass up. When the Benjamin Cardozo track star began the recruiting process she said she...
INSIDE PSAL GIRLS HOOPS: Gompers undefeated in 'B,' Rams guard returns
Gompers plays in the ‘B’ league and doesn’t draw many headlines. But it has more in common with the nationally ranked Nazareth girls basketball team than one would thing. The...
Officials vote to close 23 city schools
More than 2,000 angry parents, students and Occupy Wall Street-affiliated protesters packed a Brooklyn auditorium last night as 23 city schools were voted to be shuttered. The vote at Brooklyn...
Boys High wins for first time in Coney Island, heads to boro final
The PSAL's version of the Hatfields and the McCoys has changed the last few years. Boys High has gone from the weaker sister to the confident older brother, winning back-to-back...
PSAL boys basketball borough playoff roundup: Jefferson shakes off slow start, tops South Shore
Not even a slow start or an inspired opponent could derail Thomas Jefferson. The red-hot Orange Wave advanced to the Brooklyn borough finals with a come-from-behind, 52-50 win over No....
NBC entertainment chief spending big bucks as pink slips loom for marketing department
NBC entertainment chief Bob Greenblatt is looking to slim down his bloated marketing department as part of an overhaul of the struggling Peacock Network, The Post has learned. In the...
Mets owners to Supremes: Yes, we’re losers
Fred Wilpon, the owner of the cash-strapped Mets, is hoping the Supreme Court will turn him from a winner into a loser. Wilpon’s Sterling Equities, which owns the Mets, filed...
Business briefs
Fade outEastman Kodak, the inventor of the digital camera, plans to get out of that business in the first half of the year as it looks to cut costs.Flat notesWarner...
Poor Lionsgate sales
Lionsgate Entertainment Corp., the independent studio behind “The Hunger Games” teen adventure movies, reported third-quarter revenue that declined more than analysts predicted after releasing no hit in the holiday period....
LinkedIn jumps 8 percent in extended trading after fourth-quarter results beat expectations
LinkedIn’s popularity is on the rise. The social-networking site for business professionals saw its shares jump more than 8 percent in extended trading after it posted fourth-quarter results that topped...
Giants’ Cruz salsas his way into book deal
The New York Giants’ Super Bowl win last Sunday was one for the ages — and wide receiver Victor Cruz appears to be the first who will write about it....
Gannett offers buyouts to 665 employees
Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain and owner of USA Today, said yesterday it was going to offer voluntary buyouts to 665 employees at its 81 small and mid-sized newspapers...
Help for wronged borrowers
Some advice for homeowners hurt by the housing bust: be patient. While New Yorkers stand to get $790 million under the $26 billion settlement, the deal is complex and it’s...
Picking up the pieces: Details of $25B housing rescue deal revealed
Nearly five years after the housing market collapsed and millions were evicted, American homeowners may finally get some relief under a massive $25 billion settlement aimed at putting an end...
New Yorkers to get $790M from mortgage $ettlement
Hard-charging New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman scored roughly $790 million in payments for hobbled homeowners in the Empire State. About 6,400 homeowners in the state may be eligible for...
Facebook value tops $100B
A pre-IPO rally in Facebook shares has pushed the value of the social-networking giant past $100 billion.Some 150,000 Facebook shares sold for $44 apiece in the latest auction on SharesPost,...
Google-MOT deal OK seen
The US Justice Department will probably give antitrust approval next week to Google.’s bid for Motorola Mobility Holdings, said two people familiar with the matter.If approved by regulators, the acquisition...
Schapiro backs off
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro is backing away from a proposal to require live reporting of trading data as part of the agency’s planned market-surveillance system. “The chairman...
No succession plan, poor outlook irks Pepsi investors
The 800-pound PepsiCo succession gorilla is still in the room. While many on Wall Street were hoping CEO Indra Nooyi yesterday would promote execs or otherwise make clearer a succession...
Zynga plays with Hasbro
Social game network developer Zynga is teaming with Hasbro to develop a wide range of toy and gaming experiences based on Zynga’s most popular Facebook games and characters, All Things...
Mitt woos ‘insider$’
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney may not like the DC establishment — but he loves its money.Having painted Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum as “Washington insiders,” the ex-Massachusetts governor yesterday held...
Prez’s dismal econ rating inches up
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s job-approval rating on the economy is ticking up — from very bad to just plain bad. The latest Gallup numbers put it at a perilous 59-38...
Turner looks safe
ALBANY — Republican Bob Turner’s congressional seat may well be spared when state lawmakers cut out two of New York’s 29 House districts this year because of population shifts.Insiders say...
Birth-control battle lines
WASHINGTON — About 50,000 riled-up Americans blitzed the White House Web site with e-mails voicing both opposition and support of President Obama’s controversial edict ordering faith-based institutions to provide free...
Spano to cop tax-evade plea
Former Westchester state Sen. Nick Spano is expected to plead guilty today to a federal tax-related crime, sources told The Post. Spano, heir to a Westchester political dynasty, has agreed...
Quinn has ‘left’ Hizzoner
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn took a sharp left turn in her State of the City speech yesterday, reminding voters she is a liberal Democrat and distancing herself from Mayor...
Knicks star Lin searching for new home after sleeping on brother’s couch
He’s no longer a couch potato. Breakout Knicks star Jeremy Lin — who currently sleeps on his brother’s couch on the Lower East Side — is looking for more permanent...
Bogus-bill bust
A woman was arrested at JFK Airport after she tried to smuggle nearly $290,000 in counterfeit currency into the country, authorities said yesterday. Jessica Tatiano Lucio arrived on a TAM...
Hosp snatcher to cop plea
The “kidnap mom” charged with abducting a newborn from Harlem Hospital in 1987 and raising the girl as her own for more than 20 years plans to plead guilty this...
Parents, students furious as city votes to shut 23 schools
More than 2,000 angry parents, students and Occupy Wall Street-affiliated protesters packed a Brooklyn auditorium last night as 23 city schools were ordered completely or partially shuttered. The vote at...
Kelly visits granny hit by stray bullet
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly made a hospital-bedside visit yesterday to a Brooklyn grandma who took a stray bullet to the cheek while sitting down to dinner in her East New...
Breast-case scenario
Her head lights saved her in a car crash. Texas ta-ta titan Sheyla Hershey — who holds the Guinness world record for the largest fake breasts ever — is thanking...
Manhattan lawyer suspended for assaulting ex-girlfriend
A Manhattan lawyer has been suspended three years for the frightening 45-minute physical and emotional assault of an ex-girlfriend. In a decision released yesterday, the state Appellate Division found the...
Ponzi guy convicted
A New York City investment adviser who swindled clients out of more than $14 million was convicted yesterday on wide-ranging fraud charges.A Brooklyn federal jury found Joseph Mazella, 52, guilty...
Get a grappa on yourself
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan is not at all nervous about his momentous elevation to cardinal in Rome next week, but he does have the jitters about one thing —...
Shot in the arm
Grappa is an Italian after-dinner liqueur made from distilled grape skins, seeds and stems left over from the winemaking process. A clear drink known as “fire water,” grappa was first...
Ivanka’s schizo ‘stalker’ set free
A schizophrenic man who terrified Ivanka Trump with a campaign of scary YouTube videos, e-mails and visits to her Madison Avenue jewelry store was released last night after pleading guilty...
Pharm-slay kin lawsuit
The family of one of four people killed by pill addict David Laffer at a Long Island pharmacy last June filed a $20 million lawsuit yesterday blaming a drugmaker, local...
Fotog cleared over ‘lewd’ kid pix
A fashion photographer who specializes in scantily clad and topless babes is off the hook for snapping a “blatantly salacious” shot of an underage model.A Manhattan federal judge yesterday dismissed...
YES sportscater Bob Lorenz in DWI bust
It’s not just the bases that were loaded. YES Network talking head Bob Lorenz was found by police passed out on his steering wheel at a Connecticut intersection, and cops...
Jobs a ‘bad apple’
With friends like these, Steve Jobs didn’t need enemies. Colleagues told the FBI that the iconic Apple co-founder was deceptive, dishonest, shallow and wrapped up in himself. “Several individuals questioned...
Brothers in arms, yo!
This is what happens when you dive out of the way of too many Hollywood explosions. Silver-screen action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a photo online yesterday of him and fellow...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Queens A 17-year-old high-school basketball player was stabbed just after his team lost yesterday, authorities said. He was knifed in the torso at about 6:10 p.m. across the street from...
10 states leaving ‘No Child’ behind
WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday declared that 10 states are free from the No Child Left Behind law, allowing them to scrap some of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates...
Port Authority failed to include $1 billion in accounting of WTC costs
The Port Authority brain trust that orchestrated last year’s toll hikes failed to include a billion dollars in their accounting of World Trade Center costs — and no one at...
Giant oversight for 9/11 plates
ALBANY — A commemorative license plate for the New York Giants was unveiled hours after their Super Bowl victory.But two lawmakers say a plate for the victims of 9/11 is...
NYPD goes postal
Calling all cars — mailbox down! In a scene that looked like an episode of “CSI: Staten Island,” cops launched a full-scale investigation at the home of Congressman Michael Grimm...
Gabby aide to run
PHOENIX — Ron Barber, a Gabrielle Giffords senior aide shot in the face and leg during the January 2011 attack on the Arizona Democrat, yesterday launched a plan to run...
Boss’ new ‘Big Man’
LOS ANGELES — The nephew of the late Clarence Clemons will join Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on tour, following in the footsteps of his uncle, the band’s...
Ay, Bar-umba!
Supermodel Bar Refaeli is back — and front — in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue after a one-year hiatus. The Israeli stunner, and former Leonardo DiCaprio gal pal, will be...
DA subpoenas Cashman financial records for extort clues
Manhattan prosecutors have subpoenaed Yankee general manger Brian Cashman’s bank records—which sources say include evidence that he coughed up as much as $20,000 to accused extortionist and purported mistress Louise...
Alleged stalker 'not done with Cashman'
Start sleeping with one eye open, Brian. Former targets of alleged serial stalker Louise Meanwell, men who all lived in the Albany area, said she won’t move on from her...
Cashman's alleged stalker tells of Yankees GM's sexual prowess
Brian Cashman is a slugger in the sack. Alleged stalker Louise Meanwell told The Post in a jailhouse interview that the Yankees general manager may look like a nerd, but...
NYers true ‘blue’
New Yorkers are staunchly backing the NYPD against critics who claim cops unfairly targeted Muslims in an effort to foil terrorism, according to a poll released yesterday. And despite days...
Bronx teen slay bares cops’ ‘nonsense’ training
The cop who fatally shot an unarmed teen was never trained for street-level narcotics work — but the course is so inadequate that it might not have changed the outcome,...
Marines in Nazi outrage
SAN DIEGO — A Marine scout-sniper team in Afghanistan posed for a photo in front of a flag bearing a logo resembling that of the Nazi SS, a military official...
Naomi Watts to play Diana
LONDON — Naomi Watts will play Princess Diana in a film about the last years of the royal’s life, producers announced.“Caught in Flight” will focus on the two years before...
Kelly to address scandal
Greg Kelly will mark his return to “Good Day New York” today by speaking about the bombshell rape probe that temporarily grounded the TV anchor’s career until prosecutors decided not...
Aahh!! Creepy Culkin
It looks as if Macaulay Culkin has been left home alone — without any food. The former child star looks nothing like the adorable 8-year-old he once was in the...
Preg gal in GCT fall
A pregnant woman fainted and fell on the tracks at Grand Central Terminal yesterday just after arriving on a train from Westchester. The unidentified woman, 30, fell in front of...
Rap mogul ‘pot’ bust
LAS VEGAS — Rap-music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was arrested on a traffic warrant and a misdemeanor drug charge, police said yesterday. The 46-year-old former Death Row Records executive was...
Loony ’toon guilty
A Muslim extremist from Brooklyn pleaded guilty yesterday to making online threats against the creators of “South Park” because the TV show depicted the prophet Mohammed as a bear. Jesse...
City mans up & switches birth certificate
It’s mission accomplished for a former Marine’s Operation Sex-Change. The city is acknowledging that tough-as-nails Iraqi war vet David Hassan is a guy, not a gal, and is changing his...
Crane trial stirs kin fury
The family of a crane operator killed in a 2008 Upper East Side tower-crane collapse is furious that the equipment’s millionaire owner has opted for a nonjury manslaughter trial. “He’s...
$1M iBust in Chelsea
Police raided a Chelsea apartment yesterday and discovered an enormous cache of counterfeit Apple products and Beats by Dr. Dre headphones worth almost $1 million retail, cops said. Officers began...
A ‘deadbeat’ bailout
It’s hard to imagine a less-deserving group of victims: people who gambled during the housing bubble by purchasing homes with borrowed money that they knew or should have known they...
Camelot — Never mind the chippies
John F. Kennedy is the man whose picturesque presidency launched a thousand coffee-table books. When the late conservative writer William F. Buckley was asked to explain Kennedy’s enduring appeal, he...
Gisele the giant griper
The Issue: Gisele Bundchen’s blaming the Patriots’ receivers for their Super Bowl loss to the Giants. *** Everyone needs to stop obsessing about Gisele Bundchen’s unsportsmanlike behavior — she’s Tom...
Eastwood’s Chrysler ad: A ‘dirty barry’ bailout
The Issue: Clint Eastwood’s politically controversial Chrylser ad that ran during the Super Bowl *** Rich Lowry does a masterful job uncovering the Obama propaganda baloney in the Super Bowl...
Enough foot-dragging
One day after state Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said that a decision on whether hydraulic fracturing will be approved in New York was “months, not years away,” Gov. Cuomo...
Loose lips
How’s this for astonishing: NBC News is reporting that Israeli spies have been involved in the assassinations of five Iranian nuclear scientists. So far, not so bad. We’d say the...
Lin-sane
An Ivy League Chinese-American starting in the NBA? Meet California-born, Harvard-educated Jeremy Lin, the 6-foot-3 point guard who has averaged 25.3 points and 8.3 assists in three straight Knick wins....
Report cards for NY teachers
From Manhattan to Albany, New Yorkers are debating “teacher evaluations” and “teacher-performance standards.” Gov. Cuomo and other reformers should clear the air by demanding something that everyone can understand: teacher...
Deal with the devil
FreshDirect is thriving by delivering great groceries fast to New Yorkers’ doors. Now, however, it’s plunging into a trickier business: strong-arming taxpayers for cash. That’s bad for the city —...
Lovely ‘Rita’ more than a toon
Complain all you want about the Oscars (I certainly do), but give the academy major props for bypassing a clunker like “Cars 2” and handing a Best Animated Feature Film...
Viewers dealt dull ‘House’
‘Safe House” may strike you as a brilliant movie, provided you’ve seen fewer than, say, 10 spy thrillers. I’ve seen more than 10 spy thrillers. As with “Three Days of...
Even the Rock won’t pec your interest
Dwayne “The Rock’’ Johnson stereoscopically flexing his pectorals is the most impressive special effect in this sequel to “Journey to the Center of the Earth,’’ which helped kick off the...
She still relishes ‘Roll’
Abigail Pogrebin was in the original Broadway cast of the musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” which closed 12 days after opening in 1981. She wrote about her experience in “Showstopper,”...
‘Merrily,’ it gets Encores!
Revivals of “Merrily We Roll Along” are a lot like the musical itself: Just as its characters get younger and more idealistic with each scene, there’s a perpetual hope of...
‘Ugly’ truth: Play’s pretty good
‘the Ugly One” may be a new play, but it has the familiar vibe of a classic “Twilight Zone” episode. Translated from the German, Marius von Mayenburg’s black-humored fable about...
Private Romeo
How cheap-looking is the modern-day romantic tragedy “Private Romeo”? Take a couple of friends to see it, and the amount you spend may exceed the amount the filmmakers did. This...
Your Dad will hate it, too
The latest Troma flick “Father’s Day” is one of the schlock studio’s intentionally bad movies that succeeds a little too well. Decapitation, lunging cannibal attacks and vigorously wielded chainsaws fill...
Bonsai People
Muhammad Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work fighting poverty in his homeland, Bangladesh, where he lends money to poor women to start businesses. The concept...
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Animated
The most popular part of this annual series (there are separate programs for live-action and documentary shorts) offers five delightful animated shorts (plus some bonus shorts not available for preview)....
The Turin Horse
Bela Tarr, the Hungarian master of minimalist cinema, is only 56, but he’s announced that “The Turin Horse’’ is his final film. He could change his mind, but for now...
Return
Sincerity and restraint can be good things in independent movies, but not when you run the risk of putting the audience to sleep like Liza Johnson’s overly understated drama about...
Meet your seal mate
‘Look, there!” shouts 76-year-old, white-haired, Capt. Jack Goldstein. He stands on the balcony of the American Princess cruise boat pointing into the distance. “They look like little puppy heads popping...
'Star Wars: Episode 1 - the Phantom Menace' in 3-D
Maybe the much-ridiculed Jar Jar Binks knows why the new 3-D version of George Lucas’ “Star Wars: Episode1— The Phantom Menace’’ was not screened for critics in advance of today’s...
A ‘Vow’ worth keeping
It’s billed as a romance — but for hipster guys, “The Vow” may come off as a horror movie. What could be more nightmarish than marrying a sexy, free-spirited sculptor...
Lin has been sensation, but Knicks still need to find right mix
Mike D’Antoni’s savior may have come from the most unlikely source. With the Knicks struggling, and superstars Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire failing to pull the team out of its...
5 questions for ... Dave Maloney
MSG Rangers analyst Dave Maloney talks with The Post’s Justin Terranova about Brad Richards’ struggles and what the team needs heading toward the playoff push. Q: Why have things turned...
Meadowlands Graded Entries
Post Time: 7:00 p.m.Best Bet: Special T Rocks (5th)FIRST: mile trot; $10,500; cond3 UnderTheStars(Whittemre)3-7-18-14 Mystical Con(TTetrick)3-4-19-210 Windsun Galaxie(BSears)7-4-35-11 High Pan Tolerance(DMiller)2-7-512-12 Luv Ya Tyler(RPierce)2-8-215-15 Doully(BDobson)5-8-18-16 Lukes Raoule(DDube)4-9-412-17 Cathy's Princess(JMarohn)9-4-120-18 Photo...
Gulfstream Analysis
Post Time: 12:35 p.m. All horses appear in post position orderPost Time: 12:35 p.m.FIRST-1 1/16m; $16,500; clm($10,000); 4upAQUA JEAN closed to finish third going shorter. CAROLTEEN chased the pace and...
Aqueduct Analysis
Post Time: 12:20 p.m. All horses appear in post position order1. 6 fur; $34,000; clm($16,000); 4up(f)PRETTY COZZY drew the rail after defeating cheaper at this distance and being claimed. SPECKLEBIRD...
Officer describes beaten, bruised lacrosse player
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The first officer to arrive at the apartment of a slain University of Virginia lacrosse player says he thought he was responding to an alcohol overdose...
Tomorrow’s Aqueduct Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-1m&70yds; $57,000; alw; 4up(f) PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Easy Ending(L),118M Luzzi2-2-1Rodrigez7-52 Red to Positive(L),118A Smith7-6-7P Kelly50-13 Honey Mou(L),118R Curatolo2-2-6Guerrer10-14 Ginger Snapit(L),118E Castro4-2-4Weaver6-15 Chalk Player(L),118J...
Aqueduct Charts
February 9th, 2012Clear and Fast©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-1 mile; $38,000; clm($30,.000); 4upOff: 12:20. Good. rated in 2p, drew offTime: 23.81, 47.8, 1:12.99, 1:37.59.Trainer: Richard StoklosaWinner: DK B/ G, 7,...
Sports Shorts
Hoops: Murray State is no longer unbeaten Robert Covington had 17 points and eight rebounds to lead visiting Tennessee State to a 72-68 victory over No. 9 Murray State last...
Gulfstream Results
FIRST-6 fur; $29,500; clm($30,000); 4up 3 Flyng Pgss (RccJr.) 13.60 8.20 4.80 4 Dual Exhauzt (Maragh) 10.00 5.20 1 Smoking the Field (Centeno) 4.40 * Exacta (3-4) $106.40 * $1...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-1-mile trot; $9,0006Miss Lee (Lancaster)21.808.804.402Wygant Pearl (Miller)12.607.007Betweentwopillows(Rattray)3.40* Exacta (6-2) $194.60 * Trifecta (6-2-7) $530.60 * Scratched Broadways FortuneSECOND-1-mile pace, $12,5004LIc Delight (Gingras)52.205.402.802Social Network (Miller)2.102.105Jimmy Whizbang (Pierce)2.60* Exacta (4-2) $94.60 *...
Nazareth star joins All-American team
In a month of mourning and heartache, Nazareth actually got some good news yesterday. Star basketball player Brianna Butler was named a McDonald’s All-American yesterday, it was announced, and she’ll...
’Roos earn shot at Brooklyn title
Over the last two years, Boys & Girls has accomplished seemingly every one of its goals, from winning its first city championship in 28 years to capturing its first Brooklyn...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYFeb. 10SATFeb. 11SUNFeb. 12MONFeb. 13TUEFeb. 14WEDFeb. 15THUFeb. 16KnicksL.A. Lakers8:00MSG NetworkESPN 1050 AMMinn.8:00MSGESPNNO GAMENO GAMETor.7:00MSGESPNSac.7:30MSGESPNNO GAMENetsDetroit7:30YES NetworkWFAN 660 AMS.A.8:00YESWFANNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEMem.7:30YESWFANNOGAMERangersNO GAMEPhil.1:00MSGESPNWash.12:30NBCESPNNO GAMEBos.7:00MSG2WNYMNO GAMEChi.7:00MSGESPNIslandersNO GAMEL.A.1:00MSG+WRHUFla.3:00MSG+WRHUNOGAMEWinn.8:30MSG+2WRHUNOGAMESt.L8:00MSG+WRHUDevilsNO GAMEFla.1:00MSG+2WFANFla.1:00MSG+2WFANNOGAMEBuff.7:00MSG+WFANNOGAMENOGAMEHOMEAWAY
The Post Line
NBAFavoriteLineUnderdogLakers5KNICKSPISTONS4NetsCeltics4 1/2RAPTORSHeat10WIZARDSMAGIC4HawksBulls11BOBCATS76ERS3 1/2ClippersBucks1CAVALIERSGRIZZLIES3PacersMavericks1 1/2T’WOLVESBlazers5HORNETSThunder2JAZZNCAA BasketballFavoriteLineUnderdogCOLUMBIA11 1/2BrownPRINCETON14DartmouthHarvard4PENNWRIGHT ST.1Green BayCORNELL1 1/2YaleDETROIT1 1/2MilwaukeeIona3LOYOLA (MD.)Home team in CAPSNHLFavoriteLineUnderdogSABRES$130-150StarsRED WINGS$170-200DucksAVALANCHE$125-145HurricanesSHARKS$125-145Blackhawks
Mets GM mocks money matters
Late-night TV hosts and baseball fans aren’t the only ones mocking the Mets these days. General manager Sandy Alderson created a bit of a stir yesterday when, shortly after signing...
Nets guard Williams named to All-Star team
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.-- If the All-Star weekend in Orlando is going to be a celebration of Dwight Howard by the Magic, the Nets will have an inside man to whisper...
Yankees asking around about interest in A.J.: source
The Yankees still haven’t given up on getting rid of A.J. Burnett. According to a source, the Yankees continue to have “conversations with several clubs” about trading the right-hander. Though...
Devils lose to Blues in shootout after disputed goal
Before he made his getaway, the perpetrator demonstrated to the Blues’ broadcasters how high his stick was when it deflected in the tying goal. He gestured about 6 feet above...
Islanders lose to Canadiens
There is no one saying that the Islanders don’t have an abundance of problems, but there’s just something about the way they find a way to lose important games that...
Rangers defeat Lightning in overtime, upset with hit
Brad Richards not only delivered the play of the night, scoring on a gorgeous Artem Anisimov feed at 2:37 of overtime to lift the Rangers to a 4-3 victory over...
Too soon for Belichick to discuss Patriots loss to Giants
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Maybe it was too soon. Maybe Giants 21, Patriots 17 was still too raw, too freshly seared in his mind to allow himself to let loose...
Woods encouraged by strong start in Pro-Am
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Is he back? The next three days will tell us for sure, but for Tiger Woods, yesterday’s opening round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was...
Lakers star Bryant has 'no idea' who Lin is
BOSTON — If tonight is about Kobe Bryant vs. Jeremy Lin, then consider that news to Bryant. In fact, consider Lin himself news to Bryant, who expressed confusion as to...
Knicks Stoudemire, Chandler not named All-Stars
Knicks big men Amar’e Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler were left off the Eastern Conference’s All-Star team when reserves were announced last night. The Knicks’ sub-.500 record (11-15) killed their chances....
Rockets, Warriors regret letting Lin go
Rockets general manager Daryl Morey took to Twitter yesterday to express his regret over letting Jeremy Lin go earlier this season. “We should have kept [Jeremy Lin]. Did not know...
Belichick told Patriots, 'Make them go to Manningham’
If the Giants have any reservations about re-signing Mario Manningham they might ask Bill Belichick for a referral. The Patriots coach by now knows how valuable the fleet receiver can...
Giants WR Cruz wants bigger contract
Judged strictly on production based on dollars earned, it is hard to imagine another player in the NFL who provided a bigger bang for the buck than Victor Cruz. His...
Cruz deserves more money from Giants
Show him the money. Victor Cruz was the NFL’s rags-to-riches story in 2011 and to the victor belongs the riches. One breakout season doesn’t mean the Giants are obligated to...
Cleaning up the mess left at Super Bowl
This meeting of the 2012 Super Bowl Cleanup Committee is in order, and in no particular order. 1) It remains a modern cultural mystery that Eli Manning was able to...
Nets loss, Lakers gain: Draft dodges kept Kobe from New Jersey in '96
First of two parts. Kobe Bryant’s annual Garden variety visit tonight triggered me to re-examine the draft of 1996. Many people have gone straight from high school to Hollywood and...
Lin took cross-country journey to Knicks
On a freezing-cold night in early January, Jeremy Lin sits anonymously in an upper row of bleachers at Fordham’s Rose Hill Gym, hunching slightly toward the court, clad in a...
Knicks No. 17 jerseys only at Garden
Jeremy Lin’s incredible and meteoric rise from a bench-warming backup point guard to a nationwide sensation has local retailers scrambling to try to stock their shelves with his No. 17...
Reliving terror on the Concordia
Because there were no cellphones aboard the Titanic, we will never really know what went on in the final hours after the massive ship struck that iceberg. But almost all...
Chutzpah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey has discovered her inner Jewishness. Winfrey, who rarely does interviews, sat for a TV chat with a Hasidic rabbi on the day last fall she immersed herself in...
Talk show guests
FRIDAYDAVID ARQUETTE, KATE DIMMOCK - Good Morning America, 7 a.m., Ch. 7GIADA DE LAURENTIIS - Today, 7 a.m., Ch. 4DWAYNE JOHNSON, REBECCA ROMIJN - LIVE! with Kelly, 9 a.m., Ch....
‘Downton’ & dirty
‘Downton Abbey” is about to close down for the year (just two episodes remain) but now it has pulled off the PBS equivalent of signing A-Rod in the off-season. So...
Roland suspension backlash
CNN’s suspension this week of commentator Roland Martin for purportedly anti-gay tweets has not gone down well with the black media. “Has GLAAD [Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation] Become...
Who's zooming who!
1. River 90,098 2. Smash 49,205 3. I Just Want My Pants Back 21,307 4. Napoleon Dynamite 20,614 5. Alcatraz 16,524 6. House of Lies 16,348 7. Touch 13,461 8....
Beauty burst
Costello Tagliapietra At the fall 2012 show, MAC makeup artist Lisa Butler kept it natural, adding a burst of light-colored eyeliner. Nelson Vercher for Rita Hazan Salon styled hair in...
‘Uptown Girl’ almost takes a spill on the Red runway
Legends of the fall While sharing a backstage elevator ride with several nervous celebrities-turned-models at Hammerstein Ballroom’s Red Dress benefit Wednesday night, matchmaker Patti Stanger asked “America’s Next Top Model”...
Ready, set, show!
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That seems to be the good news as fall 2012 Fashion Week kicked off yesterday at Lincoln Center. No need to ditch everything...
My funny Valentine
They say the cockroach will outlast just about anything, so what better way to show endless devotion to your loved one than with an arthropodic Valentine? Name one of the...
Weird but true
A guy with one leg got caught by the long arm of the law. The crook was nabbed in Jacksonville, Fla., after getting out of his SUV and trying to...
Singer George Michael recuperating in Sydney after near-death illness
SYDNEY -- British singer George Michael is in Sydney with his new boyfriend as he continues to recover from a near-fatal bout of pneumonia. Michael, who was forced to cancel...
Two Port Authority cops injured after car rams both officers' vehicles
Two Port Authority cops suffered minor injuries Thursday when a speeding motorist intentionally slammed into one officer’s car on the George Washington Bridge before ramming a second cop’s vehicle in...
Richards scores in OT, Rangers beat Lightning 4-3
Brad Richards scored 3:37 into overtime to give the Rangers a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night. New York's Brian Doyle tied it at 10:13 of...
Gretchen Jones
The second presentation by former "Project Runway" winner Gretchen Jones showed she's serious about sticking around. The Southwestern native visited her roots with the theme, blending gorgeous sunset colors, chunky...
Johnson in 3-way tie at Pebble; Woods starts well
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Twenty months later, Dustin Johnson finally hit the drive he wanted at Pebble Beach. Ten years later, Tiger Woods must have wondered what kept him away...
Josh Powell told sons he had 'big surprise' for them before murder
GRAHAM, Wash. -- Josh Powell told his young sons he had a "big surprise" for them just moments before hacking them with an ax and blowing up his Washington state...
Stoudemire, Chandler left off All-Star Team
Amar’e Stoudemire and center Tyson Chandler were left off the Eastern Conference’s All-Star Team when reserves were announced tonight. The Knicks sub-.500 record killed their chances. Only Carmelo Anthony will...
Witness describes accused UVA lacrosse murderer in choking incident
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A former college lacrosse player who attended a party at the University of Virginia two years ago testified today he saw George Huguely put Yeardley Love in...
Crane magnate James Lomma waives jury in upcoming Manhattan crane collapse manslaughter trial
Coward! The family of a crane operator killed in a 2008 Upper East Side tower crane collapse is furious that the equipment's millionaire owner has opted for a non-jury manslaughter...