March 29, 2013
Parachute accident claims life of Navy SEAL Team 6 member
TUCSON, Ariz. — A Navy SEAL has died and another was injured when they collided in midair during parachute training in southern Arizona, authorities said. The Department of Defense said...
Gaborik, Tortorella have heated discussion during Rangers practice
OTTAWA — The conversation a long time coming took place on foreign soil, Friday on the ice at Carleton University outside of Ottawa, and lasted about 12 minutes, with animated...
Heat's Riley on LeBron comments by Celtics' Ainge: 'He needs to shut the f--- up'
The 1980s have been over for a long time, but apparently the hard feelings between Danny Ainge and Pat Riley are still going strong. Riley, the Miami Heat president, responded...
Jan Gunnar Solli still rooting for Red Bulls, doing bull dance
Jan Gunnar Solli had always been popular with the fans, not just because of his tireless work rate and his play but also his personality, always acknowledging the South Ward...
Red Bulls cut Josue Martinez
The Red Bulls waived forward Josue Martinez. The young Martinez had been acquired from Philadelphia as a throw-in in the Sebastien LeToux deal, but struggled in the preseason. Now, a...
Man rams vehicle into police car at Brooklyn precinct, then shoots self in head
An armed man smashed his car into a police vehicle at a Brooklyn precinct today and then tried to blow his brains out, authorities said. The incident occurred at around...
Union-wages war heats up and threatens City Point project
A fair-wages war over the City Point mega-development in Downtown Brooklyn heated up today when its developer accused the Building and Construction Trades Council of trying to hold up construction...
City to begin searching 9/11 attack debris again
After a three-year hiatus, the city is about to resume sifting through debris from the 9/11 attacks in hope of finding more human remains. Starting Monday, anthropologists will sift through...
Angels' Wilson says Yankees' Wells has plenty 'left in the tank'
If you ask his former teammates, Vernon Wells still has a lot of baseball left in him. Angels pitcher and former teammate of Wells, C.J. Wilson believes that despite struggling...
McNabb on Romo's new Cowboys contract: 'You got to be kidding me'
Donovan McNabb doesn’t seem to approve of Tony Romo’s new contract with the Cowboys.The former Eagles and Redskins quarterback took to Twitter to rip Romo’s new six-year extension, valued at...
Son of pro wrestler Ric Flair found dead
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Authorities say the son of professional wrestler Ric Flair has been found dead in a North Carolina hotel room. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police says officers were called to a...
Polamalu would like to see Steelers sign former Giants RB Bradshaw
Steelers safety Troy Polamalu would welcome Ahmad Bradshaw if his team signs the former Giants running back. According to reports that surfaced earlier this week, the Steelers brought in Bradshaw...
Yankees' Teixeira to get cast off, eyes May 1 return
WASHINGTON D.C.- Mark Teixeira is hoping to get the cast removed from his right wrist when he visits the doctor Monday, but admitted he won’t know what his future holds...
WTC cross can stay in National September 11 Memorial & Museum: judge
A New York judge has tossed out a lawsuit seeking to stop the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found among the World Trade Center's wreckage. Federal judge Deborah Batts...
REVIEW: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at the Beacon Theatre
HARDEEP PHULL: I can still remember the exact moment at which I went from being someone who merely liked Nick Cave to someone who adored him. When I was a...
Insider probe closing in on SAC’s Cohen
The criminal insider-trading probe of hedge-fund giant SAC Capital Advisors is getting so close to founder Steve Cohen that the mogul might be able to smell the leather on the...
Wright returns to Mets lineup for first time since rib injury
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- David Wright made his first appearance in a big league game since sustaining a rib injury during the World Baseball Classic, going 0 for 3...
A-Rod posts rehab photos; slugger ‘ready to support Yankees’
Alex Rodriguez’s path back to the Yankees is in full swing and he provided proof of it on Friday afternoon.Rodriguez posted the first photos of his rehab to his Facebook...
Slauson departs Jets for Bears on one-year deal: source
Matt Slauson has officially moved on from the Jets. The team’s starting guard for the past three years has signed a one-year deal with the Bears, a source confirmed to...
Nuggets' Karl: Nets among best in Eastern Conference
DENVER – Count George Karl among those who believe in the Nets.Karl, speaking following the Nuggets shootaround Friday morning inside the Pepsi Center, was very complimentary of the Nets.“I told...
VIDEO PREVIEW: Nets face tough challenge in Denver
The Nets take on the Nuggets tonight in Denver as they continue their circus road trip. The Nets are 4-1 on the trip, following a rout on the Blazers on...
Daughter of Queens man pushed to his death from subway platform suing MTA
The daughter of the Queens man who was pushed onto the subway tracks last December slapped the city's transit authority with a lawsuit over his grisly death. Ashley Han, the...
'No excuse': Boehner admonishes Alaska Rep. Young over racial slur
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Friday condemned a reference to migrant workers made by fellow Republican Representative Don Young, calling the comments "offensive and beneath the dignity of...
Manny Ramirez’s first game in Taiwan highlighted by Johnny Cueto sign
Manny Ramirez’s baseball career in Taiwan is off to an inauspicious start.Not at the plate, where Ramirez went 2-for-3 and struck out looking for the EDA Rhinos, according to Busted...
NJ Transit, PATH, MTA and NYC DOT sharing most of $1.4 billion in new Sandy aid
The federal government announced $1.4 billion in aid Friday to transit agencies affected by Superstorm Sandy. Most of the aid announced by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is going to...
Obama promotes plan to create jobs by attracting private investment in public works in Miami
MIAMI — Trying to show that the economy remains a top priority, President Barack Obama promoted a plan Friday to create construction and other jobs by attracting private money to...
WATCH: Philadelphia hero jumps on train tracks to help fallen man
PHILADELPHIA — Transit police in Philadelphia are calling a local man a hero for jumping onto subway tracks to help a man who fell off a platform. Christopher Knafelc, 32,...
Verlander agrees to $180 million deal with Tigers
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander agreed Friday to a $180 million, seven-year contract, topping Felix Hernandez for the richest deal for a pitcher in baseball history. "I...
UPS pays $40M to end online pharmacies probe
SAN FRANCISCO — Shipping company UPS has agreed to pay $40 million to end a federal criminal probe connected to its work for online pharmacies. The U.S. Department of Justice...
NCAA tournament Sweet 16 picks (Friday)
Each game day during the NCAA tournament, the Post's Marc Raimondi, Anthony Sulla-Heffinger and Justin Terranova will be providing you with their input for that day's games. For Friday’s Sweet...
Hotel rape charges dismissed against real estate mogul Keith Hartigan
The Manhattan DA’s Office dismissed the first-degree rape charge against real estate mogul Keith Hartigan who was accused of attacking a Citibank VP in his luxurious Standard Hotel room last...
'Gangs' of the small screen: Scorsese to make another TV show
Martin Scorsese is developing another TV show about gangsters but is going further back in American history for inspiration. Scorsese made the jump to the small screen in 2010 with...
Police search for Bronx gunman
A gunman wounded two men in the Bronx, leaving one paralyzed, police sources said. The shooter approached the victims, 30 and 29, from behind and opened fire about 7:30 p.m....
'Ultimate Fighter' star: Rousey 'kicked my ass' in grappling
Uriah Hall thought it was great that Ronda Rousey visited the "Ultimate Fighter" cast members during their filming over the winter. He thought it was even better that they didn’t...
No restrictions on debit and credit card transactions in Cyprus
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus central bank tried to kickstart spending in the country's stagnant economy Friday by telling Cypriots that there were no limits on debit and credit card transactions...
NJ Sandy victims moving into donated homes
EATONTOWN, NJ — Some families in New Jersey who lost their homes during Superstorm Sandy now have new places to live. They're moving into 17 homes that the Affordable Housing...
Stephen Baldwin admits he failed to pay NY taxes for three years
Stephen Baldwin, the youngest of four brothers in show business, said Friday he's looking forward to "clearing the wreckage of my past." Step 1 will be coming up with $300,000...
Knicks' Felton: Not a bad idea to sit Chandler until playoffs
Raymond Felton said if Tyson Chandler decides to rest for the remainder of the regular season for precautionary reasons, he’d be all for it. Chandler, who has missed the past...
POST POWER RANKINGS: Win over Heat could speed up Rose's return to Bulls
Every single NBA pundit and fan has to be wondering exactly when Derrick Rose will be returning to the hardwood.It has gotten to the point that even when rapper Waka...
New NYPD chief opposes creating inspector general
The NYPD’s newly minted top-ranking uniformed cop was stopped and frisked growing up — but he’s still in favor of the controversial policing tactic. “I didn’t like it. I didn’t...
Funeral for teen killed trying to cross subway tracks set for Saturday
Funeral services have been scheduled for a Long Island high school senior who was killed trying to cross New York City subway tracks. Liam Armstrong of Nesconset died while celebrating...
Giants to take a look at spread QB White: source
As long as Tom Coughlin has been running the show the Giants have gone with two quarterbacks on their roster, a credit to Eli Manning’s durability and Coughlin’s intense desire...
Nelson Mandela making 'steady progress' while being treated for recurring lung infection
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela is making "steady progress" while being treated for a recurring lung infection and he had a full breakfast on Friday, South African authorities said. The office...
SAC portfolio manager arrested as part of insider trading investigation
A senior portfolio manager for one of the nation's largest hedge funds was arrested Friday, accused of joining an insider trading conspiracy that the government said made more than $6...
Mets' Wright calls Santana injury 'kind of shocking'
PORT ST. LUCIE ---- David Wright called it "disheartening" and "kind of shocking" to learn Johan Santana has a probable re-tear of the anterior capsule in his left shoulder, likely...
George Washington Bridge repairs cause rush-hour delays
The Port Authority says repairs to a loose joint on the upper level of the George Washington Bridge have caused hour-long eastbound rush-hour delays. Two of the upper level's four...
'Dead' prostitute leaps from her coffin
A prostitute in Zimbabwe 'died' during a hotel romp with a client - only to come back to life as her body was being put in a coffin. The vice...
John Edwards' daughter says family worked through his affair
John Edwards' eldest daughter is working through forgiving her dad for his affair with Rielle Hunter. "Yes, it was hard [to forgive him], but we worked through it," Cate Edwards...
2 injured in SoHo car wreck
Two people were seriously injured in a two-car accident in SoHo this morning, authorities said. The collision happened around 6:50 a.m. on Houston and Mott Streets, the FDNY said. A...
Drone industry worries about privacy backlash
WASHINGTON — It's a good bet that in the not-so-distant future aerial drones will be part of Americans' everyday lives, performing countless useful functions. A far cry from the killing...
3UP: Santana, Mets Dollars, Predictions
1.In today’s Post, I wrote this column about watching Johan Santana heave a ball in anger and how I now wonder if that is the moment when his shoulder capsule...
Hoboken broken water mains repaired
HOBOKEN, NJ — Workers have finished repairing the last broken water main in Hoboken. The 30-inch pipe on Willow Street and 14th Avenue was broken by a construction crew on...
Fire destroys home, kills pets of Newtown massacre survivors
A Newtown, Conn. family that includes two children who survived the Sandy Hook massacre is now recovering from a fire that destroyed their home. “Considering the turmoil our family has...
Marilyn Monroe's 'letter of despair' among hundreds of historical docs to be auctioned
Marilyn Monroe's letter of despair to mentor Lee Strasberg, and Dwight D. Eisenhower's heartfelt missives to his wife during World War II are among hundreds of historical documents being offered...
Kim Jong Un says his rockets ready 'to settle accounts with the US'
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Friday that his rocket forces were ready "to settle accounts with the US," unleashing a new round of bellicose...
Newton prevails in Bellator's battle of the underdogs
If Bellator light heavyweight finalists Emanuel Newton and Mikhail Zayats were professional wrestlers, they'd be jobbers -- guys brought in to simply lose and make their better-known opponent look unstoppable.The...
Eva’s bag & ‘shoo’ combo
Eva Mendes takes a playful swing at fotogs last night at the premiere of her movie “The Place Beyond the Pines” at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on the Lower East...
POST'S 2013 BASEBALL PREVIEW
Baseball season is upon us. The Yankees and Mets both open up their 2013 campaigns Monday with home games. Below is The Post’s exhaustive preview coverage of the two local...
Duke, Michigan State in clash of coaching titans
INDIANAPOLIS — The Duke Blue Devils believe they will beat Michigan State tonight and advance to the Elite Eight because Mike Krzyzewski is their coach. The Michigan State Spartans believe...
Duke needs Kelly to snap hellish skid
INDIANAPOLIS — There is little question how critical Ryan Kelly is to Duke. The Blue Devils are 20-1 with him this season and 9-4 without him. They also are 110-14...
Oregon is not Duck-ing its tough Sweet 16 task
INDIANAPOLIS — Oregon isn’t afraid of the big boys. In fact, coach Dana Altman considers his Ducks among the big boys. Altman’s 12th-seeded squad is surrounded by NCAA Tournament giants...
Yankees, Mets schedules
The Yankees and Mets both play at home on Opening Day. Interleague play in April and September. The baseball schedule is wacky this year. Here’s a look at both teams’...
No shock here: Wichita State blows out La Salle to reach Elite Eight
LOS ANGELES — When you look at their body of work the last two years — particularly this season — there should no longer be anything shocking about the Shockers....
Spate of star injuries will keep Yanks from playoffs
Even the most optimistic Pinstriped Pollyanna has to be depressed when viewing the Yankees through the MRI machine seemingly everybody has been shoved into recently. When spring training opened, there...
Collapse in 1965 shows Yankees' ship can take on water fast
The occasionally unreliable prism of history fools us sometimes. For Yankees fans, "1965" conjures distinct, and thoroughly unappetizing, feelings, the same way "1970" is anathema for Beatles fans, the way...
Post staff's MLB 2013 predictions
The Post staff gives their predictions for the 2013 baseball season. GEORGE A. KING III World Series champion: Tigers ALCS: Tigers over Angels NLCS: Braves over Giants AL East Blue...
National League Preview
NL EAST NATIONALS ODDS TO WIN WORLD SERIES: 7-1 OVER/UNDER WINS: 92 1/2 KEY PLAYER: The shackles are off Stephen Strasburg, who is free to throw as many innings as...
More Flushing follies before Mets break through
It’s wait ’til next year — or maybe the year after that — for the Mets. The problem in Flushing isn’t the upside of players such as Zack Wheeler, Matt...
Guide to your 2013 fantasy baseball season
Before his remarkable Cy Young performance last season, R.A. Dickey spent two seasons as an efficient, middle-of-the-road starter for the Mets. He was 19-22 with a stellar 3.08 ERA and...
Alderson's plan resembles early '80s Mets renovation
How do you know you're headed toward something special? To speak in Mets lingo, how do you know the headaches and heartbreaks of 1981, 1982 and 1983 will lead to...
Crystal Ball: Trout, Harper will rule as the old and the injured fizzle
This is the prediction business: In the initial draft of this piece, I forecasted Adam Eaton to win the NL Rookie of the Year because he was going to be...
American League preview
AL EAST RAYS ODDS TO WIN WORLD SERIES: 16-1 OVER/UNDER WINS: 87 1/2 KEY PLAYER: Evan Longoria. The Rays were 47-27 when he started last year, 43-45 when he didn't....
Syracuse routs top-seed Indiana in stifling Sweet 16 performance
WASHINGTON — Cody Zeller sat at his locker after Wednesday’s practice session getting peppered with the same question over and over: How would Indiana handle Syracuse’s famed 2-3 zone? The...
Business briefs
Cisco cuts 500Cisco Systems, the world’s largest maker of computer-networking equipment, is cutting 500 jobs as the company focuses on businesses that are growing.Buoyant eBayEBay said it expects to have...
Judge questions SAC Capital’s SEC fine as Cohen goes on a spending spree
Perhaps hedge-fund titan Steve Cohen should have waited to buy that $155 million Picasso to celebrate his insider-trading settlement with the government. Manhattan federal Judge Victor Marrero yesterday balked at...
S&P 500 joins party, hits all-time high
The Standard & Poor’s 500 hit a record high yesterday — a touchstone of recovery from the financial crash that has dogged US stocks for more than five years. Yesterday,...
Amazon books deal
Amazon.com is acquiring Goodreads, a website that helps users share book recommendations, adding tools to help it sell more wares and get people to spend more time on the Kindle...
BlackBerry surprises Wall Street with profit, Z10 sales
BlackBerry isn’t dead — yet. The struggling smartphone maker surprised Wall Street yesterday by reporting a profit in the latest quarter and shipping more of its new BlackBerry Z10s than...
Ex-Daily Beaster Felsenthal heads to Time.com
Ed Felsenthal, an ex-Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor and No. 2 to Tina Brown at the Daily Beast, is joining Time as the new managing editor of Time.com, Media...
NY’s taxing for online sellers
New York’s highest court ruled yesterday the state can collect sales tax from out-of-state retailers, rejecting claims by Amazon.com and Overstock.com that the tax law violates the US Constitution’s Commerce...
Bailout blues: Cyprus in grips of austerity
Cypriots waited on long lines yesterday to withdraw money from banks that had been shuttered for nearly two weeks as lawmakers hammered out a $13 billion bailout to prevent financial...
Porat to sit tight
Ruth Porat got cold feet. Morgan Stanley’s chief financial officer has taken herself out of the running for the No. 2 job at the Treasury Department after months of speculation...
Pinnacle IPO raises $580M
Pinnacle Foods, the Blackstone-owned maker of Hungry-Man dinners and Duncan Hines cake mixes, jumped 11 percent after raising $580 million in its initial public offering, which priced at the top...
MetroPCS deal suit
MetroPCS Communications jumped the most in two months after advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services urged investors to block its merger with T-Mobile USA, raising the prospect of a better offer.ISS...
Stanford fighting SEC fines
Convicted Ponzi-scheme operator R. Allen Stanford, who continues to protest what he says was an unfair criminal trial, is now fighting the government’s quest to squeeze billions of dollars in...
Ex- FDA exec says lawmaker killed probe
The US Food and Drug Administration was on the verge of “taking down” Herbalife 30 years ago — but was stopped by a powerful US senator, a former enforcement chief...
Google disqualifies crazy entrants in Glass contest
Google executives were a bit red-faced yesterday after they were forced to disqualify a few crazy entrants in a contest for a chance to buy its $1,500 high-tech Google Glass....
300K ‘zombie’ homes
A national survey found 301,874 “zombie” properties dotting the US landscape in which homeowners in foreclosure have moved out, leaving vacant property susceptible to vandalism and degradation. Florida tops the...
Obama: Shame on Congress
WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday gathered together a roomful of mothers to lay a guilt trip on Congress for wavering on tough new gun-control laws just three months after the...
Mike’s new ad ups the ‘anti’
Mayor Bloomberg’s gun-control group yesterday launched a TV ad that rips at America’s heartstrings with testimonials from Sandy Hook victims’ family who plead for more firearm laws.“I want to prevent...
Buy a gun. Love, mom
Newtown shooter Adam Lanza’s mother planned to give him the last thing he needed for Christmas — another gun, it was revealed yesterday. Nancy Lanza wrote her son a holiday...
Question that must be asked
Newtown, Conn. — In the painful months since the Sandy Hook schoolhouse massacre, parents in this grieving town have found themselves asking each other a common but awkward question when...
Beau’s ‘slay’ and snooze
A night of drinking and drug abuse took a horrifying turn in The Bronx when an ex-con allegedly snapped at his legally blind gal pal, butchered her and threw her...
NYU to open video-game institute in Brooklyn
Ms. Pac-Man and the Mario Brothers never dreamed it would come to this. NYU will open a 40,000-square-foot institute to study video games in Downtown Brooklyn next fall. The Media...
Salon killer: I’m the victim
A man who hacked his wife to death in a Midtown beauty salon was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison yesterday — after he whined to the court...
Rx for disaster
A Gramercy Park doctor and his assistant sold thousands of oxycodone prescriptions in two separate trafficking operations that poured more than half a million pills into the hands of dealers...
Unwise guy sore lo$er
This mobster has his own ideas about how to regulate Wall Street. Bonanno wiseguy Giuseppe “Joey” Gambina pummeled his financial adviser when he lost thousands of dollars in a penny...
Fly wait! Boxing champ in JFK gun bust
A boxing champ was packing more than a punch yesterday when he was busted at a Kennedy Airport check-in counter with a handgun, authorities said. WBC welterweight champion Robert Guerrero,...
Hollywood lights, camera, auction!
Clarke Gable’s loafers from the classic film “Gone With the Wind” and other rare and quirky movie and TV props will be up for grabs at a movie buffs dream...
Lipo doc turns himself in, charged with fatal procedure
The Park Avenue doctor who performed a risky liposuction that killed a Manhattan woman turned himself in yesterday and was arraigned on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. Dr....
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** A jealous woman attacked her ex-boyfriend’s current flame with a baseball bat in Harlem, authorities said. Ayanna Hutchenson, 25, was lying in wait for the 26-year-old victim to...
Kaboom, Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — In a show of force following weeks of North Korean bluster, the United States yesterday took the unprecedented step of announcing that two of its nuclear-capable...
Prisoner escapes B’klyn courthouse
A man with a mile-long rap sheet escaped from Brooklyn Criminal Court yesterday by simply walking through the courtroom and out the main door, law-enforcement sources said. Corpus Hernandez, 37,...
School crime and suspensions dropped significantly in the second half of 2012
Major and overall crime in the city’s public schools dropped dramatically in the second half of 2012, with nearly 25 percent fewer incidents compared to the year prior, according to...
Rubber-room teacher gets $7,500 fine slashed
A teacher who bounced in and out of the “rubber room” for five years over misconduct charges at a notoriously violent Harlem middle school had her fine slashed by $5,000...
City pols, labor and biz in sick-pay deal
Some 1 million workers across the city will soon able to call in sick without losing a day’s salary, under a deal struck yesterday to make small businesses provide paid...
7-year-old totes AK-47 assault rifle in Syrian civil war
This is what the brutal Syrian civil war has come to — a 7-year-old toting an AK-47. Ahmed, the son of a fighter in the Free Syrian Army, was photographed...
Baby born by the book – at Bronx library
He must have been overdue! A worker helped a young mother give birth to a boy at a Bronx library branch after the freaked-out woman went into labor while walking...
Lobby boom times
ALBANY — The lobbying industry is proving again that it’s recession-proof. While the state economy continues to struggles, Albany’s influence peddlers raked in nearly $180 million last year — 5.3...
Gropez run-or-done
ALBANY — Under fire for sex-harassment charges, State Assemblyman Vito Lopez is planning a political strategy session with allies next week that could propel him toward a run for City...
Minimum-wage increase combined with teen employment tax credit in New York state budget deal
ALBANY — Boosting New York’s minimum wage to $9, one of the highest rates in the nation, won’t just cost businesses millions — taxpayers will be on the hook for...
Supreme ID thief
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts is a victim of credit-card fraud.A Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed the theft but declined to provide additional details.The Washington Post, however, reported that Roberts...
LI drown faker in ‘ho sham’
The Long Island man who faked his own drowning and stalked women while posing as a cop tried to convince one of his victim’s co-workers that the victim was a...
Bx. dirt-bike raps tossed
Bronx prosecutors tossed the top charges against the man previously accused of fleeing cops on a dirt bike — a chase that ended with the death of his friend.Assistant DA...
City investigating Manhattan nightclubs for charging hidden fees
Manhattan’s swankiest nightclubs might be duping patrons into paying fees as high as 22 percent for questionable “operations charges” — a practice which officials say is illegal and which is...
Feds shut down buses
BOSTON — The US Department of Transportation has ordered the discount New York-to-Boston bus company Fung Wah to cease all operations due to safety concerns. Massachusetts regulators took Fung Wah...
Gal, 61, kills guy, 21: cops
A 61-year-old woman was arrested yesterday for stabbing a 21-year-old man to death in a dispute in her Brooklyn apartment, cops said.Joan John stabbed Akeem Burrows in the stomach at...
Bigots spew bile
Racist friends and colleagues of the “Bad Lieutenant” are threatening the life of a Post reporter since she revealed the FDNY worker’s secret Twitter account, where he belittles women, blacks,...
Faulkner trove
An unpublished William Faulkner story is among a group of the author’s artifacts headed for auction on June 11 at Sotheby’s in New York. The items, including Faulkner’s postcards from...
DNA, Yankee cap link thug to tourist’s shooting
A Brooklyn man accused of shooting an Italian tourist has been tied to the crime by DNA found on the gun used in the shooting and a blue Yankee cap...
Now he’s Pedr-owe
The winner of one of the biggest Powerball jackpots of all time owes $29,000 in overdue child-support payments, the Passaic County, NJ, Sheriff’s Office said yesterday. Pedro Quezada, 44, sole...
Un-real estate ‘scam’ bust
Federal authorities yesterday charged a Queens man with engineering a $50 million real-estate scam and pocketing cash from “risk-free deals.” FBI agents arrested 29-year-old Gershon Barkany, of Far Rockaway, after...
New York is the Nanny State with the least freedoms: national study
New York’s big government — with its hands deep in taxpayers’ pockets and regulations controlling everyone’s lives — has made the Empire State the worst in the nation for personal...
‘Blade’ gets OK to run
PRETORIA, South Africa — Oscar Pistorius could compete at this year’s world championships after a South African judge eased his bail restrictions and ruled yesterday that the athlete, who faces...
‘Stops might have saved our sons’
Shenee Johnson is a mother who supports stop-and-frisk — for good reason. Her son, Kedrick Morrow Jr., 17, was killed at a party in Springfield Gardens, Queens, in 2010. He...
NYPD’s new chief of department: ‘Frisk’ effective when it’s done correctly
Stop-and-frisk is an “effective strategy when it’s done correctly” and should stay in place as police policy, the NYPD’s new chief of department said yesterday. While he acknowledged that stop-and-frisk...
‘Taped’ cop cost city 78G
The city paid out $78,000 to settle a civil-rights suit against an NYPD official who has emerged as a key figure in the ongoing stop-and-frisk trial, according to lawyers involved...
Kelly lapse in memory
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly made a rare appearance on the witness stand yesterday at a discrimination trial involving his department. In Brooklyn federal court, Kelly was asked about black ex-cop...
Fighting feel-good
In the great comic movie “The In-Laws,” a CIA agent tells his dentist friend to avoid gunfire on a Central American runway by running “serpentine, Sheldon, serpentine!” The arguments heard...
The Falklands’ free choice
If the British really are imperialist pigs, a bullying “colonial power” that stripped the “Malvinas” of their “territorial integrity,” then the denizens of the Falklands appear to like the usurpation....
Stop harassing the cops: Frisks save NYC lives
The Issue: Whether the New York Times’ reports on the stop-and-frisk program are biased against it. *** Its was refreshing to read Heather Mac Donald’s piece, “The Times’ Big Lie...
The Scapegoat Act of 2013
Its official name is the Securing Accountability in Foreign Embassies (SAFE) Act. It might better be called the Scapegoat Act. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) is the principal co-sponsor of a...
Where’s the shame?
When this newspaper exposed EMS Lt. Timothy Dluhos for his vile tweets, we thought it couldn’t get worse. After all, here was a guy tweeting under the moniker “Bad Lieutenant”...
The wages of cigs
Michael Bloomberg just gave New York’s politicians a timely lesson on the minimum wage — even though he was talking about cigarettes. This week the mayor introduced yet another measure...
Get over Penn Station
The old Pennsylvania Station, architectural achievement for the ages that it was, has been gone for 50 long years now. And it ain’t coming back. Isn’t it time to move...
The GOP’s road back from Iraq
Is the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining “mess” and “we.” By “mess,” I mean the dawn of...
'Renoir' review
Like the paintings of the master, “Renoir” is beautiful to look at, but it would be a mistake to call the film (or its subject) shallow. In the summer of...
ZZ Top frontman revs up his first band
Billy Gibbons has been fronting ZZ Top for so long that there are plenty of fans who must think he came out of the womb wearing sunglasses, a cowboy hat,...
A charming ‘Orphée aux Enfers’ plays at the Manhattan School of Music
A few caveats preceded Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater’s performance of “Orphée aux Enfers.” Dona D. Vaughn, director of the production, reminded the audience that all the singers were...
Trey Anastasio’s ‘Hands on a Hardbody’ about to close?
Broadway is about to be gripped by spring fever, with 15 openings scheduled between now and the cutoff date for Tony Award nominations at the end of April. Shia LaBeouf’s...
'Family Weekend' review
The frequently delightful “Family Weekend” opens strongly, as picture-perfect Emily (Olesya Rulin) charges around the family mansion leaving Post-its about her big event, the regional speed jump-rope finals. No one...
'Violeta Went To Heaven' review
Fiercely proletarian to the end of her days, Chilean folk singer Violeta Parra was born poor and died poor. She’s classic biopic material: a martyr sanctified by suffering and art....
'Room 237' review
I’m probably more intrigued than 99.3 percent of the American public by the idea of deconstructing the hidden symbols in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” but the theories proposed in the...
'Welcome To The Punch' review
There are a lot of casualties in this stylish, unoriginal thriller, but James McAvoy’s knee was the only one that moved me. His detective character gets shot there during the...
'Blancanieves' review
‘The Artist” won the Best Picture Oscar, and the half-silent “Tabu” earned multiple raves. But Pablo Berger’s “Blancanieves” is the purest, boldest re-imagining of silent cinema yet. Set in southern...
'Detour' review
One actor, one tiny set: Those are the terms director-writer William Dickerson has set for himself in this film about a yuppie named Jackson Alder (Neil Hopkins) who’s trapped in...
'Mental' review
The hippie heroine of this wacky Aussie comedy cheerfully theorizes that Australia was actually originally settled not by convicts but by mental patients — which may possibly explain the antics...
Novak credits Knicks veterans for turnaround
Just 11 days ago, the Knicks were teetering on the brink of disaster, having lost the first four games on their West Coast road trip. Coming off a loss in...
Wichita St. rolls past La Salle
LOS ANGELES — When you look at their body of work the last two years — particularly this season — there should no longer be anything shocking about the Shockers....
Mets' worst fear has finally come true with Johan
So it ends as we always feared it might, another season gone, maybe a career, a priceless left arm that should have gone to Cooperstown gone to seed instead. The...
Santana's angry bullpen session could have played role injury
TAMPA — This falls into the “we’ll probably never know” department. But on March 3, Johan Santana was very mad. He was upset at the portrayal he had not worked...
Shoulder re-tear could finish Santana's tenure with Mets
VIERA, Fla. — Johan Santana’s Mets career likely is finished, after an MRI exam revealed the pitcher has a probable re-tear of the anterior capsule in his left shoulder, general...
Banged-up Yankees, young Mets ready to get started
Two teams. One city. A million questions. The Yankees and Mets open their seasons Monday at 1 p.m. in their homes in The Bronx and Queens, but where they finish...
5 questions for Len Elmore
Cbs/espn analyst and former Knicks and Nets forward Len Elmore saw Florida Gulf Coast in person last week. He breaks down the Eagles’ chances against Florida and today’s other matchups...
A-Rod making more than ’Stros
Alex Rodriguez will make more this year than all the Houston Astros combined — a lot more.And he won’t even play the first half of the season, if at all.A-Rod’s...
Sports Shorts
NBA: Kobe hurts foot in Lakers’ loss In Milwaukee, Kobe Bryant used a crutch to leave the arena after the Lakers’ latest loss. Following Los Angeles’ 113-103 loss to the...
Islanders rally past Flyers in shootout
PHILADELPHIA — The Islanders continue to feel right at home on the road. Colin McDonald scored two goals, Josh Bailey tallied the clinching score in the shootout and the Islanders...
Vic Cangialosi at Tampa Bay Graded Entries
FIRST-6 fur; $9,000; clm($8,000); 3YO3-Artie Ocean 2-15-CrusinTaCamn10-11-HavetheLstWrd4-16-Elk's Big Red 8-12-Disco Writer 15-17-Cool Crosby 15-14-Grave 6-18-Gintraker 5-2SECOND-6 fur; $9,000; clm($8,000); 3up7-Wynn a Brew 8-55-Yvnne'sDelght20-11-I Star 20-16-SmertmeMsc20-12-She's Risky 20-18-Opera Star 5-23-Larryrepent's 15-19-PreciousHonr10-14-SuaveAristoct30-110-Alphabet...
Meadowlands Graded Entries
Post Time: 7:15 p.m.Best Bet: Clear View Hanover (6th)FIRST: Mile trot; $9,500; cond5 Leave Your Mark(AMiller)4-1-65-22 Ideal Revenue(MMiller)1-3-39-26 Gotthemusicinyou(DMiller)2-2-47-21 Ringside Nguyen(SSmith)6-5-615-13 Cassa's Image(JCampbell)7-7-48-14 Majestic Hit(SAllard)2-5-88-17 Brissot(CCallahan)9-4-615-18 Amarcord(JPlutino)7-4-220-19 Cookie's Kid(EAbbatiello)1-2-210-110 Jailhouse...
Gulfstream Analysis
Post Time: 1:00 p.m.FIRST-5 1/2 fur; $18,900; clm($10,000); 3upWILDCAT THUNDER cuts back in distance after winning last out. SYDNEY RULES drops in class after tiring last out. BLUE DISTINCTION adds...
Free-agent TE Davis cancels visit with Jets
The Jets will have to continue searching for a new tight end. Free agent Fred Davis canceled his visit with the team, which was scheduled for today, according to a...
Aqueduct Analysis
Post Time: 12:50 p.m. All horses appear in post position order1. 1 mile; $59,000; alw; 3upBIGGER IS BETTOR cuts back in distance after stalking the pace and finishing second this...
McIlroy shoots a 73 at the Houston Open
HUMBLE, Texas — The march to the Masters for Rory McIlroy looks more like a crawl. McIlroy only had four birdie putts on the front nine, none closer than 20...
Tomorrow’s Aqueduct Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-6 1/2 fur; $22,000; clm($12,500); 3up PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 That's Gin(L),109GRodriguz7-1-2Hushion15-12 Winning Pal(L),121CVelasquz1-3-3Rice7-23 Luxury Appeal(L),121C Hill9-2-2Gullo4-14 AmbassdrBrdg(L),121R Silvera2-4-2Gyarmati9-25 Tycoon Cat(L),121SCamchJr5-4-7Granvlle12-16 Jackin My Style(L),114D...
Aqueduct Charts
March 28th, 2013Clear and Fast©2013 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 fur; $23,000; clm($16,000); 4upOff: 12:50. 5. angle,brush upper,upTime: 23.17, 47.25, 59.11, 1:11.93.Trainer: Jason ServisWinner: CH G, 6, by Pleasant Tap-MertensiaScr: Bob...
The Post Line
NCAA Basketball TournamentRegional SemifinalsAt IndianapolisFavoriteLineUnderdogLouisville10OregonDuke2Michigan St.At Arlington, TexasKansas2MichiganFlorida13Fla. Gulf CstNBAFavoriteLineUnderdogNUGGETS8NetsKNICKS13 1/2BobcatsCELTICS2HawksRaptors1 1/2PISTONS76ers1CAVALIERSThunder8 1/2T’WOLVESHeat6 1/2HORNETSGRIZZLIES5 1/2RocketsSPURS5ClippersWizards2MAGICBLAZERS3 1/2JazzNHLFavoriteLineUnderdogLIGHTNING$100-120DevilsWild-105-115STARSB’HAWKS$135-155DucksFLAMES$130-150B. Jackets Home team in CAPS
Home Team Lineups
TODAYMar. 29SATMar. 30SUNMar. 31MONApr. 1TUEApr. 2WEDApr. 3THUApr. 4KnicksCharlotte7:30MSG NetworkESPN 98.7 FMNO GAMEBos.7:30MSGESPNNO GAMEMia.8:00TNTESPNAtl.7:00MSGESPNNO GAMENetsDenver9:00YES NetworkWBBR 1130 AMUtah9:00YESWFANNO GAMENO GAMENO GAMECle.7:00WWORWBBRChi.7:00TNTWBBRRangersNOGAMEMon.7:00MSGESPNNO GAMEWinn.7:00MSGESPNNO GAMEPit.7:30NBCSNWNYMNO GAMEIslandersNOGAMEPitt.1:00MSG+WRHUNO GAMEDevils7:00MSG+2WRHUWinn.7:00MSG+WRHUNO GAMEWas.7:00MSG+WRHUDevilsTampa Bay7:30MSG PlusWFAN 660 AM/101.9 FMFla.7:30MSG+WBBRNO...
Punchless Rangers blanked by Senators
OTTAWA — At this point, it’s tough to say the Rangers are anything but a team deserving of eighth place in the conference. Eventually, all of the expectations of this...
Zuccarello season debut up in the air for Rangers
OTTAWA — The Norwegian Hobbit is back, but not in. The Rangers’ signing of Mats Zuccarello was made official Thursday, and he took part in his first team practice at...
New Falcons DE Osi says he and Giants GM ended on good terms
On the day he was introduced in Atlanta as the newest member of the Falcons, Osi Umenyiora looked back on his misunderstood relationship with Giants general manager Jerry Reese. Reese...
Despite public proclamations, NCAA won’t change its ways
As the late Soupy Sales would say, “Be true to your teeth and they won’t be false to you!” To that end, if only our automobiles could run on the...
Carlesimo relishing Nets’ run to postseason
DENVER — P.J. Carlesimo stood in the hallway outside the visiting locker room inside the Rose Garden shortly after his Nets had obliterated the Trail Blazers Wednesday night, exchanging pleasantries...
Knee surgery may mean playoff return for Knicks' Stoudemire
Amar’e Stoudemire has been down this road before. So he said playing four games in five nights for the Knicks last month did not bring about another knee surgery. The...
Mets' Murphy back in swing of things
VIERA, Fla. — Daniel Murphy has every reason to believe he will be on the Mets’ charter tomorrow night, departing Sarasota, Fla., for New York and Opening Day in the...
No Johan means Harvey, Niese must lead Mets staff
PORT ST. LUCIE — Matt Harvey became that much more valuable. The same goes for Zack Wheeler. The bottom line, following the terrible news last night that Johan Santana is...
Brosius understands how Wells & Co. feel
TAMPA — Scott Brosius knows what Vernon Wells, Lyle Overbay, Brennan Boesch and Ben Francisco are experiencing. Yesterday, as those four attempted to speed up their familiarity of being Yankees,...
Snakebit Yankees head north a wreck
TAMPA — Joe Girardi fielded a technical question involving late-spring contractual language and sent out a one-word, across-the-room SOS — “Cash.” About 20 reporters spun around in the manager’s office...
Overbay gets 1st shot for new-look Yankees
TAMPA — It’s debatable how long Lyle Overbay will remain the Yankees’ first baseman against right-handed pitchers but certainly nobody has joined the club in a more bizarre manner. Released...
Yankees' Logan OK after being hit by ball
TAMPA — Did the Yankees finally get a break, or will Boone Logan awake today with a bruised left hip and need a few days off? In the final Florida...
Reports say Barbara Walters will retire next year
Barbara Walters is calling it a day. The most famous TV interviewer of all time is retiring next year, according to reports — ending a career that began when having...
Nasty NBC jokes back, exit talks with Jay slump
The short-lived truce between Jay Leno and NBC has ended under a barrage of new monologue jokes making fun of the struggling network. “Speaking of T-Mobile, they announced yesterday they’re...
Talk show guests
FRIDAYANDY COHEN, SARA HAINES - Today, 7 a.m., Ch. 4ALISON DEYETTE, DR. CARA NATTERSON, SEAN LOWE - Good Morning America, 7 a.m., Ch. 7JESSICA ALBA, GUY FIERI, ELISABETH HASSELBECK -...
Will the new morning team be CNN’s reversal of fortune?
CNN’s Jeff Zucker unveiled his new morning-show lineup yesterday — as his old show, “Today,” continued to reel under the weight of the ongoing Matt Lauer saga. The timing of...
September launch for new FXX cable net
Fx has added to its stable of sister cable networks.FXX, which was announced yesterday, will be targeted to “young adult viewers” and will launch Sept. 2. It joins FXM, a...
Weird but true
Some gratitude! A Florida state trooper patrolling Interstate 10 said he gave a break to a speeding state legislator — who complained and got the cop fired. Trooper Charles Swindle...
Withey’s D holds Kansas together
ARLINGTON, Texas — Ben McLemore may be the projected top pick in June’s NBA Draft, but center Jeff Withey has proven the biggest key for Kansas. With McLemore, the freshman...
Plunk down on Dunk City & Duke
WASHINGTON — Disclaimer: Lenn Robbins disagrees with two of these three picks. Florida Gulf Coast (+13) over Florida: You don’t really have a choice here. I mean, you could go...
Ross’ 3-pointer sends Ohio State on to Elite Eight
LOS ANGELES — A day earlier, Ohio State sophomore sub LaQuinton Ross camped out at Kobe Bryant’s locker in the bowels of Staples Center like he owned the place. Last...
Miami star: Fans wrong, We are not ‘overrated’
WASHINGTON — You don’t come out of the tough Bronx neighborhood, don’t play at national power Rice and not have a competitor’s edge. In the quiet of the Miami locker...
Marquette routs No. 2 Miami
WASHINGTON — After losing in the Sweet 16 last year for the second straight season, Marquette lost its two best players (Jae Crowder, Darius Johnson-Odom) to the pros. Expectations were...
Boeheim’s 2-3 zone claims another victim
WASHINGTON — For 37 years, long before there was a shot clock in college basketball or a Big East Conference or a Carrier Dome, Jim Boeheim has been a constant...
’Orange ‘D’ stymies top-seeded Hoosiers
WASHINGTON — Cody Zeller sat at his locker after Wednesday’s practice session getting peppered with the same question over and over: How would Indiana handle Syracuse’s famed 2-3 zone? The...
CBS’ Gottlieb sorry for saying he was bringing 'white man's perspective' (video)
CBS analyst Doug Gottlieb got coverage of the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 off to an awkward start, saying he was there to bring the “white man’s perspective” to the network’s...
Underdog darling Florida Gulf Coast on center stage tonight
ARLINGTON, Texas — For Florida Gulf Coast, the NCAA Tournament isn’t about fear: It’s about fun. Andy Enfield — the Division III gym rat who turned into an Upper West...
Islanders nip Flyers in shootout, pull even with Rangers
PHILADELPHIA — Colin McDonald scored two goals, Josh Bailey tallied the clinching score in the shootout and the New York Islanders won again on the road, coming up with a...
Ross' 3-pointer puts Ohio State into Elite Eight with win over Arizona (video)
LOS ANGELES — A day earlier, Ohio State sophomore sub LaQuinton Ross camped out at Kobe Bryant’s locker in the bowels of Staples Center like he owned the place. Thursday...
Punchless Rangers blanked by Senators
OTTAWA — No matter how tall Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist looks standing on his head, from that position it’s impossible for him to score. Lundqvist did everything in his power...
The latest craze: Snowskating
If you haven't heard of the latest craze in winter sports, you're not alone! Snowskating has been around for a while, but has finally come into its own and is...
Marquette beats Miami to reach first Elite Eight since 2003
After losing in the Sweet 16 last year for the second straight season, Marquette lost its two best players (Jae Crowder, Darius Johnson-Odom) to the pros. Expectations were reset. And...
CBS analyst apologizes for 'white man's perspective' comment (video)
CBS analyst Doug Gottlieb got coverage of the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16 off to an awkward start, saying he was there to bring the "white man's perspective" to the network's...