July 21, 2013
Livery cabbie charged in girlfriend's murder — her body was stuffed in garbage can
A livery cab driver faces murder charges in the death of his girlfriend. Police discovered the body of 29-year-old Yajaira Reyes just before dawn Sunday at the Bronx apartment building...
No Monday blues: Metro-North's Hudson line back on track in time for commute
Normal service is expected to resume on Metro-North's Hudson Line four days after a freight train derailed. The railroad says all trains will be running for Monday morning's commute but...
Mortar shells hit market in Syria, killing 20
AMMAN, Jordan — Government troops fired mortar rounds that slammed into a main market in a town in northern Syria on Sunday, killing at least 20 civilians, activist groups said....
Britain's Froome rides to victory in 100th Tour de France
PARIS — Chris Froome won the 100th Tour de France on Sunday, having dominated rivals over three weeks on the road and adroitly dealt with doping suspicions off it. In...
5 NYC mayoral candidates take on Rev. Al Sharpton's challenge, spent last night in public housing
Five candidates for New York City mayor spent last night away from home and got a wake-up call -- in a public-housing complex. “The apartment I stayed in had a...
WATCH: Silva reduced to tears talking about first UFC loss to Long Island's Weidman
It’s pretty clear his first loss in the UFC is getting to Anderson Silva.Seconds after the greatest MMA fighter ever was knocked out cold by Long Island’s Chris Weidman at...
Instagram photo of a porn star, a unicorn head and a cop lands officer in hot water
PITTSBURGH – An unidentified city police sergeant is facing possible discipline for having his picture taken in uniform while wearing a unicorn mask and standing next to a porn star...
Underwater explorers find dozens of WWII U-boats in watery graveyard
Archaeologists have found the rusting remains of 44 submarines off the United Kingdom’s coast, an oceanic graveyard made up mostly of vessels from the German Imperial Navy dating to World...
Harvey strikes out 10 in seven innings, Mets hit three homers in win over Phillies
The Phillies got a dose of Matt Harvey on a mission, an ace angry over portrayals he was focused on things other than baseball. On Sunday, Harvey was focused, furious...
Mickelson comes back from five strokes down, shoots 66 in final round to win first British Open
GULLANE, Scotland — Lefty’s right hand never let go of the silver jug. Phil Mickelson sat for 28 minutes and answered 23 questions in his winner’s press conference as the...
A-Rod needs rest due to quad strain, will not re-join Yankees
MOOSIC, Pa. -- Alex Rodriguez won’t be joining the Yankees in Texas. The third baseman was diagnosed with a Grade 1 strain of his left quadriceps and will go to...
Germany is NSA's 'most prolific partner' and used spy system to create 'surveillance state': report
German Chancellor Angela Merkel vehemently denied the country is a “surveillance state” after a magazine reported her government used a top U.S. National Security Agency spy program. The German magazine...
Teen in critical condition after hit-and-run
Cops are questioning a driver who mowed down a teen in the Bronx early this morning and fled the scene before returning, sources said. The driver of a white four-door...
Police investigate death of NYPD employee found in dumpster
Police are investigating the death of a 29-year-old Bronx woman who was found dead inside a trash can in her second-floor Bronx apartment, sources said. Cops are questioning the victim's...
EXCLUSIVE Preview: Batman Superman #2
Such timing! Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Warner Brothers announced yesterday that the follow-up to “Man of Steel” will be “Superman & Batman”!And, hey, with...
Police expect more bodies to be found in Ohio; suspect may have been 'influenced' by serial killer who murdered 11 women
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — Searchers rummaging through vacant houses in a neighborhood where three female bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags should be prepared to find one or two...
Islamic extremists attacking Egypt's Christian community after Morsi ouster: report
The Muslim Brotherhood reportedly is attempting to blame Egypt’s Coptic Christian community for the recent ousting of President Mohammed Morsi and even resorting to violent tactics in an effort to...
WATCH: Former employee caught on video stealing tequila from Brooklyn restaurant
The suspect is 5-foot-9, 180 pounds, and maybe still drunk. Cops believe a booze-loving former employee at a Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn restaurant returned to his old workplace two weeks ago,...
Another Brit poised to add to recent sporting glory
GULLANE, Scotland — To term British sport as flush with pride at the moment is an understatement akin to calling Ian Poulter’s plaid pants loud. With Lee Westwood leading Tiger...
Tiger hunts elusive 15th major trailing after third round
GULLANE, Scotland — You can make the argument when it comes to the final round in major championship golf, there is much less pressure on the pursuer than the player...
Inoperable brain cancer doesn’t stop union chief in battle for players’ rights
This is not the story of a changed man. This is the story of a man who had it right all along. Who brought an army of allies into the...
Slugger’s roster spot in danger if stars come back healthy
In explaining why he signed Raul Ibanez over a lefty-swinging DH group that included — among others — Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and Jason Giambi, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman...
The Rumble
Emmy Andujar didn’t take any classes this summer, but the versatile Manhattan College forward’s summer has been a learning experience nonetheless. The Rice graduate and Bronx product has spent much...
Serby analyzes 10 issues heading into preseason
The NFL returns in earnest this week, training camps welcoming 32 teams with Super dreams, some of them impossible (Jets, Jaguars, Raiders, Cardinals, Bills), others improbable, more than a few...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with... Marlon Byrd
Mets outfield Marlon Byrd, who is having a career year, took a swing at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: Do you like playing here? A: It’s not...
Rex returns to roots to get Jets back on track
Woody Johnson walked into Rex Ryan’s office early in the morning on Dec. 31. A day earlier, the Jets finished a 6-10 season, the worst of Ryan’s four years as...
NYERs Cutting back
Welcome to austerity, New York- style. Send the kids to state schools, and let’s cut up one of the credit cards — that’s the take-away from the latest household-debt numbers...
SEC’s years-long probe: Cohen can’t manage
Sec chairman Mary Jo White is hitting the ground limping.On a scalding-hot Friday afternoon in July, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil administrative suit against one of Wall...
Honey, did you pay all the TV bills?
For all the complaints about cable having a stranglehold on American televisions, the box did offer a certain simplicity: one monthly, if sometimes pricey, bill. But with competing streaming services...
Dirty paperwork
New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman plans to slap Bank of America and Wells Fargo with a lawsuit as early as next week for violating the $26 billion National...
Clouds on a very hot horizon
The dog days of summer that have sent thousands of baked New Yorkers to the beaches have done little to scare away the bulls on Wall Street. The year-to-date returns...
BW’s cover image
No, not Rolling Stone — the other mag cover. Bloomberg Businessweek’s eye-catching and extremely phallic cover making fun of hedge-fund managers is already making waves in the industry. Last week,...
Arriving at a happy ending to one sad $tory
Dear John: I am writing for my 80-year-old dad. My mom died in Oct. 2008 and left a sum of money in Wachovia Bank. We tried getting the money out,...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS KEVIN O’MALLEY With September fall-fashion bible, Elle publisher racks up the biggest issue of any magazine in Hearst’s history. JOHN MARTIN In Time Warner’s game of management thrones, CFO...
SI ‘water-affront’ lawsuit
A group of Staten Island homeowners say their neighbors and the local yacht club are trespassing on their underwater property in the Arthur Kill tributary.The owners of 65 and 69...
Investor sues filmmaker Terrence Malick over failure to produce promised documentary
Famed director Terrence Malick said “Voyage of Time” would be his masterpiece. His investors say it was a $6 million cruise to nowhere. One backer wants his money returned, charging...
Scribe Thomas dies
Helen Thomas, the irascible grand dame of the White House press corps, died yesterday at the age of 92. Ubiquitous at presidential press conferences for five decades and well known...
The Jacko-pot: Family alrady dreaming of AEG Live suit’s billions
The Jacksons are already counting the billions they’re convinced they’ll get in their wrongful-death suit against concert promoter AEG Live. Family sources said matriarch Katherine, 83, and her children, Rebbie,...
Sock it to jerk
A Westchester homeowner caught a thief stealing her FedEx package on surveillance video — though he was likely disappointed with the score.He made off with $25 worth of compression stockings.The...
Branch horror
A 13-year-old girl was injured by a falling tree limb in Riverside Park, officials confirmed yesterday. The youngster was taken to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center after suffering what...
Wheely dumb cop theft
Two knuckleheads in Boerum Hill tried to steal an NYPD mountain bike right under the noses of a couple of 84th Precinct cops, law-enforcement sources said.The cops watched the duo...
Roller-coaster plunge horror
A Texas mom who “didn’t feel safe” on a Six Flags roller coaster plummeted to her death — in front of her daughter and son-in-law, who helplessly watched from the...
5 people shot in revenge violence at Brooklyn park
A gunman opened fire in a Brooklyn park yesterday in a senseless act of revenge — wounding five people, including two bystanders sitting on a porch, witnesses and officials said....
4 more in Tex. kidnap home
Police have now found four women in the same Houston house of horrors used to imprison four elderly, malnourished men — one for as long as 10 years, law-enforcement officials...
Sleepover: Mayoral candidates spend the night in Harlem’s Lincoln Houses
Would you let this man in for a sleepover? Anthony Weiner took his silver sleeping bag and a box of cupcakes over to a Lincoln Houses apartment in East Harlem...
Inside story of Lady Gaga’s early years of pitfalls, breakthroughs and audacity in NYC
Lady Gaga’s first shot at fame didn’t go exactly as planned. Booked for Lollapalooza in 2007, she performed on a side stage in the early hours of the day. Her...
Egypt’s jihad it with Syria
Egypt will continue to support Syria’s 2-year-old uprising but not jihad, the new Egyptian foreign minister said yesterday. “Everything will be re-evaluated,” Nabil Fahmy said in a speech addressing issues...
NYPD Daily Blotter
The Bronx *** Police are looking for two men who raped a woman in a Bronxwood apartment, sources said. The 32-year-old victim went to an apartment building on Barker Avenue...
Times Sq. cop-kill suit
An emotionally disturbed, knife-wielding man who was gunned down by cops in Times Square last summer didn’t have to die, his family charges in a new lawsuit. Darrius Kennedy, 51,...
NYC medical examiner official took 9/11 plane wreckage home for coffee table, fmr. co-worker says
High-ranking staffers in the city Medical Examiner’s Office who collected ghoulish trophies from 9/11 and the deadly Staten Island Ferry crash got away with it — and one even got...
Brooklyn crowns a tiny wiener
These teeny weenies finally got to rise to the occasion. Kings County Bar in Bushwick put on a puny- penis pageant yesterday to prove that some good things do come...
Holy superhero blockbuster!
SAN DIEGO — Meet the new dynamic duo! Superman and Batman will team up in a movie aimed at driving up box-office sales faster than a speeding bullet, “Man of...
Rocker Liam Gallagher tells pals he's splitting from wife following love child revelations: reports
Philandering rocker Liam Gallagher and his wife are headed for Splitsville following bombshell revelations about his alleged New York love child, according to published reports today. The Post’s Emily Smith...
Beyoncé and Jay-Z join Trayvon Martin's mother at NY rally for justice
Beyoncé and Jay-Z stood beside Trayvon Martin’s mother in lower Manhattan yesterday during one of more than 100 nationwide demonstrations demanding justice for the slain teen. The music moguls were...
Kerry eye on pre-1967 borders: Palestinians
JERUSALEM — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to resume peace talks with Israel only after US Secretary of State John Kerry gave a letter guaranteeing that the basis of the...
Mother of all bullies
A Bronx woman tired of her son being attacked by a classmate was assaulted herself — by the bully’s mom, according to a lawsuit.Odette Boyd was picking up her seventh-grader...
Dzho-pix cop boost
A “Save Sgt. Sean Murphy” Facebook page has been created to support the Massachusetts cop who posted gritty photos of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to protest Tsarnaev’s glamorous Rolling...
UWS anger at shelter skelter
Upper West Siders are looking to slam the door on two 95th Street homeless shelters, claiming the city has saturated their neighborhood with the facilities. The city took over the...
Qns. priest found dead in pool
A Queens Catholic priest was found lifeless at the bottom of a pool at his Long Island home, officials said yesterday.The Rev. Gerald Langelier, 78, was fished out of the...
Florida gala was canceled – but Eliot Spitzer still flew in for ‘hook’-up in 2008
Former Love Gov. Eliot Spitzer was so eager to do something in Palm Beach, Fla. — reportedly one of his favorite locations for secret hooker trysts — that he traveled...
What a cheater! EMT offers $400 to Post reporter to take certification test for him
His cheating ways could become a matter of life and death. Bernard Shore, a volunteer critical-care EMT, offered $400 to an undercover Post reporter to take his mandatory state-certification exam...
Fender-bender beatdown
Could the insurance company have been that bad?A Sayreville, NJ, woman who wanted to avoid calling her insurer about a car accident found herself the victim of a vicious beatdown...
Brooklyn DA releases names of 46 convicted child sex-abusers who terrorized the Orthodox Jewish community from within
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office has convicted 45 men — and one woman — in sex-attack cases in the Orthodox Jewish community since it began a crackdown more than four...
NY food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti
Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Welfare recipients are buying...
O.J. hopes to act alongside Charlie Sheen on “Anger Management” — if he’s sprung
Now he wants tiger blood on his hands. O.J. Simpson may soon team up with fellow pariah Charlie Sheen in an effort to resurrect his acting career. In anticipation of...
Roof-rape girl: ‘I fell’
A 16-year-old girl who was raped and tossed off a Brooklyn roof last week is getting cold feet about fingering her alleged attackers — even as she lies in a...
President Obama now aligned with Rev. Al Sharpton on race issues
Is Al Sharpton president of the United States? Or just attorney general? I ask because it’s not clear where the rabble-rousing rev’s agenda ends and White House policy begins. These...
Hall of Shame
Simon Lemmer, 2nd Degree Criminal Sexual Act Moshe Spitzer, 2nd Degree Criminal Sexual Act Yona Weinberg, 2nd Degree Sexual Abuse; Endangering the Welfare of a Child Stefan Colmer, 2nd Degree...
Would your kid eat this?
Canned green beans in a cup, a chopped-off chicken patty, a dark-brown whole-wheat wrap. Yuck. A New York school district says the meals it was forced to serve to comply...
NYC, July 1993
It’s been a busy month for local news here in the big, bad city. Flipping through a few copies of this month’s Post, we find, “Here We Ho Again! Spitzer...
‘Bravo’ new world
The Fab Five are 10 years old! It was way back in July 2003 that Bravo premiered “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” the reality show about a quintet of...
Book tackles controversial search for the ‘athlete gene’
Glance through a list of the Boston Marathon winners, and you see a sea of Kenyan flags. In the last two decades, 16 of the 20 top finishers hailed from...
Man of (Overpriced) Steel
Cash tolls at the Verrazano Bridge hit a whopping $15 last March. Apparently, that’s not high enough for Chuck Schumer. New York’s senior senator wants the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to...
How Eliot tripped up
Eliot Spitzer may have little to show for the brief 14 1/2 months he served as New York’s governor. But one thing he did accomplish was to clarify the rules...
Unprepared for sci
In recent years, a lot of people have been concerned about the relatively low numbers of science majors among American college students. The percentage of science and engineering graduates in...
No-good NY pols
I have been reading Michael Benjamin’s columns for several years (“The Real Addiction,” PostOpinion, July 14). He never ceases to impress with his logic and integrity. However, it is these...
Required reading
The White Princess by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone) Henry VIII may have had six wives, but he only had one mother. Elizabeth of York’s story is the subject of the latest...
Wild, wild west
Shot All to Hell Jesse James, The Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s Greatest Escape by Mark Lee Gardner William Morrow “We were outlaws the moment the South lost. We...
In My Library Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz, the composer of “Wicked” and much more, has never been shy about discussing his struggles on Broadway. And so, when he told a friend how much he loved...
Raising ‘Kane’
My Lunches With Orson Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles Edited by Peter Biskind Metropolitan At one point in these conversations with the film director Henry Jaglom, Orson Welles...
How ultimate nice guy Hugh Jackman transforms himself into the world’s most ornery superhero
Hugh Jackman’s own superpower: the ability to drink gallons of water in a single day. While he’s appeared incredibly pumped up in his previous turns as Wolverine, Jackman and director...
Tim Gunn: My New York
“Project Runway” mentor Tim Gunn may hail from Washington, DC — but it’s New York City that he calls home. The reality show, which just premiered its 12th season, will...
Let’s talk about sex! ‘To Do List’ star Aubrey Plaza gives the goods on getting down for the big screen
Aubrey Plaza is giving her eye-rolls a break. The 29-year-old actress known for her deadpan shtick as “Parks & Recreation” assistant April Ludgate breaks out this month with the lead...
Marathon men
If you appreciate watching masters play really long games, this is the golden age of marathons.At the Ukrainian Championship last month, Grandmaster Stanislav Bogdanovich captured the last pawn on the...
Bridge
Most people who are immersed in bridge spend their time at the table. For them, the essence of the game is competition. But bridge has given rise to exercises more...
Air of the dog
Lauren Vellek, 25, makes keeping her dogs cool a priority. The marketing manager, who lives in a small one-bedroom apartment in the Flatiron District, has installed blackout shades in her...
Giving up the ghost
When you work as a ghost-hunter, it’s only natural to get your share of kooks phoning about spooks. “There are people who watch ‘The Exorcist’ and think weird stuff is...
3 hits good for higher Ed
BOSTON — Eduardo Nunez did not want to look back. There wasn’t much uplifting in the .207 average he brought into yesterday’s game against the Red Sox. And he didn’t...
Giants head into camp with eye on erasing poor 2012 finish
A year ago, the Giants in a variety of vehicles drove up to the University at Albany for training camp, but they might as well have been floating on air...
Hondo takes Phil Lee
The Yankees took care of Hondo’s business in Boston yesterday, smacking the Sawx to reduce the IOUs to 405 mauchs.Today, Mr. Aitch will give three cheers for Cliffy — 20...
Home Team Lineups
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Sports Shorts
HORSES: Princess of Sylmar wins at Saratoga Princess of Sylmar pulled away for a six-length victory in the $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at Saratoga Race Course....
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto Racing11 a.m.NASCAR: Nationwide Series:STP 300, qualifying ESPN21 p.m.American Le Mans Series: Grand Prix of Mosport ESPN23 p.m.NASCAR: Nationwide Series STP 300 ESPN4:30 p.m.MotoGP World Championship: Laguna Seca SPEED6 p.m.ARCA...
Yanks’ season defying odds
* Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson, Kevin Youkilis and Francisco Cervelli played a combined 69 games for the Yankees through the All-Star break. Their total payroll: $95-plus...
Baseball fans forever jilted by ’roid rage
The part I find endlessly fascinating is this: We keep hearing about how baseball has embedded itself into the hearts and minds of fewer and fewer people every year. We...
Turning lockout’s key
David Clarkson, Ryane Clowe and even Vincent Lecavalier were anomalies on the free-agent market this summer. The 9.16-percent reduction in the cap from $70.2 million to $64.3 million won by...
All-Star festival fleeces fans
Good work, if you can get it. MLB’s team owners pay Bud Selig roughly $15 million per year so Selig can play Commissioner, pretending to represent the best interests of...
Reports: Devils in hot pursuit of Jagr
It has been a strange offseason for both the Devils and Jaromir Jagr, so it might make sense for the two parties to come together to prolong the career of...
R&A clocks Matsuyama with stroke penalty
GULLANE, Scotland — Bringing what already had been a testy, frustrating British Open week for a number of players to a the boil yesterday was a sudden slow-play crackdown by...
Germen big add to pen
When the Mets called up rookie reliever Gonzalez Germen, he was little more than a footnote, but he is pitching his way into being part of the bullpen’s foundation. Yesterday,...
Santonio ‘hopefully’ fit for Jets opener
The quarterback competition between Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith is likely to be the most talked about story line of the Jets’ upcoming training camp.But the health of Santonio Holmes...
Hill’s Giants spot unsafe after ban for abuse substance
The Giants have a decision to make regarding Will Hill, a talented but troubled safety who has again run afoul of the laws of the National Football League and might...
‘Terrible’ CC takes mound for Yankees
BOSTON —CC Sabathia is regarded as a terrific second-half pitcher, but that’s a bit of an inflated reputation — at least as a Yankee. In his four years in pinstripes...
Zack off game, but Amazin’s prevail
Zack Wheeler didn’t have his best control or his sharpest command yesterday, but he had the knack and the stuff to pitch his way out of trouble. And the jam...
Brown sees red after falling short
Its significance probably was lost by the time Mets closer Bobby Parnell got Darin Ruf to line out to Daniel Murphy in the ninth inning to secure yesterday’s 5-4 Mets...
Satin right choice vs. lefties
More than anything, what Terry Collins wants to have at first base is an answer.Although the Mets manager is refusing to use the word “platoon,” that’s exactly what has been...
Yankees' Gardner shines day after getting ejected
BOSTON — Joe Girardi probably has accepted Brett Gardner’s apology by now. On Friday night at Fenway Park, Gardner twice apologized to his manager after getting ejected for firing his...
Day-to-day dilemma will haunt Rodriguez for rest of his career
MOOSIC, Pa. — Alex Rodriguez rested his chin in his hand for most of a five-minute news conference late last night, looking glum, talking with the kind of enthusiasm you...
Yankees' Stewart dishes on wacky double play
BOSTON — Chris Stewart had a word for his day behind the plate for the Yankees yesterday: unconventional. That works. As would “weird,” “bizarre” or “freaky.” But if you want...
A-Rod has to DH with tight quad; return in doubt
MOOSIC, Pa. — And just like that, Alex Rodriguez’s return to the Yankees in Texas tomorrow now appears to be in doubt. Scheduled to start at third base last night...
Yankees snap 3-game skid in steamy Fenway
BOSTON — The warts are clearly defined. There are far too many Four-A players on the roster. A lineup that bleeds for runs requires pitchers to be almost perfect, which...
Standing ‘O’ from Boston faithful provided incredibly special Mo-ment
BOSTON — The bullpen gate swung open, the music blared and Mariano Rivera entered the game in the ninth inning to another long standing ovation. Only this was at Fenway...
‘American’ horror story
When the former producers of spooky shows like “Paranormal State” and “Ghost Lab” say your house is scary, you’re in trouble. That’s what at least one of the three unfortunate...
Playing a shameless ex-con, Jon Voight has the year’s best role on ‘Ray Donovan’
While the title character on Showtime’s hit series “Ray Donovan” struggles with how to be a man of conscience, his father — ex-con Mickey, a hedonist gangster — shows how...
Don't miss
Inside Vamp Camp What to do about the escalating crisis between humans and vampires? Bill (Stephen Moyer) has no idea, so he seeks Lilith’s advice. Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten),...
Zimmerman convicted by media
We no longer need high-profile murder trials. We can save a fortune just by allowing the latest “Access Hollywood”/CNN/TMZ opinion poll and a pile of person-on-the-street interviews determine guilty from...
Reel good
Brokeback Mountain 2005 Sunday, 8 p.m., TCM Three Oscars, including Best Director for Ang Lee, went to this extraordinary movie about two gay caballeros in the early 1960s — when...
Look Who’s Talking
Kelly & MIchael 9 a.m., Ch. 7 Monday: Octavia Spencer; “Pippin” cast.. Tuesday: Heidi Klum;' “Motown: the Musical” cast. Wednesday: Hugh Jackman; “Cinderella” cast. Thursday: Stanley Tucci; “Kinky Boots” cast....
Life 'Under the Dome'
Rachelle Lefevre, the stunning redhead at the center of CBS’ summer thriller, “Under the Dome,” recently found herself staring at the story’s author, that master of mayhem, Stephen King. King...
5 summer styles to make your flirty flings sizzle
Romantic row-boating HowAboutWe users propose park dates, like this one, twice as often during the spring and summer months compared to the rest of the year. To get your sea...
Click it up a notch!
With the city’s endless activities at your fingertips, the possibilities for date destinations can be overwhelming. But dating Web site HowAboutWe aims to make that decision a bit easier by...
Ragin' for cajun
The table full of friends looks hungry but a little wary as they eye the spread before them. On the table — which is lined with brown paper — are...
Weird but true
“Love thy neighbor as thyself” sure isn’t this guy’s motto. A Fairbanks, Alaska, man called 911 last week, accusing his neighbor of attacking him, only to later admit he was...
This week's couple: Arch rivals
Even in a city as populous as New York, small worlds can collide. Such was the case when Daniel, 25, met up with Liz, 26, for their date at Ditch...
Meet Market: Bronx-based softball umpire sks gal who’s the perfect catch
Play ball When he isn’t umping a game, Guillermo cheers on his favorite team, the New York Mets. Betting man “I can’t say I’m a champ, but I like to...
Ring it on
Want to surprise your fiancée with the perfect ring? Have no eye for jewelry? You may need an engagement ring consultant. Or, more precisely, you might need Molly Clarke, founder...
Top 5 pirate-style pick-up lines
According to sexy scalawags near the Shipwreck! pirates exhibit at Discovery Times Square “Arrrrrr you going to let me buy you a drink?” — Shar “I want to marry you...
Kobe Bryant memorabilia goes for $433G at auction
A Kobe Bryant NBA championship ring sold for $176,000 at auction Saturday, the highlight of a highly-contested sale that pitted the player against his parents. Six items from the basketball...
US jets drop bombs on Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
CANBERRA, Australia — Two U.S. fighter jets have dropped four unarmed bombs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park when a training exercise went wrong. The two AV-8B Harrier jets...
Red Bulls react to dour 0-0 tie in Toronto
The Red Bulls played to a dour scoreless tie today at Toronto FC. They followed a resounding 4-0 rout of Montreal with a listless performance that had coach Mike Petke...