August 1, 2009
DROWNING IN
August 1, 2009 | 10:29pmFormer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, rushed to deny stories of marital strife today after bloggers ignited an Internet firestorm over divorce rumors. Two Alaska bloggers posted...
PALIN: I'M NOT GETTING DIVORCED!
August 1, 2009 | 10:27pmFormer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, rushed to deny stories of marital strife today after bloggers ignited an Internet firestorm over divorce rumors. Two Alaska bloggers posted...
Redding or a call-up on Monday
August 1, 2009 | 9:51pmJerry Manuel said Tim Redding (pictured) or a Triple-A call up -- most likely right-hander Nelson Figueroa -- will start Monday's series finale against the Diamondbacks. It will be a...
Beltran still on comeback quest
August 1, 2009 | 9:36pmCarlos Beltran continued his comeback bid today by hitting on the field for the first time since going on the disabled list in late June with bone bruises in his...
HOW TO SPOT A SOCIOPATH
August 1, 2009 | 9:22pmSeventeen years ago, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot in the head by her husband's underage lover. Left with one deaf ear and a partially paralyzed face, Mary Joe stood stoically...
Rex Ryan transcript, Aug. 1
August 1, 2009 | 8:18pmHere's what Rex Ryan had to say to the media at training camp today, courtesy of the New York Jets: Opening Statement...Practice was great. Today, I thought was a good...
COPS KILL MAN IN BRONX SHOOTOUT
August 1, 2009 | 7:42pmAn armed man was shot and killed by cops during an early-morning gun battle today on a Bronx street, police said. Officers in a marked squad car were flagged down...
PHELPS SETS WORLD RECORD IN 100 FLY
August 1, 2009 | 7:25pmMichael Phelps beat Milorad Cavic again. No doubt about it. With a defiant performance in a supposedly inferior suit, Phelps stayed close over the outward lap and rallied on the...
Game 103: D-backs at Mets
August 1, 2009 | 7:10pm(UPDATED: 6:00 P.M.) The Mets are hoping to bounce back from a two-game skid tonight when Oliver Perez takes the mound against the Diamondbacks at Citi Field. Perez will be...
Jenkins tweaks calf in practice
August 1, 2009 | 5:21pmBy MARK CANNIZZAROCORTLAND _ Here's a sight the Jets never want to see: Nose tackle Kris Jenkins lying flat on his stomach on the trainer's table with an ice pack...
Pedro says Red Sox title isn't tainted
August 1, 2009 | 4:19pmPedro Martinez vigorously defended his 2004 Red Sox team against claims that its world championship is tainted after a report revealed teammates David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez tested positive for...
GIANTS SIGN TOP PICK HAKEEM NICKS
August 1, 2009 | 4:04pmThe Giants assured themselves of having perfect attendance for the start of training camp from their nine-player NFL Draft class today when they signed Hakeem Nicks, the first-round pick who...
LAGUARDIA AIRPORT EVACUATED AFTER BOMB SCARE
August 1, 2009 | 3:56pmA lunatic terrorist wanna-be cleared out LaGuardia Airport this morning after police spotted him with a wire-laden backpack that ran to a trigger device on his hand, law enforcement sources...
Grabs WRs early instead of running straight to RBs
August 1, 2009 | 3:19pmWith the NFL season fast approaching, it's time to get prepared for your fantasy draft. For the next five weeks, the Fantasy Tracker gives you a look at how to...
Coverage in The Post
August 1, 2009 | 2:23pmWhile GM Omar Minaya was quietly standing down at the non-waivers trade deadline, the Mets did the same at the plate Friday night in a 3-2 loss to the lowly...
WHY EVERYTHING SUCKS
August 1, 2009 | 2:10pmI've figured it out. I've figured it out. What? Everything. Why everything sucks. Here's why. In the 1950s, late '50s, early '60s, a bunch of advertising guys got together on...
Box Office: Soft Start for 'Funny People'
August 1, 2009 | 11:49amJudd Apatow's phallocentric dramedy "Funny People'' will finish the weekend with a softish $22 million based on early Friday numbers, predicts Steve Mason. That's at the lower end of expectations...
DAVE'S FAVES
August 1, 2009 | 9:47amTHE rules say you have to be 18 or older to watch "The Late Show With David Letterman" live. But the band Care Bears on Fire with Izzy, 13, Sophie,...
WHAT'S UP?
August 1, 2009 | 8:42amToday BE MORE CHILL: Escape from the sizzling city summer at Central Park Zoo's annual Chill Out! Have an ice cream while the polar bears, penguins and puffins chow down...
ROCK SUNG YOUNG
August 1, 2009 | 8:41amALTHOUGH back-to-school-sale commercials start airing earlier every year, there's still a month left of summer for kids to enjoy. So why not enjoy it with music -- some reinterpretations of...
PICTURE-PERFECT JERSEY
August 1, 2009 | 8:37amJERSEY may be the Garden State, but sitting in gridlock on the turnpike is no walk in the park. Instead it's a walk through . . . an art gallery....
THERE WILL BE DRUMS
August 1, 2009 | 8:36amDROP the Ohio State Marching Band in the middle of a Busby Berkeley number. Amp up the complexity level by 1,000, and there you have it: a drum & bugle...
DANCE ENHANCER
August 1, 2009 | 8:32amLATELY, you can't turn on the TV without being hit over the head with dancing shows. But do you dare try it? Oh, yes. In fact, there's never been a...
LIU STAR GETTING HIS SHOT WITH SEATTLE FARM TEAM
August 1, 2009 | 8:31amBrooklyn's Long Island University might not be thought of as a baseball school, yet major league teams have drafted 35 of its players. The latest was this year, when James...
MCGRIFF'S 1ST BITE AT COOPERSTOWN
August 1, 2009 | 8:30amWhen the Baseball Hall of Fame ballots are printed later this year, Fred McGriff will appear for the first time. And if he eventually gets into Cooperstown, McGriff will give...
GRAB WIDEOUTS EARLY INSTEAD OF RUNNING STRAIGHT TO BACKS
August 1, 2009 | 8:29amWith the NFL season fast approaching, it's time to get prepared for your fantasy draft. For the next five weeks, the Fantasy Tracker gives you a look at how to...
ED FOUNTAINE'S STAKES SPOT PLAYS
August 1, 2009 | 8:27amDIANA Saratoga, ninth race. Grade 1. Purse: $500,000. Mile-and-an-eighth, turf, fillies and mares. Post: 5:14 p.m.LOWDOWN: Rutherienne was once regarded as the best turf mare in the nation before a...
JOCK LEPAROUX KEEPS IT 'TOGETHER' FOR DIANA
August 1, 2009 | 8:26amSARATOGA SPRINGS -- Imagine having the chance to ride the Kentucky Derby winner in a $750,000 race and turning it down. That's exactly what jockey Julien Leparoux did. Offered the...
INNINGS LIMITS MAY THROW CURVEBALLS INTO YOUR ROTATION
August 1, 2009 | 8:25amWITH eight electric shutout innings Wednesday night, Yankees right-hander Joba Chamberlain won his third straight start and moved that much closer to his reported innings cap for his third pro...
SKOWRON HEEDED ADVICE FROM PIPP
August 1, 2009 | 8:24amSOMETIMES the best advice comes along and sits down right beside you. This was Old-Timers' Day more than 50 years ago, and young Bill "Moose" Skowron was in his second...
ASSOCIATION OUT TO PUT SPORT ON THE RIGHT PATH
August 1, 2009 | 8:21amIN THEORY, the creation of the Boxing Promoters Association is something that has been long overdue for a sport in need of direction. But only time will tell whether the...
HIGH SCHOOL HOOP STAR KEEPS ST. JOHN'S ON RADAR
August 1, 2009 | 8:10amThe July recruiting period came to an end yesterday, but JayVaughn Pinkston, likely the city's top senior, is a long way from figuring out his next step. "I'm going to...
LIBERTY FIRE HEAD COACH
August 1, 2009 | 8:10amHalfway through a disappointing season, Liberty president and general manager Carol Blazejowski has fired longtime coach Pat Coyle and replaced her on an interim basis with assistant Anne Donovan. Donovan,...
DERBY WINNER ROBS HASKELL OF CLASSIC SHOWDOWN
August 1, 2009 | 8:08amIT COULD have been the race of the year -- all three winners of this year's Triple Crown going head to head for the first time in the Haskell Invitational...
DREARY DAY CAN'T DAMPEN START OF SANCHEZ ERA
August 1, 2009 | 8:05amCORTLAND -- There were maybe 800 fans braving the rain, some of them under umbrellas, some under green-and-white plastic fire helmets, some to catch the first glimpse of the new...
LEON AN UNHAPPY CAMPER
August 1, 2009 | 8:03amCORTLAND -- Leon Washington is in training camp with his teammates, having reported late Thursday night and practiced yesterday. He's happy about that. He, however, is extremely unhappy that he's...
JONES MUM ON CONTRACT
August 1, 2009 | 8:02amCORTLAND -- Running back Thomas Jones, who's been blowing off reporters all offseason after skipping more of the team's offseason conditioning program because he's unhappy about his contract, spoke with...
A &E STAR'S RAPE RAP
August 1, 2009 | 7:50am'COUSIN Marv" from A&E's "Ham mertime," has been accused of raping a woman he met on Twitter. KPIX-TV reported that 33-year-old Marvin Grant, a cousin of "Hammertime" star MC Hammer,...
CYBILL LIBERTIES
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amYOU'LL never hear the words "shocking" and "Hallmark Chan nel" in the same sentence, but that's OK. This is a network that knows its audience, and vice versa. There's something...
US REACHES PACT ON UBS
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amThe US and Switzerland reached an agreement to settle a US Justice Department lawsuit against UBS AG seeking the names of 52,000 American account holders, a lawyer told a federal...
UNLOADING THE GLOBE
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amThe New York Times Co. moved a step closer to unloading its long-suffering Boston Globe, receiving a couple of bids from buyers long rumored to be interested in the daily...
WASHINGTON POST BUOYED BY ITS KAPLAN DIVISION
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amWashington Post Co., the newspaper owner, posted a second-quarter profit after a loss a year earlier, as a 13 percent gain in revenue at its Kaplan education division countered declines...
CLEAR CHANNEL MAY BE GOING FRENCH
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amJCDecaux SA would consider buying Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. or the outdoor ad unit of CBS Corp. to become the biggest outdoor advertising company in the world, its chairman...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amAIG ratings AIG's plane-leasing unit and consumer lender were cut to the lowest investment grade by Moody's Investors Service and may be re duced to junk on pros pects they...
DIRTY DEMS: IT GOES FAR BEYOND DODD
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amEVERYTHING you need to know about false Hope and Change can be found in one picture: the image of President Obama embracing embattled Sen. Chris Dodd. The troubled Democrat is...
SANCHEZ'S 'SELLOUT' STEREOTYPE
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amCNN anchor Rick Sanchez provoked a tempest in a Twitter this week when he said he'd be a rich guy if he "sold out as Hispanic and worked at Fox...
TEA & LOUTERY
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amToo many people think that, just be cause the First Amendment allows them to act like jerks in public, they're obliged to exercise the right. Take Brit expat Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett....
COMMIE TOUR 2009
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amThe New York Philharmonic's commie concert tour continues. Last year's ignoble visit to North Korea was not just a blip. The Phil will stop in Vietnam during its October tour...
NOT AGAIN, RUDY
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amWell, Rudy Giuliani -- will you or won't you? Run for governor, that is. America's (former?) mayor continues to play coy about whether he intends to challenge Gov. Paterson in...
JULY FIREWORKS
August 1, 2009 | 7:50am* That the economy didn't shrink as much as experts expected was enough to help stocks wrap up their best monthly performance in seven years, and send the Dow Jones...
DUANE READE SAVED BY $125M INJECTION
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amThe outfit that bills itself as New York City's pharmacy has found a prescription to avoid bankruptcy. Private-equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners yesterday said it injected $125 million into...
THREE MORE QUIT AT BOFA
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amBank of America Corp., the lender that took $45 billion in US aid, said three directors resigned this week, pushing the total of departing board members to 10 since April....
STANFORD REPLACES CRIMINAL LAWYER
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amR. Allen Stanford, the Texas financier accused of a $7 billion fraud, replaced his criminal attorney, Dick DeGuerin, with attorneys from the Patton Boggs law firm, the law firms said...
NACCHIO MAY GET TERM CUT
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amJoseph Nacchio, the former chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International Inc. serving a six-year prison term for insider trading, won a federal appeals court ruling that may reduce his...
KINDER IN KINDLE KERFUFFLE
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amSAN FRANCISCO -- "Amazon.com ate my homework." That's a legitimate excuse for one high-school student whose notes for a homework assignment vanished when the online retailer remotely deleted digital copies...
TRY SOME HUMILITY
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amBY all accounts, Barack Obama's father, the Kenyan student studying in America, was cocksure and impressed with his own talents. The arrogance gene must be dominant. Obama clearly has it....
THE TALIBAN RISING
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amWHAT do you do if you run out of ideas on Afghanistan? If you're President Obama's special envoy Richard Holbrooke, you call for a dialogue with the Taliban. Holbrooke isn't...
LETTING DOWN A FRIEND: PRESSURE IRAN, NOT ISRAEL
August 1, 2009 | 7:50amRalph Peters does an excellent job in describing our president's view on the Mideast -- a view that is blind to the ramifications of a nuclear Iran yet laser-focused on...
COP RUN OVER
August 1, 2009 | 7:39amA Port Authority cop working undercover to nab taxi hustlers was injured last night when a hack hit him with his vehicle at Newark Airport, sources said. Officer Mark Driscoll...
PLAX'S PAL A TWEET-LE DUM DUM
August 1, 2009 | 7:39amMINUTES after he told a grand jury he did nothing in the Plaxico Burress mess, Giants linebacker and fellow twit Antonio Pierce couldn't wait to post this cocky tweet on...
9 BRAVEST ARE HURT IN BX. FIRE
August 1, 2009 | 7:39amNine firefighters were injured in a massive Bronx blaze yesterday, FDNY officials said. The injuries were mostly minor, including smoke inhalation and sprains, officials said. The inferno broke out just...
IRAN GRABS 3 YANK TOURISTS
August 1, 2009 | 7:39amSULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- The U.S. State Department said yesterday it was investigating reports that three American tourists have been detained by Iranians while hiking near the border with the self-ruled...
THE EAST 'PILLAGE'
August 1, 2009 | 7:39amSomeone orchestrated a break-in at famed composer Philip Glass' home in the East Village, but got away only with a cellphone. Magdalena Adorno, 41, faces charges of burglary and possession...
WILD LIVERY DRIVER
August 1, 2009 | 7:39amAn unlicensed livery driver who tried to pull a fast one on a Nigerian tourist he picked up at JFK Airport yesterday landed in hot water when he unwittingly made...
MOM: JAIL 'FRIENDLY-FIRE' SLAY COP
August 1, 2009 | 7:39amThe mother of a black police officer killed by a white cop in a freak "friendly fire" shooting blasted Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Ray Kelly last night, accusing both of...
KNICKS TO TALK TO POINT GUARD WILLIAMS
August 1, 2009 | 7:39amThe Knicks have exclusive negotiating rights to point guard Jason Williams -- if they want them. KNICKS BLOG The NBA yesterday ruled the Knicks have until Thursday to negotiate exclusively...
SPORTS SHORTS
August 1, 2009 | 7:39amWNBA: Liberty fire coach Halfway through a disappointing season, Liberty president and general manager Carol Blazejowski fired longtime coach Pat Coyle and replaced her on an interim basis with Hall...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 1, 2009 | 7:39amGo directly to jail. An overzealous Monopoly player in Michigan landed behind bars after he smashed a beer bottle over a friend's head when she refused to sell him Park...
YOU PLUCKY DOG!
August 1, 2009 | 7:09amA 1-year-old wonder dog miraculously survived a six-story plunge off a housing-project roof after being tossed by a heartless Brooklyn teen, who was arrested yesterday, authorities said. Oreo's legs were...
BATS DOZE AGAIN IN LOSS TO 'ZONA
August 1, 2009 | 7:09amThe Mets took a cue from general manager Omar Minaya last night and stood pat against the lowly Diamondbacks. While Minaya sat on his hands at the non-waiver trading deadline,...
RED SOX MISS ON HALLADAY, BUT LAND V-MART
August 1, 2009 | 7:09amAs expected, the Red Sox made the big move of the trade deadline, but it wasn't for Roy Halladay. The Blue Jays held onto their ace when Boston refused to...
METS, YANKEES LOSE BECAUSE PHILLIES, RED SOX WIN
August 1, 2009 | 7:09amIN the offseason, the Yankees spent big money on Mark Teixeira and the Mets lost big money with Bernie Madoff. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why a utility player...
GM MINAYA MISSES HIS DEADLINE
August 1, 2009 | 7:09amOn the final day for non-waiver trading this season, the general manager of the Mets became NO-mar Minaya. No big splash. No little sprinkle. Zip, zilch, nada. Omar Minaya stood...
OMAR'S METS REMAIN AMAZIN'LY MEDIOCRE
August 1, 2009 | 7:09amTHIS was the proper kind of set ting, all right, the perfect kind of backdrop: rain cascading from the sky, the sky black with clouds, 5 o'clock in the afternoon...
REYES STILL RUNNING NOWHERE
August 1, 2009 | 7:09amJose Reyes' on-again, off-again rehab of apparently the world's most tender right hamstring took yet another step back yesterday. The Mets, who lost 3-2 to the Diamondbacks last night, originally...
AIRBUS CRASH SPARKS RECALL
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amBRUSSELS, Belgium -- European air-safety regulators told world airlines yesterday they will have to replace hundreds of air-speed sensors of the type that may have contributed to the Air France...
GHOST-BUSTED
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amSix people who went looking for ghosts in a former hospital in New Jersey wound up getting ticketed by police. The former Essex County Hospital Center in Cedar Grove is...
ZOO TAKES CAKE
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amThe Central Park Zoo is pitting polar bears Gus and Ida in a fish-ice-cake eating contest today. The first masterpiece to be devoured wins. The fun and games serve to...
'HEBREW' CHARTER SET
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amThey found their promised land. A new Hebrew-language charter school at risk of not opening this year if it didn't find space has signed a three-year lease on a city-owned...
NASTY FRUIT FLIES ON LOOSE IN LA
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amLOS ANGELES -- California agriculture officials say an infestation of the white striped fruit fly has been found in Los Angeles County, the first detection of the pest in the...
'THEFT & THE CITY' COP RAP
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amCINCINNATI -- Two Ohio police chiefs accused of snooping on the surrogate mother for actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were charged with several felonies yesterday. Special prosecutor T....
17 HORSES TO THE SLAUGHTER
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amMIAMI -- Someone is killing the horses of Miami-Dade County. Since January, police say at least 17 horses have been butchered, their carcasses left on roadsides, in stalls or rural...
HOBOKEN'S MAYOR QUITS
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amHoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano III resigned yesterday, just three weeks after taking office and a week after vowing to stay and fight federal corruption charges against him. Cammarano, 32 --...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amQueens A self-described fortune teller was arrested for swindling more than $5,000 from a gullible Long Island City smallbusiness owner, officials said yesterday. Tirath Singh, 39, walked into the victim's...
PROSTATE OP DUE FOR SEN. DODD
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amHARTFORD -- Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd said yesterday he has been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer, and will have surgery early this month. The prognosis is good,...
ELECTRIC BOSS SPARKED GRAFT
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amThe former head of an electrical-contracting company that made millions off the city admitted yesterday he handed over wads of cash to corrupt ex-pol Brian McLaughlin. Santo "Sandy" Petrocelli Sr....
GOP PADDLES PARTY-BOY GOV
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amALBANY -- Gov. Paterson, photographed partying it up at a Manhattan nightspot just hours before announcing the state had a $2 billion budget gap, was ripped yesterday for having his...
PENNEY'S ON THE DOLLAR
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amIt's a bargain, and it's in the basement. Shoppers swarmed JC Penney in the lower levels of the Manhattan Mall yesterday, taking advantage of steep grand-opening discounts and walking away...
3RD HARVARD SLAY BUST
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amA third man has been busted for last May's murder inside a Harvard dormitory, authorities said yesterday. Jason Aquino, 23, of Harlem, was nabbed Thursday at 4 p.m. on St....
HEALTH BILL PASSES TEST
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amPresident Obama's health-care reform plan cleared the first of many hurdles last night when it narrowly won the approval of a key House committee. The 31-28 vote in the Energy...
TRAGEDY SPURS ON A SAFE ARBOR
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amTree-pruning crews stepped up their effort in Central Park yesterday -- bringing in workers from around the city to remove dangling dead limbs like the one that snapped off and...
MADGE: WHY I BECAME A JEW
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amIt was a chance comment at a dinner party that sparked Madonna's interest in kabbalah after she had spent years "looking for an answer," the pop star revealed in a...
ALBANY READY TO PUT THE $QUEEZE ON US: MIKE
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amMayor Bloomberg to New Yorkers: Hold onto your wallets now that Albany's crying poverty again. Hizzoner yesterday said the latest warnings about ballooning budget deficits and lackluster collections from Gov....
SORRY FOR THE SLUR
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amCity Comptroller and mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson apologized yesterday to Council Speaker Christine Quinn for not speaking out at a public meeting where a restaurant owner called her a "whore."...
JACKO HEIR RAISING SCHEME
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amMichael Jackson's kids might actually have a chance at a normal life. Now that human incubator Debbie Rowe has given up custody for good, the King of Pop's heirs will...
ECHOES OF '79 HORROR
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amThree decades ago, a tourist was killed by a falling tree branch in Central Park -- in an accident that made the Post's front page and was eerily similar to...
IPHONE IHACK HELL
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amSwanky iPhones are vulnerable to a simple iHack that can hand over private data and total control of the device to identity thieves, Apple admitted yesterday. News of the security...
BORGATA'S BAD BET
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amATLANTIC CITY -- One of the co-owners of Atlantic City's top casino could be forced to sell its 50 percent stake as a result of concerns over alleged organized-crime ties...
PHILIPPINE HERO AQUINO IS DEAD
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amMANILA, Philippines -- Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator with a "people power" revolt and then sustained democracy by fighting off seven coup attempts in six years,...
HOOKER HUNTED IN NAZI-SURVIVOR SLAY
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amThe 90-year-old Holocaust survivor bound and beaten to death in his Upper East Side apartment had a penchant for prostitutes -- and cops are hunting for a woman and man...
HEY, JUDE! SHE'S HAVIN' YOUR BABY
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amIt didn't take Sherlock Holmes to unravel the mystery surrounding the mother of Jude Law's unborn baby. All model and aspiring actress Samantha Burke needed was a little DNA. "Ms....
KICK IN THE CASH: HOUSE OKS CURB ON FAT-CAT PAY
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amCongress yesterday took its first step toward ending Wall Street's gravy train. Amid a public outcry over the fat bonuses paid to bankers, the House Voted to limit their pay...
THE BOOK SHNOOKS ON E. END
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amApparently reading is only for rich kids in East Hampton. A Hamptons library director says a local zoning board is blocking the creation of a children's reading wing -- solely...
'ROID GUY SUES 'LIAR' CLEMENS
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amRoger Clemens' former personal trainer sued him yesterday over allegations of steroid use, claiming the pitcher ruined his reputation by branding him a liar. The defamation lawsuit filed in Brooklyn...
TOURO-BIG JAIL LESSON
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amTouro College's former admissions director is off to prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from students in exchange for better grades, letters of recommendation and fabricated degrees. "This...
'GUN NUT' BUSTED AT BASE
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amA Long Island mother of three -- armed to the teeth with an assault rifle and shotgun -- was arrested for scouting out and taking pictures of an Air National...
'STIFFED' CO. SUES FOR ITS CORPSES
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amOver my dead bodies! The owners of a ghastly collection of cadavers yesterday sued the manager of a South Street Seaport exhibition in an effort to prevent it from taking...
RUDY'S OPEN-AND-SHUT (YOUR MOUTH!) CASE
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amShut your trap! That's Rudy Giuliani's advice for Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. or anyone else on the receiving end of a police officer's questions. The former mayor, appearing...
RUTH MADOFF ON TAXMAN'S HOOK FOR $600,000
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amRuth Madoff owes an eye-popping $600,000 in tax penalties and interest, court papers filed yesterday reveal. Under a spending agreement filed in Manhattan Bankruptcy Court, the wife of jailed Ponzi...
DOWNLOADER HIT TO TUNE OF 675G
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amPrice of a song on iTunes: 99 cents. Cost of downloading the same song illegally: $22,500. A Boston University student was socked for $675,000 in damages in Boston federal court...
WATER SAVE!!
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amOne of New York's Bravest made a death-defying rescue in The Bronx yesterday when he plunged into stormy waters in his skivvies to pull a drowning boater to safety. Firefighter...
$2B FILL-UP FOR CLUNKERS
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amAfter blowing through $1 billion in one week and suffering a Web site crash due to popularity, House lawmakers rushed to inject an additional $2 billion into the "cash for...
YANKEES MAKE MINOR MOVE, GET POUNDED
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amCHICAGO -- They spent the afternoon being asked what the Red Sox adding Victor Martinez and Casey Kotchman meant. Nobody in pinstripes was concerned the Red Sox matched the moves...
UTILITYMAN HAIRSTON ONLY DEADLINE ADDITION
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amCHICAGO -- While the Red Sox and Tigers -- potential Yankee October opponents -- made big moves yesterday, the AL East leaders added a few minor pieces. The Yankees acquired...
HONDO STICKS WITH CATS
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amThe Tigers showed some interest in helping Hondo last night but ultimately caused more damage to the bottom line, losing in Cleveland to increase the debt to 470 davalillos. Today,...
RANGERS WAIT ON 'Z' ARBITRATOR
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amIt's now up to arbitrator Elliott Shiftman to establish Nikolai Zherdev's contract number for this coming season, following yesterday's salary arbitration hearing in Toronto. And once Shiftman issues the ruling...
TIGER IN GEAR AT BUICK
August 1, 2009 | 6:07amTiger Woods had the best five-hole start of his career, chipping in for eagle and making four birdies. Woods finished with a season-low 9-under 63 yesterday in the Buick Open...
Wagner strong in rehab debut
August 1, 2009 | 1:07amMets reliever Billy Wagner made his first minor-league rehab assignment since Tommy John surgery on his left elbow last year, and the results were impressive. Pitching for Single-A St. Lucie...
Gatti Family and Friends Seek Justice
August 1, 2009 | 12:58amA new investigation into Arturo Gatti's death hopes to reveal truth BY GEORGE WILLISMoments after the mass ended last Thursday honoring Arturo Gatti, Chuck Zito was in front of St....