July 18, 2002
SLIMMED-DOWN ADELPHIA IS LIKELY TO SURVIVE WOES
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amEMBATTLED Adelphia Communications may end up no bigger than one-third its current size, but the company will probably survive as an ongoing concern. Adelphia's stock is selling for just 21...
DORMAN GETS HELM AT AT&T
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amAT&T's bruised shares jumped nearly $1 billion in value yesterday on news that the company finally picked a replacement for chairman Michael Armstrong. He's David Dorman, 48, who earned a...
MARTS BREAK DOWN STREAK
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amInvestors were whipsawed again yesterday, as blue-chip stocks surged 250 points before a sell-off pared big gains - but not enough to upset the rally that put an end to...
DISNEY HONCHO TO JOIN NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amWashington critics who claim our spy services are a Mickey Mouse operation might be right after all. The research chief at Walt Disney is leaving the Hollywood lot for a...
BIG BLACK AND BLUE SAYS PROFIT PLUNGES TO 3 CENTS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amInternational Business Machines, the world's largest seller of computers and related services, barely eked out a second-quarter profit as it took a $1.4 billion charge to cover job cuts and...
JOBS SELLING LUXURY DIGS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S not exactly insider trading, but Apple Computer chief Steve Jobs did put his mega-million-dollar Manhattan apartment on the market just a short time before his company released its dismal...
LADIES HOME JOURNAL GETS 'DARTH VADER'
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amMyrna Blyth, at the helm of Ladies Home Journal for 21 years, will step down as editor in chief on Monday. Yesterday Meredith Corp. raided Diane Salvatore from Hearst Corp.,...
WORLDCOM AWARDED MORE TIME
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amTroubled WorldCom Inc. admitted yesterday that bankruptcy was a "very real alternative" as lawyers promised to freeze parts of its financial operations to buy time against a pack of nervous...
VINES CLIMB ROCK HEIGHTS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amTHE VINES --------- AT CBGB's, the grungy cathedral of punk, the Vines passed the acid test where posers are weeded out from rock gods. Before the show, one skeptical kid...
WHAT'S REGIS WORTH NOW?
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amREGIS Philbin is close to signing a new deal with ABC - most likely for less than the reported $20 million deal he inked two years ago. Philbin, who co-hosts...
STILL NO. 1
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amIt's still hot in herre as Nelly's "Nellyville" still ruled the Top 200 album charts for the third consecutive week. Boosted by the "Hot in Herre" single, the St. Louis...
STARR REPORT
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amGood sport: Visser hosting 'Early Show' CBS Sports personality Lesley Visser will co-host "The Early Show" with Jane Clayson the week of Aug. 12 - Visser's first experience co-hosting a...
TRISTA'S REVENGE - 'BACHELOR' CASTOFF CHASED BY 25 MEN IN THE SEQUEL
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - ABC gave spurned "The Bachelor" runner-up Trista Rehn one heck of consolation prize - her own TV show and choice of 25 single men. ABC said yesterday...
HOW BIG JOHN STOPPED THE LAUGHTER IN 'MNF' BOOTH - HELLO MADDEN, SO LONG MILLER
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - John Madden's availability apparently led to Dennis Miller's departure from the "Monday Night Football" booth, network officials said yesterday. "Monday Night Football" dumped the acerbic comic after...
'IDOL' TIME TO IDLE TIME FOR 2 MORE BOOTED POPSTERS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S down to only eight wannabes on "American Idol." More then 8 million viewers voted to boot EJay Day, 20, and Jim Verraros, 19, off Fox's ongoing talent show last...
'LOOK AT ME NOW, DEREK!' COSMETICS COUNTER GIRL IS THROWING CURVES AT YANKEE SHORTSTOP
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amWHAT more does a girl have to do? A mad dash onto the ball field, a night in jail and a dramatic court date were apparently not enough to melt...
CABBY HANGS TOUGH WITH THIEF
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA cabby was dragged by his own car through streets near Herald Square last night as he fought two men who tried to steal his taxi, police said. The yellow...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA 13-year-old boy in West Virginia held up a store - and demanded a porn magazine. The boy first asked politely for the mag at Pepper's Newsstand in Martinsburg, but...
'LITTLE GUY WITH A BIG HEART'
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amCharlie LaGanga is 5 feet 4 inches tall - but for many Staten Islanders, he's a giant. "He's a little guy with a big heart," said Vienna Profeta of the...
IT'S MAKE-OR-BRAKE - JUDGE SET TO RULE ON LIZZIE CHARGES TODAY
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amToday is a big day in court for Lizzie Grubman - because a Long Island judge could throw out most of the charges against her or set a trial date...
BUSH NIECE JAILED ON DRUG RAP
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amThe president's troubled niece was jailed yesterday in Orlando for failing to comply with her court-ordered drug treatment. Noelle Bush - the daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush - was...
YASSER WOULD SHARE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat said for the first time yesterday that he's willing to share power with a prime minister once a Palestinian state is declared after a planned January...
VIRAL TERRORIST: HIV LOVER GAVE WIFE A 'DEATH SENTENCE'
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA woman who says her husband knowingly gave her HIV in an act of "viral terrorism" yesterday told a Long Island court she was outraged he received only five years'...
ANDY'S GOING DOWN: MCCALL
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amCarl McCall yesterday belittled the campaign of Andrew Cuomo, saying his Democratic rival's candidacy is "in decline," based on its fund-raising figures. "He's not doing as well as he thought...
JERSEY MEGA MAN SET TO COLLECT $92M
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA Cliffside Park, N.J., man is the holder of the single winning ticket in Tuesday night's $165 million Mega Millions drawing, according to New Jersey Lottery officials and the pharmacy...
SPY AGENCIES LET US DOWN, CONGRESS SAYS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A congressional report yesterday on pre-9/11 intelligence failures charges the CIA let down its guard in the 1990s and "did not sufficiently penetrate" the terrorist al Qaeda network....
VILLAGERS SLAM GOV'T FOR LACK OF PROTECTION
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amEMMANUEL, West Bank - As villagers gathered for funeral processions yesterday in this ultra-Orthodox settlement, many complained the Israeli government failed to protect them from the terror attack that left...
BUSH: VEEP'S NOT A CROOK
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday hailed Veep Dick Cheney as "a fine business leader" and said he's confident a federal probe will clear Cheney of any hanky-panky when he ran...
J.LO IN 'GLOW' PEEP SHOW
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amJennifer Lopez doesn't bare her bodacious bod too often - but this time, it makes perfect scents. The Latina lovely has posed nude in the shower to pitch her brand-new...
INDIA TROUPE TRIP SPURS 'ERR' SCARE
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA leading Bollywood actress, who was among a group of Indian performers tagged as possible terrorists on a flight to New York, was grilled by cops on whether she'd been...
DAD ARRESTED IN BABY SLAY
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA 34-year-old Brooklyn father was arrested yesterday in the child-abuse murder of his infant daughter in their East Flatbush home, police said. Shariff Allahby was accused of inflicting a fractured...
NEW IVERSON TWIST - BULLET HOLES IN UNCLE'S CAR
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amCops are probing possible links between NBA superstar Allen Iverson - who is charged with threatening two men in Philadelphia - and his uncle's bullet-ridden, bloodstained car in Virginia. Stephen...
SECRET TALKS STRIKE OUT IN YANK TV FEUD
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amThe two feuding executives behind the Yankees' cable-TV blackout held a secret meeting last week, raising hopes of a long-overdue breakthrough. But the chance of a compromise evaporated within days,...
BLOOMY: DEEPER BUDGET CUTS DUE
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amJust 17 days into the new fiscal year, Mayor Bloomberg revealed yesterday that he plans to impose more spending cuts to prepare for a monumental deficit next year. "We have...
THE TIMES' HIDDEN GROUND ZERO AGENDA
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S bad enough when The New York Times warps its news coverage to push its political agenda: Think of its ludicrous warnings last fall that the United States faced a...
FANS CALL FOUL AS NETS PLAN TO CHARGE MORE FOR LESS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amCall it an all-Net profit. The New Jersey Nets are cashing in on last season's NBA championship run by upping ticket prices by as much 62.5 percent. The cost of...
BOY MIGHT LOSE LEG AS VAN JUMPS CURB
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amSurgeons were desperately battling last night to save the leg of a 10-year- old boy mowed down by an out-of-control van on a Brooklyn sidewalk, police said. James Stewart had...
ABORTION STALLS BANKRUPTCY BILL
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amNOTHING makes a shell-shocked investor madder than looking at pictures of disgraced CEOs still guzzling champagne on fancy yachts or building palatial mansions in Florida resorts like Boca Raton. So...
CHOPPER POLICE SAVE FISHERMAN
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA young fisherman who suffered a sudden heart attack aboard a boat 12 miles off the Rockaways was revived and rescued by members of the NYPD Aviation Unit, police said...
SCHOOLS 'BANISH' INDIANS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE Six city high schools have been ordered to change the Native American nicknames of their teams and remove all signs with names like Chiefs, Indians and Warriors from their...
'KILLER' KID IS BACK ON TRIAL
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amShe had a child's face and a gangster's gun - a Calico 100 semiautomatic, capable of holding and firing 100 bullets. Her name was Marta Casiano, and she was not...
JUDGE REENA RAGGI HAS SET A MONDAY SCHEDULING CONFERENCE
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amBrooklyn federal Judge Reena Raggi has set a Monday scheduling conference at which she'll likely ask Charles Schwarz's prosecutors about their plans to retry the ex-cop for the Abner Louima...
THEATER WORKER FOUND MURDERED
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA woman was found slain early yesterday in a Queens movie theater where she was a cleaner, cops said. Police summoned to the Ridgewood Theater, at 55-27 Myrtle Ave., at...
ALLEN'S GETTING MOST VALUABLE PRISONER TREATMENT
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amIF YOU really want to know how NBA superstar Allen Iverson spent the day after he turned himself in to cops Tuesday, don't ask any of the regular prisoners. The...
HERO BROOKLYN MOM THWARTS BABY-SNATCH BID: COPS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amFive attempted-kidnap busts.A woman with a bizarre fixation on young children and a history of arrests for kidnap attempts was busted in Brooklyn Heights yesterday for trying to snatch the...
JURIES CAN HEAR AA CONFESSIONS: COURT
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amAlcoholics Anonymous members better button their lips again - their meetings do not have the same protection as religious confessions, a court has ruled. Almost a year after a federal...
GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS ON HOOKY
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amSummer-school attendance has improved this year, but nearly one-third of the kids are still playing hooky, Schools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday. He reported that 69.4 percent of the students...
TORTURED TRUTH: NEW YORKERS ACTUALLY PITY SADISTIC SCHWARZ
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amCONGRATULATIONS again, convicted liar Chuck Schwarz. You won. Maybe beyond your wildest imagination. Five years and a terrorist attack ago, then-cop Schwarz was charged with participating in a vile and...
'ANGRY' ANGELINA AND BILLY BOB ON THE ROCKS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amIt's "marriage, interrupted" for Tinseltown's once bizarrely devoted duo, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton. Jolie admits that her relationship with "Sling Blade" star Thornton has basically fallen apart. "I'm...
MIKE BLASTS REPORT OF OLYMPIC NIX
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg - backed up by the U.S. Olympic Committee - yesterday angrily denied a report that the city is out of the running for the 2012 summer games. "We...
DA BIDS TO BITE 'HOT DOG' PILOT PAIR
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA pilot busted for July 4th air antics that frightened beachgoers and authorities on heightened terror alert told investigators he and his friend were "hot dogging" when they flew close...
OHIO HONCHO MAY REPLACE LEVY HERE
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amCleveland schools boss Barbara Byrd-Bennett has emerged as a top contender to become New York City's next chancellor, sources said yesterday. Byrd-Bennett, who served as superintendent of low-performing schools under...
SIDE-BY-SIDE TERROR: 'BABY-FACED' TEEN AND PAL SET OFF KILLER BOMBS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amTwo Palestinian homicide bombers - one described as a "baby-faced" teen - set off their explosives as they stood almost side-by-side on a crowded Tel Aviv street last night, killing...
STARBUCKS COUPONS 'CRAPPUCCINO'
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amBeware the dangers of the Internet! Big Apple caffeine addicts thrilled to get e-mail coupons for a free Starbucks jolt were steamed to discover the freebies were a fantasy. The...
GIRL MOLESTED IN CHURCH, COPS SAY
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA 26-year-old construction worker was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl at a Staten Island church, police said yesterday. The victim was using the bathroom at St....
MIKE RIPS OLYMPIC-NIX TALK
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg - backed up by the U.S. Olympic Committee - yesterday angrily denied a report that the city is out of the running for the 2012 summer games. "We...
CELEBRITIES PITCH APPLE TO TOURISTS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amIf celebrities can convince taxi passengers to buckle up, perhaps they can also persuade tourists to come back to New York. At least, that's the theory that will be put...
PREZ NIECE JAILED IN DRUG VIOLATION
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amThe president's troubled niece was jailed yesterday in Orlando for failing to comply with her court-ordered drug treatment. Noelle Bush - the daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush - was...
GLOOMY BLOOMY HAS DESIGNS OF HIS OWN
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg's strong comments about the Ground Zero plans mark one of the few times he has used the bully pulpit to drive the agenda on a major issue. Beginning...
PROMENADE IS PEOPLE'S CHOICE: GROUND ZERO PLAN FAVORED 2 TO 1 IN POST WEB POLL
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amNew York Post readers have an overwhelming favorite among the six proposals for Ground Zero - they say the Memorial Promenade is tops. The design, which features a pair of...
LMDC WEB SITE
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amThe official Web site featuring the six World Trade Center designs got roughly 40 million visits within its first three hours, officials said yesterday. The high interest in the plans...
HERO BROOKLYN MOM THWARTS BABY-SNATCH BID: COP
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA woman with a bizarre fixation on young children and a history of arrests for kidnap attempts was busted in Brooklyn Heights yesterday for trying to snatch an 8-month-old baby...
J.LO PUTS ON A PEEP SHOW FOR 'GLOW'
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amJennifer Lopez doesn't bare her bodacious bod too often - but this time, it makes perfect scents. The Latina lovely has posed nude in the shower to pitch her brand-new...
TORRE WANTS NOBODY LOOKING AHEAD TO RED SOX
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES A two-game series with the last-place and utterly faceless Tigers is all that stands in the way of the Yankees and a confrontation with the Red Sox. The...
GUTTY REDMAN FALLS SHORT IN HEROIC TRY
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Tiger manager Luis Pojols came to the mound with two on and nobody out in the ninth inning, and starter Mark Redman clinging to a 1-0 lead, Pojols asked...
METS KEEP HAVIN' A BLAST - POUND OUT 15 HITS FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT WIN
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amMONTREAL - When the Mets dropped out of second place a little more than a month ago, the fall from grace began looking as irreversible and embarrassing as a dishonorable...
GOING FOR JUG-ULAR
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amGULLANE, Scotland - Round Three begins today in Tiger Woods' relentless pursuit of the 2002 Grand Slam. Augusta National and Bethpage Black have already been knocked down. Muirfield, hosting its...
PHIL'S PLAN TO CATCH TIGER: TAKE THE LEAD
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amGULLANE, Scotland - In Phil Mickelson's mind, this week's British Open is a two-fold tournament. The first three rounds are the first tournament, then there is Sunday. Mickelson, in his...
'UNFAIR' RULE KEEPS GIANTS, GARRETT APART
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amIn any and almost every contract negotiation, it's about the money, and it certainly is in the case of Jason Garrett and the Giants. But there's a twist to this...
TRACHSEL FEELS READY TO WING IT - PIAZZA 1-FOR-4 IN RETURN TO LINEUP
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - The Mets have four options regarding Steve Trachsel's next start, but Bobby Valentine didn't want to discuss any of them yesterday. Trachsel, who went on the...
TONED TAMIKA TURNS GAME UP A NOTCH
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amTamika Whitmore used to surprise the players on courts like the ones at West 4th Street and Rucker Park. "I would just show up and play pick-up ball," the Liberty...
ROSE SAVORS TIGER PAIRING
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES GULLANE, Scotland - When Justin Rose received word he would be paired with Tiger Woods today and tomorrow at the British Open, he could hardly believe it. Rose,...
BUM BREAK FOR KNICK ROOKIE PG
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Disaster struck the Knicks at the usually sedate Boston Pro Summer League. Rookie point guard Frank Williams could miss all of training camp and the first two weeks...
COLLINS TWINS MAY BE REUNITED - SORT OF
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Collins twins of Stanford could be reunited or separated only by a river and a rivalry. The Knicks are in the mix for Utah's 6-11 free-agent center...
BIG-SPENDING BOSS WON'T LET DOLAN RUFFLE HIS FEATHERS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amGEORGE Steinbrenner made it as clear as the diamonds on his six World Series rings. Those who think his deep pockets are to blame for baseball's current economic mess can...
YANKS ALL THEY'RE QUACKED UP TO BE - 'CELEBRIDUCK' BOMBERS RALLY PAST TIGERS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amThe have-nots last night were poised to beat the haves, until the haves decided enough was enough. Inning after inning, as Mark Redman silenced a bunch of usually potent bats,...
FOR STARTERS, TORRE A BIT CONCERNED
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amFor most teams, a failing starting rotation leads to trouble, but the Yankees are not most teams, and the fact that their starting pitching has not been anything special has...
TIGERS ON OFFENSIVE: FIRE BACK AT JUDGE IN AIRLINE PORN SUIT
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amDays after a judge called the mid-flight actions of several Tigers toward a stewardess "shameful and disgraceful," Detroit outfielder Bobby Higginson brushed off the incident as a non-issue, and dismissed...
HRS WON'T MEAN A THING IF ARMS AIN'T GOT THAT SWING
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amIT is easy to fall in love with these latest Bronx Bombers, who win games by sending baseballs over walls that no one can climb. Not since the 1960s has...
HIGGY CALLS TIGER SUIT NON-ISSUE
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amDays after a judge called the mid-flight actions of several Tigers toward a stewardess "shameful and disgraceful," Detroit outfielder Bobby Higginson brushed off the incident as a non-issue, and dismissed...
YANKS ALL THEY'RE QUACKED UP TO BE: 'CELEBRIDUCK' BOMBERS RALLY PAST TIGERS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 2 Tigers 1 The have-nots last night were poised to beat the haves, until the haves decided enough was enough. Inning after inning, as Mark Redman silenced a bunch...
METS KEEP HAVIN' A BLAST: POUND OUT 15 HITS FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT WIN
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amMets 9 Expos 6 MONTREAL - It hasn't quite gotten to the point where you're expecting a daily offensive outburst from the Mets, but it's come as regularly as the...
VOYAGE OF THE D'AMNED: MET RIGHTY RUNNING OUT OF CHANCES
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amMONTREAL - There were so many questions regarding Jeff D'Amico's health over the winter and spring, there wasn't enough time to wonder if he was going to be good. Now...
ROSE LOOKS FORWARD TO PAIR WITH WOODS
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES GULLANE, Scotland - When Justin Rose received word he would be paired with Tiger Woods today and tomorrow at the British Open, he could hardly believe it. Rose,...
GARDEN WILL BE DARK FOR SEASON OPENER
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Last season, the NBA scheduled Michael Jordan and the Wizards to open at the Garden in the Knicks' season opener. This year, the Knicks hit the road -...
KNICKS MIGHT TAKE A TWIN PEEK
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Collins twins might be reunited - separated only by a river and rivalry. The Knicks are in the hunt for Utah free-agent 6-11 center Jarron Collins. And...