July 15, 2004
EXPERT'S JUICY E-MAILS COMPLICATE MARTHA STEWART CASE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amWHICH Stewart is in more trouble? Martha Stewart will be sentenced tomorrow for lying to Federal investigators about her sale of ImClone stock, which - irony of all ironies -...
EXPRESS STOP: PUBLISHER KILLS SPORTS WEEKLY
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe New York Sports Express has reached its last stop. The year-old freebie weekly is being shut down by parent New York Press Media, and its editor sent packing. Rumors...
HIP STYLIST HOPS TO KNOWLES
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe designer with the magic touch is now planning to apply it to Beyoncé Knowles' new fashion business. Heather Thomson, the creative talent behind collections by Sean "P.Diddy" Combs and...
FUNDS: BUTT OUT - HEDGE ADVISERS BLAST SEC FOR OVERSIGHT RULES
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe secretive funds that invest for America's wealthiest lashed out at the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday after the agency approved a plan that would ratchet up scrutiny of their...
FAMILY OF SLAIN ED DEMANDS JUSTICE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe brothers of slain Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov called on Russian authorities to catch his killers and show that the country won't be held hostage by organized crime and corruption....
BOSTON PROPERTIES' $5B DEBT IS JUST MORT-IFYING
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Mort "The Mortgage" Zuckerman celebrated his 67th birthday earlier this summer, he toasted himself for finally getting the best of his addiction to debt. But the developer's relief may...
YOU GET THE ODEA
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amMULBERRY ST THE stretch of Little Italy on Mulberry Street between Grand and Broome is admiddedly a bit tacky. But among the smallfronted, red-sauce joints, there are some gems. The...
GRIN & BLOG IT - SPLITSVILLE? TELL EVERYONE ON THE WEB
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amFRUSTRATED by too many Sundays spent poring over wedding announcements? If you prefer acrimony to matrimony, head over to breakupnews.blogspot.com, a 12-dayold blog where the recently dumped get to share...
SLAMMER GLAMOUR - FASHION PROS TO MARTHA: SLINK ALL THE WAY TO THE CLINK; TRIAL STYLE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amALL eyes will be on Martha Stewart tomorrow morning when she heads back to court to find out how long she's going to jail for. But before Martha steps out...
LARRY'S MAN - HOW 'CURB' WENT FROM SOUP TO NUTS
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S the question every one asks: "What's the star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" really like?" In other words: "Is Larry David that much of a screw-up?" "He doesn't screw up...
CLEMENS-PIAZZA FACE-OFF A HIT IN NY
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Roger Clemens-Mike Piazza All-Star Game battery sparked Fox to a ratings bonanza in New York. Ratings for Tuesday's Major League All-Star Game were up 26 percent on Ch. 5...
DEATH DOESN'T STOP 'CASINO'
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amFILMING has resumed on "American Casino" following the sudden death of Michael Tata, one of the reality series' more popular stars. Tata, 33, was found dead last week at his...
A GUY'S WORLD - 'ENTOURAGE' STRONGER THAN 'MISOGYNISTIC' SCRIPT
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amINSTEAD OF BREAKING RULES, LIKE "SEX AND THE CITY" DID, "ENTOURAGE" MERELY REINFORCES STEREOTYPES."Entourage" [] (Two stars) Sunday at 10 p.m. on HBO THE best thing about HBO's new Sunday-night...
ELTON'S GIFT IS HIS SONG AT RADIO CITY
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amELTON JOHNRadio City Music Hall, 1260 Sixth Ave., at 51st Street. (212) 247-4777. Through Sunday. IT'S impossible for Sir Elton John to do anything small, from his flamboyantly over-the-top "Aida"...
BAD GIRL, IN WHIRL - TROUBLED TEEN TELLS ALL
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amFOR a dyslexic teenage memoirist, Abigail Vona is remarkably adept at attracting attention. Though her book, "Bad Girl: Confessions of a Teenage Delinquent," isn't out till mid-August, publishing types have...
STARR REPORT
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amTennis, everyoneMaria Sharapova, meet Rosanna Scotto - and I guarantee you're going to like her. Sharapova, the newly crowned Wimbledon champ, will swing by next month's "Evian Taste of Tennis"...
ISRAEL PLANS ARAFAT'S FUNERAL
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli officials are planning a funeral - Yasser Arafat's. The Jewish state has decided to deny the Palestinian leader burial at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, a site holy to...
JILTED N.J. GAL 'TORCHES' HOME
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amA jealous New Jersey teen jilted by her boyfriend sought revenge by trying to set fire to a house - although no one who lived there was directly connected with...
AUTHOR'S SIS IN SUICIDE JUMP
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe sister of Olivia Goldsmith, the popular author of "The First Wives Club" who died during botched cosmetic surgery earlier this year, has killed herself by leaping from a high-rise,...
BROOKLYN'S SHIP COMES IN WITH NAVY YARD DEAL
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe city will spend $71 million in capital funds to expand the Brooklyn Navy Yard, officials announced yesterday. The plan is expected to create as many as 800 jobs within...
DIVA'S FIRE SALE - MARTHA UNLOADS APT. IN A HURRY
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amIn a rush to tie up loose ends before she's almost certainly sentenced to jail tomorrow, Martha Stewart is unloading her posh penthouse in the West Village. The domestic diva...
B'KLYN GETS NAVY YARD DEAL
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe city will spend $71 million in capital funds to expand the Brooklyn Navy Yard, officials announced yesterday. The plan is expected to create as many as 800 jobs within...
MEGA-SUIT FOR METAL BAND
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe drugged-out lead singer of heavy metal rockers Megadeth cheated his longtime guitarist out of $18.5 million, cut off his cash supply, poisoned fans against him and ultimately forced him...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amDaryl Miller didn't make it through airport security - because he couldn't keep his pants on. A security screener in Minneapolis was waving a metal-detecting wand around Miller when Miller...
FALLEN MARINE HERO HONORED
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe family of a Marine hero - who single-handedly cleared an enemy position and killed two of Saddam Hussein's elite soldiers - accepted his posthumous Silver Star at a ceremony...
CHENEY WAS RIGHT - LEFTY 'BUSH LIED' LOONS LOSE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amTODAY'S big story: Dick Cheney was right! You'll have to read on a bit to find out how and why. Five days after the Senate Intelligence Committee stated flatly that...
LOST-&-FOUND GI CLAMS UP
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun professed loyalty to the Marines yesterday, but he has failed to answer crucial questions about his bizarre disappearance in Iraq in his talks with...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A pair of thugs - including a 16-year-old boy - was arrested yesterday for murdering a Brownsville store employee during a robbery attempt gone awry, cops said. Gun-toting...
NAKED RIP-OFF - L.I. BIG BLEW TAX $$ ON STRIP FESTS: AUDIT
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amA former Long Island tourism official is facing a criminal investigation for misspending public money on strip-club parties, authorities said yesterday. They also claim he used public cash for GOP...
FBI: ENERGY SITES IN QAEDA SIGHTS
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe FBI has issued a new alert to law-enforcement agencies, warning that al Qaeda might try to launch attacks on the U.S. energy infrastructure as part of a new terror...
'ANTAGONIZED' PIT BULL PUTS BITE ON QUEENS KID
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amAn 11-year-old boy was bitten and roughed up by a pit bull in the Queensbridge Houses yesterday - but witnesses gave conflicting reports whether the attack was unprovoked or whether...
ISRAEL PLANNING ARAFAT'S FUNERAL
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli officials are planning a funeral - Yasser Arafat's. The Jewish state has decided to deny the Palestinian leader burial at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, a site holy to...
MOB SCENE AT CLOONEY SET: POLICE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amMafia-hunting cops in Italy have been secretly watching the set of the new George Clooney-Brad Pitt robbery flick, because they say star-struck mobsters are flocking to the set. Scenes from...
IT'S GRITS VS. RITZ AT PREZ RIVALS' RALLIES
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amASHWAUBENON, Wis. - There are two Americas - or two sides of America - on display when President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry hit the campaign trail. Over the...
HIGH LINE: SKY'S LIMIT - DESIGNS TO TURN RAILROAD TRESTLE INTO W. SIDE PARK
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers will get their first glimpse today of dramatic proposals to convert a long-unused railroad trestle on Manhattan's West Side into a spectacular park in the sky, including calls...
PAL: PRIEST 'STUPID' BUT NO THIEF
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amTaking her money was "imprudent and stupid," said a colleague - but he and others who knew them said Monsignor John Woolsey and parishioner Rose Cale were friends who got...
JACKO AND PALS IN PLOT TO SILENCE BOY: REPORT
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Five of Michael Jackson's closest associates allegedly conspired with the self-styled King of Pop to silence his young accuser and his mom, a new report says. The...
ULTIMATUM ON ANTI-GOP RALLY
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly made his final offer yesterday to a group planning a massive protest march for next month's GOP National Convention. After four months of meetings with rally...
REBEL DEMS RAISE HILL - RIP CONVENTION FOR SILENCING HER
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amDemocratic leaders faced an embarrassing party revolt yesterday after they refused to allow Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to address their national convention. The stunning snub of the former first lady...
32G DRUGSTORE 'BANDIT' NABBED
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amAn alleged drugstore cowboy in Brooklyn had to swallow a bitter pill after he was charged with robbing a pharmacy of $32,000 in prescription drugs. Suspected pill pirate Daryl Coard,...
ELDERLY S.I. MAN HAS WEST NILE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amA 66-year-old Staten Island man has tested positive for the West Nile virus, city health officials said yesterday - the first case of the deadly virus so far this year....
GODFATHER ON TO FEDS
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amFBI agents who arrested Joseph Massino were stunned by the reputed mob boss' knowledge of the charges, confidential witnesses - and even the investigators who secretly built the case against...
HAMPTONS DIARY
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amMARTHA STEWART may be about to move to a new, rather smaller home called a federal prison cell, but that hasn't stopped her from keeping her tony East Hampton property...
KELLY CAN CARE FOR OUR KIDS: MOMS
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amNot that she needs the dough, but Kelly Ripa is the celebrity mom that mothers would trust most to baby-sit their children. The perky blond co-star of "Live With Regis...
'FELIX' LEAVES KIN TIDY SUM
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amHe was famous for playing the divorced Felix Unger on "The Odd Couple," but in real life, Tony Randall was a devoted husband until the end, his last will and...
NARCOTIC OD KILLED 'MOTEL' FIRE CAPTAIN
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amAn FDNY captain who was found dead inside a seedy Brooklyn hot-sheet motel room last month was killed by taking a lethal cocktail of cocaine, heroin and Valium, The Post...
'BOOZER' BRITNEY - DAYLIGHT BOTTLE BLONDE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amBritney Spears hit the big time pushing a squeaky- clean image, but now she's hitting the bottle - in public. As this shocking photo shows, the princess of pop thinks...
SCHUMER GIVES AWAY TAINTED $$
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Sen. Chuck Schumer's re-election campaign is donating to charity $4,000 it received from indicted New Jersey developer Charles Kushner, but will hold on to nearly $60,000 in donations...
2 HURT AS TRAIN HITS TREE LIMB
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amTwo Metro-North passengers suffered minor injuries yesterday after a Manhattan-bound commuter train slammed into a tree limb and shattered a window, officials said. The train was near the Melrose station...
GRISLY MAP OF MURDER
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amJurors weighing the sanity of the "Butcher of Tompkins Square" peered into the very pots and pans of Hell's Kitchen yesterday, viewing the butcher's own annotated diagram of his body-part-strewn...
SCHOOLS SUFFER 'SUPER' LOSS
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe Department of Education is suffering from a brain drain of educrats - 25 percent of its local superintendents called it quits or were replaced during the last school year....
'DEAD MOM' WORE BEARD IN RENT SCAM; GENDER-BENDER RENTER IN HAIRY 'MA'-SQUERADE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amSome people will do just about anything to keep a cheap apartment in New York City - even if that requires a guy to dress up like his dead mother....
SLAIN DIAMOND MAN'S DAD ON TRIAL IN 'DRUG $$' CASE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe father of a diamond dealer assassinated on a busy Midtown street was caught on tape laundering Colombian drug money for a criminal suspect who was working with the feds,...
WAR ON SCHOOL GANGS - COPS PLAN CRACKDOWN
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe NYPD is getting ready to clean up the Blackboard Jungle. The department's Gang Division added 50 cops to its ranks at the end of last month, law-enforcement sources told...
SHAKING WHOOPI - SLIM-FAST DUMPS BUSH-BASH STAR
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amSlim-Fast yesterday abruptly dumped Whoopi Goldberg as its spokeswoman after a firestorm over her X-rated rant against President Bush at a Radio City fund-raiser for John Kerry last week. "We...
JERSEY GOV FEELING THE HEAT
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - With a top fund-raiser charged in a sex scandal and another key moneyman to be arraigned today in federal court on extortion charges, questions are growing that this...
MATCH-FAKER - DIRTY DATING GURU GUILTY IN NEW SCAM
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amA professional matchmaker - banned from New York for pairing clients with ex-cons, paupers and men with sexual diseases, while charging them millions for their hellish encounters - has been...
MILLER ON A RANT FOR BUSH
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amASHWAUBENON, Wis. - Comic Dennis Miller warmed up a crowd for President Bush last night by ripping into Democrat John Kerry as a flip-flopper who can't figure out where he's...
HYNES & FOE: 'I WIN' - SPLIT VERDICT IN WRITER SUIT
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amA jury delivered a mixed verdict in the case of a prosecutor turned author who sued Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes for allegedly trampling his right to free speech - prompting...
KERIK'S 50G DOORS PROBED
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe NYPD has launched an investigation into the purchase and disappearance of four high-tech security doors bought while Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was in command, a high-ranking police official said...
SEX GAL NOW HELPING FEDS - HOOKER TURNS ON KUSHNER
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe hooker hired by New Jersey real-estate tycoon Charles Kushner to carry out the steamy videotaped seduction of a key tax-fraud witness against him is cooperating with federal authorities, The...
JENNA TO TEACH IN HARLEM
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amPresidential daughter Jenna Bush has agreed to take a job as a teaching assistant at the Harlem Day Charter school, sources said yesterday. "I'm going to teach fourth grade," Jenna...
SUBWAY AND BUS SERVICE CUTS LOOM
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amStraphangers could be slapped with major service cuts next year as the MTA tries to close a massive budget gap, The Post has learned. The cash-strapped agency is considering "worst-case...
U.S. GETTING THE 'POINT' ON STEROIDS
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, U.S. track-and-field athletes and officials had a grand old time accusing East German athletes of using performance-enhancement drugs. They were right....
MEDIA CAN'T LET CHEATS PREVAIL
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - They want to shoot the messengers. Athletes who have been shooting, rubbing, swallowing, snorting, smoking; officials who have been hiding, covering, denying, rationalizing. They all complain about the...
FOR METS, THE RACE IS ON - 18 MORE GAMES VS. EAST RIVALS
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - After the Mets lost Sunday in Miami, Art Howe addressed his team before the players headed into the All-Star Break. "Get your rest," Howe said, "and come back...
A DIFFERENT TROON - FOES DON'T FEAR TIGER ANYMORE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amTROON, Scotland - The aura has been shattered. No one fears Tiger Woods anymore. It's gotten to a point where there probably wasn't a player on the Royal Troon driving...
MATSUI HOT AT PLATE, BETTER IN THE FIELD
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES HOUSTON - Kaz Matsui . . . defensive wizard? OK, maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration. After all, the Met shortstop still leads all major leaguers...
YANKEES, METS PLAN TO HEAT UP SUMMER
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amWE have some kind of two-headed baseball summer ahead of us, and how good does it feel to be able to say that again? The Yankees learned yesterday they are...
GOMEZ LACING 'EM UP IN WORLD CUP
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amBelatedly, yes, but Scott Gomez yesterday got his wish. The Devils center, who is expected to elect salary arbitration today, has been named to Team USA for the World Cup...
DEVS: WE'LL PAY WHAT WE NIED TO - LAMORIELLO OUT TO KEEP HIS STAR D
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe Devils stand ready to burst their own unofficial salary ceiling if Norris Trophy winner Scott Niedermayer hits the arbitration jackpot. With a flat "No," GM Lou Lamoriello told The...
LIBERTY SEE .500 AS LAUNCHING PAD
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe magnitude of tonight's Garden clash with Minnesota was not lost on anyone in a Liberty uniform yesterday following practice, evidenced by a players-only pow-wow at center court in which...
D'BACKS CALL YANKS - FIVE TEAMS TOLD RANDY'S AVAILABLE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe Yankees are one of five teams officially told by the Diamondbacks they are thinking about trading Randy Johnson. GM Brian Cashman wouldn't comment when asked if the Diamondbacks informed...
ODDS AREN'T GOOD FOR DUVAL
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amBRITISH OPEN NOTEBOOK TROON, Scotland - Keep an eye on David Duval this week - unfortunately not for the right reasons. Duval, the 2001 British Open champion, was to tee...
BJORN SHRUGS OFF 2003 NIGHTMARE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amTROON, Scotland - Two weeks ago, Thomas Bjorn was a mess. The mere thought of teeing it up in competition at a British Open was absurd. The affable Dane completely...
MARTINEZ READY FOR REMATCH
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amInjuries and personal problems have caused Tiger Martinez to fight only sporadically since turning pro 13 years ago, but now he believes he's ready to become a contender in the...
NUMBERS GAME GIVES YANKS EDGE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Randy Johnson landing in Boston could alter the landscape, but the AL East is there for the Yankees to win for the seventh straight season based on the...
KENYON TO NUGGETS? SIGN-&-TRADE BACK IN WORKS
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe sign-and-trade talks between the Nets and Nuggets for Kenyon Martin were back on last night, and it seemed likely the power forward was headed out of New Jersey with...
ISIAH APPLIES PRESS ON ERICK
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amWhile the Heat got Shaquille O'Neal yesterday, the Knicks did not get Jamal Crawford, Erick Dampier or Antoine Walker on the first day of the free-agent signing period. With the...
KENYON LOOKS LIKE GONER IN SIGN-AND-TRADE
July 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe sign-and-trade talks between the Nets and the Nuggets for Kenyon Martin were back on last night - and it seemed almost certain the power forward was headed out of...