February 26, 2005
ENERGY STOCKS FUEL MARKET RALLY
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amRallying energy companies drove stocks to their biggest three-day rally of 2005 and put the Dow Jones industrial average in positive territory for the year. Rising oil prices fueled the...
EBBERS ON DECK - EX-WORLDCOM CEO READY TO TAKE STAND
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amBernard Ebbers is ready to talk. In a surprise move, lawyers for the disgraced former CEO of WorldCom said yesterday that Ebbers was ready to take the stand next week...
QWEST ON HOLD IN MCI BID WAR
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amDespite its sweetened $8 billion bid, Qwest continued to get a busy signal from the MCI board. The No. 2 long-distance company said yesterday it would still do its "utmost"...
GIMME SHELTER
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amFIT FOR NIC; FIT FOR YOU NOW you can live like Nicole Kidman, or at least like she did for the past year. The 5,500-square-foot duplex loft at 76 Crosby...
HEAVENLY HAMPTONS - OUR SPECIAL REPORT TELLS YOU WHERE TO RENT AND BUY
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amWHEN it comes to the Hamptons, the rich are different from you and me: The rich have already rented. That's the consensus of a sampling of East End real-estate brokers...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB - IT'S A CUDDLE PARTY
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amBernardaud, Christofle, Vivre 560 Seventh Ave., at 40th Street, 2nd floor (718) 747-1656 Sale: Sunday through March 3. Open: Sun.-Wed., 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m./Thurs., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Crystalware, tableware, flatware and...
MY NEW HOME
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amCOUPLE SEEKS FAMILY ROOM THEY BOUGHT: Forest Hills Gardens 4-BR house, $740K ROUGHLY half of American marriages end in divorce. And while we at NYP Home are in favor of...
WHITE'S OUT AT 'MORNING NEWS'; KRISHNAN REPLACES VETERAN ANCHOR
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amSUKANYA Krishnan is replacing Lynn White on "The WB11 Morning News" beginning Monday. White, who had co-anchored the show since its June 2000 debut, was on the air yesterday -...
SIS-BOOM-BLAH
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amMAN OF THE HOUSEHalf a star Move out. Now.Running time: 97 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, sexual content, crude humor, drug reference). At the Loews E-Walk, the Lincoln Square, the Union...
YOU'LL SKIP THIS BIG, BAD WOLF PIC IF YOU'RE SMART
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amCURSED (one star) Anemic werewolf saga.Running time: 96 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, brief male nudity). At the E-Walk, the Battery Park, the Kips Bay, others. 'CURSED," the sorry werewolf flick...
SEX SLAVES; SO EASY TO BUY A GIRL, IT'S CRIMINAL
February 26, 2005 | 5:00am"48 Hours Mystery: Rescued from the Shadows" Tonight at 10 on CBS/Ch. 2 (three stars) IN perhaps a first for TV, CBS News corre spondent Peter Van Sant actually buys...
BRAVO! RUNAWAY'RUNWAY' FINALE
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amTHE finale of "Project Runway" was dressed- for-success on Bravo. Last Wednesday's two-hour finale, in which Jay McCarroll snared a victory with his Fashion Week designs, notched over 2 million...
STAR PARTIES - TIPS FOR AN AWARD-WINNING OSCAR SOIREE
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amIF you're throwing an Oscar party, there are two things to remember. "Serve hot food and make sure you have plenty to drink because it's a long show." That's according...
A GROUCHIER SORT OF OSCAR PARTY
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amDowntown's coolest cover band, the Loser's Lounge, chooses a different pop legend to pay tribute to with each of their shows. Since 1993, they've rocked out to the Prince and...
THE FLAKY LAND OF THE FREEZE
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amThere's no business like snow business. The Big Apple will be mighty frigid this weekend and is bracing for a wallop of snowstorm on Monday - the third day of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amThree teens learned about police procedure firsthand while putting together their own version of TV's "Cops" on a street in Morgan Hill, Calif. One teen was videotaping while a buddy,...
HOTEL GERMS REMOTE-LY PERILOUS
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amMost hotel guests shudder when they see a stray hair on the bed or a fingerprint smudge on a drinking glass, but they rarely think twice about reaching for one...
AT ST. PAT'S, PRAYERS ARE FEW BUT FERVENT
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amEDWARD Cardinal Egan asked us to humbly pray for a most incredible human yesterday at 7:30 a.m. Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral. "We pray for him because of the extraordinary...
STABBER HIT WITH PARENT-SLAY RAP
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amA mentally disturbed New Jersey woman accused of stabbing her elderly parents this week now faces a murder charge because her father has died, authorities said yesterday. Cecilia Scoggins, 54,...
UNION GUY GUILTY OF $$ TOUCH-UP
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amA crooked ex-official for the union that represents showbiz makeup artists took a no-jail plea in Manhattan yesterday, copping to cooking the books to cover his plans to swindle members...
YANKEE FAN TOPS SOX IN NAME GAME
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amTake that, Red Sox Nation. A sneaky Yankees fan won a charity contest to rename a Boston arena for a day, and Sox fans are seeing red over the name...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 26, 2005 | 5:00am* MANHATTAN *** A Harlem man paralyzed by a gunshot wound in 1992 has died, and cops are still searching for his killer, police said yesterday. Darryl Hamilton, 42, got...
COURT RAPS 'R2-DWI-2'; DRIVING BAN FOR ROBO-STAR
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe force isn't with R2-D2. Kenny Baker, the pint-sized actor who played the legendary "Star Wars" robot, yesterday was banned from driving for a year following his DWI arrest near...
POPE SHOWS HIS PEP ; JOKES WITH DOCS
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amPope John Paul II is breathing on his own, making snappy jokes and not suffering from pneumonia, the Vatican said yesterday in an effort to reassure well-wishers around the world...
MIKE FOES PUSH FOR QNS. OLYMPIC STADIUM
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amMembers of the 2012 Olympics evaluation committee had barely finished packing their bags yesterday when Mayor Bloomberg found himself fending off demands to move the site of a proposed Olympic...
WEB VID XXX-POSES FRED'S LIMP BIZKIT
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amA graphic three-minute sex video of Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst hit the Internet yesterday - and it could be the work of the same hackers who broke into Paris...
JACKO 'KILLS' GRANNY - HOSP 'BOOTED' HER FOR STAR
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe family of a 74-year-old woman who died of a heart attack earlier this month is blaming a California hospital's fawning attention to a flu-stricken Michael Jackson for her death....
SCALE BACK IRAQ FORCE: POLL
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amA huge majority of Americans think Iraq's big-turnout election will make a difference in the U.S. role there - and most think America should withdraw at least some troops, a...
MAYOR ENTERTAINS IOC COMMITTEE
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg had a good ol' time entertaining the International Olympic Committee evaluation team - perhaps a little too good. By his own admission, the mayor overdid it a bit...
CAR-AZY PRICES; FOR 559G YOU CAN PLAY SPEED RACER
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amFor a car that can go from zero to 60 in less than three seconds, the Saleen 7 is one hot set of wheels. But at a shriek-inducing $559,500, it's...
HILLARY STICKS TO GUNS IN FEUD
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday stood by stinging comments she made about Iraq's likely new leader and his close ties to Iran. Clinton dug in the day after...
BRUNO-BRO BOSS OUT AMID NEPOTISM FURY
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - The head of the state's drug and alcohol treatment agency abruptly quit last night, just months after being rebuked by Gov. Pataki for putting his daughter on the...
LIL' KIM: SCRATCH HIP-HOP-HATER JURORS
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amRapper Lil' Kim yesterday moved to toss out 40 prospective jurors - who had slammed her and trashed the hip-hop industry - from serving in her perjury trial expected to...
DEFENSE 'SPINS' ZONGO'S WOUND
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amCity coroners call it gunshot wound "C," and prosecutors - who note it shows Police Officer Bryan Conroy shot unarmed West African artisan Ousmane Zongo at least once from behind...
TRAGIC FINAL CALL; TRUNK GAL TOLD OF SECRET
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe pregnant woman who was murdered and stuffed into a car trunk in Queens phoned her ex-husband hours before she vanished and told him she had a powerful secret to...
TRUCE EXPLODES IN FRESH TERROR; HOMICIDE BLAST KILLS 4 AT TEL AVIV NIGHTCLUB
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amTEL AVIV, Israel - A terrorist bomber shattered the Mideast truce last night when he blew himself up outside a beachfront nightclub, killing at least four Israelis and injuring more...
HUNTER S. WIDOW TOASTED CORPSE
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amHours after Hunter S. Thompson killed himself, his widow drank scotch and reminisced about him with family and friends in the same room where the corpse sat. Anita Thompson told...
CENTRAL PARK COPS SQUEEZE THE 'ORANGE'
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amIt's a close curtain call as two cops carefully inch their truck through one of Christo's gates in Central Park yesterday. Vic Losick, a cinematographer filming "The Gates" for a...
POLISH 'MOBSTER' DENIES BOXER SLAY
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amA Polish fugitive nabbed for allegedly killing a promising Brooklyn boxer in 1995 pleaded not guilty to the murder yesterday. Accused gangster Natan Gozman was detained and sent to the...
SCENE OF THE GRIME - FDNY'S ICKY SEX GROTTO
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe basement room in the Bronx fire station dubbed "Animal House," where three firefighters lined up to have sex on grungy, stained couches with a fire groupie, was a dingy...
CBS 'MEMOGATE' BIG QUITS
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amMary Murphy, one of the CBS News staffers ensnared in the "Memogate" scandal, officially resigned yesterday - more than a month after being asked to do so by the network....
CORPSE CARVER A 'MED EXPERT'
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amA maniac with "some medical knowledge" and a high-powered cutting tool may have dismembered a young Brooklyn man whose body parts were dumped in the subway, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly...
BOY, 12, SHOT IN HARLEM
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amA 12-year-old Harlem boy and a bystander were shot in a hail of bullets hours after the boy had been in a spat with two neighborhood thugs. Police said the...
TRUCE EXPLODES IN FRESH TERROR ; HOMICIDE BLAST KILLS 4 AT TEL AVIV NIGHTCLUB
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amTEL AVIV, Israel - A homicide bomber carrying 20 pounds of explosives blew himself up outside a Tel Aviv nightclub last night, killing at least four other people, wounding 50...
CLIPPERS MAKING LATE RUN
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amLevance Fields has been down this road before. Xaverian won the Brooklyn/Queens Diocesan title a year ago and then went all the way to the CHSAA "AA" title game before...
MOM USED CANCER BOY TO BILK CELEBS: DEFENSE
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - The mother of Michael Jackson's accuser had her cancer-patient son ask celebrities for money and spent some of it on a boob job and a tummy...
DAMN YANKEE FAN'S BOSTON MA$$ACRE
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amTake that, Red Sox Nation. A sneaky Yankees fan won a charity contest to rename a Boston arena for a day, and Sox fans are seeing red over the name...
CORPSE CARVER WAS 'EXPERT'
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amA maniac with "some medical knowledge" and a high-powered cutting tool may have dismembered a young Brooklyn man whose body parts were dumped in the subway, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly...
HILLARY STICKS TO HER GUNS IN FEUD
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday stood by stinging comments she made about Iraq's likely new leader and his close ties to Iran. Clinton, who visited Iraq earlier this...
'TRICK' COMES IN FOR $27.80
February 26, 2005 | 5:00am1ST RACE - Quanaco, hugging rail under apprentice Eriluis Vaz, gunned to daylight lead around clubhouse turn; Bubba Sparks, 7-5 favorite under Rich Migliore, moved up to press pace down...
KURT NOT AT EASE AT CENTER
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Kurt Thomas has made no secret of his desire not to play center and to be allowed to remain at his natural spot of power forward. But with...
CLIFF'S 'D' ANSWER ; ROBINSON SHORES UP NETS
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amWhen all else fails, defend your man. That's Cliff Robinson's simple plan for getting comfortable with the Nets, his fifth NBA team. Robinson, the 38-year-old veteran the Nets acquired 12...
DEVILS PRESENT STORMY DEFENSE
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amAfter Syracuse spanked St. John's, 83-69, coach Jim Boeheim bemoaned the fact that his Orange defenders didn't find Daryll Hill, no less stop him. Hill went off for a career-high...
DON'T LOOK THIS 'GIFT' HORSE IN THE MOUTH
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amIt will be a few more weeks - around the time racing moves from the inner dirt track back to the main oval on March 16 - when horses shipping...
NO BIG HURT; UNIT SKIPS SESSION, SAYS HE'S 'FINE'
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Whether it was due to a recent tweak of Randy Johnson's left calf or the master plan of pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre, the Big Unit was held back...
SANTANA WANTS TO STAY
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amSantana Moss wants to remain a New York Jet. In an interview yesterday morning on 1050 ESPN Radio's "Wally and the Keeg," Moss said he could deal with a trade...
METS CAN BE MEN OF STEAL
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Mets fans may be about to witness the best base-stealing team in club history. The 2005 Mets could be a lot of things - exciting, competitive...
KNICKS WON'T GIVE UP; STEPH: DEADLINE DEALS 'MAKE US BETTER'
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amDespite the Knicks' clear attempt at beginning a rebuilding movement at Thursday's trade deadline by acquiring two first-round draft picks in a deal with the Spurs that included center Nazr...
NO MORE KIDDING AROUND
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Just in case you or any of the Nets didn't get the message before . . . "From here on out, it's crucial. We've got to make up...
JACOBS BACK IN THE SWING
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - A year ago, Mike Jacobs won the award given to the top Met minor leaguer. Not much good has happened since. Jacobs played in...
HOT ROCK HELPS DOLPHINS ROLL
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amCUNYAC WOMENCSI 73Hunter 60 Darlene Rock unveiled a "Can't Stop The Rock" sign just before yesterday's women's CUNYAC basketball championship game held at Lehman College. She was paying homage to...
BIG GUNS WON'T BUS TO FACE SOX
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - When the Red Sox host their blood rivals in Fort Myers on March 7, they may see more Columbus Clippers than Yankees. Yankee manager Joe Torre...
FORTEAU FINDS FORTÈ IN FINAL ; JACKET JUNIOR EXTENDS COACH'S STAY
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amCUNYAC FINAL City Tech 76 CSI 66 While coaching in his last year at City Tech before moving to Florida, Ray Amalbert has seen his share of nail-biters this season,...
THEY'RE ENJOYING SOME TWIN THRILLING
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES The Nets' team brass was about a minute and a half away from reviewing the whole ping-pong ball stuff, on the verge of calling the Knicks to see...
KRSTIC GETS RICHER ; NENAD'S CAREER-HIGH 25 HELP NETS BEAT BOBCATS
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amNets 93Bobcats 86 Nen-sanity ruled in the Swamp for the Nets. Again, there was a Nets third quarter that was the stuff of nightmares. Again, command had vanished. Again, a...
STORY: BOSS KNEW JASON WAS JUICED
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES Jason Giambi was pressured by the Oakland organization to become a home-run hitter - and years later, George Steinbrenner knew the bulked-up slugger was on steroids, the recent...
HEALTHY JACOBS BACK IN SWING
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - A year ago, Mike Jacobs won the award given to the top Met minor leaguer. Not much good has happened since. Jacobs played in...
JETS TALK DEAL: MOSS FOR COLES - COMEBACK ROUTE WOULD BE GREAT CATCH
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amTHIS WAS just over two years ago, inside the visitors' locker room at Network Associates Coliseum. The Jets had just seen a splendid late-season run to the playoffs die in...
MATSUI EXTENSION IN WORKS
February 26, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Brian Cashman will meet agent Arn Tellem for breakfast this morning to lay groundwork for Hideki Matsui's contract extension, the Yankees' GM said yesterday. "Nothing's getting done [today],"...