May 16, 2005
FORD HUNT$ HERTZ DEALS
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amIn a move to strengthen its debt-laden balance sheet, Ford Motor Company is paving the road for a possible sale or spin-off of its Hertz rental car business, The Post...
HIP-HOP HOMELESS TIME FOR MURDER INC. & GOTTI
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe indicted hip-hop mogul Irv Gotti will soon be without a record deal. Looking to distance itself from Gotti and his legal problems, Island Def Jam is close to a...
GREAT SHOT - VELVET REVOLVER FIRES UP SUMMER
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amROCK 'n' roll got the sand back between its toes this weekend when the Jones Beach Theater opened for the 2005 summer season with gigs by Velvet Revolver and Sting....
FIRED-UP B'KLYN BRAVEST WINS 'SURVIVOR'
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amTOM WESTMAN, the invincible 41-year-old Brooklyn firefighter, stormed to victory last night on the finale of "Survivor: Palau," winning the $1 million grand prize. Tom physically dominated the 10th edition...
'GMA' FIRST IN HI-DEF RACE
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amABC's "Good Morning America" will go high-definition starting this fall - getting a jump on its competitors. Both "GMA's" weekday and weekend editions will air in high-definition, most likely by...
'IDOL' RICH - BUT NOT THE WAY YOU'D EXPECT. WHEN DID TV'S BEST-EVER TALENT SHOW BECOME A SOAP OPERA?
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amIT may as well be renamed "All My Idols," or better yet, "Days of Their Lives." Yes, I'm talking about "American Idol," and the fact that it's become less about...
STARR REPORT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amCosby to MSNBC Rita Cosby has joined MSNBC as an anchor and special correspondent. She'll start there next month and will anchor a "daily evening program" that will debut in...
DEATH OF THE SITCOM - AS 'RAYMOND' SAILS OFF INTO THE SUNSET, THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT BIG COMEDY HAS NO WHERE TO TURN
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amYOU know you're in trouble when Charlie Sheen is poised to become the king of TV comedy. That's where things stand in sitcomland as "Everybody Loves Raymond" breathes its last...
BLOOD ON THE RACKS - PREPARING FOR BATTLE AS SAMPLE-SALE SEASON BEGINS; LADIES START YOUR ENGINES!!!
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amTHREE words - discount designer clothes - will spark plenty of thrills and spills this week as one of the city's most extreme blood sports swings ino high gear. It's...
WEAR GOOD SKIVVIES & DON'T BE SHY
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amHERE'S the best piece of advice on shopping sample sales: Don't go if you're faint of heart. So says Charla Krupp (inset), executive editor of Shop Etc. magazine, who knows...
EVA HELPS PARENTS TO FOLLOW THE SCHOOL MONEY
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amIf a concerned parent or taxpayer ever wanted to find out how public school funds are allocated, the last place they'd want to check is the education budget, City Councilwoman...
45,000 IN CENTRAL PARK WALK TO FIND AIDS CURE
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amAmid growing complacency about one of the nation's deadliest killers, more than 45,000 people crowded Central Park yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk to raise money to fight the...
FRAUD CRACKDOWN SLASHES STATE'S CAR-INSURANCE RATES
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amNew York state drivers now have something to honk about besides gridlock. Ten major auto insurers have reduced their rates - saving 6 million policyholders an average of $50 a...
34 FOUND EXECUTED AROUND BAGHDAD
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amAs Marines completed their weeklong sweeps in western Iraq, violence continued to run unchecked in parts of the nation as the bodies of 34 men - shot execution-style - were...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A cop opened fire at suspects fleeing in a car yesterday after officers responded to reports of gunshots on a Coney Island street, police said. No injuries were...
CASH IS THE REAL 'STAR'
May 16, 2005 | 4:00am"Star Wars" may be pure science fiction - but the galactic sums of money the blockbuster series has earned are truly out of this world. So far, the worldwide haul...
12G REWARD FOR MIDTOWN GRENADE JERKS
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amPolice yesterday offered a $12,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the person or persons responsible for the explosion of two makeshift grenades outside the British Consulate in...
NEW DAD LOSES FAMILY IN WRECK
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amA young Manhattan dad lost his lifelong sweetheart and their 4-month-old son in a horrific car crash that occurred as the family headed to an upstate reunion, police and grieving...
BOMBER MAY HAVE EYED COURT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man found dead in his home amid an arsenal of weapons - including a pipe bomb under construction - may have been planning to take the device to...
CRASH STUNS L.I. KIN - EMPTY VAN KILLS GRANDMA
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amA beloved Long Island grandmother was killed suddenly when her son-in-law's unoccupied car rolled down a driveway and ran her over - as she prepared for a birthday dinner celebration....
JURY TO WEIGH CHARGES FOR COP IN TENANT SLAY
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn grand jury will convene this week to decide if an off-duty police lieutenant should be indicted in the shooting death of his tenant. The officer, Shamik Walton, 41,...
BUSH LOSING WOMEN'S SUPPORT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush campaigned last fall on the message that "W stands for Women," but women are no longer standing by him. His support among them is 42 percent,...
46 MEN FOUND EXECUTED
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe bodies of 46 men - shot execution-style - have been found in four locations around Iraq since Saturday, police said yesterday. Early this morning, the bodies of 12 Iraqi...
THE UNION RULES, THE KIDS ROT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amAS the state Board of Regents meets today, it looks like the body is going to tell black and Hispanic parents up in Niagara County - desperate to get their...
ARMS & THE MAN - MODERN 'INDIANA JONES' BRINGS BACK TONS OF GUNS
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amGILLETTE, N.J. - He's a real-life Indiana Jones and, after a sometimes dangerous, 35-year quest for the "hidden treasure" of Lagan Silekhan - a long-sealed palace in Katmandu, Nepal -...
380G KILLER DEAL FOR LACI 'SLAY' HOME
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amJust days after it went on the market, three offers were made on the Modesto, Calif., home where Scott Peterson is suspected of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci. The 1,770-square-foot,...
COPS IN MISCARRY UPROAR - GAL CRIES BRUTALITY
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman who was five-months pregnant says she suffered a miscarriage after cops brutally manhandled and handcuffed her - then ignored her plea to take her to a hospital....
HUDSON P'KWAY IS BACK IN BIZ
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amCity workers moved mountains to reopen the northbound section of the Henry Hudson blocked by Thursday's wall collapse in time for this morning's rush-hour - and beat their goal by...
DC 37 WORKERS ON INSIDE TRACK FOR BE$T HOUSING
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration has entered into a landmark agreement with the city's largest municipal union to help all city workers buy their own homes and condominiums and rent affordable apartments...
N.J. JET ALL WET
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amIt's a splash landing. A private jet heading for Atlantic City wound up in the drink yesterday after it ran off the runway at New Jersey's Bader Field Airport. The...
SURVEY REVEALS DATES FROM HELL
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amBeen on some bad dates lately? You're not alone. A new survey reveals that 49 percent of Americans say they have, at least once, hooked up with a Mr. or...
DEAL WOULD GIVE DC 37 WORKERS INSIDE TRACK ON AFFORDABLE HOMES
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration has entered into a landmark agreement with the city's largest municipal union to help all city workers buy their own homes and condominiums and rent affordable apartments...
CHEATING CHARGES ROCK BROOKLYN TECH
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe city Department of Education is investigating cheating charges at one of the city's elite high schools. Officials said a student at Brooklyn Technical HS made off with the questions...
LUCAS STRIKES BACK AT LAST AS THRILL-RIDE 'SITH' FILLS THE DARTH DEARTH
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amDARTH VADER is finally back after a 22-year absence from the screen - and balance has at last been restored to the "Star Wars" universe. "Star Wars: Episode III -...
BID TO NIX $ VOTE ON STADIUM
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amLEGISLATIVE leaders are calling on Gov. Pataki to cancel Wednesday's planned vote on $300 million in state funding for the controversial West Side stadium, it was learned last night. The...
SADDAM 'BOUGHT OFF' RUSSIA
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein awarded sweetheart oil deals to Russian political figures - including President Vladimir Putin's former chief-of-staff - to buy that country's vote on the United Nations Security...
WEINER SNEERS AT 'OLD, STALE' FOES
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amU.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner took a swipe at his fellow Democratic mayoral candidates yesterday, calling them "old, stale and not very creative." During a debate hosted by the National Jewish...
GIS GET A RICE SURPRISE - CONDI IN SECRET JOURNEY TO IRAQ
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice - wearing body armor - made a surprise visit yesterday to Iraq, where she met U.S. troops, the country's newly elected leaders and...
NYPD ROOKIES KO APPLE'S CROOKIES
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amSerious crime in the city's most troubled neighborhoods plummeted 25 percent in the past four months compared with last year - a drop that the NYPD attributes to its relatively...
JILTING JENNY DRAWN TO AN OLD FLAME - HEADED FOR EX-LOVE'S N.M. PAD
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amTAOS, N.M. - Jennifer Wilbanks wasn't just running away from her wedding, she was running toward something - an old paramour with whom she had a steamy sexual relationship. The...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe city of Milwaukee has spent $1.8 million on its sewage plant - to catch stray condoms from washing into Lake Michigan. The drastic measure became necessary after a fisherman...
MAKING A 'LOT' OF $$$ - HAMPTONS BOOM
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe best investments in the Hamptons haven't been its pricey homes, but its vacant lands. In the past five years, median prices for lots in the townships of East Hampton...
MCCAIN: END FILIBUSTER SPAT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Popular maverick Sen. John McCain, fearing political payback if Democrats ever retake control of the Senate, pleaded for compromise yesterday as a vicious fight over the fate of...
'TERROR' BANKS TARGETED IN 9/11 SUIT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe family of the late FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neill and others affected by 9/11 have filed new court papers accusing several Islamic banks, charitable groups and individuals with being...
NON-ALERT NO SWEAT TO BUSH THE BICYCLIST
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush has no qualms about having been kept in the dark during last week's White House evacuation - and won't demand to be immediately alerted if it...
CROWDS 'FONDA' JANE COMEBACK
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amJ.Lo and J.Fo rocked the box office over the weekend, as moviegoers flocked to see Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda battle it out in "Monster-in-Law." The brassy comedy, Fonda's first...
ODDS GOOD DOUBLE-PARK BILL WILL STALL
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amIt may be one of the wackiest things ever to come out of City Hall - a bill to allow double-parking for five minutes everywhere in the city. But City...
A KILLER DEAL - BUYERS HOT FOR 'LACI DEATH' HOUSE
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amJust days after it went on the market, three offers were made on the Modesto, Calif., home where Scott Peterson is suspected of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci. The 1,770-square-foot,...
COP-BABY FUROR - BRUTALITY MADE ME MISCARRY: B'KLYN WOMAN
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman who was five-months pregnant says she suffered a miscarriage after cops brutally manhandled and handcuffed her - then ignored her plea to take her to a hospital....
JENNIFER A 'RINGING' BELLE - BEN'S GAL WEARING A NEW BAND
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amJennifer Garner is wearing a rock around the clock. The sexy "Alias" star was seen happily flaunting what appeared to be a diamond engagement ring on her left hand over...
ALL WRIGHT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - No explanation was given for the absence of Felix "Tito" Trinidad at the post-fight news conference late Saturday night at a ballroom inside the MGM Grand. Perhaps...
TRYING TIME FOR PIAZZA
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amSuffering from the same kind of luck reserved for those who break mirrors, walk under ladders or cross paths with black cats, Mike Piazza has seen better days at the...
CAM STILL FEELING GROOVY
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amAbout a month ago, there was much talk surrounding the Mets about the wonderful play of Victor Diaz and how expendable Mike Cameron was becoming. Cameron was making his way...
GOLDEN COMMANDER WINS
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amGolden Commander saved ground to far turn under Edgar Prado, swung out to split horses top of stretch, then blew by dueling pacesetters Certifiably Crazy and No Parole to win...
GRID STAR HAS HOOP DREAMS
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amHe's barely more than a month away from beginning his collegiate football career, but there was Nyan Boateng yesterday, going up for a layup, getting fouled and landing hard under...
TIME FOR KNICKS TO REJECT JACKSON
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amYOU either want the challenge of coaching at the center of the universe inside the world's greatest basketball arena or you don't. The wishy-washy need not apply. Phil Jackson still...
'LIMIT' MAY CATCH FIRE AS RABBIT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amWith the speedy "rabbit" Spanish Chestnut off the Triple Crown trail, the pace for Saturday's Preakness figures to be more reasonable than the suicidal fractions laid down in the Kentucky...
METS DON'T SEE .500 AS AMAZIN' - EAGER TO CLIMB HIGHER AFTER LOSS TO CARDS
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amSix weeks into the season, the new Mets are at .500. And whether you see the glass as half-empty or half-full, Cliff Floyd and David Wright are thirsty for more....
ALL EYES ON GIACOMO
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amWill the Cross Island Parkway be a parking lot on June 11, when Giacomo guns for the Triple Crown after winning Saturday's 130th Preakness Stakes? Or will the Belmont Stakes...
THIS ROTATION'S SPINNING, BUT GOING NOWHERE
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amTHE LONG awaited - in Japan, maybe - return of Kaz Ishii to the Mets rotation likely will be tomorrow and odds are being taken on who will be the...
NOT SO TERRIFIC, TOM
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amAS THE 2005th Airborne circled overhead Saturday, it did as it does every weekend. It slowed to allow Paratrooper First Class Tom Seaver to parachute onto a Met game. Seaver,...
ROCKER PLAYS IT LOW KEY
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amJohn Rocker stayed out of sight but not out of mind. The Long Island Ducks pitcher did not appear in yesterday's 4-1 loss to the Bears in Newark and stayed...
HOLZMAN HITS CUNY TRIFECTA
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amHunter College's Omri Holzman ran three races yesterday at the CUNYAC championships at Icahn Stadium on Randalls Island, and each time he was called to the podium to make the...
SLUMP STUMPS PIAZZA
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amSuffering from the same kind of luck reserved for those who break mirrors, walk under ladders or cross paths with black cats, Mike Piazza has seen better days at the...
ISHII IMPROVING
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Left-handed starter Kaz Ishii threw a light side session yesterday and reported no problems, which means the Mets probably have two imminent roster decisions to make. Ishii is...
TORRID TINO HAS OFFENSE BOMBIN' AWAY
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Looking for a place to start explaining the Yankees' eight-game winning streak? Stop at Tino Martinez' locker. The Yankees have received strong starting pitching and the bullpen has...
WITH CHANCE TO TALK HEROICS, JASON OPTS TO RUN AND HIDE
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amHE CAN'T help himself anymore, that's plain to see. Jason Giambi has officially become a one-man circus, replete with bearded ladies and giant elephants and a solo news cycle that...
JASON CHIPS IN ON ROAD TO .500 - GIAMBI, YANKEES WIN EIGHTH STRAIGHT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Athletics 4 OAKLAND - Halfway through a six-game audition, Jason Giambi's swing is far from sweet. Every at-bat is analyzed by those who know what they are...
BEER-TOSSING FAN CHARGED AFTER INCIDENT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The Oakland fan who wasted a beer by throwing it and hitting Jason Giambi Saturday night at McAfee Coliseum faces multiple criminal charges. Eric Anduri spent the night...
CHEERS: JASON BOTTLES UP WIN - GIAMBI'S DOUBLE PUSHES STREAK TO 8
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Athletics 4 OAKLAND - The Yankees are officially scary. How else can you describe them after Jason Giambi's frigid bat delivered the game-winning hit yesterday in their...
UNIT'S LINE LESS THAN STRIKING
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Right from the start yesterday, pitching was a chore for Randy Johnson. As A's darted around the bases scoring three runs in the first, you knew...
NO MORE TALK OF MINORS
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Prior to watching Jason Giambi deliver the game-winning hit in yesterday's victory over the A's, Joe Torre hinted Giambi might be asked to consider a minor...
STRANGE BREW - BEER-TOSSING FAN CHARGED AFTER INCIDENT
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The Oakland fan who wasted a beer by throwing it and hitting Jason Giambi Saturday night at McAfee Coliseum faces multiple criminal charges. Eric Anduri spent the night...
CHANGES DUE WITH ISHII'S ACTIVATION ON HORIZON
May 16, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Kaz Ishii threw a light side session yesterday and reported no problems, which means the Mets probably have two imminent roster decisions. Ishii is on the DL with...