July 30, 2005
POST PUBLISHER LACHLAN MURDOCH RESIGNS
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amAfter an 11-year career at News Corp., Lachlan Murdoch has resigned his numerous executive positions and will serve as a director of the company. Murdoch, 33, oversaw the company's 35...
MILLION$ GO UNCLAIMED
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amThousands of investors eligible to collect hundreds of millions of dollars worth of penalty cash from the global research settlement may have left a lot of money on the table....
SHOT IN THE ARM - SENATE EXEMPTS GUN COS., DEALERS FROM LIABILITY
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amWall Street went gun crazy yesterday in one of the year's steepest buying frenzies. After the U.S. Senate approved legislation protecting gun makers from getting sued, shares of the nation's...
A $7,500 CLOSET ... AND OTHER NYC STORAGE TALES
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amIn a city where closets become home offices or baby's rooms (my hubby and I stuffed a loveseat and a TV into our 5-foot-by-8-foot closet, and call it a den),...
THE $35M PRODUCTION
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amSHE'S movin' out. Broadway producer/billionairess Terry Allen Kramer is looking to lighten her substantial property portfolio. Up for grabs is her oceanfront Southampton estate off Wickapogue Road, with a $35...
ALL IN THE FAMILIES - AS NEIGHBORHOODS GROW UP, MULTIPLE GENERATIONS FIND A REASON TO STAY PUT
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN, after three years of dorm life, Grace Adago, 22, decided to move back into her parents' Upper West Side brownstone, she was really just following suit. Since her father,...
POP GOES POOF
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amPop Shop 292 Lafayette St., between Houston and Prince streets (212) 219-2784 Sale: Aug. 2-28 Open: Sun., noon-6 p.m./Tues.-Sat., noon-7 p.m. Keith Haring's boutique, featuring a unique selection of home...
TUCK LUCK FOR CARLSON - COSBY SHOW BUMPS 'SITUATION' TO 11 P.M.
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amTUCKER Carlson lasted seven weeks as the centerpiece of MSNBC's prime-time lineup at 9 p.m. weekdays. His show will be moved out of prime time, to 11 p.m., starting Monday,...
LAW AND DISORDER - 'KEYSTONE KOPS WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE EFFECTIVE'
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amHOW inept can you get? These are the worst cops, bar none, that I have ever seen on a TV show. The Keystone Kops would have been more effective than...
SURF'S UP AT GALLERY
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amEVEN if you've never ridden a wave before, you can still enjoy a well-crafted surfboard. From noon to 7 p.m. today, CB's Gallery (313 Bowery, at Bleecker Street; [212] 677-0455),...
DATE WITH DESTINY
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amLooking at last night's bootylicious, hit-packed celebration at Madison Square Garden, it seems hard to believe that the ultra-chic girl group Destiny's Child is calling it quits. At their much...
WE'VE GOT GAME
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amFANTASTIC 4 Format: Xbox, PS2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance Multiplayer: Yes Rated: Teen (violence, mild language) What's it about: Featuring the voices of the bigscreen cast, the game goes beyond...
KOOKY 'KIDNAP' TEENS BUSTED
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA teen couple was behind bars in Brooklyn last night for plotting to snatch the son of a man who owed money to the Russian mob - and hold him...
DEM BOSS $$ TRIAL DELAYED AGAIN
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe on-again, off-again trial of a beleaguered Brooklyn Democratic Party boss is off again until an ailing prosecutor can nurse himself back to health. Jury selection in Assemblyman Clarence Norman's...
SORRY NUN-MUG FIEND GETS 3 YEARS IN PRISON
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA young thug who robbed an elderly nun at gunpoint said he was sorry in court yesterday - and received an eight-year sentence. Karl Laurent, 18, looked doleful in a...
SUICIDE TYCOON'S TORMENT
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amArthur Zankel, a major financial backer to Carnegie Hall who plunged to his death from his apartment window in an apparent suicide, had suffered from severe depression, friends said yesterday....
PALLADIUM 'KILLER' FREED AT LAST
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amHe's the happiest man still in handcuffs. Olmado Hidalgo, 39, smiled broadly in a Manhattan court yesterday after a judge - with the agreement of prosecutors - tossed out the...
BIG APPLE TRANSIT WILL SEE BIG TROOP BUILDUP
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Commuters shouldn't be surprised to see more armed soldiers patroling the mass transit systems in the wake of the London bombings. Gov. Pataki yesterday called hundreds of additional...
'DRAFT HILLARY' GROUP IS 'TOONING UP 2008 PUSH
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The first Hillary Rodham Clinton TV ads of the 2008 presidential race are about to air in politically potent New Hampshire thanks to a draft-Hillary group that claims...
NUPS LOST AT SEA - TROPIC CRUISE REROUTED
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA Westchester wannabe bride and groom saved the date but missed the wedding when their cruise was abruptly rerouted to Canada instead of Bermuda, the furious fiancée said yesterday. "I'm...
NASA ADMITS THE FIX ISN'T IN ON SHUTTLE
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amTwo-and-a-half years after a piece of falling insulating foam led to the disintegration of the shuttle Columbia and the death of all seven astronauts on board, NASA conceded yesterday the...
BABY ABANDONED IN BROOKLYN
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA 3-week-old girl was found abandoned early yesterday in a plastic shopping bag hanging on a Brooklyn fence. At 3:50 a.m., Calvin Jackson walked from his apartment on Hull Street...
PRETTY BROADWAY WOMAN - JOY FOR JULIA'S DEBUT
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amLike many movie stars, Julia Roberts is coming to Broadway for the love of it - but the money won't be anything to sneeze at, either. The popular Oscar winner...
LONG ROAD TO SLAY BUST
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA Virginia man arrested for killing a limo driver in a Queens traffic accident 31 years ago had served time for another crime - but cops there never knew he...
W. A HARD SELL FOR STEM CELLS - STANDS FIRM ON VETO VOW
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday said President Bush will still veto a bill to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research after Senate Republican leader Bill Frist broke with...
FREDDY IN FLIP-FLOP FLUB ON SUBWAY-BAG SEARCH
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amFernando Ferrer called the NYPD's random searches of subway riders' bags "ridiculous" at a mayoral-candidate debate Thursday - just days after endorsing the practice as "appropriate." "I happen to agree...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA young mother abandoned her 4-year-old son on the Capital Beltway in Falls Church, Va. - and then ran him down and took off when he tried to climb back...
KOOKY 'KIDNAP' BY KIDS - TEEN COUPLE BUSTED
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA teen couple was behind bars in Brooklyn last night for plotting to snatch the son of a man who owed money to the Russian mob - and hold him...
COP BUSTED IN CYBER-PERV STING
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA sex-crazed NYPD detective was busted for allegedly sending sick messages over the Internet to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl but who was actually a fellow detective trawling...
CASH AND CABBY - BUSTED TAXI DRIVER HAD 94G IN HIS TRUNK
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amTaxi and Limousine Commission cops who busted a livery cabdriver for cruising Manhattan with a suspended license yesterday got a surprise when they popped his trunk - over $90,000 in...
DWI KILLER GETS 'CLUBBED' - LIFE TERM FOR PARTY ANIMAL
July 30, 2005 | 4:00am"I am not a lost soul," a killer drunken driver sobbed noisily yesterday in a lower Manhattan courtroom. "I can be saved," he wailed. But Neville Wells cried alone as...
GIRLS DODGED DEATH - JUST MISSED CAMP MANIAC'S RIDE
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amThree young girls told yesterday how their teenage dilly-dallying saved their lives - it kept them from getting into a car loaded with five young summer campers killed when an...
TEARS OF 'STICKY FINGERS'
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA housekeeper to the rich and famous tearfully pleaded not guilty in Manhattan yesterday to a string of thefts from her well-monied clients, including actress Candice Bergen and actor Robert...
CLUB 'KILLER' FREED AT LAST
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amHe's the happiest man still in handcuffs. Olmado Hidalgo, 39, smiled broadly in a Manhattan court yesterday after a judge - with the agreement of prosecutors - tossed out the...
ABANDONED TOT IN THE BAG
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA 3-week-old girl was found abandoned early yesterday in a plastic shopping bag hanging on a Brooklyn fence. At 3:50 a.m., Calvin Jackson was walking from his apartment on Hull...
MAID-TO-STARS: I'M NOT A THIEF
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA housekeeper to the rich and famous pleaded not guilty yesterday in Manhattan to charges that she stole from actress Candice Bergen, actor Robert De Niro and other well-heeled clients....
BRIDE BLASTS WEDDING 'SHIPWRECK'
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA Westchester wannabe bride and groom saved the date but missed the wedding when their cruise was abruptly rerouted to Canada instead of Bermuda, the furious fiancée said yesterday. "I'm...
FIRE ISLAND BODY ID'D
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe body of a woman that washed up on a Fire Island beach has been identified as a 30-year-old upstate mother who made the trip to Long Island alone, authorities...
HOUSING COP HURT IN CRASH
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens housing cop - on the job for just seven months - was injured yesterday when a hit-and-run 18-wheeler nudged her car into oncoming traffic, where it was crushed...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * Police are searching for this man (above) wanted for robbing a Kingsbridge bank this month. The thief walked into a Chase Bank branch at 5581 Broadway on...
FAR OUT, DUDE: 10TH PLANET DISCOVERED
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amAnd now there are 10. A California astronomer has discovered a new planet in our solar system - one-and-a-half times bigger than Pluto and so far away that it takes...
KILLER FISH IN QNS. LAKE
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amQueens has been invaded by illegal aliens. Four snakehead fish - meat-eating, air-breathing predators native to Asia and Africa - have been found in Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Park,...
POST PAYS BIG - MAURICE GRABS 10G SCRATCH & WIN POT
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amMeet Maurice Golson of Manhattan, the big winner in Game 1 of The Post's Mets Mania Scratch & Win contest. The 32-year-old industrial designer collected his $10,000 cash prize yesterday...
SENATORS OK BILL FOR SUNNIER DAYS
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amDaylight Saving Time will last four weeks longer under terms of a massive energy bill that got final congressional approval yesterday and is headed to the White House. The controversial...
AMAZIN'S FADIN' FAST - SLUMP CONTINUES WITH DEADLINE NEAR
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amAstros 5 - Mets 2 HOUSTON - By tomorrow afternoon's trade deadline, maybe the Mets will have added a player or two. The current group, though, is hardly playing like...
NYRA IMPROVES TENT CONDITIONS
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The New York Racing Association, reacting to numerous complaints by horsemen about the cramped, hot and unsafe conditions inside three large tents set up on the backstretch...
JINTS OPEN CAMP WITH GOOD CHEER
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - The first hint of dissension hit the crisp air yesterday at Giants training camp, with Plaxico Burress ripping into Jeremy Shockey. "I see what type of teammate he...
PLETCHER, JOHNNY V STAY HOT
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - It was a big day for Todd Pletcher, John Velazquez, owner Jim Scatuorchio and sire More Than Ready, dandy little colt trained by Pletcher, ridden by Velazquez,...
CHACON'S CHARGED UP TO START
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe carousel-like Yankees pitching rotation has spun again, leaving Shawn Chacon as today's last-minute starter against the Angels. Chacon was acquired from Colorado in a trade Thursday night for a...
'ALEX' FRACTURE OPENS THE DOOR
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - With Afleet Alex sidelined for months, perhaps forever, with a hairline fracture suffered earlier this week, the door has opened a crack for other 3-year-olds to build...
LARRY: THREE YEARS TO TOP
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amLarry Brown said he expects the Knicks to be on the verge of their first championship since 1973 in his third season. Brown knows he's getting paid $9 million a...
HOLIK COW! - RANGERS' BUYOUT UPSTAGES DRAFT
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amOTTAWA - While Glen Sather was upstaging today's NHL Draft by buying out Bobby Holik yesterday for $9.3 million over two years, he seemingly left the door open for Mark...
NETS ADD ASSISTANTS
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amPat Sullivan, a Pistons assistant under Larry Brown last season, officially was named to Lawrence Frank's Nets staff yesterday. Additionally, the Nets hired Bob Thate as their full-time shooting coach....
NO BIG DEALS - CASHMAN, TORRE MAY SETTLE FOR MINOR MOVES
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Brian Cashman acquired Colorado righty Shawn Chacon late Thursday night, it addressed the most immediate problem the Yankees had. Namely, a warm body on the mound for today's start....
BROWN HAS KNICKS ON THE DEFENSIVE - JEROME: WE NEED TO COMMIT
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amJerome Williams said he believes Larry Brown's presence will be a "wakeup call" for a Knicks team that never put its heart into defense. Williams said he believes he'll be...
SATHER GETS IT RIGHT & WRONG
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amGLEN Sather's decision to use an amnesty buyout on Bobby Holik and thus clear $6.726M of Rangers cap space in each of the next two seasons was justifiable, if not...
CHAD GLAD TO BE BACK - JET QB FEELS 'GIDDY' ON RETURN TO PRACTICE
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe anticipation that yesterday's first post-surgery practice for Chad Pennington had built up warranted the Patriots on the other side of the ball and a stadium packed with screaming maniacs....
PAVANO NEARING RETURN
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Carl Pavano will make his next rehab start on Wednesday night, GM Brian Cashman said yesterday, and the Yankees expect him to return after that. Pavano, on the...
CASHMAN KEEPS STARTING OVER
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amBEFORE this year, Joe Torre never used more than 12 starters to get through an entire season. Today Shawn Chacon will become the 12th pitcher to start for the Yankees...
CYCLONES' CF KEEPS HOLDEN UP HIS END
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amEntering last night's contest against the Hudson Valley Renegades, the Brooklyn Cyclones had a team batting average of .239, with only two players hitting above the .300 mark. Center fielder...
AMAZIN'S FADIN' FAST METS FADING FAST - SLUMP CONTINUES WITH DEADLINE NEAR
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amAstros 5 - Mets 2 HOUSTON - It probably would help if the Mets added some new players by tomorrow's trade deadline. The way the current group is playing, it...
KAZ BACK IN ACTION
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES HOUSTON - Finally, Mets second baseman Kazuo Matsui has begun playing again. Matsui, who has not played since June 17 and has been on the disabled list with...
HOLDEN LIFTS 'CLONES
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amCyclones 8 - Renegades 3 The play of the Brooklyn Cyclones in the season's first 36 games could be described as offensively challenged. Entering last night's contest against the Hudson...
SANTANA BOSS - ANGELS FIREBALLER DRIVES BOMBERS BATTY
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amAngels 4 - Yankees 1 Angel righty Ervin Santana made the Yankees' bats look lifeless last night. In a matter with larger ramifications, GM Brian Cashman said his market for...
PAVANO EYES AUG. 8 RETURN
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Carl Pavano, on the disabled list with right shoulder tendinitis, will make his next rehab start on Wednesday night, Yankees GM Brian Cashman said, and the Yankees expect...
MANNY POSSIBILITES - TEAMS SET NOON DEADLINE TO CURE SNAG IN 3-WAY BLOCKBUSTER
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amWith an unwillingness to include top prospect Lastings Milledge in the package and to take on the entire $64 million owed to Manny Ramirez through the 2008 season, the Mets...
HE'S A HEADACHE ... GET HIM ANYWAY
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amA first-place team and defending champion is considering trading the major league RBI leader. That should say quite a lot about Manny Ramirez. No wide-eyed Met fan should have any...
MET MANNY? MAYBE - AMAZIN' 3-WAY DEAL COULD SEND RAMIREZ TO SHEA
July 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe Mets are involved in a complex, three-way trade discussion with Boston and Tampa Bay that would bring Manny Ramirez to Flushing. The odds remained long against completion of a...