April 17, 2006
REDSTONE: STERN'S GONNA PAY SIRIUS $
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amMedia mogul Sumner Redstone is confident CBS will win its legal battle against shock jock Howard Stern. Redstone, who split apart his media empire to form Viacom and CBS and...
LARRY'S LIST OF LEGAL HITS - CLICKRADIO TO BITTER STRIPPER
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amHedge fund guru Lawrence Goldfarb - the man behind a $30 million plan to revive Murder Inc. mogul Irv "Gotti" Lorenzo's record label - has a past nearly as scandal-prone...
ASIAN INVASION - ECONOMIC BOOM GOOSES FINE ART AUCTIONS
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amBillions amassed in economic booms in China, Russia and India are heading into a hot global investment - artwork - pumping the art world up for its biggest year ever....
NATURAL NOSH - DITCH THE PIZZA LUNCH ROUTINE AND TRY HEALTHY PICKS
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amTO win the battle of the bulge, you have to commit to being a huge loser. Sure, at the end of last year you were talking about how 2006 would...
'WHAT' A WRECK - GET OUT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amWHAT about Brian? I'll tell you what about Brian - he should rid himself of his so-called friends and get himself a so-called life. Not that that would rescue this...
'REAL WORLD' BEHIND EIGHT BALL
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amMTV is moving the "Real World: Denver" cast into a former pool hall. The building - a very generous 21,000 square feet - will even include a basketball court, according...
A BLOODY MESS - 'INISHMORE' STAGEHANDS SEEING RED EVERY SHOW
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amVAMPIRE shows come and go, but the biggest bloodbath to hit Broadway is "The Lieutenant of Inish more." Starting previews Wednesday at the Lyceum Theatre after a successful run downtown,...
'IDOL' KILLS STARS WITH HAIRBRUSH
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amWhat if they killed off Tony Soprano every week? Or if Jack Bauer actually did get blown into 48 pieces one week, inhaled the fatal germs the next week, and...
STARR REPORT
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amNo 'Chief' relief ABC's much-maligned "Commander in Chief," in danger of cancellation, didn't help its cause Thursday night, returning to the network's lineup after a six-week hiatus with only 8.2...
'HEAVEN' CAN'T WAIT- FAMILY SERIES WRAPS AFTER A DECADE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amHERE'S a first look at the Camden family from "7th Heaven" saying goodbye in next month's series finale. The show follows a minister father (Stephen Collins) and stay-at-home mother (Catherine...
SCHOOL OF ROCK - IN FASHION, MUSIC'S RAW & WILD WOMEN LEAD THE WAY; DON'T B FLAT, B SHARP
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amNOT since Debbie Harry, Chrissie Hynde and Joan Jett ruled the charts have rock chicks been this fashion forward. Artists like Cat Power, Jenny Lewis, Meg White and Eleanor Friedberger...
IRS AIMS AT SWANK AND FILE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The nation's top taxman is vowing to press a crackdown on rich tax evaders as Americans brace for the moment of truth when they file returns. "We've definitely...
STRAY BULLET KILLS BABY IN FAMILY VAN - BX. EASTER HORROR ON WAY TO CHURCH
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA 2 1/2-year-old tot riding with his family to Easter services at a Bronx church was killed yesterday when a thug opened fire on a busy street and a bullet...
ADVICE FOR 'UGLY' AMERICANS: CLAM UP
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amOh, behave! That's the advice of a new etiquette guide that says Americans should pipe down and brag less when they travel overseas. The "World Citizen's Guide" - published by...
BRIMMING WITH SPIRIT - EASTER BRINGS OUT BEST IN BONNETS
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amCatholics yesterday flocked to St. Patrick's Cathedral to celebrate Christianity's holiest holiday of the year - as beautiful bonnets bloomed in front of the church, with spring revelers putting their...
'CANNIBAL' DEATH LIST
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA fiend who killed a freckle-faced Oklahoma girl and tried to saw her head off as part of a diabolical plan to eat her flesh had a long list of...
4TH 'MOVIE' $CARES UP BIG BUCKS
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe critics creamed it, but that didn't stop audiences from making "Scary Movie 4" the top flick in North America. Spoofing such flicks as "War of the Worlds," "Saw II,"...
IRAN'S 'NUKE' BUNKER - URANIUM SITE BURIED
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Amid a tense standoff over its nuclear ambitions, Iran is shielding a huge uranium-enrichment plant from attack by burying it under 26 feet of reinforced earth, a think...
PHONE PIX DISPROVE DUKE LACROSSE RAPE: LAWYER
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe Duke University lacrosse players accused of raping a stripper last month have photographic evidence to back up their claim of innocence, according to a defense lawyer. Pictures taken with...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amQUEENS * Gun-toting crooks tied up two workers with wires during an early-morning stickup in a Maspeth bakery yesterday, police sources said. Between three and five masked robbers walked into...
CERVIX-CANCER DRUGS NEAR OK
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe FDA is expected to approve two vaccines this summer that prevent cervical cancer, it was reported yesterday. The vaccines will target two cancer-causing strains of HPV, or human papillomavirus,...
CLASHING COUPLE TURNS ON COPS
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amNassau County cops Matthew Fusaro and Robert Marsh responded to a domestic-violence call in North Bellmore at 10:30 p.m. Saturday - but they ended up as the victims. As they...
CORPSE FOUND PARKED IN BX.
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe body of a middle-aged man was found in a Lincoln Town Car parked on a Bronx street, police said yesterday. The 46-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending family...
SWIPED CAT FOUND TOO LATE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island man was charged with cat-napping his neighbor's beloved kitty and having it put down at the pound - just hours before the frantic owner came looking for...
3 BANDITS IN FUR HEIST
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA brazen trio of fur filchers swiped about 50 luxury coats from a Westbury store yesterday afternoon after threatening the owner with an unseen gun. Nassau County cops said two...
L.I. FEUD ENDS IN CAT'S DEATH - HEARTBROKEN FAMILY TOO LATE TO SAVE PET
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island man was charged with cat-napping his neighbor's beloved pet and having him put down at the pound - just hours before the frantic owner called the shelter...
DOORMAN STRIKE HINGES ON WAGES
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amApartment doormen and maintenance workers are set to strike Thursday at midnight if they can't get their piece of the city's real-estate pie in contract talks with building managers -...
JUDGE COURTS TROUBLE WITH EX
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island judge is finding herself on the other side of the bench - for allegedly interfering with her ex's visitation rights involving their two sons, according to legal...
CLASS TECH BOOM - COMPUTER-BUY BINGE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amCity schools are speeding down the Information Highway, buying computers at a breakneck pace, an Education Department survey obtained by The Post shows. The inventory shows there are now 296,011...
OPUS DEI BREAKS 'CODE' OF SILENCE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe controversial Catholic group Opus Dei has broken with its secretive ways to deny that several Washington powerbrokers are part of the mysterious organization as it gears up for a...
BEACH PATROLLER BUSTED IN NATALEE CASE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA Dutch teen who patrols the beaches of Aruba to keep them safe for tourists has emerged as a new suspect in the baffling disappearance of high-school beauty Natalee Holloway....
FUR CRYING OUT LOUD! TRIO STEALS PELTS WITHOUT FLASHING GUN
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA brazen trio of fur filchers swiped about 50 luxury coats from a Westbury store yesterday afternoon after threatening the owner with an unseen gun. Nassau County cops said two...
NATALEE TWIST - NEW SUSPECT ON ARUBA BEACH PATROL
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA Dutch teen who patrols the beaches of Aruba to keep them safe for tourists has emerged as a new suspect in the baffling disappearance of high-school beauty Natalee Holloway....
HARD-DRIVING SCHOOLS - CLASSROOM COMPUTER BUY BINGE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amCity schools are speeding down the Information Highway, buying computers at a breakneck pace, an Education Department survey obtained by The Post shows. The inventory shows there are now 296,011...
MARILYN'S PLEA TO JOE D. - LOVE NOTE TURNS UP IN HIS WALLET
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amColossal fame undid their short and stormy marriage - but newly-unearthed correspondence from Marilyn Monroe to Joe DiMaggio shows their love was real and endured right up to her tragic...
REPROBE FLT. 587: AA PILOTS
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA group of American Airlines pilots wants the federal government to reopen its probe of the 2001 crash of Flight 587 in the Rockaways, saying newly discovered problems with Airbus...
DOORMEN WALKOUT 'HINGES' ON RAISES
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amApartment doormen and maintenance workers are set to strike Thursday at midnight if they can't get their piece of the city's real-estate pie in contract talks with building managers -...
OPUS DEI BREAKS A 'CODE' OF SILENCE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe controversial Catholic group Opus Dei has broken with its secretive ways to deny that several Washington powerbrokers are part of the mysterious organization as it gears up for a...
BABY SHOT DEAD - VAN HIT BY STRAY BULLET IN BRONX
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA 2 1/2-year-old tot, riding with his family to an Easter dinner in The Bronx, was killed when a thug opened fire on a busy street and a bullet hit...
BABY SHOT DEAD - STRAY-BULLET TRAGEDY
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amAn 18-month-old baby riding with his family to an Easter Sunday dinner in The Bronx was killed when two thugs opened fire on a busy street and a stray bullet...
ELIOT MAY BACK ANDY TO WOO HILL & CHUCK
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amLEADING state Democrats say Eliot Spitzer may endorse Andrew Cuomo next month for attorney general - because he wants Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chuck Schumer to endorse him for...
DRAWING FROM THE TRAGEDY - 9/11 COMMISSION COMIC
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amIt's a giant leap from "Jughead" to "The 9/11 Report." But that didn't stop a pair of veteran comic artists from bridging the gap - turning the dense, painful breakdown...
MAFIA COP RAPED ME, GAL SAYS - DRUG-BUST WIFE'S SHOCKING CLAIM
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amMob cop Stephen Caracappa was not only a murderous Mafia mole when he wore an NYPD badge - he also was a rapist, according to a bombshell charge. "That man...
RUDY'S TRIP TO IOWA MAY BE BOUNTIFUL
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amRudy Giuliani will be hailed as a hero next month for his handling of the crisis created by 9/11 when he makes his first visit to the presidential primary stomping...
SPOUSE-LOUSE MEDI-SCAMMERS SNARED
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amCity officials have hunted down 2,000 wealthy residents who illegally stuck taxpayers with more than $11 million of their sick spouses' medical bills, The Post has learned. The city Human...
BENCH BRAWL - JUDGE'S EX CLAIMS SHE STOPS SONS' VISITS
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island judge is finding herself on the other side of the bench - for allegedly interfering with her ex's visitation rights involving their two sons, according to legal...
STRIKE TAB IS NEXT FOR TWU
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn judge is expected to present the Transport Workers Union and its president, Roger Toussaint, today with the bill for December's illegal strike. The TWU faces a $3 million...
FDNY 'RUNG' ALARM - LADDER SCARE AT FIRE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe aerial ladder for FDNY Co. 19 malfunctioned at a raging Bronx blaze - almost a month after the firefighters union complained to the commissioner about the rig's repeated mechanical...
UNPAID FINES A $150M KICK IN THE ARREARS
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amEveryone from KeySpan to Sean "Diddy" Combs' record company have run up tens of millions of dollars in unpaid summonses for sanitation and street-digging violations because of "systemic problems" in...
HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU - NYPD CAMS DEBUT
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amHere's a look at one of the first Big Apple neighborhoods being protected by the NYPD's new, crime-fighting surveillance cameras. The NYPD last week installed closed-circuit cameras atop lampposts along...
LOCAL 1199 FOR PERKINS
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe powerful health-care union Local 1199 is endorsing former City Councilman Bill Perkins against C. Virginia Fields in the race for a Harlem state Senate seat. It's a boost for...
A PAPER CLIP IS HIS 'TRADE'MARK - BARTERING ALL THE WAY UP TO A HOUSE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amReal-estate prices keep going up, but that doesn't bother Kyle MacDonald - who hopes to land a house for the price of a single paper clip. Before you call in...
FEDS FINALLY ABOARD 2ND AVENUE $UBWAY
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The feds have green-lighted the long-awaited Second Avenue subway, The Post has learned. The Federal Transit Administration plans to announce today that the massive project's first $5 billion...
GUESSING GAME - NO WAY TO KNOW NETS' PLAYOFF FOE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amWell, at least the Nets know their first-round playoff opponent won't be the Knicks. But after that, it could be almost anybody. Entering last night's home game against the Celtics,...
BROTHER'S KEEPER - HERB BROWN DEFENDS AILING SIBLING LARRY
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Hawks assistant coach Herb Brown came strongly to the defense of his younger brother, Larry Brown, in the Knicks coach's escalating war with Stephon Marbury. Larry...
BERNIE HAS EARLY ENCORE IN CENTER
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Bernie Williams knew he would play center field again this year. But he didn't expect a return to his old position just a dozen games into...
FOR NETS, 50 WOULD BE NIFTY
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amNET NOTES Now they didn't want to risk exhaustion, injury or late tax returns to get it - and some claim it doesn't matter (wink, wink) - but the Nets...
FEAR THE DEVILS - ONE STEP CLOSER TO DIVISION AFTER 10TH STRAIGHT WIN
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amDevils 5 - Flyers 1 Pull off this miracle and foes should tremble. The Devils would be back in the legend-making business they've been so good at for 12 years....
BEN: KNICKS 'CURSED'
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Piston center Ben Wallace called the Knicks' destruction "the gift of the curse," saying the makeup of the team is all wrong. "They got a...
GOMEZ & CO. PLAYOFF-READY
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amISN'T it ironic, as Alanis Morissette is believed to have once asked Mike Peluso, that a Devils' team dedicated to eliminating even the theory of open ice will enter the...
HEILMAN FORGETS ABOUT IT
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe moment Aaron Heilman shut the clubhouse door Friday night, he also closed the door on his four-batter, no-out near victory-killing performance. After reflecting on what he did wrong, he...
BELTRAN WON'T RUSH BACK
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Even if yesterday's game came in the middle of a playoff series, Carlos Beltran didn't think he would've played. Beltran, who strained his right hamstring on Saturday, missed...
IT'S LAST CALL FOR RANGERS' DREAM
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amAnd so, granted a reprieve by Governor Lou Lamoriello at the figurative 11:59 p.m., the Rangers are going to get one more chance to earn a pardon, one more chance...
'PLAYOFF' TIME FOR ISLES
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amISLES at PENS - Tonight - 7:30 FSN; WBBR (1130 AM) It may be Game 81 of a lost season against a last-place opponent, but tonight's match at the Igloo...
NOTHING WANG - STANDS TALL ON HILL AS YANKS AVOID SWEEP
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 9 - Twins 3 MINNEAPOLIS - In the aftermath of Saturday's gut-wrenching defeat, the Yankees needed a smooth, gate-to-wire victory yesterday - not only to rinse the putrid taste...
NOTHING WANG - STANDS TALL ON HILL AS YANKS' BATS WAKE UP
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 9 - Twins 3 MINNEAPOLIS - It was said in the form of a question, but really was a statement that summed up the Yankees' mindset. "How big was...
RODRIGUEZ HAS RIPKEN'S NUMBER
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Alex Rodriguez planned on making an international call last night from Toronto to Baltimore after swatting his 432nd homer to pass Cal Ripken and move into...
PISTONS OWNER REFUSES TO DISS BROWN
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Pistons owner Bill Davidson smiled broadly and said "no comment" when asked about Larry Brown not showing up at The Palace for yesterday's match....
FEEL-GOOD 'W' - RATNER DREAMING OF TITLE AFTER NETS' LATEST TRIUMPH
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amNets 95 - Celtics 93 Easter night with a starting time pushed back 30 minutes. The Celtics have been eliminated from the playoffs and the Nets are playing with virtually...
MCINNIS' SEASON IS OVER
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amNET NOTES Jeff McInnis already has called this "the hardest year of my life." Now, it's gotten even harder. But McInnis last night turned into Mr. Mum when asked about...
UNFAZED JULIO MOPS UP
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amAs Jorge Julio lumbered in from the right field bullpen to start the ninth, what was left of the 38,119 fans at Shea showed no mercy. They ignored the scoreboards...
SHEA'S BUNCH OF BREWSERS - 9-2 METS ROLLING AS BRAVES HIT TOWN
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amMets 9 - Brewers 3 Several superstars the Mets recently imported were Mo Vaughn-sized busts. That's a huge reason why they haven't won a division title since 1988. That might...
MR. NEW YORK - SNY STAYS TRUE TO ITS WORD; JUST ASK DEREK
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amJUST before SportsNet NY's launch last month, its execs insisted that just because SNY would be a Mets' network it would, on behalf of all New York sports fans, pay...
'LAWYER,' 'MINISTER' ROSE TO OCCASION
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amCan't say the results of Saturday's two hallmark prep races for the May 6 Kentucky Derby - the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park...
BOLD BANNISTER IS A BREATHTAKING BOOST
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amBIND Brian Bannister. Gag him. Lock him in the same trunk with Jorge Julio (added dead weight) and drop him 25 miles off the North Shore. Two hours and 112...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 17, 2006 | 4:00amOhio firefighters dousing a blaze in a new home were confused when the owner suddenly left the scene. "It seemed so strange to me. If it were my home burning,...