July 10, 2006
GRASSO TAPS OLD FRIENDS FOR WORK
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amOne Rolodex entry at a time, Dick Grasso is beginning his long-promised comeback. On ice since he was booted from the Big Board in 2003, Grasso said he has begun...
ESPN GIVES DVD BIZ TO WEINSTEINS
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amESPN is switching distribution partners for its DVD business by bailing on a corporate sibling in favor of a company owned by the former Miramax chiefs Bob and Harvey Weinstein....
'HOUSE HUNTERS' NO BRIGHTER WITH STAR
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amSTAR Jones Reynolds lays the clichés on thick in her stint this week as guest host of HGTV's "House Hunters." Subbing for "HH's" bubbly regular host, Suzanne Whang, Reynolds was...
THE BRITISH ARE COMING - STARS OF ORIGINAL 'OFFICE' INVADE AMERICAN WORKPLACE
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amA little bit of England will be visiting "The Office" next season. Ben Silverman, the executive producer of the hit NBC comedy, says that there will be something of a...
STARR REPORT
July 10, 2006 | 4:00am'Horsehead' talks Dan Rather, who once said that "danger is my business" (while discussing a 1999 trip to Yugoslavia during the war there), has some competition in Geraldo Rivera. On...
OH MY GOTH - 'EVERYONE ELSE' NEEDS TO GET OVER STEREOTYPES
July 10, 2006 | 4:00am"NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE" Tonight at 9 on Lifetime (one and a half stars) BACK in 1999, when the world was reeling from the slaughter of 12 teens and a...
825 CITY TEACHERS EXPELLED
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe city Education Department has issued pink slips to 825 teachers - many of them in hard-to-staff subjects like science and math - who failed to get their proper certification...
BETTER FOR DEBTOR
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amCollection agencies would face bigger fines for harassing debtors under a bill to be introduced in the City Council this week. They currently can be fined $700 to $1,000 for...
NIXZMARY 'TRIBUTE'
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amHis agency failed to protect her, and now a child welfare worker wants to make it up to Nixzmary Brown by living in the Brooklyn apartment where the 7-year-old girl...
SLIMY FAX ATTACKS ON TOUSSAINT FOE
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amTransit workers seeking to oust Roger Toussaint say that although the election is still months away, the Transport Workers Union boss is already working behind the scenes to derail their...
ZIZOU'S PARTING IMAGE NOT PRETTY
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amANALYSIS A worldwide audience of 1 billion saw Italy erase a dozen years worth of penalty kick nightmares with yesterday's World Cup win. They also saw Zinedine Zidane create his...
CUOMO TAPS CLINTON ACES
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amTwo of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's advisers have signed on with state attorney general front-runner Andrew Cuomo's campaign, officials said yesterday. Team Cuomo hired Glover Park Group strategists Gigi Georges...
RUDY PAL ON 9/11 CRUSADE; FOR 'TOXIC' VICTIMS
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amRudy Washington, the Giuliani-era deputy mayor forced to fight for medical coverage for his Ground Zero-related illnesses, is speaking out for the legions of others who share his plight, calling...
PLUNGE 'WAS NO SUICIDE'; BX. DAD BEGS PALS: TALK
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe father of a Bronx woman who died in an apartment-building plunge yesterday urged the two men she'd been with to come clean about what happened. Ramon Valentin said he...
TEENS RAPE GIRL, 11: COPS
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amTwo Queens teenagers have been arrested in the brutal rape of an 11-year-old girl, police said yesterday. Aubrey Armstrong, 17, a neighbor, allegedly grabbed the girl and dragged her to...
WAY TO GO, PAESAN! CITY ITALIANS' CUP JOY
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amFrom Bensonhurst to Belmont to Little Italy yesterday, soccer fans screamed, Forza Azzurri! Big Apple Italians went nuts when their beloved, long-suffering team beat France in a thrilling penalty-kick tiebreaker...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** A man was busted for selling bogus DVDs in Bruckner yesterday, authorities said. Vincent Cooper, 39, was attempting to sell 30 bootleg DVDs to a buyer on...
5 KILLED IN BX. CRASH HORROR; PILEUP WIPES OUT FAMILY
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amFive people - including two brothers, their uncle and their 8-year-old cousin - were killed yesterday when their car jumped the median on the Bronx River Parkway and careened into...
DETECTIVES GET 9/11 SCAN
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amFear of 9/11-related illnesses among its ranks has spurred the police detectives' union to line up medical body scans for its members - particularly those who worked at Ground Zero....
RUDY PAL ON 9/11 CRUSADE - FOR 'TOXIC' VICTIMS
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amRudy Washington, the Giuliani-era deputy mayor forced to fight for medical coverage for his Ground Zero-related illnesses, is speaking out for the legions of others who share his plight, calling...
TUNNEL RAT'S FAST LANE; QAEDA PLOTTER A SNEAKY TRAVELER
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The alleged ringleader of the plot to bomb Hudson River tunnels traveled, studied and snuggled with a girlfriend in Canada, getting around the country without a valid passport,...
5 KILLED IN BX.CRASH HORROR; FAMILY WIPEDOUT ON PKWY.
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amFive members of the same family - including an 8-year-old girl - were killed yesterday when their car jumped a median on the Bronx River Parkway and careened into on...
2 MORE ARRESTS IN BIAS ATTACK
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amTwo white youths were arrested yesterday in last month's attack on three teenage black bicyclists who wandered into a predominately white Brooklyn neighborhood. Joseph Jirovec, 18, and a 12-year-old whose...
ELECTION 'SLUR' STIR; 'ANTI-SEMITES' ROCK B'KLYN RACE
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amDO you want a white Jew to represent you in Congress? The answer to the Jewish question is a resounding "no!" on Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush - epicenter of a...
LEARN TO BE LEAN; SCHOOL 'FAT-BUSTERS'
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amA bunch of New York City school kids are on a losing streak - and they hope it will continue into the next school year. What they're losing is weight....
YANKS LIMP INTO ALL-STAR BREAK; FOUR-GAME STREAK GOES TO DEVIL
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amDevil Rays 6Yankees 5 ST. PETERSBURG - Championship teams don't flush five-run leads. Then again, champs don't have Kris Wilson as their fifth starter; they execute bunts and have cleanup...
ACTORS CAST OFF; AGENCY LEAVES PIX, INFO OUT ON STREET
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amHundreds of pictures of New York's hottest men and women - along with their names, addresses, phone numbers and body measurements - were discovered on an Upper East Side street....
SYNAGOGUE SECURITY GETS $HAFT
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Synagogues and community centers that want to harden facilities against terror attacks can't get help from the feds because stingy homeland officials won't unlock the funds Congress told...
I'LL STICK BY JOE: SHELLY
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - A top New York Democrat is refusing to join Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in pledging to abandon Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman if he loses the primary to an...
ELIOT'S CHEST SWELLS; $15M IN 6 MONTHS
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amDEMOCRATIC gubernatorial front-runner Eliot Spitzer has been raising campaign cash at a near-record pace, hauling in some $15 million during the past six months, a source close to Spitzer told...
LAW SITE LIGHTS UP SILVER 'TARNISH'; POL'S FIRM SOLICITS TO SUE STATE PARKS
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - The personal-injury law firm at which Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver practices is aggressively shopping for clients injured at state-run facilities, The Post has learned. A section of the...
HOOKER HELL; NEIGHBOR FURY AS KITCHEN GETS TOO HOT
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amNewcomers to Hell's Kitchen, who pay top dollar to live in the hot neighborhood, are having a devil of a time dealing with a resurgence in some of the area's...
MASS. EXTINCTION; MCCAIN TIES HILL ON DEM TURF
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amA shocking new poll in the super-Democratic state of Massachusetts shows Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could be in trouble there if she faces Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential...
POL WARNING FOR CHINA
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - China needs to step up and start leaning on its ally North Korea over the regime's brazen missile tests - or its relationship with the United States could...
'PIRATES' SAIL OFF WITH A RECORD $132M
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amJohnny Depp and his band of buccaneers plundered weekend box offices for $132 million - the largest opening-weekend take for a movie in Hollywood history, according to industry estimates yesterday....
AID-FOR-THREAT BILL VOTE TODAY
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amA bill that would dole out federal Homeland Security funds based on threats - and add $300 million for transit security - hits the Senate floor today. U.S. Sen. Charles...
COP SHOOTS 'CARJACKER' IN BRONX
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx man was shot in the head by an off-duty cop he tried to carjack, then staggered several blocks before he was caught, police said. Daniel Arroyo, 22, pointed...
KILL, DON'T CAPTURE - HOW TO SOLVE OUR PRISONER PROBLEM
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amT HE British military defines experience as the ability to recognize a mistake the second time you make it. By that standard, we should be very experienced in dealing with...
THE 5TH ANNUAL LIBERTY MEDAL AWARDS - SALUTE OUR CITY'S BEST
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amNew York is blessed with guardian angels whose helping hands reach out across the city - and The Post again is inviting readers to help us find and honor these...
DAD: PLUNGE GAL DIDN'T JUMP
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe father of a Bronx woman who died in a plunge from an apartment building rooftop was having trouble yesterday coming to grips with accounts of his daughter's death. Ramon...
RUDY BUDDY STANDS UP FOR OTHER 9/11 STRICKEN
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amRudy Washington, the Giuliani-era deputy mayor forced to fight for medical coverage for his Ground Zero-related illnesses, is speaking out for the legions of others who share his plight, calling...
MEET THE NEW 'JEWISH LAW' - WILL BE FINEST'S 1ST HASIDIC COP
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe NYPD has recruited an unorthodox new officer - its first Hasidic cop. Joel Witriol, 24, of Brooklyn starts at the Police Academy today. "I realized there were so many...
5 DEAD IN BX. CRASH - PARKWAY PILEUP
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amA horrific four-car smashup - which began when a vehicle jumped the median and careened into oncoming traffic on the Bronx River Parkway - left five people dead yesterday, including...
MARLIN PITCHER GETS HIT IN DUGOUT, TOO
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe Mets hit Marlins starter Scott Olsen hard in the fifth inning yesterday. When he returned to the dugout, he was hit just as hard by teammate Miguel Cabrera. Olsen...
WINGIN' TO BROADWAY ; SHANAHAN 'EXCITED' TO BE A RANGER
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amHe saw the writing on the wall, and Brendan Shanahan knew it was time for a change. "It's been a great 10 years in Detroit," Shanahan said yesterday during a...
AFTER MARKET WINS LEXINGTON
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amBill Mott's budding grass star After Market (by Storm Cat), 4-5 favorite in field of five 3-year-olds going mile-and-eighth on turf in Grade 3, $100,000 Lexington, was in hand while...
FAMILY'S FRIGHT HAS POSADA RATTLED
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Thursday night, Joe Torre asked Jorge Posada to pick one of three weekend games against the Devil Rays to sit out. Posada picked yesterday's finale. After the...
TIME OFF JUST WHAT A-ROD NEEDS
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - With Alex Rodriguez's swing long again and his bat frigid, the All-Star Game couldn't come at a better time for the Yankees cleanup hitter. "The...
YANKS LIMP INTO ALL-STAR BREAK; FOUR-GAME STREAK GOES TO DEVIL (RAYS)
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amDevil Rays 6Yankees 5 ST. PETERSBURG - Championship teams don't flush five-run leads. Then again, champs don't have Kris Wilson as their fifth starter; they execute bunts and have cleanup...
LINCICOME STOPS INKSTER IN FINAL
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amGLADSTONE, N.J. - In the end, it was the girl who beat Michelle Wie against the lady who had knocked out Annika Sorenstam. Better known for whom they had eliminated...
LIBERTY LOSS EXTRA PAINFUL
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amOVERTIMEMercury 94Liberty 88 Pat Coyle called herself "a pretty positive person." That attitude has certainly been challenged this season, and yesterday was another test. While the Liberty played better than...
MARBURY: ISIAH'S MY MAN
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - Stephon Marbury revealed a little secret upon his arrival in Las Vegas to hang out with the Knicks' summer-league team. Marbury said he's wanted Isiah Thomas to...
REYES, GLAVINE TO SIT ALL-STAR GAME
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Neither Jose Reyes nor Tom Glavine will see action in tomorrow's All-Star Game. Reyes, who has not started a game since Friday due to a cut on his...
HUGHES EYES BRIGHT FUTURE
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - Think of the future, Yankees fans. Think of Philip Hughes. Hughes took his first steps on the big stage yesterday, and stumbled a bit, allowing three runs on...
WAGS WOULD MORTGAGE FUTURE, BUT WILL OSCAR?
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amBILLY WAGNER turns 35 in two weeks and the Mets have a 12-game lead in the NL East. These are the pertinent numbers in the closer's baseball life. The short...
METS' BIG THREE DELIVER YET AGAIN
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amMETS 7 MARLINS 6 It was surely appropriate to see the three players who scored on the Mets' game-turning hit yesterday. First Jose Reyes. Then Carlos Beltran. Then David Wright....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 10, 2006 | 4:00amParty hearty, guys. Just don't rape or pillage. Mongolians will flood the streets today to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Genghis Khan's rise to power. President Nambaryn Enkhbayar urged temperance....