September 4, 2006
DANA GOES INDIE - RETAIL ANALYST QUITS STREET FOR SOLO GIG
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amOver the course of two decades, research analyst Dana Telsey, who until recently was a senior managing director at Bear Stearns, has become a fixture in the retail world. Whether...
'DAILY SHOW' ADDITION
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amCOMIC Rob Riggle has been hired as the new correspondent on "The Daily Show," according to reports. Riggle - who had short stints on "Saturday Night Live" and on "The...
STOP IT, ROSIE - DEN HEN BARBARA WANTS NEW 'VIEWER' TO KNOCK OFF BLOG
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amBARBARA Walters wants Rosie O'Donnell to stop blogging about "The View." "I didn't like the blog," Walters told Newsweek magazine this week. "I'm counting on Rosie's intelligence and sensitivity and...
VMA DOWN AGAIN
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amMTV's Video Music Awards - still one of the biggest draw's of the year on cable TV - is losing its luster. Last week's award show from Radio City Music...
TOGA-WEARING ALIENS
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amRUMORS were flying over the weekend about a new HBO project - a sort of mash-up between "Rome" and "E.T." Word is that the paycable network is developing a news...
GROUND ZERO SUIT ADDS 1,000 ILL WORKERS
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amAnother 1,000 sick Ground Zero workers will join a class-action suit claiming that city negligence caused them to breathe toxic air at the World Trade Center site. "There's never been...
CITY OT CHAMP IS THREE-TIME WINNER
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amIf the city ever crowns an overtime king, the title would have to go to Pablo Martinez. A senior systems analyst at the Board of Elections, Martinez pulled in $116,123...
GOP SUFFERS ALIEN JITTERS
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans could lose control of Congress if they fail to pass a stalled immigration bill this fall, Sen. Arlen Specter warned. Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Specter (R-Pa.),...
AL QAEDA IN IRAQ'S NO. 2 IS CAPTURED
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe second-in-command of al Qaeda in Iraq has been captured, officials announced yesterday - ending the terror career of the Samarra shrine bomb mastermind, whose diabolical attack triggered a wave...
NEW SHOCKS IN LIZA'S DIVORCE - SHE SAYS: HE TRIED TO POISON ME HE SAYS: SHE HID HER SEX DISEASE
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe Liza Minnelli-David Gest court clash has gone from nasty to nuclear, with Minnelli accusing her estranged hubby of having tried to "poison" her and Gest charging that his marriage...
FROM CALIF. KID TO TERROR MASTER'S CRONY
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amAl Qaeda's latest poster child is a California farm boy with roots in heavy metal and fundamentalist Christianity. "Azzam the American," a k a Adam Yahiye Gadahn, had already earned...
SPITZER 'TSUNAMI' - RECORD BLOWOUT PREDICTED
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amRUNAWAY gubernatorial leader Eliot Spitzer is heading for the biggest electoral victory in New York's history, with a record-shattering 70 percent-plus of the November vote, Republican and Democratic strategists agree....
OLMERT SOUGHT PEACE TALKS WITH LEB
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday that he has made numerous overtures to Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to talk peace - but all have failed. Siniora's...
L.I. HEATHER NOW PAUL'S GAL NEXT DOOR - PAYS 80G TO BE NEAR KID
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amIt looks as if bounced Beatles bride Heather Mills McCartney is following a long and winding - and very expensive - road to see her child. Mills, who usually calls...
SCENT-SATION
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe smell of perfume wafted along East 66th Street yesterday when a taxi smashed through a pharmacy's cosmetics display case after skidding on an oil slick from an earlier accident...
WIDOW'S PIQUE - LAWYER RIPS DOC'S KIDS AS $$ HUNGRY
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe lawyer for the so-called "Black Widow," whose stepchildren claim she killed their famed doctor dad, said yesterday they're motivated by greed, and predicted they'll lose their $5 million lawsuit....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A 41-year-old woman was discovered with her throat slashed in her Brooklyn apartment yesterday, police said. Police, responding to a 911 call of an unconscious woman in a...
WTC'S FAMED FLAG MISSING - OWNERS SAY FAKE SWAPPED FOR U.S. ICON
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe historic flag raised by three firefighters at Ground Zero on 9/11 has vanished, and the city has launched a probe into its disappearance. The famed 4-by-6-foot flag is a...
BLAZE KILLS N.Y. FAMILY IN GUYANA
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn mother and her five young children, who were spending a year in Guyana to save up money for a house, died in an electrical fire there, the family...
ELDER ABUSE SHAME - NURSING-HOME HORRORS
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amDozens of city nursing homes are houses of horrors - where residents die from shoddy care, women are sexually abused, and lax security endangers dementia sufferers who wander away, a...
CHUCK GAVE LIEBERMAN COLD $HOULDER
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Schumer, who controls a $35 million Democratic election fund, didn't give a dime to help Sen. Joe Lieberman (left) fight back against anti-war challenger Ned Lamont,...
THREE TEENS NABBED IN FATAL MUGGING ON S.I.
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amCops yesterday busted three teens a day after they allegedly killed a hardworking immigrant on Staten Island with a single punch. Ricardo Salinas, 33, was walking near his Van Pelt...
BIAS-FIRE SUIT VS. QUEENS HOSPITAL
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amA former paramedic says he got some bad treatment when he was abruptly fired from the hospital he worked at for more than a decade - and is suing for...
COLLEGE PHONE PLAN AN EASY 'CELL'
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amWhile city public schools are ramping up rules against cellphones in class, one city college is actually encouraging its student body to check their phones more often. Baruch College students...
AGE-OLD HORROR - NURSING HOMES' SHAMEFUL ABUSE
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amDozens of city nursing homes are houses of horrors - where residents die from shoddy care, women are sexually abused, and lax security endangers dementia sufferers who wander off the...
UNSEEDED SERENA STILL MAJOR THREAT
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amJust for the record, Serena Williams doesn't think of herself as an unseeded player or did she view her 6-2, 6-4 U.S. Open demolition of Ana Ivanovic last night as...
AGASSI-YA - ANDRE BIDS ADIEU AFTER LOSS
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, which finally reached capacity by the fourth and final set, implored Andre Agassi to rekindle the magic that had propelled him into the third...
GIANTS PSYCHED FOR MANNING BOWL
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amIf there is anyone Eli Manning can turn to for advice about preparing to face a blood brother on the football field, it is Tiki Barber. After all, Barber and...
NO QUIT IN AGASSI TRAINER: ANDRE HAD 'NOTHING LEFT'
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amIt didn't take Gil Reyes long to realize the body that he has spent so much time trying to keep pieced together was falling apart. "Right away I could tell,"...
BECKER NOW FOOTNOTE TO TENNIS HISTORY
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK Before yesterday, Benjamin Becker was little more than a former NCAA champ at Baylor, and a player whose name brought back memories of fellow German Boris Becker. Now, Benjamin...
ECHOES OF OVATION TO LAST FOREVER
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amTWENTY-ONE years Andre Agassi played at U.S. Opens and, even after two epic wins in this final one, it was over just like that. Benjamin Becker, playing in only his...
NOW, BECKER GETS RODDICK
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amAndy Roddick's hands are full; his racquet in one and a share of the U.S. Men's torch now officially handed down to him and James Blake in the other. Before...
A-ROD ON THE REBOUND
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN Alex Rodriguez struck out six times in 10 at-bats in Anaheim last weekend despite conversing with John Wooden prior to the Saturday game, it was the greatest reminder since...
MRI NEXT FOR BELTRAN
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES HOUSTON - Carlos Beltran is scheduled for an MRI, which manager Willie Randolph frankly dismissed as "a waste of time," on his left knee today in New York....
A-NOTHER BIG DAY FOR ALEX - RODRIGUEZ GOES DEEP TWICE IN FEEL-GOOD WIN
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 10 - Twins 1 Wearing a neatly pressed suit, even the Captain, Derek Jeter, admitted the Yankees' September circumstances are suddenly ideal. Alex Rodriguez has found his swing in...
WIZARDOF OS NEAR PERFECT - OSWALT STIFLES AMAZIN'S IN HOUSTON
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amAstros 2 - Mets 1 HOUSTON - For inning after inning, Roy Oswalt and Orlando Hernandez matched zeroes in the type of pitching duel the Mets DON'T want to see...
PETER POSTFIGHT PULLS NO PUNCHES
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - About the only rational people in the aftermath of Samuel Peter's controversial win over James Toney Saturday night in Los Angeles were the boxers. Promoters exchanged heated...
NFL DY-NASTY - ANDRE DYSON HAS FOLLOWED HIS BROTHER KEVIN'S ROAD TO SUCCESS
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amListen to Kevin Dyson talk about his younger brother Andre and what you hear in his voice is a father talking about his son. "Man, I am like a proud...
'ZOPHIE' TAKES SPINAWAY STAKES
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - On paper, Grade 1, $250,000 Spinaway for field of eight 2-year-old fillies going seven furlongs looked wide open; Appealing Zophie, Shaun Bridgmohan up, turned it into one-horse...
MAKING HORSE SENSE OF ANOTHER SPA MEET
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - There's hardly a hint of yellow or orange in the trees ringing this historic race course, as is usually the case this time of year, but the...
DARRELL DELIVERS AT HOME
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe only time Yankees starting pitcher Darrell Rasner showed any emotion yesterday came in the sixth inning when Robinson Cano leaped to catch a line drive off Nick Punto's bat...
MO WILL THROW IN K.C.
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Although GM Brian Cashman chose to keep the exact day top secret, Mariano Rivera will throw a bullpen session in Kansas City to test if his three days...
HILTON, MOORE CLAIMED OFF WAIVERS
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets yesterday claimed tight end Zachary Hilton off waivers from the Saints and defensive lineman Rashad Moore from the Raiders. To make room for those players on...
CAMPBELL EYEING HIS 6TH CANE WIN
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amHall of Famer John Campbell looks to win a record sixth Cane Pace this afternoon at Freehold Raceway, but if he is to notch his 30th triple crown victory, the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amRescuers in Appleton, Wis., will now be able to save Fido and Fluffy, along with the burning house. Six firetrucks and 13 ambulances will be equipped with oxygen masks designed...