June 28, 2008
MODEL SUICIDE
A stunning supermodel leaped from her swank downtown apartment to her death today in an apparent suicide, officials said.Korshunova Photo GalleryCandid Photos Of Ruslana Korshunova Ruslana Korshunova, 20, whose face...
REVENGE OF THE BAD OLD DAYS
Does it feel some days as if New York-- wealthy, successful, seemingly at the top of the world -- is slipping back into the bad old days of crime, noise,...
German Underdogs? Don't Tell Spain
APGermany is one of soccerâs biggest winners, Spain one of its main underachievers.They meet Sunday for the European Championship with a twist: Spain is favored. Oh, most of the Spaniards...
Rain halts game in sixth
A steady sprinkle at Shea Stadium suddenly turned into a deluge, causing the game to be suspended at 6:18 p.m. Since then, the rain has gotten worse and lightning flashed...
INJURY COULD LINGER FOR MATSUI
Hideki Matsui had his injured left knee drained on Friday - the second such procedure in 10 days - and the Yankees are keeping their fingers crossed hell return on...
Easley a late replacement
The Mets listed Luis Castillo (pictured) as the starting second baseman in their official lineup to the media today, then Jerry Manuel reversed course just before the first pitch and...
Rain threat prompted delay
The start of today's game between the Yankees and Mets was delayed nearly 30 minutes by the threat of rain.
GOV. PATERSON EYE SURGERY SUCCESSFUL
Gov. Paterson underwent successful eye surgery at Mt. Sinai Medical Center today for the third time in five weeks - but it won't interfere with plans to be the first...
SHOTS OUTSIDE CELEB DINER
Gunfire erupted early this morning outside a downtown burger joint frequented by celebrities like Willem Dafoe and Colin Farrell. An argument broke out between two groups of people at about...
Manuel: Spot starter en route
Thanks to Friday's doubleheader, Jerry Manuel said today that the Mets will call up a pitcher from Triple-A New Orleans or have GM Omar Minaya (pictured) acquire one this weekend...
NEW TARNISH MARS BADGE
The probe of Queens narcotics officers accused of wrongful arrests is another black mark on an NYPD bureau already seriously tarnished. The latest flap to hit the Organized Crime Control...
Game 80: Yankees at Mets
The lineups are set for the third game of the Subway Series this afternoon as Johan Santana takes on the Yankees and Andy Pettitte at Shea Stadium. Santana already has...
Alou might return soon
Moises Alouâs strained left calf has improved to the point where the 41-year-old left fielder (pictured) could come off the DL as soon as next weekend in Philadelphia, Jerry Manuel...
Church definitely back Sunday
Right fielder Ryan Church, out since June 6 due to post-concussion syndrome, is certain to come off the DL for Sunday's finale of the Subway Series, Jerry Manuel said today....
Coverage in today's Post
The Yankees and Mets started in the afternoon and played late into the night Friday while splitting a rare two-park doubleheader. The Amazin's took Game 1 at Yankee Stadium behind...
Euros Had Something for Everyone
APGermany against Spain in the European Championship final might sound like a predictable end to a run-of-the mill tournament.Not at all.This could easily have been Turkey vs. Russia for the...
DVD Extra: Stooges, Popeye Redux, And Watch Out With Those Scissors!
DVDs have been coming in faster than I can open, much less, review them, so I'm playing catch up with an entry that would bring a smile to Officer Joe...
Euro Ratings Skyrocket
As we head into Sunday's final between Germany and Spain at Euro '08, ratings for the tournament have soared with each passing week.The Spain-Italy quarterfinal shown on ESPN last Sunday...
Box Office: Supersize Weekend Grosses For 'WALL-E,' Angelina
"WALL-E'' is looking at a $66 million weekend based on early Friday numbers, predicts Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls. That would make it Pixar's No. 3 all time opening, behind...
CLEANING UP I-MESS: A RECORD OF RACIAL ERRS
THE ISSUE: Criticism over a racial remark Don Imus recently made on his radio program. Don Imus is trying to explain yet another racially insensitive remark ("Imus: I'm Anti- Racist,"...
WORKERS THE US NEEDS
PALO ALTO, CALIF. FIFTY years ago, Jack Kilby, who grew up in Great Bend, Kan., took his electrical-engineering knowledge to Texas Instruments - where he helped invent the modern world....
DODD SHRUGS AT FED VACANCIES
FEDERAL Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has appealed to Senate Democratic leaders to confirm Pres ident Bush's long-pending nominations to fill two empty chairs as Fed governors, enabling a fully staffed...
A GOP THEY'LL BUY AT SAM'S CLUB
WHITE working-class voters typically aren't in vogue, with the political chatter tending to revolve around "soccer moms," the "youth vote" or other boutique demographic groups of the moment. But the...
LIARS' ROUND-UP
THE facts about your security are being torn to shreds by activist liars. And they think that you're too stupid to know the difference. Let's lay out the worst current...
DIPLO BLUSTERS: NY CAN'T MAKE THUG SERB TIME
BELGRADE, Serbia - The brutish Serbian basketball player on the lam in his homeland for beating a Brooklyn college student within an inch of his life will never be extradited...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 725; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 3714; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Fri: 753; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 9420;...
BODY LANGUAGE OK, BELIEVE IT OR NOD
They like each other - for the most part, anyway. That was the verdict from a body-language expert who studied every last kiss, hug, hand gesture and even eye blink...
HILL, O NOW BEST FRIENDS FOREVER
UNITY, NH - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton staged a public lovefest yesterday in their first joint appearance since the bitter Democratic primary ended. "I've admired her as a...
VIET JAILER SAYS MCC FOR PREZ
Former Vietnam POW John McCain received a startling endorsement yesterday - from an enemy Vietnamese jailer who kept him in captivity for five years. "If I were an American voter,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Cops yesterday released a sketch of a man they claim followed a 19-year-old woman into an elevator in a building on West 177th Street near Amsterdam Avenue shortly after...
'94 SLAY CONVICTION NIXED
A convict who had been jailed for 14 years fell from his chair yesterday after learning a Queens judge threw out his murder rap. "He fell to the floor and...
SHOCK JOCK'S FORGERY RAP
A former big-time shock jock in Pennsylvania has been working as a counterfeiter in Manhattan, prosecutors said yesterday. Bruce Bond was a middleman in a multimillion-dollar international bogus-check scheme and...
'ANTI-SEMITE' BUS-STONING
Four teenagers were arrested for throwing rocks at a school bus carrying Jewish students in Crown Heights, police said yesterday. Three girls and a boy, all 14, tossed the rocks...
FAKE COP IN HORROR RAPE: DA
A rapist posing as a cop talked his way into a Queens woman's apartment and attacked her three times, demanding she get him a beer between each assault, authorities said...
NONPROFITS: LAY OFF BUDGET AX OR LAY OFF 100S
Hundreds of employees could lose their jobs at nonprofit organizations that didn't get all the funds they were anticipating from the City Council, leaders of some of the groups warned...
WATERFALLS A 'CASH-CADE'
Tourists will turn the waterfalls into a windfall for the city, if the city's hype and math are to be believed. The local economy will get at least a $55...
MASSIVE WTC COST OVERRUNS LOOK 'GRIM'
ALBANY - New Yorkers will be told the "grim truth" Monday about new delays and cost overruns at the World Trade Center redevelopment site by Port Authority executive director Christopher...
MATERIAL GUY'S MARRIAGE PITCH
Madonna's husband is heading to New York this weekend in a last ditch effort to save their marriage. The Material Girl, who is in the Big Apple, and Guy Ritchie...
SHAMED ON 'TV TUBE'
Humiliated, shocked, mortified, betrayed, embarrassed, violated - those were the words Philip Smith used yesterday in an attempt to describe how it felt to see his wife mocking him about...
COP TEAM PROBED IN DRUG 'FRAME' SHAME
A team of NYPD narcotics cops is under investigation for arresting four men in Queens club after surveillance tapes revealed the cops never bought drugs from them, The Post has...
RUNNING CATCH
It was a hard day's night for legions of Met and Yankee fans who made the subway dash from The Bronx to Flushing to catch both ends of yesterday's rare...
'PERV' FLASHES HASIDIC GIRLS
A Brooklyn parolee was charged with sexual abuse, child endangerment and lewdness after exposing himself to three Hasidic girls and groping one of them, cops said yesterday. Constantine Kotzalides, 49,...
REVULSION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
A woman who got hepatitis B from diseased bone tissue tore into body-parts bootlegger Michael Mastromarino yesterday in Brooklyn court before the dentist-turned-ghoul was sent away for 18 to 54...
CITY HAUL AIDES: WE ARE CLEAN
Two aides to Councilman Kendall Stewart pleaded not guilty yesterday to newly expanded charges of embezzling nearly $200,000 in slush-fund money through three charities they controlled. Asquith Reid, Stewart's former...
IT'S NO SQUIRT GUN
A police checkpoint set up to stop a water-balloon fight on the last day of class at a Staten Island school wound up uncovering something a lot more dangerous than...
LI SLAVE-WAGE MAID MAN GETS 40 MOS.
Doing nothing to stop his wife's brutality toward two Indonesian housekeepers will cost Mahender Sabhnani 40 months in federal prison and a $12,500 fine, a judge ruled yesterday. Sabhnani, 51,...
TOT-ABUSE HOME GOT ACS NOD
A child-welfare caseworker apparently found nothing wrong during a visit to the Brooklyn home of a 3-year-old girl who just one week later was violently shaken into a coma by...
CLOONEY EYES ACTORS' CONTRACT
Actor, bachelor, mediator: George Clooney really can do it all. The recently single movie star on Thursday released a two-page letter positioning himself as peacemaker in the ongoing tussle between...
SYMS HOLDERS PLOTTING REVOLT
Shareholder advisers are lining up against the board of Syms, blasting the off-price retailer's move to delist its stock without shareholder approval, and noting charges that the company has understated...
WENNER DITCHING US
Jann Wenner is said to be quietly exploring a sale of celebrity magazine Us Weekly to Condé Nast and the price tag could hit $750 million. "Jann is definitely trying...
BUSCH LEAGUE DEFENSE: PUTS CEO JOB ON LINE
August A. Busch IV, the scion of the Budweiser empire, will be putting his job on the line if he fails to pull off a desperate cost-cutting maneuver to thwart...
OBAMA, ADRIFT
What does Barack Obama truly believe? Does it depend on the day of the week? True, candidates typically tack to the center after contentious primaries. But the "candidate of change"...
FAST ACTION IN ALBANY
Gov. Paterson and the Legislature responded with rare swiftness this week to avert a jailbreak of potentially nightmarish proportions. As The Post first reported last week, an April 29 Court...
BRING THE THUG BACK
Was it a rogue diplomat acting on his own - or government protection for a vicious thug? Serbia's foreign ministry tells The Post's Isabel Vincent that it's determined to find...
TOGETHERNESS JOURNEY JUST AN EGO TRIP
UNITY, NH - There's no "I" in "team," but there sure is in "unity." And "I" was on full display yesterday as Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton tried their...
DEVS MAY CHASE TUCKER
There may be a second topic in the wings when Devils GM Lou Lamoriello talks contract with Bryce Salvador and his agent today. "Maybe Lou will ask about Darcy Tucker,"...
ABREU BREAKS OUT IN GAME 2
Leave it to Bobby Abreu to lurk in somebody else's shadow. With the Yankees desperate for runs in the second Subway Series game last night at Shea Stadium, Abreu's bat...
WILD PITCHING
IT feels as if the Yankees are playing four corners with their rotation though there are way more than a few minutes left in the season. There are too many...
MOVE OVER: BASEBALL IS COMING THROUGH
CRUISING ALONG THE GRAND CONCOURSE - New York on a summer Friday, in all its glory, in all its hot, humid, steamy, clammy glory - 6:30 in the afternoon. Right...
MATSUI DL-BOUND
In a move that surprised nobody the Yankees placed designated Hideki Matsui on the 15-day DL yesterday because of a left knee that remains encased in fluid. "When he (took...
SIDNEY'S TWO GOOD
The Rangers' decision to be disciplinarians with Sidney Ponson paid considerable dividends for the Yankees last night. The portly right-hander, who has a history of rowdy behavior that has landed...
YANKEES' RELIEF CORPS STILL A PIG 'PEN
Joe Girardi came out to talk to Ross Ohlendorf when the right-hander faced Carlos Delgado in the top of the sixth inning in Game 1 yesterday. "He just told me...
A SPLIT DECISION IN SUBWAY SHOWDOWN
The contrast on the mound at Shea Stadium last night could not have been more stark. While the Yankees were stumbling upon a possible quality starter in Sidney Ponson, the...
SUBWAY SPLIT WAS AN ELECTRIC EXPERIENCE
Billy Wagner was among the Mets and Yankees experiencing a two-stadium doubleheader for the first time yesterday. The Mets' closer took time to share his thoughts on the day, as...
JETER KEEPS STREAKS ALIVE
Derek Jeter finally may have some time tonight to celebrate his 34th birthday, two days after the fact. For now, it's baseball, baseball, baseball. Yesterday's two-ballpark marathon ended with Jeter's...
AMAZIN' AFTERNOON
In the middle of a Subway Series game that appeared to be played on quaaludes, Carlos Delgado pumped a river of blue and orange adrenaline into a muggy Bronx afternoon...
ROBERTS SURGES INTO LEAD
Impatience compounds itself, just causing more, Loren Roberts says. Remarkably winless in 17 Champions tournaments this year, the Schwab Cup holder opened up yesterday intending to erase that 0-fer tomorrow....
TRIAL & RETRIBUTION
EUGENE, Ore. - Over a thousand athletes came to the U.S. Olympic track & field trials to earn a trip to Beijing and a chance at a gold medal. But...
HONDO BIG ON GIANTS
Nolasco may have pitched his way into Hondo's rotation last night as he helped the Fish snuff the Snakes to lift the earnings to 470 sanguillens. Tonight, it's an easy...
'MAKE IT' HAS SHOT AT TROT
Ray Schnittker has never won a Triple Crown race, but with a little luck he could change that tonight at Yonkers Raceway. Co-owner/trainer/driver Schnittker will guide his 3-year-old colt Make...
SPORTS SHORTS
SOCCER: Bulls ready for Chivas USA The Red Bulls will try to take down another Chivas when they return to MLS play tonight at Chivas USA, who the Red Bulls...
BIG BROWN TRAINER MOUTHS OFF AGAIN
Round up the usual suspects, and throw them under the bus. That's what Rick Dutrow Jr., the trainer of Big Brown, did yesterday during an otherwise innocuous press conference at...
JAROMIR UNLIKELY TO RETURN
It is becoming increasingly likely that Jaromir Jagr has played his last game as a Ranger, if not in the NHL. For while No. 68's agent, Pat Brisson, told The...
GALLINARI READY FOR BIG APPLE SPOTLIGHT
In wearing jersey No. 8 for Armani Jeans Milan, Knicks rookie Danilo Gallinari had a legacy to fulfill. A former Italian League point guard star, Mike D'Antoni, also wore 8...
DANILO TO THROW OUT 1ST PITCH
Knicks draft pick Danilo Gallinari will throw out the first pitch before today's Yankees-Mets game at Shea Stadium and will wear a personalized Mets' jersey. Gallinari, nicknamed the Italian Stallion,...
CASTILLO STAYS FOR 2ND SHIFT
Game 1 hero Luis Castillo doubted he'd be playing in Game 2. It made sense. Based on how he's been feeling and what his manager's been saying, Castillo's playing both...
PEDRO: I'M GETTING WORSE
Pedro Martinez basically sounded his alarm last night. Martinez not only was battered by the Yankees in the Mets' 9-0 Game 2 loss at Shea Stadium, but he hardly sounded...
PUMPED CARLOS HAS REAL BLAST
Labeled "somewhat of an enigma" yesterday by his own manager, Carlos Delgado promptly lived up to that reputation in Game 1. And how. The Mets' oft-criticized first baseman, mired in...
NETS HAPPY WITH MOVES
Size. Check. Shooting. Check. Depth and scoring. Check. Some cap relief in the future, specifically 2010. Check. The Nets are nowhere near a finished product, but in one draft night...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Talk about the runs. A German woman stealing manure to make "bombs" using stockings slipped into a slurry tank and fled the scene naked. "One [manure thief] slipped into the...
Henry said he hopes to come to MLS someday
Henry said he hopes to come to MLS someday By BRIAN LEWISWhile Thierry Henry was playing in Red Bull captain Claudio Reynaâs charity pickup game he didnât exactly promise he...
FIGMENT & IMAGINATION
WHETHER it's a claw-foot bathtub sitting in the middle of a grassy field or inflatable rubber domes larger than most downtown apartments, participants in this weekend's Figment event on Governors...
MAKING A SPLASH
LOOKING cool at the pool doesn't have to drain your savings account. In fact, some of the best swimwear out there this season is easy on the eyes and even...
ART SPREADING THE NEWS!
THESE days, everyone complains that the art world is all about big bucks. And generally, everyone's pretty much right. But a stellar outdoor art lineup this summer - largely courtesy...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY BARD IN BRIEF: Call it Shakespeare for shorties. "Daydream" is a condensed version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in which construction workers and other city folk tangle with Shakespeare's...
GOOD FELLAS
IN the opening scene of this new blue-collar comedy se ries, a careless factory worker's tie dangles too closely to a piece of machinery and he winds up being ground...
CABLE NEWS BUMP
FOX News Channel, which had lost the cable news ratings lead to CNN earlier this year, appears on the verge of recapturing its title among the viewers they care most...
'IDOL' BABY
PARIS Bennett, the pint-sized performer on Season Five of "American Idol," is pregnant. On her MySpace Street Team page, the 19-year-old said: "Well I was goin [sic] to do a...
FIT BODIES IN A FRENCH STEW
FRANCE'S Thierry Malandain is a man of many words - which isn't always a good thing to be when you're creating dances. He and his company, Ballet Biarritz, years ago...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH MIKE HEIMERDINGER
The Post's Steve Serby chatted Thursday with the new Jets offensive coordinator. Q: What would you do if one of your receivers mooned the crowd? A: (Laughs). I'd say, "Herm,...
Riding with the Mets
Some moments from inside the Mets' caravan -- complete with police escort -- when they traveled from Yankee Stadium to Shea between games of today's two-park doubleheader: