September 16, 2009
Delgado comeback on hold
ATLANTA -- The possible Carlos Delgado comeback for the final two weeks of the season that Jerry Manuel mentioned last week appears to be off again. Delgado took 40 swings...
The Butler Did It: Brooklyn teen signs with Bulls
He left his home and left his friends behind in his native Tbilisi, Georgia and traveled more than five thousand miles to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn with a singular dream in...
Mets raising prices in 2010?
ATLANTA -- The Mets remained suspiciously coy today when asked if they plan to raise ticket prices at Citi Field for the 2010 season.The club would only release a statement...
The Butler Did It
He left his home and left his friends behind in his native Tbilisi, Georgia and traveled more than five thousand miles to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn with a singular dream in...
Cowboys' Romo '100 percent' for Sunday
IRVING, Texas -- Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and running back Felix Jones practiced Wednesday without any lingering problems from injuries sustained in the opener. Romo sprained his right ankle during...
Blue Jays at Yankees
One night after a bench-clearing brawl, the Yankees and Blue Jays play again at the Stadium. FOLLOW GAME HERE
Mets at Braves
The Mets take on the Braves again at Turner Field. FOLLOW GAME HERE
I'm sor-sorr-sorry! Celebs now apologize in stages
A congressman flouts decorum and heckles a president in the House chamber. A tennis player profanely offers to shove a tennis ball down the throat of a line judge. A...
Burt Reynolds enters rehab
Actor Burt Reynolds has checked himself into a rehab facility in West Palm Beach to be treated for an addiction to painkillers. Reynolds' manager Erik Kritzer said in a statement...
Marchesa
It's time for a change. Early in their company's history, Marchesa designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig did runway shows when their collection was not ready for it and repeatedly...
Posada suspended 3 games
Yankees catcher Jorge Posada and Toronto pitcher Jesse Carlson were suspended for three games each and fined Wednesday by Major League Baseball for their roles in a bench-clearing brawl. The...
Spotted: Leighton Meester
Spotted: Front row at the 3.1 Phillip Lim show, Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester. She smacked away loudly at her gum (we could hear from the 7th row--across the runway!).Looks like...
NY man charged with abusing, abandoning baby
MONTICELLO, N.Y. -- A 27-year-old man is accused of sexually abusing his 7-month-old daughter and leaving her to die in the woods before claiming she had been abducted. A Sullivan...
FBI storms Qns. Qaeda 'suspect' home
A team of federal agents stormed the Colorado home of a suspected terrorist bomb-maker this afternoon and brought out several duffel bags marked evidence. The surprise raid came hours after...
Return of the OC 'Real Housewives'
Goodbye Atlanta, hello Orange County?Because Bravo never wants their viewers to go a minute without one of its groups of "Real Housewives," the ladies of Orange County are already ripe...
Suit: Yankees discriminated against elderly workers
They were fine for the House That Ruth Built, but 13 laid-off waiters claim they were out before the first ball was ever thrown out at the new Yankee Stadium,...
Would Mets go after Zambrano?
One of the Mets’ glaring offseason needs is to find a No. 2 starter behind Johan Santana.Mike Pelfrey isn’t ready, Oliver Perez isn’t (fill in your own verb, there’s plenty...
Tory Burch
Tory Burch is getting closer and closer to putting on a formal fashion show. This season, she even made it into the tents at Bryant Park, but for a presentation....
Boyle's first 'live' performance pre-taped
Turns out Susan Boyle's first "live" American performance was taped a day early. NBC has confirmed that Boyle's "America's Got Talent" appearance tonight -- when she'll sing her smooth version...
Game 146: Mets at Braves
ATLANTA -- This could be struggling right-hander Bobby Parnell's final turn in the rotation here tonight when he takes on the Braves in the second game of a three-game set...
Jets, Mangini, Tannenbaum all fined over Favre flap
The NFL assessed $125,000 in fines to the Jets and former coach Eric Mangini on Wednesday for violating the league’s rules on injury reporting with former quarterback Brett Favre last...
MTA OKs deal for new chief
The MTA’s board today approved by a slim margin a potentially sweetheart severance package for its new chief. Jay Walder, a former consultant and executive at Transport for London, will...
Cowboys loving life without T.O.
Tony Romo was spreading the ball over the field last Sunday, and to think, he didn’t even have to be berated by his top receiver for doing it. Romo completed...
Michael Kors
No wonder Michael Kors was posting about his nerves on Facebook -- spring is a bit of a departure for this designer. Off on a furistic jag, this one is,...
Cowboys expect 100,000 fans Sunday
ARLINGTON, Texas -- The new Cowboys Stadium may have a record-setting full house this Sunday night. Cowboys spokesman Brett Daniels says the team’s standing-room “Party Pass” tickets, at $29 apiece,...
3 hurt in Qns. home invasion
Three people were hurt in a frightening home invasion robbery in Queens today — but it looks like the knife-wielding thugs never found their intended target, police said. Around 1...
Patriots don't look like favorites
The big, bad Patriots were back with Tom Brady on Monday night. Well, they were bad all right -– at least for the first 55 minutes. Brady and company rallied...
PSAL football predictions, Week 3
Every week in the fall, NYPost.com’s Zach Braziller and Marc Raimondi will attempt to prognosticate the coming PSAL football weekend in the City Championship division. RECORDS AFTER WEEK 2 Braziller:...
Pilot in Hudson crash 'on wrong radio frequency'
WASHINGTON — A federal safety official says the pilot of a plane involved in a mid-air collision over the Hudson River read back the wrong radio frequency to an air...
DeLay latest 'DWTS' victim
"No stress fracture! It is a pre-stress fracture. I live for another day," Tweets Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay after becoming the latest "Dancing With the Stars" victim to...
Patriots LB Mayo out vs. Jets
Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo probably will play again this season after hurting his right knee in the opener, but not Sunday at the Meadowlands. The Patriots did get somewhat welcome...
Devils' Elias out 3-6 weeks
Devils all-time leading scorer Patrik Elias will miss the next 3-6 weeks of action following a medical procedure Tuesday to break up scar tissue in his groin area.Elias sought an...
Patriots QB not afraid of Jets
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Tom Brady had a succinct response to all the talking Jets coach Rex Ryan has done about the Patriots and their coach. “Talk is cheap,” the Patriots...
Chris does his time for Rihanna beating
Talk about cleaning up your act. The roads in Virginia are a whole lot cleaner today -- thanks to Chris Brown. The 20-year-old R&B crooner officially began his 180 days...
Suspends programs; orders training
ALBANY – The embattled community organization ACORN abruptly suspended some programs and ordered new training for its workers this afternoon in effort to stem growing outrage over its activities. ACORN...
Rex's call for help
With the Patriots coming to town Sunday to play the Jets in their home opener at Giants Stadium, Rex Ryan has put out a plea to Jets fans to arrive...
DEALS: Lessons in Tahoe
There are no airbags in snowboarding -- and death by tree is just about as gnarly as it gets. Do yourself a favor: get yourself some lessons before tapping the powder keg...
Role model
"Anna, who?" was model Arlenis Sosa’s reaction when she was invited to meet Vogue’s legendary editor Anna Wintour a year ago. Having never ventured outside of the Dominican Republic before...
Pun also rises
In the late-’90s you couldn’t tune into a hip-hop station without hearing Big Pun spitting out rhymes. But while his reign didn’t last long — from 26 to 28 years...
Latin out loud
Delicious dishes Scan the menu at pan-Latin newcomer Agua Dulce, and you may have trouble deciding whether to veer off into Argentina and order the churrasco with chimichurri sauce ($24)...
Next stage
Tony-winner David Alvarez can sing, play classical piano, speak three languages and he doesn’t just dance ballet, he is often referred to at the next Mikhail Baryshnikov. And despite the...
'Burning' love
By his own admission, love — from the romantic to the obsessive, from the platonic to the forbidden — is a topic that intrigues internationally acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga. He...
Pedro was Mets' biggest offseason mistake
Of all the unfortunate personnel moves the Mets made this past offseason, including but not limited to:1. Paying Oliver Perez $36 million for 66 innings, 50 earned runs and 58...
Keepin' it classy at Baby Phat
If you've ever been to the Baby Phat show, you know what kind of a crowd to expect: loud, pushy, entitled. But drunk? Such was the case last night when...
Giants' injury updates
The following players appear on the Giants injury report: LB Michael Boley (hip) CB Kevin Dockery (hamstring) CB Aaron Ross (hamstring) WR Hakeem Nicks (foot) C Adam Koets (ankle) LB...
Yale tech's ex survived hell
Could he be the devil in disguise? The Yale lab tech who’s a “person of interest” in the murder of grad student Annie Le was accused in a 2003 police...
Staten Island man found dead
A man was found bludgeoned to dead early today outside on a quiet Staten Island street, police said. Authorities are treating it as a homicide. The victim, who police identified...
This week's calendar, Sept. 17 to 23
OUR PICK OF THE WEEK Friday, Sept. 18 to Sunday, Sept. 20 Pioneers of Change This is the last weekend of NY400 events on Governors Island, a celebration of the...
New train takes football fans from NY to NJ
LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- It turns out you CAN get there from here -- but it takes a while. Former Jets wide receiver Wayne Chrebet will help Metro-North Railroad kick off...
Funnyman Stewart tries to bribe LeBron to Knicks
Comedian Jon Stewart is a native New Yorker and he did his best to convince LeBron James that joining the Knicks would be in his best interest. Stewart had James,...
Coverage in The Post
ATLANTA -- The Mets didn't commit any baserunning blunders for a change in Tuesday night's 6-0 loss here to Tommy Hanson and the Braves. But all of the miscues on...
It's Thompson versus Bloomberg for mayor
Extolling supporters to chant with him that eight years is enough, Comptroller William Thompson vowed a spirited campaign to defeat incumbent Mike Bloomberg in the November general election for New...
Tatoo you
M.A.C makeup artist Chantel Miller designed the tatoo makeup at yesterday's Rodarte show. The Maori-inspired geometric designs, which were customized according to the look each model wore, took four hours...
Liu and Yassky to have runoff for Comptroller position
Queens City Councilmember John Liu and Brooklyn City Councilmember David Yassky will meet again in two weeks to determine who will be the Democratic Party nominee for the city’s top...
Incumbent gains easy victory in Flatbush Council Primary
It was an easy victory for incumbent City Councilmember Mathieu Eugene, in a three-way race in the 40th Council District. Eugene -- the first Haitian-American to win elective office in...
De Blasio and Greene in run off
Showing a surge toward the end of the campaign season, Brooklyn City Councilmember Bill de Blasio bested former City Public Advocate Mark Green in the Democratic primary for public advocate....
Despite low turnout, challenger trounces incumbent in hotly contested race
In a stunning turnaround, a political newcomer has defeated incumbent City Councilmember Kendall Stewart in the Democratic primary in the 45th Council District. Jumaane Williams, who had the backing of...
Flooded Gowanus fear haunts nabe
From a window in her home, Margaret Maugenest can see the mighty shores of the Gowanus Canal, a polluted waterway she fears could one day spit its toxic cocktail on...
Recession hits Baby Phat
Its official, the recession is real. There are no giftbags. Thank goodness the runway is still sparkly gold!
Clarke defends her Caribbean trip as above board
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke last week lashed out at published reports alleging she violated the law while recently traveling to the country of Antigua for the naming of the country’s...
Established tenants fear tides of change at Flatbush Gardens
While young, tony New Yorkers are being urged to put their roots down at one Flatbush housing complex, some of those who already live there in rent-stabilized units have begun...
Ruin of Enagement
Frida Ghitis on O's difficult choices (Sacramento Bee)
Max Azria
One guarantee at every Max Azria show: a star-studded front row filled with PYT’s. So you can imagine our surprise when Mickey Rourke rolled in and plopped down. Front and...
Betsey Johnson
It was a party girl's dream at the Plaza Hotel when Betsey Johnson took over and turned the stiff digs into a rock paradise. Right smack in the lobby ballroom,...
Baucus releases health plan bill
WASHINGTON — Sen. Max Baucus on Wednesday brought out the much-awaited Finance Committee version of an American health-system remake — a landmark $856 billion, 10-year measure that starts a rough...
The Daily Whacks, Wednesday Edition
The first Sonny Corleone joke appeared on my Twitter feed about six seconds after Jorge Posada was dragged away from last night's melee at Yankee Stadium, and I believe it...
3 Up: Joba, Tigers and Red Sox rotations
1. Chien-Ming Wang was lost for the year. Ian Kennedy is only now returning from aneurysm surgery. In the last year, Alfredo Aceves, Phil Coke and Phil Hughes all have...
Baby Phat
More than an hour before the 9 p.m. start time, fans, freaks and everyone else parked themselves outside of Roseland Ballroom for a glimpse at what life is like in...
Shut Off ACORN
John Fund says ACORN is off the rails (Wall Street Journal)
Realignment is Dead
Brent Budowsky says Dems blew it (The Hill)
Tibi
If there's one thing that Tibi designer Amy Smilovic understands, it's that girls want to put on a dress and feel like the prettiest girls in the room. And she...
Snuggie on catwalk a Fashion Week first
THERE’S a new way to get fleeced at Fashion Week. The Snuggie made its runway debut yesterday, promising snazzy style for couch potatoes everywhere. The latest in sofa chic made...
A'Jad Victory
Obama playing a weak hand (Reuters blog)Iran says no to threats (AFP)
Summer of Disrespect
Ignoring protesters is Dem's peril (New Hampshire Union Leader)
Why Dems’ David can topple Goliath Mike
The Post adds a fresh voice today with a new regular column by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Goodwin. For nearly three decades, Goodwin's pen has been a reminder to the political...
NYC Girls Soccer Rankings
1. St. Francis Prep (0-2) 2. Archbishop Molloy (1-0) 3. Mary Louis (0-0) 4. Bishop Kearney (0-0) 5. Beacon (4-0) 6. Fontbonne Hall (0-0) 7. Bronx Science (4-0) 8. Notre...
CHSAA Boys Soccer Rankings
1. Archbishop Molloy (11-1-4) 2. St. Francis Prep (10-1-3) 3. Regis (8-5-3) 4. Fordham Prep (5-4-6) 5. St. Peter's (4-2-2) 6. Xavier (5-7-2) 7. St. Joe's by the Sea (3-1-3)...
Former Cowboy Canty back to Dallas with Giants
CHRIS Canty smiles and shakes his head and insists he’s only trying to be helpful when he says, “I don’t want you to read into something that’s not really there.”...
NYC Girls Soccer Rankings
1. St. Joseph Hill (15-1-0) 2. Riverdale (17-0-2) 3. Bronx Science (15-1-0) 4. Beacon (17-0-0) 5. Bayside (12-1-2) 6. Christ the King (11-1-2) 7. Francis Lewis (12-1-3) 8. Archbishop Molloy...
CHSAA boys soccer rankings: Week 1
The CHSAA soccer season kicked off in earnest on Tuesday and after just six matches it appears this will likely be a wild season. Defending Class A intersectional champion Archbishop...
New York City HS boys soccer rankings
The CHSAA league season began Tuesday and Wednesday will mark the second week of the PSAL campaign. Naturally, it's time for The Post’s first New York City boys soccer rankings....
New York City HS girls soccer rankings
For the first time all the girls soccer teams in the city are playing during the same time of year thanks to the PSAL moving its season from the spring...
Girls soccer roundup: Wishart's first goals lead Goldstein
Freshman Pamela Wishart scored four goals, her first at the varsity level for Leon Goldstein, in a 8-0 win over James Madison in PSAL Brooklyn A-III girls soccer Tuesday. Caitlin...
CHSAA boys soccer roundup: Prep wins soccer's Battle of the Blvd.
Andy Charleston scored the winning goal, powering in a header off Dino Moutopoulos’ free kick to lead St. Francis Prep to a 1-0 win against rival Holy Cross in both...
Telling tragic tales
FOR the plays they write together, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen use many voices -- other people's. Their debut effort, "The Exonerated," consisted of the testimony of death-row inmates eventually...
Touched by the poet
THE prestige movie sea son gets off to a beauti fully crafted start with Jane Campion's "Bright Star," which examines the brief adult life of Romantic poet John Keats through...
Stars take 'Rain' check
Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig are two cops who don't have to worry about where their next doughnut is coming from. The stars of the new police drama "A Steady...
Starr report
Comedian Alonzo Bodden is becoming the go-to "car guy" -- first as host of "101 Cars You Must Drive" and now as host of Travel Chan nel's "Streets of America:...
So-called 'Life'
IF history is any indication, dramas about the fast-paced glamour world of New York models have been about as big a hit as short, fat girls are on the runway....
NBC on 'Hunt' for Helen
FORMER "Mad About You" co-star Helen Hunt is being eyed to replace Maura Tierney on NBC's "Parenthood." Tierney was forced to pull out of the show as she recovers from...
Huge Leno debut
JAY Leno pulled big numbers in his 10 p.m. debut Monday -- carrying Ch. 4's 11 p.m. newscast along in his wake. "The Jay Leno Show" premiered to 18.4 million...
'Jersey' baby
"Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice gave birth to her fourth daughter Monday night -- just in time for the fall TV season. Giudice and husband Joe welcomed...
Sports & reality TV don't mix
THE curse of NFL players hooking up with a real ity TV star strikes again. Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett -- who costarred in "Kendra" with his wife Kendra...
Rags to riches
Designer Carlos Campos has been through a lot. "I’m just this guy who made something out of nothing," says the 36-year-old Honduran, and he’s not referring to the perfectly tailored...
Voters boot 5 off council
They threw the bums out last night. Five incumbent Democratic City Council members were defeated -- a shockingly high number in a legislative body where re-election is basically a given....
A victory for A'jad
HAS Iranian President Mah moud Ahmadinejad won his first diplomatic victory since his disputed re-election in June? Last Thursday, Tehran presented what it calls "an updated package" as the basis...
Indy Mike has own party
He wasn't on the ballot, but Mayor Bloomberg tossed the biggest rally of any candidate running last night in an awesome display of political might that drew thousands of chanting...
Swine flu brewed for 10 yrs.
The new swine-flu virus was circulating undetected in pigs for at least a decade before it jumped to people, and much better surveillance is needed among both pigs and people,...
A League of Their Own: Class Acts Lou & Derek
THE ISSUE: Derek Jeter's breaking of Lou Gehrig's record for most hits ever by a Yankee. *** I had the pleasure to watch Jeter break Gehrig's record on Sept. 11....
The ruin of O's 'engagement' gambit
FOR months now, we've heard that fall would be the time to re-evaluate the diplomacy on Iran and perhaps finally confront the mullahs over their nuclear program. Now that fall...
Brown's 'Lost'
The hotly anticipated follow-up to author Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" was released yesterday. "The Lost Symbol" hit bookstores with an unusually large print run of 5 million copies....
Rice's 'links' to racial flap
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined two exclusive golf clubs in Alabama, one of which was all-white as recently as 1990. Rice's aide, Colby Cooper,...
Sweat & mild house arrest
As far as the feds are concerned, disgraced Democratic donor Hassan Nemazee can sweat out his house arrest while awaiting trial on bank-fraud charges. A Manhattan federal magistrate judge gave...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan He has exquisite taste, but bad character. Carl Holland, 44, was arrested for illegally opening up an account in the name of an ID-theft victim at Barneys on Madison...
Astor's son has a bawl
All the talk of mother brought accused swindling son Anthony Marshall to tears. Marshall got weepy and blew his nose showily as his lawyer continued Day 2 of closing arguments...
O plan too cheap: Rangel
Rep. Charles Rangel took a bizarre shot at President Obama yesterday, saying the president's well-received prime-time health-care speech actually created problems for House Democrats and endangered the passage of legislation....
'Cop sodomy' accuser freed
Alleged police sodomy victim Michael Mineo was released yesterday morning after being picked up on an outstanding warrant. Mineo, 24, was collared Monday night after officers asked him to leave...
Indian smoke screen
AFTER doing time for possession and an accidental killing, crack dealer Rodney Morrison decided he was finished with drugs. He threw him self a "retirement" party in 1993 and got...
Goodwin on board The Post
The Post adds a fresh voice today with a new regular column by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Goodwin. For nearly three decades, Goodwin's pen has been a reminder to the political...
NY Times sees suitors shrink in Boston Globe sale
The New York Times Co. says it's in no hurry to sell the Boston Globe even as the number of suitors for the money-losing paper dwindles. The Globe reported yesterday...
Life for Oregon terror camper
A Lebanese-born Swede was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for plotting to open a terrorism training camp in Oregon in 1999 to help al Qaeda. US District Judge John...
Welch is on the mend
Former General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jack Welch, hospitalized since July for a spinal infection called discitis, is improving and expects to be released in three to four weeks,...
Civil War soldier's NY burial
SHARPSBURG, Md. -- An unknown Civil War soldier began his journey home to New York state yesterday, nearly a year after a visitor to the Antietam National Battlefield spotted his...
Solar rays of $unshine
ALBANY -- The New York Power Authority is offering subsidies for half the cost of installing solar panels, saying it can probably help fund 50 to 80 solar photovoltaic systems...
Liberty eyes AOL's dial-up Internet biz
Liberty Media, the cable company controlled by billionaire John Malone, remains interested in the dial-up Internet business owned by Time Warner's AOL, CEO Greg Maffei said. "Whenever Time Warner has...
Recession anchors trade
In a faraway corner of the Pacific is anchored the world's ghost fleet of cargo ships as far as the eye can see, with no cargo, no crews -- and...
Journal charges go mobile
Rupert Murdoch yesterday divulged the first concrete details of his plan to charge online and mobile readers for News Corp. content, saying there will soon be a fee to get...
LI's Pharaoh 'Phraudster'
The ousted director of Long Island University's Hillwood Museum stole Egyptian artifacts from the collection and peddled the precious antiquities through Christie's auction house, the feds charged yesterday. Barry Stern,...
Business briefs
Marts gain Stocks advanced for the seventh time in eight days as billionaire inves tor Warren Buffett said his company is buying equities. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose...
Bloomberg in the lead
THE competition appears to be melting away as Mayor Mike Bloomberg's high-octane SWAT team from Bloomberg LP pored over the financials at BusinessWeek in advance of a bid deadline that...
Public lawyer named
It's official: R. Allen Stanford has gone from billionaire financier to pauper. The Texas money man, who stands accused of bilking investors of $7 billion in a Ponzi scheme, got...
Mayor mike's welcome matt
He had no part in yesterday's Democratic mayoral primary, but Mayor Bloomberg still managed to grab the media spotlight by teaming up with superstar Matt Damon to film a scene...
Big firms on hunt for big spaces
KICKING off the fall market: A number of office tenants in a range of industries are trolling for spaces well over 100,000 square feet, or are in the midst of...
Facebook milestone: A positive cash flow
Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social-networking site, said it has more than 300 million users and is now generating positive cash flow, reaching that goal ahead of schedule. Facebook...
Hofstra rape ruse
They were "predators" and she was their prey. An 18-year-old freshman at Hofstra University was lured into a dorm from a wild campus frat party, then thrown into a bathroom...
House slaps 'You lie!' rep.
Along party lines, the House delivered an unprecedented official rebuke yesterday to one of its members for shouting, "You lie!" during President Obama's televised health-care speech. The 240-to-179 vote said...
$168M 'burger' king
Forget filet mignon -- Madison Square Garden laborer Jimmy Groves said "I'm going to go buy a hamburger" after collecting his $168 million Mega Millions lottery prize yesterday. "I still...
'Spidey thief' nabbed in Village-pillage spree
A crafty crook with "Spidey" skills has been busted for breaking into 13 lower Manhattan apartments, often using windows and skylights for acrobatic entries, cops said yesterday. The suspect, Ramon...
Hizzoner gets Brit farm aid
London Mayor Boris Johnson out-greened Mayor Bloomberg yesterday by suggesting there's plenty of space here to foster homegrown foods. "Basically, we are too dense," Bloomberg said, responding to a question...
Ben sees a bottom, but pain remains
Ben Bernanke has joined the White House chorus of declaring the recession dead -- but admits we'll feel its pain for a long while. In a speech yesterday, the Federal...
Appeal to a hire power
This Jennifer Flowers couldn't even get the president to look at her. Much less get him to help her find a job. The Westchester resident found herself suddenly unemployed only...
Hudson chopper pilot's last call
Helicopter pilot Jeremy Clark radioed his position seconds before smashing into an airplane over the Hudson River last month -- but the doomed plane's pilot probably never heard the call,...
Group suffers Capitol losses
WASHINGTON -- The day after the Senate voted overwhelmingly to slash funding for ACORN, New York House members said they were willing to follow suit -- as Republican leaders took...
Buyers' remorse
A decades-old wall between Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman has crumbled -- and now management is beginning to show cracks, too. Two key executives in particular were stretched thin following...
Killer boast by activist in shocking sting video
WASHINGTON -- In a new undercover video, an ACORN worker in California is caught boasting how she killed her husband, says she speaks daily with prominent politicians, and tells a...
Bidders for Travel Ch.
KKR & Co., THL Partners LP and Providence Equity Partners Inc. may bid for the Travel Channel, sources said. The private equity funds are in talks with Discovery Communications to...
Duo who turned this trick
The two conservative activists who captured ACORN employ ees giving advice on the sex trade and money-laundering only play a pimp and prostitute on video. In real life, Hannah Giles,...
Shut Off ACORN's Spigot
It's time to draw the line on ACORN. In fact, long past time. The group deserves not one penny of public funding. For any reason. And the recent outrageous videos...
Sen. Jello-brand
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's metamorpho sis is complete: Goodbye, House moderate; hello, leftist Senate radical. In Monday's Senate vote to strip federal grants from ACORN, Gillibrand was one of just seven...
A Warning to Washington
Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of angry Americans stormed Washington last weekend to oppose ObamaCare and government spending. How'd Democrats react? By redoubling efforts to pass "health-care reform" -- dissent...
Probe into ACORN's 'brothel' affair
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday launched an investigation into pork-barrel grants given to ACORN by state lawmakers, as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn froze all city funding earmarked for...
'Dead' GI is alive & well
It was a call the Jasper family dreaded. And for four excruciating hours afterward, relatives of Sgt. Jesse Jasper grieved for the young soldier they'd been told had died in...
Keep mob out of trial: Kerik
Former top cop Bernard Kerik doesn't want the mob tainting his upcoming corruption trial. In a White Plains federal court filing, the former NYPD commissioner claims jurors "may be ....
Un-bridal rage over 'stolen' pic
A Bronx teen is suing a wedding hall and bridal shop, claiming they obtained photos of her with an uncle taken at her sweet 16 party -- and made it...
LI ObamaCare 'robbers'
A crew of violent thugs used a sickening ploy to rob a Long Island home -- they posed as volunteers passing out brochures on President Obama's health-care plan, authorities said...
Nightstick rap vs. cop
A veteran NYPD cop was slapped with assault charges yesterday for belting a man across the face with his nightstick -- breaking the victim's bones, as well as the baton...
Anti-smoking Mike dubious of 'cig-arrests'
Mayor Bloomberg indicated yesterday that he supports the idea of a smoking ban in parks and beaches, but has reservations about how it would be enforced. "Nobody is more of...
MTA severance sidetrack
Mayor Bloomberg's four appointees to the MTA board won't support a potentially lavish severance package for incoming chief Jay Walder at a closed-door vote today, sources said. The four members...
Coyote drags off Jess' pup
Jessica Simpson's adorable pooch, Daisy, was snatched by a coyote as she looked on in horror, and the shocked beauty is pleading with her fans for help. "My heart is...
O to bestow Medal of Honor
President Obama will award his first Medal of Honor tomorrow to a Massachusetts soldier who pulled a wounded comrade to safety and died trying to save another in Afghanistan in...
Veteran legal eagle puts record on the line
Manhattan's next district attorney, Cy Vance, specializes in white-collar crime, is the son of a former secretary of state, and won recognition in legal circles for taking on the Boeing...
Gotti's slay raps shaky
Two murder counts that could send John "Junior" Gotti to the slammer for life may be in jeopardy because the killings took place outside the jurisdiction of Manhattan federal court....
Still ain't over - key contests set for runoffs
The races for comptroller and public advocate headed to runoffs in two weeks, and Bill Thompson was officially crowned the Democratic nominee for mayor last night. The results came in...
Wins battle to succeed Morgy as DA
Boosted by an endorsement from the legendary Robert Morgenthau, Cyrus Vance Jr. coasted to victory last night in the Democratic primary for Manhattan district attorney -- marking the first time...
Qns. 'Qaeda' plotted backpack bombs
The terror plot unearthed after raids on three Queens homes involved operatives detonating nine explosives-laden backpacks to kill "as many people as possible," The Post has learned. "They were going...
Fiancée's blog slams cheating rumors
When "rumors" surfaced last year that Yale lab worker Raymond Clark was having "a fling" with a woman at work, his faithful fiancée flatly denied it -- while acknowledging that...
Yankees cutting top ticket prices
The Yankees are slashing the prices of some of their most expensive season tickets for 2010. Ninety-seven percent of the infamous Legends Suite seats, which sold for up to $2,500...
Yale lab workers in cuffs
Cops last night stormed the home of handsome Yale lab technician Raymond Clark and hauled him off in cuffs as part of their probe into the slaying of brilliant university...
Fans have mixed reactions to LeBron's N.Y. appearance
King James held court in a Manhattan bookstore yesterday, lifting his royal pen to sign copies of his new autobiography for a few very loyal subjects. Cavaliers superstar LeBron James...
Fresh answers for saltwater questions
October will not only bring great saltwater fishing, it also will create lots of questions about the inevitability of a saltwater fishing license. For New Jersey anglers, the Recreational Fishing...
Devils captain is out of 'line'
After three days of training camp, the Devils' captain is reduced to unprompted gallows humor. "Maybe I'm getting dealt," Jamie Langenbrunner said after skating as the team's fifth-line center yesterday....
Yankees have The Fight Stuff
LAST week, a boxing press conference was held along the first-base line at Yankee Stadium. Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico and Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines announced their November fight...
Yankees start, end next season in Boston
Just in case there isn't enough buzz surrounding Yankees-Red Sox, the rivals will open and close the 2010 regular season at Fenway Park. Other points of interest on next year's...
Jorge elbow starts melee
The multi-purpose Yankee Stadium can host fights, too. No winner by knockout emerged last night, but several cuts, bumps and bruises served as keepsakes from the Yankees' 10-4 loss to...
Toronto puts blame squarely on Posada
The Yankees got into a testy, bench-clearing fight with Toronto last night, and the Blue Jays pointed the finger squarely at hot-headed Bombers catcher Jorge Posada as the cause, with...
Del Potro savoring Juan helluva victory
Juan Martin del Potro had reviewed match point of his win in the U.S. Open final over Roger Federer many times by late yesterday morning. It wasn't hard to do....
Here's a call: ban Serena
THE incremental apology being a relatively new concept, it still needs further development by its inventor, Serena Williams. After coming across at Saturday night's press conference as the least horrified...
Giants shuffle to add Johnson, Boley
The Giants have a new running back, and it's not Allen Patrick off their practice squad. They needed to clear two roster spots to make way for linebacker Michael Boley...
Tortorella may need veteran to beef up Rangers' blue line
John Tortorella entered training camp hoping that two young defensemen would emerge and be able to make the Rangers' regular-season roster. But that doesn't mean the head coach envisions a...
Running-impaired Mets fall again
ATLANTA -- The problem is so bad that Jerry Manuel is now relieved when his Mets get through one game without a major baserunning blunder. "We've got issues," Manuel said...
Mets face brutal road trips on 2010 schedule
ATLANTA -- Baseball's schedule-makers didn't do the Mets many favors yesterday with the release of the preliminary 2010 slate. The Mets were given an 11-day trip to San Francisco, Arizona...
Sports shorts
MLB: Dice-K returns, goes six shutout innings In Boston, Daisuke Matsuzaka returned from a three-month stint on the disabled list and pitched six shutout innings to lead the Red Sox...
Cautious Yankees to skip Pettitte
Andy Pettitte will miss tonight's start with fatigue in his left shoulder, the same one that caused him to be shut down last year. And while both he and the...
S.I. Yankees face Game 3
A leadoff homer by Chun-Hsiu Chen off Ronny Marte in the bottom of the 11th inning propelled Mahoning Valley to a 3-2 win over the Staten Island Yankees last night...
Hondo gets some help
Hondo, formerly the world's coldest handicapper, started heating up last night when he connected with the Giants to lower the no-good, nasty number to 1,315 brocks. Tonight, he hopes to...
Weird but true
Heaven 'R' Us. A giraffe that starred as Geoffrey in Toys 'R' Us commercials has died at the Boston Zoo. Tweet, 18, was also featured in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"...
PSAL Staten Island girls volleyball preview
The McKee/Staten Island Tech girls volleyball team can swing with some of the best teams in the city. Almost every hitter returns from a squad that advanced to the PSAL...
Fontbonne girls volleyball starts season off on right foot
There are new players and a new system to get used to, but Linda Strong said her Fontbonne Hall girls volleyball team passed its first test of the season with...
Davis lifts Molloy over Xaverian
Greg Davis has earned the nickname “Superstar” by his teammates on the Archbishop Molloy boys soccer team. And while the senior midfielder doesn’t carry himself as such, he proved why...
Xaverian clipped by Molloy
The Xaverian boys soccer team worked so hard and were seconds away from claiming a point on the road against the defending CHSAA Class A intersectional champions. All that was...
Kobayashi, Inwald help Bard ground Hawks
Mina Kobayashi was picturing the drill in her head as she attacked a mis-hit goal kick along the far side. Control the ball, dribble to one side and shoot to...
Favorite Falcons trying to soar toward new heights
The Susan Wagner girls volleyball team spent the entire 2008 season as one of the PSAL’s best underdog stories. The Falcons won the Staten Island 9A title for the first...
Hunter can't capitalize on first half dominance
Aliexa Levy knew she wasn’t alone as she tried to control a through ball from Zielonika Magdelana up the near side. Bard sweeper Erika Inwald was trying to chase her...
PSAL boys soccer rankings
1. Martin Luther King (14-0-0) 2. Francis Lewis (13-0-2) 3. Beacon (11-4-0) 4. Tottenville (15-1-1) 5. Columbus (12-2-1) 6. Stuyvesant (9-4-2) 7. Lehman (11-1-3) 8. Curtis (13-2-2) 9. John Adams...
PSAL boys soccer rankings: MLK remains King -- for now
The PSAL season is barely a week old, but already we have a few surprises. Who would’ve guessed Lehman, ranked sixth here, would lead Bronx A? Bayside, our No. 10...
Week 1 waiver targets
It happens every year: Week 1 whiplash. Fantasy owners have rash reactions to opening-week studs and duds. Good players get cut too early. Owners scramble to pick up one-week wonders. The...
Carlos Miele
As if morphing from sweet to sinister, Carlos Miele’s spring-summer 2010 collection opened in hues of tropical sherbet and gradually transitioned into a hedonistic parade of elaborately embellished black. Miele...
Rad Hourani
Widely heralded as the second coming of Helmut Lang, Canadian designer Rad Hourani’s spring-summer 2010 collection turns minimalism on its head and smashes it into a metal shop, over and...
Parnell still on shaky ground
ATLANTA -- With John Maine healthy, Jerry Manuel is working with a six-man rotation that he indicated will be trimmed to five after the current turn is completed. Manuel again...
Maine's next start set for Sunday
ATLANTA -- John Maine came away physically unscathed from his first post-DL start last weekend and is scheduled to make his next start Sunday at Citi Field against the Nationals....