April 4, 2011
Changes on Parade
Police officials said last Wednesday they want to install more lighting, mount security cameras, institute new rules and beef up patrols inside the Parade Grounds after three brutal murders rocked...
Schools Chancellor Cathie Black earns low marks
When it comes to being an effective schools chancellor, Cathie Black gets a dunce cap. The former magazine executive-turned-DOE boss has failed to make the grade with New Yorkers --...
Embattled developer turning UES apartments into condos
Embattled real estate developer Harry Macklowe has signed a contract to buy a famous Upper East Side rental apartment building that is home to several prominent New Yorkers — including...
Severed pig's foot, anti-Semitic note mailed to Rep. Peter King
WASHINGTON -- The US Postal Service intercepted a package addressed to House Homeland Security Committee Peter King (R-N.Y.) containing a severed pig's foot and an anti-Semitic note referencing the congressman's...
Gametracker: Twins at Yankees
The Yankees open their second series of the season with the Twins in The Bronx for the start of a four-game series. Ivan Nova gets the start for the Yankees...
Brooklyn Job Fair to include nearly 80 employers
Nearly 80 employers have signed up to participate in this year's Brooklyn Job Fair, which is offering hundreds of available jobs. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz Tuesday will be joined...
Junior Corozzo kicked off Colombo wiseguy's defense team by judge
Junior Corozzo’s family ties have gotten the mob lawyer into a bind. A Brooklyn federal judge booted the mob-scion attorney — whose dad is is reputed Gambino consigliere Joseph "Jo...
Sin City turns Spin City
THE Electric Daisy Carnival dance music festival, which attracted more than 180,000 people in Los Angeles last year, comes to Las Vegas June 24-25. But this extravaganza, loaded in 2010...
Johnson leaving Princeton to coach Fairfield
Princeton coach Sydney Johnson will become the next coach at Fairfield, The Post has learned. Johnson led the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament where they almost upset Kentucky in the...
Gucci grouch indicted in computer tampering
He's the Grinch who stole Gucci -- at least for one day last summer. A disgruntled former computer tech at Gucci's U.S. headquarters in Manhattan was slammed with a 50-count...
Feliciano 'hurt' by Mets pitching coach's comments
Pedro Feliciano is hurt in more ways than one. On the Yankees disabled list with a muscle problem behind his left (throwing) shoulder, Feliciano responded on Monday to the comments...
VCU plays NBA 2K11 before Cinderella Final Four matchup with Butler
What does Cinderella do the night before the ball?Play NBA 2K11...sort ofJust hours away from their Final Four matchup with the Butler Bulldogs, the VCU men’s basketball team took to...
Pandora discloses federal grand jury apps probe
online music service Pandora Media Inc., which has filed papers for an anticipated initial public offering, disclosed Monday that it was served with a subpoena to produce documents for a...
Brooklyn toddler dies after being beaten by foster mother's boyfriend
A Brooklyn man accused of savagely beating his girlfriend’s foster child could face murder charges now that the boy has been declared dead from his injuries — which were so...
Libyan woman who alleged rape says she's free, medical test proved her story
TRIPOLI, Libya – Eman al Obaidi, the woman who was dragged away from a Tripoli hotel after telling foreign reporters she'd been raped by 15 members of Col. Moamar Ghadafi's...
City taking Greenpoint Avenue Bridge bike lane back to the shop
One of Greenpoint’s most dangerous bike lanes is heading back to the drawing board. City officials will reconsider plans to extend a bike lane over the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge after...
Fired Ozzie's barista gets out-of-court settlement in 'union' flap
who sued Ozzie’s coffeehouse, alleging that store owners fired him for trying to unionize, won a $15,500 out-of-court settlement from the Park Slope java joint last month.“I’m happy that this...
D'Antoni wants to stay with Knicks beyond next season
Mike D'Antoni's future as Knicks coach may well be tied to Donnie Walsh’s uncertain status as the team’s president/GM. But a day after clinching the Knicks’ first playoff bid in...
Prosecutors in Bonds' perjury trial claim to have tape refuting testimony of slugger's doctor
SAN FRANCISCO -- Prosecutors in the Barry Bonds perjury trial on Monday sought to introduce new evidence refuting the testimony of Bonds' former orthopedic surgeon, Arthur Ting, the San Jose...
Rabbi's kosher mints a 'mitzah for your mouth'
In New York, even rabbis get endorsement deals. When he's not leading Kehilat Rayin Ahuvim, a modern orthodox congregation on the Upper West Side, Rabbi Adam Mintz lends his name...
3UP: Hughes, Jeter and Gardner
1. In today’s Post I wrote this column about Phil Hughes’ slow start – emphasis on slow. His velocity was tepid in spring training and both Hughes and the Yankees...
Playing the NFL Draft stock market
Still a little over three weeks away from the draft, players’ stock continues to fluctuate after each individual workout and pro day. Here is a look at a few of...
Mets prospect Gee named Buffalo's Opening Day starter
After leading the International League with 165 strikeouts last year, it comes as no surprise that Triple-A Buffalo manager Tim Teufel chose to name right-hander Dillon Gee as his Opening...
Toyota to shut down all North American factories due to shortages in Japan
TOYOTA CITY, Japan -- Toyota Motor said Monday it will shut down all of its North American factories due to parts shortages caused by last month's earthquake and tsunami in...
Former St. John's star Mullin to be inducted in Hall of Fame
HOUSTON -- Dennis Rodman, Chris Mullin and a trio of coaching legends are part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's Class of 2011. Coaches Tex Winter, innovator of...
Galleon prosecutors want jury to see secret videos of Intel tipster
Prosecutors in the high-profile Galleon Group insider trading trial want to add videotape to a case that already boasts sex and lies. Government prosecutors are fighting with lawyers for Galleon...
Circus maximus! Coney Island Sideshow hosts reunion congress
— Meredith Delisomdeliso@cnglocal.com
DreamWorks CEO lands in Zynga's FarmVille
Shrek’s next adventure could take him to FarmVille. DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg has joined the board of social-gaming firm Zynga, bringing together one of the fastest-growing Internet companies with...
US Supreme Court rules in favor of school vouchers
WASHINGTON -- Determining that taxpayers do not have a broad right to challenge a state's specific tax policy, a divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld an Arizona school voucher program...
LA clinic investigates possible leak of porn performers’ patient records
LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles clinic that works with adult film performers is investigating possible leaks of its patient information to a website that styles itself as a WikiLeaks...
Memorial service for the 'lion' of Cobble Hill is on Saturday
Cobble Hill legend Murray Adams will be remembered on Saturday at a memorial service Downtown.Adams, 79, a civic stalwart who co-founded the Cobble Hill Association and spent nearly half a...
Lindsay Lohan auditioning for new ‘Superman’ movie, source says
LOS ANGELES -- A source close to Lindsay Lohan said the troubled actress will audition for a role in director Zack Snyder's upcoming "Superman" reboot this week, Radar Online reported...
Three more sets of human remains found on Long Island beach
Investigators scouring dense undergrowth for victims of a suspected serial killer along a remote New York beach area found three more sets of remains Monday, authorities said, bringing the total...
Low-A Charleston roster features two top Yankees prospects
The Charleston RiverDogs - the Low-A affiliate of the New York Yankees - announced their Opening Day roster today, and two names stood out above the rest: catcher Gary Sanchez...
Over $2K for 'Royal' night
The Trump Hotel in New York City claims it will give the best treatment for royal watchers who can’t make the trip to England for Prince William and Kate Middleton's...
Fifty-nine reasons to see this show
What’s in a number? Nothing — and everything — in a new exhibition at SET Gallery in Gowanus.“Project 59,” a retrospective of Irina Danilova’s collaboration with Hiram Levy running now...
The Great Emancipator will return to Grand Army Plaza
Abraham Lincoln will soon upstage a Scottish gynecologist who’s been perched in Grand Army Plaza since the days of horse and buggies.The city has secured $340,000 to haul a towering...
Wall Street executive who fell to his death had been drinking heavily: source
The Wall Street exec who accidentally fell out of his apartment window and plunged five floors to his death on Sunday had been drinking heavily with his wife right before...
Boehner, Reid to head to White House as budget deal eludes reach
WASHINGTON -- A budget deal continued to prove elusive Monday, as top Congressional leaders prepared to meet formally with President Barack Obama to strike a last-minute compromise. With a possible...
Hoosiers II: Butler easy to root for
The question, somewhat rhetorical, was posed by a colleague between editions Sunday night on the sports desk at the New York Post:"Is there anyone in the country not rooting for...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to be tried by military commission
WASHINGTON -- Yielding to political opposition, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen will be referred to the system of military...
Chic restaurant, housing plan moves forward
A cool dive bar — with some new affordable housing — is coming to the south side!The City Council voted last week to rezone a vacant Wythe Avenue lot in...
Libyan rebels dismiss transition talk as insurgents in Misrata plead for help
BENGHAZI, Libya -- Rebel leaders insisted Monday that Moammar Khadafyand his entire family must leave Libya before a truce can be negotiated, as insurgents in Misrata pleaded for help amid...
Cops bust second kid for allegedly ripping off Muslim schoolgirl headdress
Police have nabbed the second prepubescent punk wanted for trying to rip off the religious headdress of a Muslim schoolgirl on Staten Island, The Post has learned. Krystal Callender, 13,...
FAA to order new inspections of three older Boeing 737 versions
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Aviation Administration issued Monday an emergency safety directive calling for stepped-up structural inspections of three older versions of Boeing Co.'s workhorse 737 jetliners, in the wake...
Trial opens in deadly Deutsche Bank blaze at Ground Zero
Demolition contractors at the former Deutsche Bank building "gambled with lives for money" by ignoring safety problems at the site - and it was hero firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph...
Harlem 'suicide helper' sentenced to 20 years to life behind bars
The man convicted of murdering a Long Island motivational speaker was sentenced today to 20 years to life behind bars. Kenneth Minor admitted to the 2009 stabbing death of 52-year-old...
Victim wasn't sure of rape, says defense as 'rape cops' trial starts in Manhattan
The woman became "flirtatious," and so the cop kissed her shoulder. He patted her back. He got "physical." But everything was consensual, and there was no penetration, the defense lawyer...
Heights Players soar on Coward's 'Wings'
The Heights Players is finally feeling its age with its production of Noel Coward’s light-hearted comedy “Waiting in the Wings” — but the plucky Willow Place troupe has never been...
Obama's Passover campaign ad
President Barack Obama must be channeling Passover. What else to make of his new (and first) campaign reelection ad which almost doesn't include the man himself. What some observers see as...
Look who's getting ObamaClemency from ObamaCare
Commentary's Abe Greenwald correctly points out the latest stomach turning maneuvers by the Obama administration regarding health care reform. More waivers have been granted to ObamaCare, this time to lots of union...
Dis a Vowell? Never when the writer is this good
— Meredith Delisomdeliso@cnglocal.com
NASA confirms final Endeavour mission to launch April 29
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The final mission of the space shuttle Endeavour will launch on April 29, after a scheduling conflict with a Russian craft pushed it out ten days, NASA...
AC Milan wins derby; Napoli rockets into second place
Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani netted a hat trick Sunday as Napoli rallied twice to beat Lazio 4-3 before a capacity crowd of 60,000 and catapult into second place in the...
Kids' movies then and now: 'Arthur'
I haven't seen the Russell Brand-led remake of "Arthur," which hits theaters Friday, but thanks to Netflix's nifty streaming service I watched the 1981 original, a childhood favorite, last night....
'No permit' issued to BP to resume Gulf drilling
LONDON -- The US agency responsible for issuing permits to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico said "there was no deal" for BP after reports suggested the British...
Bodies found among wreckage of Rio-Paris Air France jet
PARIS -- A French government minister said Monday that bodies were found in the wreckage of an Air France plane that crashed over the Atlantic while flying from Rio de...
Bob Oliva, former coach at Christ the King, pleads guilty to child abuse
Famed city Catholic hoops coach Bob Oliva today pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old boy during a trip to Boston in the 1970s -- as the victim's lawyer announced a...
Cannes: Classic Dunaway
A classic black-and-white image of Faye Dunaway taken in 1970 by her then-boyfriend, famed photographer turned filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg, is the basis for this year's Cannes Film Festival poster released...
Seventeen Yemeni protesters gunned down in march
TAEZ, Yemen -- Yemeni security forces shot dead at least 17 protesters Monday as Washington appeared to be pulling the plug on embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh. "The death toll...
Japanese tsunami dog reunited with overjoyed owner (video)
KESENNUMA, Japan -- A dog which spent three weeks drifting in the sea off disaster-hit Japan was reunited with its overjoyed owner Monday, local media reported. After watching a TV...
Obama launches re-election bid in web video
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign Monday, urging grass-roots supporters central to his first White House run to mobilize again to protect the change he's brought...
Hartford mother of two fatally shot outside home
HARTFORD, Conn. — Hartford police are investigating the slaying of a mother of two who was shot multiple times outside her own home. Authorities say a car drove up to...
Another Southwest flight diverted last night
LOS ANGELES — Officials say a Southwest Airlines jetliner carrying 142 people diverted to Los Angeles Sunday night because of a burning electrical smell in the passenger cabin. The unscheduled...
Vac's Monday Whacks on playoff-bound Knicks, Butler's final quest and baseball!
The Knicks watched one magic number drop to zero last night, when they defeated the lowly Cavaliers at the Garden while the just-as-lowly-on-the-road Wizards did them a solid and knocked...
No way to run a war
The story of our "liberation" of Libya is fast becoming more of a satire than a success. The Washington Post has a front page story today about the Owellesque nature...
Shame on Dylan for playing China
It is too easy to take shots at old and grey, aging rockers but Bob Dylan is playing China and the hypocrisy is just too much. Here is a guy,...
Berkeley Carroll four plan to roar
Before they were old enough to date or take driver’s ed classes, Robb Paller, Joey Martinez, Dan Schwartz and Andrew Timko were playing baseball together, all the way back eight...
Japanese government withheld information about high radiation levels
TOKYO -- The Japanese government withheld the release of data showing that levels of radiation more than 18 miles (30 kilometers) from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant exceeded safe levels,...
The matchups: Butler (28-9) vs. Connecticut (31-9)
FRONTCOURT We’ve fallen in love with Butler’s Matt Howard, a 6-foot-8 power forward whose toughness exemplifies what Bulldogs basketball is all about. His tip-in beat Old Dominion, his free throw...
Just Vin, baby: Tottenville junior closer slams door on New Dorp
Tottenville has the same purple jerseys, fearsome lineup and unmistakable swagger. Yet with the new season has come new roles for the defending PSAL Class A champion, and they were...
Mayor's Cup basketball has big-time potential
There are so many basketball games that the season almost seems to never end. There’s the school season, IS 8, the Rose Classic for girls, AAU ball. There are countless...
Search for radiation leak turns desperate in Japan as workers use dye to trace path
TOKYO — Workers used a milky bathwater dye Monday as they frantically tried to trace the path of radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant. The...
Survivor from 2009 Binghamton mass shooting calls for magazine ban
ALBANY, N.Y. — The critically wounded receptionist who called police during a New York gunman’s rampage two years ago breaks her public silence to ask for a renewed ban on...
TCM Fest: Angela Lansbury on 'Manchurian Candidate' -- 'I was pretty foolhardy'
"I ran it the other day in my apartment and I was absolutely shocked by it,'' Angela Lansbury said Saturday night before a packed screening of John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian...
NYC softball rankings
Rain was again the enemy last week. It feels like every season during the first few weeks that many days are a wash due to bad weather. This week might...
CHSAA softball rankings
It's time for things to really get going. St. Joseph by the Sea is again showing it’s the class of the CHSAA. The Vikings used a balanced and relentless offensive...
Howie Hoops: Now UConn follow me to one big final Tournament payoff
Everyone loves Butler. And what’s not to love? Without a strong rooting interest, it would be a little weird if you weren’t pulling for the mid-major team looking to write...
CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens 'AA' division preview: It's wide open after Xaverian
Christ the King coach Billy Oettinger isn’t usually prone to hyperbole, but he has the highest praise for his one-two pitching punch of senior Joe Mortillaro and junior Pat O’Reilly....
NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio announces plan to identify city's worst landlords
New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has announced an eight-point plan to help tenants identify the city’s worst landlords and hold landlords accountable for repairing rundown buildings. The...
KO'd: Early strikeouts stymie Moore attack in loss to Vikings
By the time Moore adjusted it was too late. The Mavericks didn’t see much of St. Joseph by the Sea starter Jackie Cautela last season and many of their players...
Gadgets
IMAGINE a phone that’s not a small, flat rectangle, but instead has a detachable handset, incorporating an earpiece and a mouthpiece at opposite ends of a curved handle. Such a...
Stokes, Peters stand out at first Mayor's Cup
Dwayne (Tiny) Morton and Mike Crump put their heads together well enough to guide the Brooklyn/Manhattan team to a 110-106 win over Bronx/Queens/Staten Island in the inaugural PSAL Mayor’s Cup...
Go to Greg
Our company has an on-site gym where many of my staff members work out, as do other executives. I feel self-conscious exercising there, though, particularly since I’m not in the...
Cashier's check
Ben Ryder Howe graduated from one of the world’s top schools (the University of Chicago) and was an editor at one of the most prestigious titles in publishing (the Paris...
Rosie O'Donnell blames GMA host for Chris Brown tantrum
After years of staying beneath the radar, Rosie O'Donnell is back at it. O'Donnell is now just about the only celebrity in America to blame morning TV host Robin Roberts...
NCAA games rebound to normal ratings
TV ratings for the Final Four round of the NCAA basket ball tournament returned to earth -- after a huge spike in audience for earlier coverage across four channels that...
TV on your iPad
Cablevision is launching an app for customers to watch television on their iPads at home, the company said over the weekend. The service, available at no extra charge, will allow...
Powerful system out with a bang
After a week of practice shows at Terminal 5 leading up to LCD Soundsystem's debut gig headlining Madison Square Garden, when band leader James Murphy announced, "This is our last...
Park slope to B'way
When was the last time you heard a good joke about Voltaire? If the answer is waaay too long, then there's a guy you should meet. Which I did. I'm...
View gotta see this work
Through a window, brightly. That's what you'll find at "Rooms With a View," a rare and Romantic show opening tomorrow at the Met. Romantic, because these 60-odd paintings and drawings...
'Daughter' doesn't take after predecessors
Over the past few years, shows like "The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side" and "Happy in the Poorhouse" have heralded the Amoralists as one of the most vibrant...
Supervisor bloat hikes overhead of the class
ALBANY -- As Gov. Cuomo calls on schools to cut the bloat, the ranks of education administrators have swollen a breathtaking 34 percent over the last 15 years -- and...
Nude 'dude' stolen
A brazen thief waltzed into a swanky art gallery in Chelsea and swiped a statue of a nude man out from under the nose of its owner. Sabin Howard told...
Sizzling anchor antics revealed in bitter lawsuit
It ain't just the steaks that are cheesy in Philly. A bitter lawsuit involving two fired high-profile TV news anchors from Philadelphia features salacious details of their alleged make-out sessions...
Princey chintzy on $14M
This prince says he's a pauper. Playboy billionaire Prince Jefri Bolkiah -- who was alleged to have swindled $40 billion from his homeland of Brunei -- says he's having problems...
Taliban bombs kill 41 in shrine
MULTAN, Pakistan -- Two Taliban suicide bombers caused carnage at a Sufi shrine in eastern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 41 people and wounding scores in the latest bloody attack...
LI body search
Investigators are set to resume the search for victims of a possible serial killer today. Suffolk County police are shutting down several miles of the Ocean Parkway from the Nassau...
FBI probes PA 'hire' purpose
A controversial pick to fill the No. 2 spot at the Port Authority Police Department has sparked a federal corruption probe, The Post has learned. As if out of nowhere,...
Boehner bids to control House party
WASHINGTON -- He's the most watched man in Washington, trying to pull together his own party in the face of a government shutdown. House Speaker John Boehner is trying to...
The new grub street
It wasn't enough that the city gutted Times Square's historic energy with "pedestrian pla zas" full of low-rent tourists -- now it plans to cater to those tourists with alfresco...
O's Mideast retreat
When President Obama made his Cairo speech two years ago, apologiz ing for nearly everything America had done in the Mideast since Jimmy Carter, some of us worried that the...
No vin-dication for NY wineries
ALBANY -- New York winery owners who complained to the Attorney General's Office that liquor-store owners were threatening to freeze them out are upset because an investigation went nowhere. The...
Bahrain: Ticking bomb of the Gulf
A month ago, Bahrain was set to ex plode. Today, it's a ticking bomb that threatens an even bigger explosion next to the HQ of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet...
Next: the Andy cap
Passing an austere, fiscally responsible and on-time budget was good, but capping runaway property taxes around the state would be great. That's the message Gov. Cuomo is getting from some...
Partners: Lawyer in 400G grab
A Manhattan lawyer is being probed on accusations that she bilked her partners out of more than $400,000 to support a lavish lifestyle of expensive dinners and hotels, dating services...
Nuke-leak bid a scrap shoot
TOKYO -- Engineers pinned their hopes on chemicals, sawdust and shredded newspaper to stop highly radioactive water from pouring into the ocean from Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant yesterday as officials...
Power chief probed over no-bid deals
ALBANY -- The head of the nation's largest state-run power operation is about to get zapped. State Inspector General Ellen Biben has launched a probe of New York Power Authority...
Fed probe eyes cheapo buses
The bus stops here. Two state lawmakers say the National Transportation Safety Board will commence a broad investigation of the low-cost tour-bus industry in the wake of a crash that...
Why Census doesn't spell GOP doom
Are whites on the verge of becoming a minority of the US population? Some analysts of the 2010 Census results claim so. Many go on, sometimes with relish, to say...
Pols slam Koran rev.
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers from both parties yesterday sternly rebuked a Florida preacher who publicly burned a Koran and set off three days of deadly riots in Afghanistan. But none of...
Leg up on heart illness
The nighttime twitching of restless legs syndrome may be more than an annoyance. New research suggests that in some people, it could be a sign of hidden heart problems. People...
Pols' gravy train
A city lawmaker is pushing to revamp the campaign-finance system after at least three council candidates who each got less than 10 percent of the ballot spent more per vote...
Holding the cards
While the bare-knuckle battle over $15 billion in debit-card swipe-fee legislation remains heated and ugly -- with lobbyists for banks and retailers in full attack mode -- executives at KKR,...
Court ballot $tirs Wis.
MILWAUKEE -- Pro-labor organizations and one of the country's largest Tea Party groups are pouring money into tomorrow's Wisconsin Supreme Court election in an effort to turn the normally sleepy...
Biz whiz let head go to 'pot': feds
He's a prep-school and Bard College grad, the son of a respected, former Manhattan diplomat - and king of a New York-based weed empire, prosecutors charge. Economics whiz Iani Tassev...
Congress haggles over compromise
WASHINGTON -- Deal or no deal? Democrats said yesterday they're close to a budget compromise that would stave off shuttering the government, but GOP leaders say there's no such plan...
'Hop' No. 1 at box office
LOS ANGELES -- The Easter bunny hopped into the top spot at the weekend box office. Russell Brand's family comedy, "Hop," debuted at No. 1 with $38.1 million. Rounding put...
Bike-lane wheel love
The city's controversial bike lane in Prospect Park West is a hit among Brooklyn residents in neighboring areas, a new survey shows. Forty-eight percent of 500 area residents said the...
9/11 kin protest plan to 'bury' remains
Some relatives of victims who died a decade ago at the World Trade Center gathered yesterday at Ground Zero to decry a plan to place more than 9,000 unidentified pieces...
Cops 'Lower' boom on DWI's
If you're going to the Lower East Side to party, better leave the car at home. Arrests for DWI have nearly tripled this year in the Seventh Precinct, which covers...
Business briefs
French buy Vivendi agreed to buy Vodafone's 44 percent stake in French mobile- phone operator SFR for $11.3 billion, giving the buyer full control of its largest unit. The pur...
NBA deal is 'Net' loss for B'klyn
The hoop-la has faded in Brooklyn. When the Atlantic Yards complex was announced in 2003, its developer promised the borough a basketball team, world-class arena designed by Frank Gehry, 16...
Madonna catches FBI's eye
The FBI is taking a look at Madonna's education charity, raising a red flag about the Material Girl's nonprofit work, according to a report yesterday. Agents in Los Angeles are...
Honestly! City asks for trouble
I deserve a tax break -- take my word for it! Under a system that's stunningly ripe for fraud, the cash-strapped city hands out hundreds of millions in tax exemptions...
Flight is forced to 'drop in' on JFK
An American Airlines jet bound for the Virgin Islands was forced to make an emergency landing at JFK Airport yesterday after suddenly developing cabin-pressurization problems midair -- and the pilot...
Air France crash fragments found
PARIS -- Underwater search teams have found pieces of an Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, French investigators said yesterday. The French air agency BEA said...
Stay-put Ivory Coast leader must go: Clinton
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the Ivory Coast's entrenched leader to quit "immediately" yesterday amid reports of widespread human-rights abuses, including the massacre of more than 1,000 people....
Passenger complaints become a 'soar' spot
Complaints about airline performance soared a sky-high 28 percent last year, despite improvements in on-time arrivals and fewer overbooked flights, according to a new survey. Half of all domestic flights...
9/11, cancer linked: Chuck
Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday said there was a "pretty clear" relationship between a rise in cancer among firefighters who were at Ground Zero. "Rare cancers [among firefighters] skyrocketed after 9/11,"...
Out-of-jail mobster 'Vinny Gorgeous' enjoys 'slow go' in court
Now this is a cell break. Jury selection continues at a snail's pace in the capital-murder mob trial of reputed Bonanno boss Vincent Basciano -- and the well-dressed wiseguy known...
Arson victim gives birth in SI hospital's burn unit
There was a miraculous special delivery at Staten Island University Hospital's burn unit yesterday -- a baby boy, delivered to a woman badly injured in an arson fire last month....
Massive e-breach targets consumers
A massive and growing data breach has engulfed a swath of US corporate titans focused on consumers -- from Citigroup to Walgreen to HSN -- exposing the names and e-mail...
'Saving' grace by hero dad
An off-duty correction officer doing yard work yesterday heard a baby's wail and sprang into action -- scooping the injured child from the wreckage of a two-vehicle crash and then...
Baby-shower triple shooting
The shooting of a 14-year-old girl and two adults outside a Brooklyn baby shower was a robbery attempt gone wrong, officials said yesterday. A 34-year-old woman, a man and the...
Katie Couric leaving anchor post at CBS
Katie Couric is leaving her anchor post at the "CBS Evening News" less than five years after becoming the first woman to helm a network TV evening newscast. A network...
Exec death plunge on the Upper East Side
A high-powered Wall Street executive accidentally fell to his death from a window in his fifth-floor Upper East Side apartment last night, a law-enforcement source said. Keith Mastronardi, 31, was...
Chuck's extreme gaffe: His true colors show
THE ISSUE: Sen. Schumer's advice to colleagues to brand suggested GOP spending cuts 'extreme.' *** Sen. Chuck Schumer's coaching of Democratic colleagues on how to disparage the Tea Party is...
Bail for teacher in shoot threat
An art teacher charged with threatening to stage "Columbine all over again" at her Brooklyn high school was sprung from jail yesterday on $100,000 bail, officials said. Sabrina Milo was...
Man, 72, in 'wife slay'
An elderly Brooklyn man was charged last night with fatally bludgeoning his 62-year-old wife during a violent argument. Nazar Hussein was coughing up blood when cops arrived at her East...
NY ticket prices plummet after Sheen show bombs in Detroit
Charlie's "Torpedo of Truth" is all but blowing him out of the water in New York. On the heels of Charlie Sheen's disastrous debut in Detroit, which was marked by...
Duke rape faker in stab bust
DURHAM, NC -- The exotic dancer who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape in 2006 has been busted for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend. Crystal Magnum, 32, was...
Bahama bites for Fifth Avenue
Tommy Bahama is in talks to add a restaurant to its sprawling new 8,500-square-foot space on Fifth Avenue, The Post has learned. The Seattle-based chain signed a 12-year lease in...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan A thug was arrested Saturday night after allegedly pummeling and biting a woman and assaulting a police officer near Columbia University, cops said. Ashe Sinha, 28, allegedly attacked the...
Cracks found on three more Southwest jets
Federal inspectors have found cracks in the fuselages of three more Southwest Airlines jets, just days after one of its planes began ripping apart mid-flight. The cracks, described as small...
Democracy now!
Libyan rebels are determined that their movement not be hijacked by Islamic extremists, and want to replace longtime despot Moammar Khadafy with a parliamentary democracy, an insurgent leader declared yesterday....
Putting the world on welfare
Rajiv Shah, chief of the US Agency for International Development, last week told Congress that Republican-proposed cuts in foreign aid would be downright deadly: "I believe these are very conservative...
Ethics time, Andrew
When state Sen. Carl Kruger was in dicted for bribery last month, Gov. Cuomo -- who campaigned hard on an ethics-reform plank last fall -- said he wanted to focus...
The left vs. democracy
The left doesn't much care for democ racy -- when it loses. Case in point: Wisconsin and the recent uproar over passage of a law curbing public-employee union power. The...
Golfing mastery
The Masters golf tournament takes place this week. What? You're not in it? Well, the next best thing is to read about it. Golf Digest, which gave us the classically...
Chill factor
Most popular songs 1. Just Can’t Get Enough, Black Eyed Peas 2. No Sleep, Wiz Khalifa 3. E.T., Katy Perry 4. S&M, Rihanna 5. On The Floor, Jennifer Lopez 6....
Affrunti's Beulah Park Grade
Post Time: 1:15 pmFIRST-1m; $3,500; cl($2,500); 3up4-Tez Taran 1241-Pstlpcknrdnck 1242-Electric Bill 1245-Scatter Shot 1246-NewYorkSolutn 1243-Tango Ridge 1247-GallantinGuy 124SECOND-1m; $3,700; cl($3,500); 3up; (f&m)7-Strwbrry'sHrt 1241-Glossary 1156-Awesome Play 1242-Accolade 1225-ALittlePetite 1203-Imsswht'ssnme 1244-ACuriousLady 1208-No...
Bill Smith At Yonkers
Post time: 7:10 pm.Best Bet: Jacked Up (12th)FIRST-1 1/16m; pace; $12,000; conditioned6HeDaCoolMan(JBartlett)7-4-53-11Ghee's House(B Holland)8-5-54-12TivoliHanover(LStalbaum)2-3-26-13Who Am I(G Brennan)4-4-68-14Liberty Call(B Sears)7-5-35-15LuminousLomboA(CManzi)1-8-36-17WindsunFireNIce(MForte)7-6-320-18Ss Tomahawk(D Dube)8-8-112-1SECOND-1 1/16m; trot; $8,000; conditioned1Amesbury(S Smith)1-1-28-52Mignon(G Brennan)3-2-14-14Haste(M Forte)5-4-35-13Bel Gazou(B Sears)7-6-515-15StormontCaviar(JStrattn)6-7-310-16DangerHall(JPantaleano)7-2-86-17BetterByDesign(JBartltt)7-7-512-18Hetties...
Aqueduct Charts
Apr. 3, 2011 Cloudy And Fast. Turf: Off ©2011 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST6f; $20,000; clm; 3upOff: 1:01. 3. hand urge 1/4,drew offTime: 23.09, 47.21, 59.24, 1:11.55.Trainer: Scott VolkWinner: DK B/...
Parx Racing Analysis
Today's analysis.1. 7f; $20,000; cl($5,000); 3up; (f&m)MISS DARTMOUTH drops in class after setting the pace and tiring to third in the slop going longer. ASPETUCK HILL drops in class after finishing...
Parx Racing Results
FIRST-6 1/2f; $26,000; clm; 3YO2Fairness for All (Arroyo) 9.602.802.205Frat House (Diaz)2.102.104Timewtsfrnne (Bisono)3.00 Off 12:26. Time 1:19.90. Fast. Scr: Blackwater Cat. * Exacta (2-5) $13.40SECOND-6f; $28,000; mdn clm; 3YO8Great Thor (Mntnez)...
Lundqvist doing best to push Rangers back to playoffs
PHILADELPHIA -- Fifty-one weeks later, 51 weeks after the Rangers' 2009-10 season ended in the ashes of a Game 82 shootout defeat to the Flyers, Henrik Lundqvist did not have...
Rangers power way past Flyers
PHILADELPHIA -- So if Marc Staal had been scratched across the chin with a high stick that drew even a trickle of blood, the perp would have received a four-minute...
Colon inconsistent in Yankees debut
Bartolo Colon's Yankees debut was an unusual one. The large right-hander surrendered four earned runs in four innings of relief in yesterday's 10-7 loss to the Tigers in front of...
Mets' Isringhausen suffers back injury
MIAMI -- Jason Isringhausen's chances of joining the Mets anytime soon have suffered at least a minor setback. The team announced yesterday that Isringhausen's appearance in an extended spring training...
Jeter, Gardner go 0-fer for Yankees
The Yankees pounded out 12 hits yesterday, but Derek Jeter had none. The Yankees scored seven runs yesterday, but Jeter scored none. Though the season is just three games old,...
Mets open season with series victory over Marlins
MIAMI -- From road kill to road warriors? Along the Mets' highway to hell last season, they didn't win a road series until June and not against a National League...
Posada blasts two homers for Yankees
After Jorge Posada got one hit in six at-bats across two games, what he was doing between at-bats surfaced as an issue. How was Posada, the Yankees' new regular designated...
Harris has good start with Mets
MIAMI -- One of the reasons Willie Harris picked the Mets over the other teams he was considering in the offseason was simply the opportunity. The utility man thought he'd...
Tigers batter Hughes, Colon as Yankees' sweep start fades
Good . . . Fair . . . Stinko. Notice a disturbing starting pitching pattern across the first three Yankees games? And we haven't gotten to the back end of...
Gulfstream Results
FIRST-6f; $42,400; clm; 4up.10Bidham (Cstllno) 23.2012.007.404Abdel's Ghost (Mrgh)16.8010.0011Coach Gravy (Smith)8.00 Off 12:56. Time 1:10.62. Fast. Scr: Black Diamond Cat. * Exacta (10-4) $412.20 * $1 Superfecta (10-4-11-6) $25,779.50 * $1...
Yankees' Hughes struggling with velocity for weeks
Do you want the bad news or the worse news? Do you want to hear that Phil Hughes lacked velocity or that he compounded it by being unable to locate?...
Red Sox swept out of Texas
Ian Kinsler and Nelson Cruz became the first set of teammates to homer in each of the first three games in a season, and Matt Harrison pitched the Rangers to...
Sports shorts
TENNIS: Djokovic wins Novak Djokovic won his fourth consecutive tournament, beating top-ranked Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4) in a grueling final at the Sony Ericsson Open yesterday in Key...
Oliva cuts deal in sex-rap case
BOSTON -- Bob Oliva spent much of his life as a hugely successful coach on the basketball court. But this morning in a Boston courthouse, the former Christ the King...
Mets' Dickey remains a reliable pro's pro
MIAMI -- Here's the crazy part of the way R.A. Dickey makes his living: On some days -- on some of his best days, in fact -- he has no...
Today's Sports on Air
Baseball7 p.m.Twins at YankeesYES, WCBS (880 AM)Basketball9 p.m.NCAA Tournament Championship Game:Butler vs. Connecticut CBS, ESPN (1050 AM)Hockey7:30 p.m.Rangers at FlyersVS., WNYM (970 AM)10 p.m.Kings at SharksVS.Horse Racing12:35 p.m.ParxCh. 717:10 p.m.YonkersCh....
Zito's really Dialed In
It's been 20 years since trainer Nick Zito vaulted into the national spotlight, and an eventual berth in the Hall of Fame, by sending out Strike the Gold to win...
Hondo hopes to Connect
The big bad Bosawx remained on pace to go 0-162 yesterday as they flopped again against the Rangers to trim Hondo's earnings to 70 armstrongs. Tonight, at the Houston Dog...
The Post Line
NCAA BasketballChampionshipAt HoustonFavoriteLine UnderdogConnecticut3½ (128½)ButlerNHLFavoriteLineUnderdogRANGERS-105-115BruinsSHARKS$155-175KingsHome team in CAPS
Dissecting the Rangers' playoff race
Look, the three-point game is either a blight or a salvation, depending on your spot in the standings, but it would have been significantly worse for the Rangers had the...
Mickelson walks Verplank for Houston Open victory
Phil Mickelson won the Houston Open yesterday to jump to No. 3 in the world heading into his Masters title defense. Mickelson had weekend rounds of 63 and 65 at...
Wade eyes Heat-ed playoff showdown with Knicks
Dwyane Wade was nowhere to be seen for the famous Jeff Van Gundy leg-lock on Alonzo Mourning in the 1998 playoffs, but the Heat's All-Star guard knows the type of...
Nets no match for Heat
The worry was that the Nets would pull another one of their "Impressions of Inanimate Objects" tributes and play without even a modicum of energy. But against the Heat last...
Knicks earn first postseason berth in seven years with win over Cavs
For the first time in seven years, the Knicks are headed to the postseason, thanks to a 123-107 Garden win last night over the Cavs. Just like this up-and-down campaign,...
Mickelson gives golf needed jolt in dull season
AUGUSTA -- Let's hope the 2011 Masters at Augusta National becomes such a thrilling event, not only golf fans, but sports fans in general will be tweeting about it for...
Nuggets damage Lakers' shot at top seed
Danilo Gallinari scored 22 points, Kenyon Martin scored six of his 18 in the final 3:24, and the Nuggets hung on for their sixth straight win, 95-90, over the Lakers...
Now Knicks have to make April special
Knicks owner James Dolan moved around the team locker room at the Garden last night, shaking hands with each player. Dolan departed, dished out more hugs in the hallway. He...
Hurtin' Humphries will miss Nets next game
The good news is Kris Humphries' sprained right ankle is doing better. But Humphries' bruised right heel is not so good. So the combo injury that kept him out two...
Billups steps up for Knicks
The playoff-bound Knicks are riding a three-game winning streak, and Chauncey Billups is playing the best ball of his brief tenure in New York. The two facts are not unrelated,...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYApr. 4TUEApr. 5WEDApr. 6THUApr. 7FRIApr. 8SATApr. 9SUNApr. 10KnicksNOGAMETor.7:30MSGESPNPhil.7:00MSGESPNNOGAMENets7:00MSGESPNNOGAMEPacers7:00MSGESPNNetsNOGAMEMinn.7:00No TVWBBRDet.7:30No TVWBBRNOGAMEN.Y.K.7:00YESWBBRNOGAMETor.6:00YESWFANRangersBoston7:30TV -- VersusRadio -- ESPN 1050 AMNOGAMENOGAMEAtl.7:00MSGESPNNOGAMEDevs.12:30MSGESPNEndofReg.Sea.IslandersNOGAMENOGAMEBos.7:00MSG+2WRHUNOGAMEPitt.7:00MSG+WRHUPhil.7:00MSG+WRHUEndofReg.Sea.DevilsNOGAMEPitt.7:30VS.WNYMTor.7:00MSG+WNYMNOGAMENOGAMEN.Y.R.12:30MSG+WNYMBos.3:00MSG+.WBBRRed BullsNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEPhil.7:00ESPN2WADONOGAME
Prom princesses
With prom season fast approaching, teenage girls all over New York are scouring the city for their dream dresses. So The Post selected five lucky NYC high-schoolers — one from...
Weird but true
She wasn't drunk as a skunk -- more like a chicken. Cops in West Newbury, Mass., busted a middle-school teacher who they say was sloshed in front of her students....
NCAA tourney truths lost in noise of nonsense
Funny how it worked out, Saturday. After five hours and two games of endless analysis -- alerts to changes in defenses, tempos and 60-70 other things -- it came down,...
Butler win could launch new era for college basketball
HOUSTON -- Brad Stevens saved himself the ridicule. He never declared that Butler was going to become a national power, never talked about Final Fours or national championships. He surely...
UConn's Walker runs into his most D-termined foe
HOUSTON -- In their hotel room in the wee hours yesterday morning, after UConn had survived Kentucky to reach tonight's championship game against Butler, Donnell Beverly turned to roommate Kemba...
Notre Dame shocks UConn, faces Texas A&M for women's title
INDIANAPOLIS -- It's not often Maya Moore meets her match. Skylar Diggins was up to the task and Notre Dame will play for a national championship because of it. The...
Fifty-nine reasons to see this show
What’s in a number? Nothing — and everything — in a new exhibition at SET Gallery in Gowanus.“Project 59,” a retrospective of Irina Danilova’s collaboration with Hiram Levy running now...
His film ‘Rez’-onates
Nelson Hernandez sat in a hotel room 2,000 miles away from the only home he knew and came to a life-altering decision as he cried his eyes out. “Before I...
House training! Bridge Park supporters say condos are the best way to raise dough
Supporters of housing inside Brooklyn Bridge Park brought out the big guns last week to support residential units inside the park as the best way to meet a state mandate...
PSAL softball rankings
Outside of the top teams, this PSAL softball season is already shaping up to be unpredictable. Francis Lewis got off to a hot start with four wins, including one over...
Hit-happy Sea, Cautela take first meeting with rival Moore
In the preseason, St. Joseph by the Sea hailed itself as a different team stylistically than the past two seasons. It wasn’t going to beat you with the three-run homer...
Up-and-coming New Dorp hangs tough with Tottenville, but falls short
Ray Smith broke into an uneasy smile as he talked about Sunday’s narrow loss and his team’s failed opportunity in the sixth inning. New Dorp trailed defending PSAL Class A...
Hey, kids — let's not only put on a show, but also start a new theater company!
This show stinks — and we mean that in the best way possible.The newly formed Brooklyn Players Community Musical Theater will be putting on a production of “Urinetown: The Musical!”...
Bronx trio leads team to girls Mayor's Cup crown
Aquillin Hayes did it again. The Wings Academy senior won the PSAL Class A championship game for her team two weeks ago with an off-balance 3-pointer in the waning seconds...
Edison standout will take game, education to NYU
Alexi Bove Domenech had almost no choice. Basketball was in her blood and growing up she was around it all the time. Her father, Alex Domenech, was an avid streetball...
Midwood's Nikovic commits to Queens College, completing memorable year
Enees Nikovic’s greatest strengths on a basketball court are his soft hands and quick feet to go along with a 6-foot-7 frame. He’s quite the decision maker, too. The Park...
Shattered Japan gives lesson in humanity
Valiant Japanese survivors of the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami can give all of us a lesson in composure and civility as they try to piece together their torn...
Beef, beer and … (What, you need something else?)
— Meredith Delisomdeliso@cnglocal.com
Circus maximus! Coney Island Sideshow hosts reunion congress
— Meredith Delisomdeliso@cnglocal.com
Ticket master! Rev. Daughtry will control 'free' Nets seats
Want Nets tickets? You’ll have to make a higher calling.Rev. Herbert Daughtry, pastor of the House of the Lord Pentecostal Church in Boerum Hill, will have the final say over...
Heat roll over Nets to clinch division, 108-94
LeBron James had 31 points and 11 rebounds, and the Miami Heat clinched the Southeast Division title with a 108-94 victory over the struggling New Jersey Nets on Sunday night....
Knicks clinch playoffs with win over Cavs, 123-107
For the first time in seven years, the Knicks are headed to the postseason, thanks to a 123-107 win over the Cavaliers last night at the Garden. Like this stop-and-start,...
Tonight — offer your idea for helping Greenpoint
All it takes is a dream — and $1 million.The Hudson River Foundation will distribute dozens of grants — between $2,000 and $25,000 — to groups with an idea of...
Police probe mysterious death in B'klyn
Cops are investigating the mysterious death of a 62-year-old woman in her Brooklyn home early today. Nazar Hussein was found unconscious and unresponsive when police arrived at her East 14th...