March 2, 2012
Short-handed Rangers can't scratch Dubinsky
TAMPA, Fla. -- If Ryan Callahan’s bruised right foot had healed sufficiently enough to enable the captain to return to the Rangers lineup Friday night, or maybe even if Michael...
Death toll rises as tornadoes rip through central and southern US
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ind. — At least 27 people were killed in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio Friday night as a cluster of powerful tornadoes and severe storms left a trail of...
Five US soldiers involved in Koran burning, military inquiry will reveal
WASHINGTON -- Five soldiers were involved in the burning of Korans at a US airbase in Afghanistan which sparked violent protests across the war-torn country, The Washington Post reported Friday....
Monkees' lead singer Davy Jones reportedly to be buried in Florida
INDIANTOWN, Fla. -- Davy Jones, the British-born diminutive lead singer of the '60s pop-rock group The Monkees, will be buried in Florida, TMZ reported Friday. The entertainment website said a...
Star Syracuse seniors saying goodbye to Carrier Dome
SYRACUSE -- Jim Boeheim is cruising toward the 900th victory of his impressive coaching career at Syracuse, and he’s made a point in his 36 years at the helm of...
POST POWER RANKINGS: Two out of three ain't bad in Miami
With the All-Star Break taking away a chunk of NBA games this week, there weren’t major shakeups in our Power Rankings.Miami, who claimed the No.1 position last week, is atop...
Archie says Peyton's arm is 'fine'
Archie Manning said Friday that Peyton Manning’s arm is fine and the four-time NFL MVP has not suffered any further delays in his recovery after missing all of 2011 due...
Yankees shut out South Florida; A-Rod 1-for-2
TAMPA -- Curtis Granderson hit an RBI single in his only at-bat and the Yankees beat the University of South Florida 11-0 on Friday. Granderson drove in Derek Jeter, who...
Calhoun returns to UConn practice after back surgery
STORRS, Conn. -- Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun returned to practice Friday four days after undergoing back surgery. The Hall of Fame coach was back with a whistle around his...
Tiger 7 back at Honda Classic
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- Tom Gillis has been just about everywhere in golf except atop the leaderboard on the PGA Tour. Gillis at least gave himself a chance Friday...
Cashman says cuts won't change Yankees' goals
TAMPA -- Yankees general manager Brian Cashman says even with planned payroll cuts the team will still out spend everyone else in baseball. “That’s not going to change,” Cashman said...
Julie Taymor claims there was a 'Spider-Man' plot
Director Julie Taymor has hit back at her former creative partners in "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," arguing in court papers that she was the victim of a conspiracy to...
NFL says Saints paid bounty for injuring opponents
New Orleans Saints players and at least one assistant coach maintained a bounty program the last three seasons for inflicting game-ending injuries on opposing players, including Brett Favre and Kurt...
Obama phones student called 'slut' by Limbaugh
WASHINGTON — Rush Limbaugh drew fire Friday from many directions, including President Barack Obama, for his depiction of a college student as a "slut" because she testified before Congress about...
NYC man faces sentencing in homegrown terror case
Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a New York born man convicted last year of traveling to the Middle East to avenge abuse of Muslims. Betim Kaziu is due...
Lopez wants to play with Howard in Brooklyn
BOSTON -- If Brook Lopez had his way, he would be alongside Dwight Howard next year. In Brooklyn. With the Nets.With the NBA trading deadline approaching, Lopez, the still-young Nets...
Q&A: Martina Navratilova and Tony Dovolani (VIDEO)
One of the greatest athletes of all time is being picked to finish dead last on “Dancing with the Stars.”At least one online bookmaker is giving 55 year-old Martina Navratilova...
Hixon re-signs with Giants
Domenik Hixon is back, again, re-signing with the Giants on Friday after taking a physical examination for the team that has not given up on the receiver/kick returner who has...
Q&A: Melissa Gilbert and Maksim Chermkovskiy (VIDEO)
Controversial "Dancing with the Stars" pro Maksim Chermkovskiy has strict rules for his latest celebrity partner, Melissa Gilbert: “I am not allowed to talk in rehearsals,” the actress tells The...
'American Idol' recap: Ladies night and America, this is on you
It's our very first results night on "Idol," and the Seacrest refuses to disappoint. Let's quickly recap what happened with the ladies on Wednesday… First of all, whose decision was...
Baseball expands playoff format from 8 teams to 10
Major League Baseball is expanding its playoff format to 10 teams. MLB announced the move Friday, adding two clubs to the postseason format. A second wild-card team now will be...
Banker stabbed cabbie -- then bragged he'd get away because he 'pays $10K in taxes': docs
An allegedly "drunk" high-powered Morgan Stanley investment banker screamed " I'm going to kill you, you should go back to your own country" before stabbing a terrified New York cab...
Elevator man gets two years in prison for $1M rip-off
Going down! A crooked elevator-company owner was sentenced today to two years in the slammer for cheating his workers out of more than $1 million in wages. John "Jack" O'Shea,...
Nets (11-25) at Celtics (17-17)
Game Time: 8:30 p.m.Venue: TD Bank Garden, BostonTelevision: YES NetworkNets expected starting lineup: PG Deron Williams: 21.9 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 8.3 apgSG MarShon Brooks: 14.3 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 2.0 apgSF...
Knicks practice with Lin, Davis sharing backcourt
Mike D’Antoni’s experimenting continued at Friday’s Knicks scrimmage that was highlighted by point guards Jeremy Lin and Baron Davis in the backcourt together. The Knicks are amid a quasi-training camp...
27 years for NYC terror wannabe
An American-born jihadist who hoped to kill US soldiers overseas was today sentenced to 27 years in prison, by a judge who called the wannabe terrorist a traitor. "You grew...
FDNY frees worker trapped in Harlem trench collapse
A worker miraculously dodged death after the ground collapsed today, sending a massive boulder toppling over him as he lay trapped underneath a wall of dirt at a Harlem construction...
Jets' free agency needs: wide receiver
This is the third in a nine-part series examining the Jets' needs position by position as free agency begins. Today, a look at the wide receivers. WIDE RECEIVERS Currently on...
Joba, Mo throw at Yankees camp
TAMPA -- Yankees relievers Joba Chamberlain and Mariano Rivera threw bullpen sessions at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Friday.Chamberlain, who is coming back from Tommy John surgery in June, threw...
Worker falls through subway grate in Manhattan
A worker fell through a subway grate in downtown Manhattan on Friday, according to New York City Fire Department officials. The worker, who is in his 60s, was rushed to...
Fla. man gets 10 years in prison for swindling 2 NY women
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for swindling two New York women, each of whom he promised to marry, out of...
Banker charged with cabby stabbing put on leave
Morgan Stanley is putting Manhattan investment banker W. Bryan Jennings, who was charged with stabbing a cab driver over a late-night fare, on a leave of absence, The Post has...
Bronx ADA fired from her job pleads guilty to DUI, gets no jail time
The Bronx prosecutor who was allegedly driving drunk and later lost her job in the DA's office accepted a deal in the case this morning and pleaded guilty to DUI,...
In honor of the good doctor Seuss
I loved Dr. Seuss growing up (as who did not?) and felt special regional pride in that he, like myself and everybody I went to school with in East Longmeadow, was...
Gun-toting teen busted after fatally shooting man in Queens
A gun-toting punk was busted moments after fatally blasting a man in the chest in Queens today, police said. Police officers raced to the scene after hearing gunfire break out...
‘Jersey Shore’ recap – Season 5, episode 9
Last night’s episode of Jersey Shore started by squashing one Snooki cliffhanger and ended with a new one.The episode opened with Vinny and Snooki returning from their boardwalk date and...
Cops track thief using their own iPhone Feature
A tech savvy cop using a special feature on his iphone tracked down a young punk who swiped a woman’s iPhone on a Soho street, police said. The victim was...
3UP: Yankees budget, Pineda, Brien Taylor
1. In today’s Post I wrote this column about Hal Steinbrenner publicly confirming that the Yankees are determined to get under the $189 million luxury-tax threshold in 2014 because of...
Mystery man 'M.B.' says he 'noticed there was a web cam' in Rutgers spy trial
Defense lawyers tried to portray him in daylong testimony as older, dangerous, and vaguely predatory. But in the sensational Rutgers University hate cam trial, the mystery prosecution witness at the...
Seven wounded in suicide attack on NATO convoy in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a NATO convoy in the insurgency-hit southern province of Kandahar on Friday, wounding seven people including four soldiers, an official...
More than 55 dead in northwestern Pakistan violence
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least 55 people were killed Friday in violence in Pakistan's troubled northwestern tribal region of Kyhber, which borders Afghanistan, local officials said. Twenty-two people were killed...
Suicide bomber hits Pakistan militant base; 23 die
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber killed 23 people, many of them believed to be militants, in an attack Friday on the headquarters of a rival insurgent group in northwest...
Aid groups reach devastated Homs neighborhood as UN warns of 'grisly' executions
HOMS, Syria -- Seven trucks carrying urgent humanitarian aid supplies reached Homs on Friday and will soon enter the Baba Amr neighborhood, a day after Syrian Army troops overran the...
Wealthy widow mistreats illegal maid. What's the crime, exactly?
According to an explosive report by Todd Venezia, a very rich widow living in a Saratoga County mansion, kept an illegal alien maid slvaing over the cooking, the cleaning and...
Unfair Obama, won't help unarmed Syrians
What an incredible turn of events. President Obama, who speaks of fairness day in and day out, as if he is the only true arbiter of that term, won't allow...
'Twilight' star Pattinson wants to party with his dad ... at German fetish club
BERLIN -- Robert Pattinson has found a bizarre way to bond with his dad -- partying at a German fetish club. The 25-year-old "Twilight" star, nicknamed R-Patz, visited Berlin's infamous...
George Clooney does not care if people think he is gay
LOS ANGELES -- George Clooney has addressed long-running rumors about his sexuality, claiming that he does not "give a s**t" if people think he is gay. The 50-year-old "Descendants" star...
ALL THAT JAS: Alston, Loughlin want to end inconsistent season on high note
Every other week during the season, Bishop Loughlin’s star junior guard Jasmine Alston takes us into her world on and off the court. In this exclusive diary for NYPost.com, Alston...
Girls basketball roundup: Fontbonne reaches third straight B/Q Division II final
Fontbonne Hall will get another chance at an elusive diocesan title. Cindy Henderson, who battled through foul trouble and Kate Oliver each had 11 points for the second-seeded Bonnies in...
INSIDE PSAL GIRLS HOOPS: New Dorp in 'A' quarters despite coaching change, Midwood continues streak
The transition was an easy one on paper. When Alex Immella stepped down as New Dorp girls basketball coach in December, Michael Padmore was there to fill the slot. Padmore...
Albuquerque man says he registered dog to vote
ALBUQUERQUE, NM — A man who went on Albuquerque television anonymously to say he was able to register his dog to vote has been outed as the husband of a...
Lafayette knocks off Construction, moves on to quarterfinals
In past years, as Lafayette hovered near the bottom of Brooklyn A South, Danny Catrambone wondered what it would be like to have his full complement of players. There was...
VIDEO: Bishop Ford's Aaliyah Lewis beats Molloy with improbable shot
Aaliyah Lewis was taking the final shot and what a shot it was. “I wanted the ball,” the Bishop Ford guard said. “I called for the ball. I wanted to...
Nazareth to regroup with state playoffs on the horizon
Nazareth is picked a bad time to not be playing its best basketball. “I’m a little concerned,” West Virginia-bound point guard Darius Faulk said. “I think we need more heart.”...
All in: Gaels upset Xaverian, advance to CHSAA 'AA' quarterfinals
Ethan Hamlet was swatted moments earlier on a corner 3-pointer as the shot clock ran down. The All Hallows junior sharpshooter wasn’t too pleased with the sequence. “Getting blocked sucks,”...
Matured Christ the King stuns Nazareth, heads to B/Q final
Kollyns Scarbrough couldn’t believe what she was watching and that was even before her Christ the King team finished off an upset of Nazareth. Sophomore star Sierra Calhoun had just...
CHSAA Class B boys basketball final preview
NYPost.com’s CHSAA boys basketball beat writer Marc Raimondi breaks down Friday’s Class B championship game between No. 1 Nazareth and No. 2 St. Agnes, set for 6 p.m. at Fordham...
CHSAA Class A boys basketball final preview
NYPost.com’s CHSAA boys basketball beat writer Marc Raimondi takes a look at Friday’s Class A championship game between Iona Prep and St. Edmund Prep, set for 7:45 p.m. at Fordham...
Lewis' miracle shot sends Bishop Ford to first-ever Brooklyn/Queens final
Aaliyah Lewis called for the ball, but didn't call glass. “I didn’t even know the ball went in,” she said. “I just saw the crowd go wild. Then I knew...
Knicks’ Novak finds success long distance from home
Steve Novak’s father, Brown Deer (Wisc.) High School athletic director Mike Novak, may or may not catch the whole fourth quarter of the Knicks-Bucks game at Milwaukee’s Bradley Center one...
Harvard connection told Obama about Lin
President Obama said he knew about something that, for a time, no one in the NBA did: the brilliance of Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin. In a podcast yesterday with...
In-demand Blackburn may not return to Giants
The requests continue to flow in, one after another as if there’s not enough of Chase Blackburn to go around. “It’s been ridiculous, actually,’’ Richard Katz, Blackburn’s agent, told The...
Jets could re-sign veteran LB Thomas
The longest-tenured Jets player may be sticking around for at least another season. The Jets are considering re-signing free-agent outside linebacker Bryan Thomas, according to two sources. Thomas missed most...
Davis could take Lin's starting spot for Knicks
Can there be a Knicks point-guard controversy come April if backup Baron Davis continues to rise and Jeremy Lin’s game flattens out? It is no longer a Linsane thought. Mike...
Islanders lose to Flyers
PHILADELPHIA -- Another early goal was enough for Flyers coach Peter Laviolette to rip into his players. Unfortunately for the Islanders, it worked. Matt Read scored twice and Jaromir Jagr...
Iona star Machado MAAC Player of the Year
Iona senior point guard Scott Machado was named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Player of the Year Thursday night at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. He led the Gaels (24-6,...
Rangers captain Callahan sidelined by bruised foot
RALEIGH, N.C. — Though the Rangers have been forced to deal with significant injuries on defense, the Eastern Conference leaders have been extremely lucky regarding their health up front, their...
Davis says Knicks will win championship this season
Baron Davis looks across the practice gym and then up, at the championship banners that hang in the Knicks’ facility in Greenburgh. I ask him if he realizes that the...
Pervert who put semen in yogurt sample is jailed in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A New Mexico grocery store worker who misled shoppers into tasting a yogurt sample tainted with his semen was slammed Thursday for his "disgusting, despicable" crime by...
LIVE BLOG RECAP: PSAL Class AA girls basketball quarterfinals
The PSAL Class AA girls basketball regular season was filled with twists and turns. The postseason should be no different.On Saturday, the quarterfinals descend on Hunter College with four action-packed...
Yankees owner will cut payroll with young pitchers
TAMPA — The man who signs the checks believes the additions of Hiroki Kuroda and Michael Pineda improved the Yankees from a year ago. Hal Steinbrenner also thinks a stable...
Yankees get ready for financial detox
You have to think of the Yankees as addicts, and their drug of choice for, oh, about the last 35 years has been the expensive contract that has a famous...
Yankees support Cashman in off-field matters
TAMPA — Hal Steinbrenner said the organization is backing Brian Cashman during the general manager’s involvement in a complicated stalking situation that is playing out in New York while the...
Kuroda ‘very impressive’ throwing for Yankees
TAMPA — Hiroki Kuroda already has claimed a Yankees rotation spot because of his experience as a starter in Japan and Los Angeles. However, the right-hander, who signed a one-year,...
Highly touted Lewis benched by Christ the King coach indefinitely
Isaiah Lewis, one of the city’s top prospects, has been benched indefinitely, Christ the King coach Joe Arbitello said after his team beat Archbishop Stepinac, 77-53, in the CHSAA Class...
PSAL boys basketball playoff roundup: Conway leads Evander to 'A' quarters
Jaquan Conway’s latest stellar performance lifted Evander Childs to the PSAL Class A quarterfinals. The senior guard surpassed the 1,000-point plateau with 30 points and added six rebounds and five...
NYSAISAA boys basketball roundup: Poly Prep edges Columbia Prep, will face Fieldston in 'B' semis
Brian Lissak and Columbia Prep proved they belong among the area’s top private schools, though the Lions' season came to an end in the process. Sixth-seeded Columbia Prep fell to...
Tech tweaks help car sales shift into high gear
America’s love affair with cars is vrooming back — fueled by an accelerating passion for tech-tweaked models.US carmakers reported yesterday that sales in February hit an annualized 14 million rate...
Business briefs
Oil fired upOil futures jumped over $110.55 a barrel in after-hours trading yesterday following a report of a pipeline explosion in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi official told CNBC the report,...
Madoff moneyman Merkin near $400M AG deal
After a bitter three-year legal battle, Ezra Merkin, the Manhattan moneyman who funneled more than $2 billion to convicted Ponzi king Bernie Madoff, is nearing a settlement with the New...
Sumner to miss mtg.
Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone won’t attend the company’s annual meeting on March 8 in New York. Redstone, 88, will address investors in a video, Carl Folta, a spokesman, said in...
Disney: boss’ role, pay on par
Walt Disney Co. defended its executive structure and pay yesterday after a shareholder governance group criticized Chief Executive Bob Iger’s compensation and his added role as chairman. Disney, in filings...
AT&T data hogs facing new speed limits
AT&T said it will start slowing the data speeds of customers with unlimited wireless plans once they reach a certain threshold, seeking to cope with soaring mobile traffic and limited...
Huey re-upping at Time
Time Inc. CEO Laura Lang has been on the job for three months now and it seems that one of her decisions — namely, who will run the editorial operations...
Vestar’s $3.7B fund a tough sell
While the equity markets and US economy slowly recover from the Great Recession, one of the country’s oldest private-equity firms is experiencing a tough stretch.Vestar Capital Partners, which in March...
Ungaro unglued
The House of Emanuel Ungaro is losing its home. The flailing French fashion label has struck a deal to sell its flagship boutique in Paris — opened in 1967 by...
Zynga is anti-social
Zynga is launching a new games service that allows users to play on the company’s website instead of Facebook, potentially driving traffic away from the world’s No. 1 social network...
SEC Booz bender
The Securities and Exchange Commission is spending millions of dollars on consultants to streamline the agency, but insiders are questioning whether the SEC is getting its money’s worth. Some agency...
Yelp IPO raises $107M
Yelp’s initial public offering was met with positive reviews, allowing the company to price shares at $15 — above its expected range. The company, led by CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, set...
WWE smackdown
Vince McMahon’s plan to expand his Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment empire through a dedicated cable channel is on the ropes. Although WWE’s TV shows draw big ratings, it has yet to...
FCC may table Dish wireless
Dish Network’s bid for US permission to offer a high-speed wireless network may face resistance from the Federal Communications Commission, two analysts said. The agency yesterday proposed writing new rules...
Target, Gap sales bust out
Gap and Target were among US retailers posting February same-store sales gains that topped analysts’ estimates as unseasonably warm weather boosted purchases of spring merchandise. Sales at Gap, the largest...
Rutgers Web cam shown
Jurors in the Rutgers privacy-invasion trial saw pictures yesterday of the spy cam that caught Tyler Clementi kissing a man, allegedly spurring Clementi’s suicide.Prosecutors showed images of the cam —...
UWS row-house row
A onetime Food Network star has declared war on a Wall Street hot shot over the renovation of his tony Upper West Side townhouse next door.Jackie Lee, 48, said construction...
Chelsea club crackdown
A recent spate of violence outside the popular Chelsea hot spot Shadow — where a clubgoer recently opened fire outside — has neighbors gunning for the club’s liquor license and...
Broken elevator forces firefighters to trudge up 20 flights of stairs to save Brooklyn woman
Broken elevators in a Brooklyn building forced firefighters to trek a torturous 20 stories early yesterday to rescue an 89-year-old woman from her burning apartment, authorities said. It took the...
Thug must pay back NASCAR
A Gambino crime-family mobster who owes thousands of dollars to NASCAR needs to put the pedal to the metal.Mob soldier Ernest Grillo was ordered by a federal judge yesterday to...
Cops hunt for two men who used slain Brookyln cafe owner’s credit cards
Cops are hunting for two men who they say used the credit cards of a slain Brooklyn cafe owner hours after his torched body was found dumped in the Pennsylvania...
The bell tolls for ‘$coffs’
The free ride is over. The cash-strapped Port Authority slapped 20 habitual toll evaders with lawsuits yesterday, part of a new crackdown aimed at recouping millions in lost revenue from...
Upstate widow accused of violating law with ‘slave’ maid
A wealthy upstate widow allegedly turned her multimillion-dollar mansion into a “forced labor” camp where her helpless immigrant maid worked 17-hour days for years while sleeping in a closet. Annie...
FDNY-NYPD haymaker
The city has doled out a $250,000 settlement to a city firefighter who was falsely arrested for running a social club out of his Brooklyn home — and then exiled...
Video foils cop ‘lie’
Brooklyn transit worker John Hockenjos, accused of forcing a cop to leap for his life by speeding into a driveway, was cleared yesterday after surveillance video showed Officer Diego Palacios’...
Meet Dr. Blotto
He was too drunk to walk — but not to work. A Brooklyn doctor who was falling-down drunk when he got busted by the feds in a massive insurance-fraud scheme...
City pols find ‘fault’ in auto-crash law
ALBANY — Pols and prosecutors yesterday called for tougher penalties against no-fault auto-insurance scam artists in the wake of allegations that Russian mobsters cheated legitimate ratepayers out of $279 million.Brooklyn...
Sheriff calls O liar, forger
WASHINGTON — Arizona’s Sheriff Joe wants to “pull over” President Obama.Facing a federal grand jury probe, charges of racial profiling and a Justice Department lawsuit, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** Police yesterday released a photo of the bearded, gray-haired hoodlum wanted in the botched robbery of an Upper West Side bank. The thief, in his 60s and sporting...
‘Gun’ teen’s bail bid nixed
A Bronx judge yesterday threw out a request to reduce bail for a 15-year-old accused in the bike-by shooting of 8-year-old Armando Bigo. Eduardo Rodriguez’s lawyer wanted the bail lowered...
Fat cat ‘stabs’ cabby
You know times are tough when a banker pulls a knife on a cabby over the fare. A city investment banker has been busted on charges of stabbing a taxi...
DNA clue in maid slay: DA
A cleaning lady murdered and left to decompose in an air shaft in her Rector Street workplace in 2009 will have the final word against the maintenance man who suffocated...
iPhone crook targets gals
Ladies, hide your iPhones. At least nine women have had their pricey Apple cellphones stolen by a bike-riding crook who targets his victims as they exit Upper East Side subway...
Right pillar falls
Conservative gadfly Andrew Breitbart, whose online expose triggered the downfall of former Rep. Anthony Weiner, died of a suspected heart attack yesterday at the age of 43. Breitbart was walking...
Bronx Bravest busted in ‘Mafia gambling ring’
A Bronx firefighter has been busted for his ties to an alleged $2 million-a-year, mob-run gambling and money-laundering ring.Thomas McMahon, of Ladder Co. 38 in Belmont, was one of eight...
Iraqi kid kills American teacher
A northern Iraqi student pulled a gun in a crowded classroom yesterday and shot his American teacher to death as terrified classmates fled the room, then killed himself. Witnesses said...
Drive-test ‘scam’
A sleazy Brooklyn driving school didn’t care if its non-English-speaking students could read the DMV’s written exam — it had the answers and fed them to the clients using a...
Win for Assad
Defeated Syrian rebels abandoned their shattered stronghold in Homs, giving way to a 26-day army assault on a city that had become a symbol of the year-long revolt against President...
Brit beast ban
LONDON — British circuses will no longer be permitted to use wild animals under government plans announced yesterday.Lawmakers vowed to have draft regulations before Parliament this summer.A circus elephant named...
Leaping to a record
PROVO, Utah — A woman has tied a record after she gave birth on a third consecutive Leap Day. David and Louise Estes’ daughter Jade was born Wednesday in Provo....
Bieber’s b’day
Batten down the hatches: Justin Bieber turned 18 yesterday. And while the pop superstar didn’t divulge his personal plans for the milestone day, fans knew he got at least one...
The out inn
You’ll have a gay ol’ time. New York’s first “straight friendly” gay hotel opened in Hell’s Kitchen yesterday, welcoming the gay and lesbian set to an urban- style resort designed...
Five unsafest hosps hazardous to health
A bombshell new survey has found that five metropolitan-area hospitals are among the most dangerous in the nation. Of the 1,045 hospitals surveyed nationwide, Jacobi Medical Center in The Bronx...
Chuck’s Rx for doc crisis
ALBANY — A looming medical crisis can be avoided, Sen. Charles Schumer insisted yesterday while announcing a plan to introduce legislation to ward off a doctor shortage upstate.More than 40...
Beth Israel ‘fraud’ settle
Beth Israel Medical Center has agreed to cough up more than $13 million to settle allegations that it fraudulently inflated its fees to boost payments from Medicare.A civil suit filed...
3 ‘gang’ guys shot in Qns.
Three alleged gang members were shot by a drive-by gunman in a Wendy’s parking lot in Queens yesterday.The members of the MS-13 gang were shot at about 3 p.m. at...
Police took steak dinners, gifts for quashing probe: sources
A wealthy accountant spent thousands of dollars wining and dining top Nassau County cops — showering one with gift cards and sports tickets — as he orchestrated a corrupt effort...
Ruling puts load on Levon
“The Weight” is over for the drummer and singer of the ’60s rock group The Band — he’s lost his eight-year legal battle over the rights to its signature song....
Liu gal’s ‘cruel’ fate
A day after she was slapped with federal fraud charges for alleged illegal fund-raising on behalf of John Liu’s mayoral campaign, Jia “Jenny” Hou described New York as a “cruel...
Forgive me, I have thinned
Jail is hell. A longtime clerk for the Archdiocese of New York looked like an elderly waif — her clothes hanging from her body — as she pleaded not guilty...
Ed. bigs admit dropping ball on Medicaid $$
Top education brass admitted yesterday the city is missing out on tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements because the Department of Education failed to meet stricter school-claim regulations...
‘Granny killer’ 2nd slay rap
A Harlem man charged with killing his 76-year-old grandmother went on trial yesterday — for allegedly strangling a Brooklyn cross-dresser.But Larry Davis’ lawyer, Martin Goldberg, tried to pin Richard “Denise”...
‘Cheat’ heart’s defense
She was his very personal assistant. That’s the stunning defense that glamorous, Russian-born Renata Shamrakova unveiled yesterday after pleading not guilty to charges that she looted party-boy hedge-funder Todd Meister...
2 ‘Koran’ slayings
Two GIs were slain yesterday in the latest violence sparked by the burning of copies of the Koran on a military base last month. That makes six NATO troops killed...
Kardashian sisters accused of false diet pill claims in $5 million complaint
Kim Kardashian made a buttload of bogus claims promoting a brand of over-the-counter diet pills, a new suit charges. The shapely celeb and her sisters, Khloe and Kourtney, were slapped...
Whitney-pic funeral fury
The owner of the Newark funeral home that handled services for Whitney Houston said yesterday it had nothing to do with a photograph that surfaced last week showing the singer’s...
Bam’s bucks in a row with NY $$-raisers
President Obama hit a big-bucks milestone in New York City last night — his 100th re-election fund-raiser. Obama attended four events, including parties at private homes and a soiree at...
Pentagon ’Net loss
WASHINGTON — The US military’s Defense Information Systems Agency shut down access to the Internet and BlackBerry service yesterday while trying to fixan unspecified problem. The shutdown, which came around...
Romney roaring past Rick
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney yesterday was back in the driver’s seat after his narrow first-place finish in the Michigan Republican primary this week. A new national poll showed the former...
Dems kill Pill bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats made their Republican colleagues swallow a bitter pill yesterday by killing legislation that would have allowed for religious exemptions to providing access to birth control.“I saw...
Diplo’s E. Side bullet scare
A Dutch diplomat was preparing for bed when a bullet shattered a window of her 43rd-floor apartment on the Upper East Side, The Post has learned.Wilhelmina Holland, 37, heard an...
Breitbart: Media Rebel With a Cause
Andrew Breitbart — my dear wild friend, who died yesterday at the heartbreakingly young age of 43 — could have become a mainstream media mogul, perhaps the first true mogul...
Missed Opportunity
President Obama will speak before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Sunday and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. Expect a lot of soothing words about...
Look homeward, governor
Great timing for Lynne Stewart’s sentencing appeal. The radical attorney’s legal team argued in court Wednesday that the 10-year sentence she received for smuggling messages to supporters of her imprisoned...
Requiem for a heavyweight
Andrew Breitbart was a provocateur. He said so himself. But sometimes things need to be shaken up — a job tailor-made for the conservative pundit and online innovator. He was...
NYC’s mayoral wannabes: Tools of the teachers union
The Issue: New York City mayoral hopefuls’ opposition to the release of teacher-data reports. *** All of these mayoral candidates are leftists and are supported by the teachers union (“Where...
Crystal’s picture-imperfect jab
The Issue: Billy Crystal’s comments about Kodak, which recently filed for bankruptcy, during the Oscars. *** Kudos to Kyle Smith for taking Billy Crystal to task for his cheap shots...
'Frack nation'
Fracking is probably one of the most misunderstood words in the English language. Thanks to the Oscarnominated documentary “Gasland,” many people believe fracking — a process of getting natural gas...
NY lawmakers’ pathetic punt
The Legislature is expected at last to vote on redistricting next week — although not on a plan for new congressional seats. Its foot-dragging is undoing all of the goodwill...
A play goes up in a Greenpoint window
It's easy to miss 94 Norman Ave., a theater set in an abandoned retail space right off the Nassau G stop in Greenpoint. The empty storefront usually has the grate...
Teen flick truly ‘X’-ecrable
You’ve got to hand it to Warner Brothers and producer Todd Phillips (“The Hangover”): They have painstakingly engineered the perfect film for today’s attention-impaired audiences. Are you a texter? A...
All about a ‘Boy’ who loves dolphins
Growing up in New Zealand, 11-year-old Boy (James Rolleston) is a chronic bully target, Michael Jackson fanatic and inveterate dreamer who lives with his grandmother, his little brother and an...
Not-so-mighty ‘Flynn’
Robert De Niro has been self-parodying his glory days for most of the past decade, so it’s unfortunately not surprising he would consent to get back behind the wheel of...
Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
It would be insulting to refer to “Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie” as amateurish — insulting to amateurs everywhere. Operating under the mistaken assumption that they are funny, two...
Last Days Here
Riddled with sores, his lips locked on a crack pipe, the “sub-basement”-dwelling subject of this cult-rock doc initially seems plucked from an episode of “Intervention,” or maybe “Hoarders.” But back...
Let the Bullets Fly
‘Let the Bullets Fly’’ — China’s highest-grossing film of all time — stars action hero Chow Yun-fat and the movie’s director-writer, Jiang Wen, as competing crooks in Goose Town, a...
‘Carrie’: blood lite & boring
There are two ways to bring back a flop. The first is to believe the show was good but badly staged, and to have a visionary set things right. The...
In ’Sleep’ trouble
Composer Michael Garin was getting ready to decamp to Los Angeles to work on the new musical “Sleepless in Seattle” when his girlfriend looked up from her computer and said,...
The Snowtown Murders
Overlong and grim to the point where some scenes are virtually unwatchable, this Australian docu-drama was inspired by a gruesome series of serial killings in a suburb of Adelaide where...
Black Butterflies
‘Black Butterflies’’ is a conventional account of the life of an unconventional woman, 1960s South African poet Ingrid Jonker, a tormented soul sometimes likened to American writer Sylvia Plath (“The...
The Snore-ax
I am the critic, I speak to displease: “The Lorax” is awful, like chronic disease. There’s no fun in “The Lorax,” no joy in its theme; It’s as boring as...
5 questions for ‘Doc’ Emrick
NBC Sports play-by-play man Mike “Doc” Emrick talked with The Post’s Justin Terranova about the Rangers quiet trade deadline, their playoff potential, and the ceremony the Devils honored him with...
Meadowlands Graded Entries
Post Time: 7:00 p.m.Best Bet: Four Starz Credit (9th)FIRST: mile trot; $10,500; cond5 Marian's Man(YGingras)1-1-54-14 Two Shot Lead(JCampbell)6-1-67-27 Windsun Galaxie(BSears)2-7-45-21 Rev It Now(AMiller)4-4-46-12 Doully(BDobson)1-10-515-13 Mystical Con(TTetrick)3-3-410-16 Stir Me Up(MLancaster)1-2-412-18 Halfpipe(RPierce)3-4-58-19...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-mile; pace; $11,825; cond4HevensBttorhlf(BSrs)26.4011.805.408Gray Olives (C Callahan)10.604.409Rei Of Sunshine (D Miller)3.40* Exacta (4-8) $502.40 * Trifecta (4-8-9) $1,493.80SECOND-mile; trot; $8,500; cond 1AmrcnHotRd(TTtrck)3.602.802.802WhateverLolawnts(DMller)11.807.605Buzz Bomb (J Meittinis)7.00* Exacta (1-2) $35.40 * Trifecta...
Gulfstream Analysis
Post Time: 1:05 p.m.FIRST-1 mile; $16,500; clm($12,500); 3YOTOASTING MIA returns to route after finishing second. JONATHAN C goes turf to dirt and drops in class. BLUE KING showed nothing this...
Gulfstream Results
FIRST-1 mile; $25,000; clm($15,000); 3YO 2 Spelberg (Margh) 10.20 3.00 2.20 1 Sngng My Wy (Velzquez) 2.10 2.10 4 Chicks Dig Me (Sanchez) 2.40 * Exacta (2-1) $16.60 * $1...
Aqueduct Analysis
1. 1 mile; $30,000; clm($12,500); 4up(f)WISE CHOICE closed to finish third going longer two back in last start for a tag. G.A. EMPRESS came from far back to finish second...
Jockey injured in seven-horse spill
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — A jockey is hospitalized in stable condition after a spill involving seven horses and riders at the Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races. Chief Steward Danny...
Tomorrow’s Aqueduct Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-1m&70yds; $67,000; alw; 4up PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 SmoothTranstn(L),118D Cohen4-2-4Englehart5-12 CalgaryEnforcr(L),113SCamchJr5-2-1C Martin20-13 Idle American(L),118A Garcia2-4-1P Kelly3-14 Chardsey(L),118CVelasquz8-6-7Englehrt12-15 Fortitude(L),118C Lopez2-5-3Schsberg4-16 Mr. Vantastic(L),118RDomingz3-5-6Barker6-17 Ess Shape(L),118JRodriguz8-6-2F Martin50-18...
Aqueduct Charts
March 1st, 2012 Cloudy and Muddy©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 fur; $33,000; clm($14,000); 3YO(f)Off: 12:50. Good. vied inside, drew clrTime: 23.18, 47.49, 1:.21, 1:13.75.Trainer: John ParisellaWinner: B F, 3, by...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYMar. 2SATMar. 3SUNMar. 4MONMar. 5TUEMar. 6WEDMar. 7THUMar. 8KnicksNO GAMENO GAMEBos. 1:00 ABCESPNNO GAMEDal.8:30MSGESPNS.A.8:30MSGESPNNO GAMENetsBoston 7:30YES NetworkWBBR 1130 AMNO GAMEChar. 6:00 YESWFANNO GAMEMia. 7:30 YESWNYML.A.C. 8:00 YESWFANNO GAMERangersTampa Bay7:30MSG NetworkESPN 1050...
The Post Line
NCAA Basketball Favorite Line Underdog KENT ST. 3 Akron Ohio 3 MIAMI, Ohio Harvard 6 1/2 COLUMBIA CORNELL 10 Dartmouth PENN 15 Brown PRINCETON 4 1/2 Yale NOTRE DAME 12...
Sports Shorts
HOOPS: NYU wins in Division III tourney The New York University advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament with an 84-65 victory over visiting Misericordia University...
Love leads; Woods 7 shots back
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Davis Love III looked more like a player than a Ryder Cup captain yesterday at the Honda Classic. Love made a hole-in-one on the 197-yard...
Devils defeated by Bruins in overtime, fourth loss in row
BOSTON -- Even overtime, their season’s savior, couldn’t halt the Devils’ losing streak. The Devils were able to take solace from their first point since Feb. 21, but they visit...
Rangers defeat Hurricanes with backup Biron
RALEIGH, N.C. — The key moments of yet another Rangers’ victory came eight minutes into the second period when, with his team trailing 1-0, Martin Biron made an outstanding pad...
Bubble trouble for Xavier after brawl
We’re about to learn whether one of our most sage expressions — “Justice delayed is justice denied” — might not be true, or at least in need of some fixing,...
Mets, Yankees react to wild-card plan
If the expanded playoff format Major League Baseball is expected to adopt in the next day or two had been in effect last season, Bobby Valentine might not be managing...
Pirates' Burnett to miss 2-3 months after facial surgery
Former Yankee A.J. Burnett will have surgery today to repair a fractured right orbital bone. The Pirates right-hander injured himself on Wednesday at the team’s spring training facilities in Bradenton,...
Nets relish being 'villains' on road
After winning five road games all of last season, the Nets have already claimed eight victories away from home in this lockout-shortened season. So what has changed? “I guess we...
Santana sharp pitching batting practice at Mets camp
PORT ST. LUCIE — David Wright lofted a fly ball to left field yesterday that died near the warning track. “Oh, you lucky [bleep]!” Wright yelled toward Johan Santana as...
Mets would use Turner if Davis can't play at first
PORT ST. LUCIE — Though Lucas Duda is a first baseman by trade, he won’t be the Mets’ backup at that position this season. Justin Turner will have that duty,...
Pitching prospect Harvey out to alter Mets’ plan
PORT ST. LUCIE — The plan is for Matt Harvey to start the season at Double-A Binghamton. Harvey’s plan is to re-write the plan. “The biggest goal is to get...
Billy would find latest Yankees' bonding funny
TAMPA — Yankees fans are still a little lukewarm about Joe Girardi, let’s be honest. Yes, he won a championship his second year on the job, 2009. Yes, he brings...
Why Allen Iverson isn’t broke -- and can't be for years
Last month, when a Georgia judge seized the bank account of Allen Iverson in order to pay out a substantial debt for an unpaid jewelry bill amounting to $859,896.46, the...
Knicks fans love Chandler's fight
He’s a California native, but New York blood courses through Tyson Chandler’s veins now. The 7-foot-1 Knicks center with the Sacha Baron Cohen “Dictator’’ beard — and the centerpiece acquisition...
Knicks star Lin fan of Davis from Warriors
If there was shouting heard in Harvard Square during the 2007 first-round playoff series between the Warriors and Mavericks, it probably came from Jeremy Lin’s dorm room on campus. Lin,...
Dirty politics
Here we go again — another politically oriented TV movie is igniting controversy. This time it’s HBO’s “Game Change,” which focuses on Sarah Palin’s impact as the GOP vice presidential...
Holmes fans up in arms over Liu
Sherlock Holmes fans are in a tizzy over news that CBS has turned Dr. John Watson into a lady. They flocked to the Web to rant about news that Lucy...
Ro sells in Chi
Less than six months after buying a $2.5 million house in Chicago, Rosie O’Donnell is selling it. “She’s reevaluating her real estate holdings,” a spokesman for O’Donnell told the Chicago...
Talk show guests
FRIDAYCOLDPLAY , BOB IGER - Good Morning America, 7 a.m., Ch. 7ANJELICA HUSTON, DONNIE WAHLBERG - LIVE! with Kelly, 9 a.m., Ch. 7CATELYNN LOWELL, TYLER BALTIERRA - The Rosie Show,...
Dip in Lin-sanity: Knicks ratings down
It was fun while it lasted. For the first time since Jeremy Lin started playing for the Knicks last month, the TV ratings for a Knicks game dipped slightly. Ratings...
‘Wife’ Beater
LOS ANGELES— Ex-“Desperate Housewives” star Nicollette Sheridan performed the most dramatic scene of her career in an LA courtroom yesteday — as she re-enacted how the show’s producer allegedly slapped...
Janet: For ‘X’ it’s n-o
Don’t expect to see Janet Jackson as a judge on “The X Factor” next season. Jackson, whose name was bandied about — and who was coy about the rumors when...
Starr Report
I've spilled a lot of cyberink here about the ratings success of Anderson Cooper's talk show, "Anderson," which is the season's top-rated freshman syndicated daytime show. Over on the broadcast...
Weird but true
They always return to the scene of the crime. A bank robber who failed to get any cash in a botched heist at a Georgia bank was arrested when he...
This Big East tournament last of its kind
This will be West Virginia’s last one for sure, maybe for Syracuse and Pittsburgh, too. The Big East Men's Basketball Championship, which tips off Tuesday at Madison Square Garden, in...
Harkless OK to play for St. John's against Rutgers
St. John’s star forward Moe Harkless, who rolled his right ankle in Wednesday night’s loss at Pittsburgh, is expected to play tomorrow night when the Red Storm wrap up the...
LIU-Brooklyn into Northeast semifinals
For most teams, it’s far tougher being the hunted than the hunter, harder wearing the target than aiming for it. If LIU-Brooklyn learned that in a shocking 28-point beating at...
Wagner reaches Northeast semifinals
Wagner wasn’t about to let it happen again. As the second seed in the Northeast Conference tournament, the Seahawks were matched up in the quarterfinals last night with No. 7...
St. Francis loses in Northeast tournament
James Johnson scored 22 points, Ike Azotam had 15 points and 12 rebounds and Quinnipiac defeated host St. Francis of Brooklyn 80-72 last night in a Northeast Conference tournament quarterfinal....
Italy bans dangerous cruise ship 'salutes' after Costa Concordia disaster
ROME -- Italy's government Thursday banned "salutes" of coastal towns by cruise ships in the wake of the deadly Costa Concordia disaster, in which the vessel hit rocks and sank...
Gaborik scores 30th; Rangers edge Hurricanes 3-2
RALEIGH, N.C. — Marian Gaborik scored his 30th goal of the season and Brandon Prust netted the game-winner in the Eastern Conference-leading New York Rangers' 3-2 victory over the Carolina...
Demi Moore has finished stint in rehab: report
SUNDANCE, Utah -- Actress Demi Moore has checked out of an exclusive rehabilitation center in Utah and is now on vacation at an undisclosed location, sources told E! Online. Moore...
Read, Jagr lead Flyers over Islanders
PHILADELPHIA — Matt Read scored twice and Jaromir Jagr had the go-ahead goal to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 6-3 victory over the New York Islanders on Thursday night....
Bx. firefighter among 8 busted in alleged $2M-a-year mob crime ring
A Bronx firefighter has been busted in an alleged $2 million-a-year, mob-run gambling and money laundering ring. Thomas McMahon, of the FDNY’s Ladder 38 in Belmont, was one of eight...
CB Thomas expects to re-sign with Giants
Terrell Thomas, considered a rising star at cornerback for the Giants after two highly successful seasons as a starter, was on the verge of a huge payday before a torn...