May 8, 2004
ADS FLEE, RED INK FLOWS FOR MARTHA
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amMartha Stewart Living Omnimedia reported a larger first-quarter loss yesterday on lower advertising revenue, following the recent felony conviction of its founder. The company lost $20.3 million in the first...
OIL PRICE HITS $40 A BARREL
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amOil hit $40 a barrel for the first time since 1990 - and could squeeze the economy hard at that high level all summer. Analysts say they don't see any...
CONRAD RIPPED OFF $484.5M, SUIT SAYS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amConrad Black has been hit with a new lawsuit from his newspaper enterprises, claiming he siphoned off more than twice as much as originally alleged - amounting to $484.5 million...
MARKET REPORT
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amI know that rising interest rates are making everyone nervous. We've talked to a lot of experts, and we've assembled some great advice for you - check out our money...
THIS JACKO'S NOT WACKO - 20 MINUTES FROM MIDTOWN, JACKSON HEIGHTS IS GLOBAL AND FUN
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amJUDGING from its wide, green streets, stunning pre-war apartments and low housing prices, Jackson Heights may be the city's best-kept secret. But not for long. Over the past decades, urban...
GIMME SHELTER
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amLENNON LIFESTYLE SEAN LENNON has a new love, and a new home. The 28-year-old son of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, who's been dating fellow rock royal Elizabeth Jagger -...
FIVE WAYS TO CLEAN UP YOUR GARAGE
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amIf your garage makes you shudder, check out the forthcoming Your Garage-nous Zone: Innovative Ideas for the Garage by Bill West. Here are five top tips: Throw stuff out. 1...
LOVE, AT FIRST LIGHT - NEW CHANDELIERS ARE MORE SCULPTURAL, BUT NO LESS RADIANT
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amHEADS up homeowners: Chandeliers are moving beyond the dining room. Professional and do-it-yourself home decorators are using them to lighten up bedrooms, bathrooms and even walk-in closets. Ronni Pitiger, a...
CNBC DROPS NEWSCAST
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amCNBC has cancelled "The News on CNBC," anchored by John Seigenthaler. Seigenthaler will continue to anchor the weekend editions of the "NBC Nightly News" and will become a "special correspondent"...
GIVING US THE CREEPS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amTHE DISTANCE FROM HERE At the Duke, 229 W. 42nd St. Through June 5. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. NEIL LaBute specializes in edgy, nasty, mean struggles between the sexes. In movies...
THE 'HOUSE' TRIBECA BUILT - DUCHOVNY'S FIRST FILM IS A BOUQUET TO DOWNTOWN
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S only fitting that the film that made history at the fledgling Tribeca Film Festival, which wraps up tomorrow, should be a Gotham-set production by a native New Yorker. David...
DIDDY DADDY
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amWHO'S your Puff Daddy? For Alexander Mitchell, the answer's easy: Sean Combs. Once a day (twice on Wednesdays and Saturdays), they play father and son in Broadway's "A Raisin in...
BACK TO THE OLD BALLGAME
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amJUST in time. Much to the outrage of baseball purists over the slapping of the logo of the big-budget "Spider-Man 2" movie on parts of the fields of ballparks around...
WORSE P.O.W. PIX LOOMING ; RUMSFELD WARNS OF 'HARD TO BELIEVE' ABUSE VIDEOS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Embattled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday said there's worse to come in the Iraqi prisoner-abuse scandal as he offered "my deepest apologies" to those mistreated by U.S. troops....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** A bogus bomb-brandishing bank bandit was busted yesterday for robbing one bank and trying to loot three others, cops said. Gregory Thomas, 45, (above) was picked up yesterday...
DAD GETS SICK CALL FROM DAUGHTER'S KILLER
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amA deranged stalker who killed a North Carolina college student called the victim's father and admitted to killing her. Curtis Timothy Dixon, 21, was arrested Wednesday after cops found the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amDewey Coulson couldn't believe it when he flushed out a burglar in his Whitefish Bay, Wis., home. Coulson had gotten up in the middle of the night to go to...
RED CROSS CONDEMNS 'TORTURE'
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amIraqi prisoners held by coalition forces were subjected to treatment so bad that it was "tantamount to torture," according to a report outlined yesterday by the International Committee of the...
PILL-ORIED DOC DEFENDS 'MORNING-AFTER' VETO
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amA top government scientist said yesterday that lobbying by political conservatives had not swayed his decision to overrule his staff and reject over-the-counter sales of an effective "morning-after" contraceptive. The...
SICKO SHEIK OFFERS 'SLAVE GIRL' BOUNTY
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A senior aide to renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered Iraqis a chilling new incentive to wage war yesterday: anyone who captures a female British soldier can keep...
LAST-MINUTE GIFTS FOR THE NO. 1 MOM
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amDid you wait till the last minute to get Mom a gift? Don't sweat it. There are still plenty of options that will make her smile. Instead of picking up...
CADET'S CAREER A BUST; FALSE-ARREST LAWSUIT
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amA nasty encounter with Nassau cops soured an NYPD trainee on a police career and is leading him to sue the county on charges he was falsely arrested. "I thought...
MOVIE STARS IN THE PINK
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amKevin Kline, Steve Martin, and Beyoncé let the cat out of the bag at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday - announcing they'll star in a new "Pink Panther" movie, due to start...
KIN ANGER AT MADRID RAP
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amFriends and family of an Oregon lawyer arrested for his involvement in the deadly Madrid train bombings denied that the mild-mannered convert to Islam had anything to do with terrorism....
52 MILLION SAID BYE TO THEIR BEST 'FRIENDS'
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amCall Thursday night's "Friends" finale "The One with the Huge Audience." The NBC sitcom's swan song drew 52.3 million viewers - a solid number, but nowhere near its NBC stablemate,...
WOMAN, 78, RAPED IN AGED HOME
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amA 78-year-old woman was found viciously beaten and raped inside her room at a Brooklyn nursing home last night, cops said. An orderly - who was doing routine nightly rounds...
'QUEEN' OF CONS; FAKE PRINCESS IN JEWELRY SCAM: DA
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amA tiara-wearing socialite wannabe told insurers she was not only a Saudi princess but a Victoria's Secret model in an attempt to hoodwink them in a kooky quarter-million-dollar jewelry scam,...
190G-BUST TELLER TOOK WORK HOME WITH HER: DA
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens bank teller who allegedly socked away about $190,000 in customer funds found herself deposited at Rikers Island after a suspicious client tipped off the bank, the Queens District...
MRS. KERRY IN 'PATRIOTIC' WAR
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Bush campaign yesterday fired back at John Kerry wife's Teresa for questioning President Bush's and Vice President Dick Cheney's patriotism. The candidate's outspoken wife had called both...
REEFER MADNESS; POTHEAD STABBED MOM: COPS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amA schizophrenic Brooklyn man high on marijuana brutally attacked his immigrant mom with a kitchen knife yesterday, leaving her naked and bleeding on a neighbor's lawn with multiple stab wounds,...
UNDERCOVER HEROES JOIN NYPD MEMORIAL
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amTwo undercover detectives murdered last year on Staten Island were lauded as heroes yesterday at a solemn ceremony in which their names were added to the hallowed Memorial Wall at...
BRONX GIRL FIGHTS OFF PERVY VAN MAN
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amPolice launched a manhunt yesterday for a man who tried to abduct a 9-year-old Bronx girl, authorities said. They said the man tried to lure the girl into a white...
GRANNY LARCENY ON L.I.; GAL, 69, AND BEAU JAILED
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amTwo nattily attired senior scam artists were arraigned yesterday on charges of trying to steal a Long Island hair salon's payroll and then arranging a dangerous diversion that left four...
'CAT-KILL' DOG GETS LIFE IN JAIL
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amAries, the bloodthirsty "serial cat-killer" dog, will never again roam wild on the streets of Long Beach, L.I., officials said yesterday. The pet of a politically connected family, Aries mauled...
BLOOMBERG BLASTS TEACHERS' PET GIFFIE
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg blasted Council Speaker Gifford Miller yesterday for pandering to the teachers union by issuing a study highlighting a supposed exodus of thousands of classroom instructors. On his weekly...
CA$HING OUT BIG; LATE-NIGHT MANHATTAN GANG CARTS OFF 20 ATMS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amA band of Manhattan thieves has found a new way to avoid annoying ATM fees - they're ripping entire bank machines from convenience stores and carting them away, cash, power...
SCANDAL MAY BRING DOWN JAIL OF SHAME
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday joined the growing calls yesterday to tear down Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison - the scene of abuse by Saddam Hussein's thugs, and...
POST LION PREVAILS IN MANE EVENT
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amAn Ohio judge yesterday ordered a sanctuary to return to its rightful owner a lion cub purchased last year during a Post exposé on the horrific trade in exotic cats....
SLAIN HEROES JOIN COP MEMORIAL
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amTwo undercover detectives murdered last year on Staten Island were lauded as heroes yesterday at a solemn ceremony in which their names were added to the hallowed Memorial Wall at...
TELLER SWIPED 190G: DA
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens bank teller who allegedly socked away about $190,000 in customer funds found herself deposited at Rikers Island after a suspicious client tipped off the bank, the Queens District...
CADET'S CAREER A BUST - FALSE-ARREST LAWSUIT
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amA nasty encounter with Nassau cops soured an NYPD trainee on a police career and is leading him to sue the county on charges that he was falsely arrested. "I...
CITY SUES 'SCAMMING' DRUG FIRM
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe city yesterday filed a lawsuit against a major pharmaceutical company for bilking New York out of millions in Medicaid funds by conspiring to keep the generic version of its...
TY RETURNS FROM DL; DUNCAN IS DEMOTED
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Ty Wigginton returned to the Met lineup last night, activated off the DL. He started at third and hit sixth, going 0-for-3 with a seventh-inning throwing error that...
PISTONS JUST TWO STRONG FOR NETS - 2ND-HALF COLLAPSE PUTS JERSEY IN 2-0 HOLE
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 2 Pistons 95 Nets 80 AUBURN HILLS - The Nets were coasting in Game 2, up a dozen points in the third quarter here last night. All was right...
KIDD LIKELY TO PASS ON OLYMPICS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Jason Kidd is a likely Olympic scratch. "I'll probably pass on it," said Kidd, who insisted the knee problem that plagued him this season would...
ANCIENT MARINER ; EDGAR SINKS LIEBER, YANKS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amMariners 6Yankees 2 SEATTLE - The Yankees love that Jon Lieber works fast. But last night at Safeco Field, Lieber's quick pace was no match for the decreasing bat speed...
ANCIENT MARINER - EDGAR SINKS LIEBER, YANKS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amMariners 6 Yankees 2 SEATTLE - The Yankees love that Jon Lieber works fast. But last night at Safeco Field, Lieber's quick pace was no match for the decreasing bat...
THREE MORE HORSES GOING AFTER 'SMARTY'
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe probable field for next Saturday's 129th Preakness Stakes grew to 10 yesterday with the news that Imperialism, Sir Shackleton and Little Matth Man are likely to tackle Smarty Jones...
KURT MULLS PINKIE SURGERY
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amKurt Thomas played the season's final three months with a dislocated right pinkie on his shooting hand, The Post has learned. During a visit to a Dallas hand specialist yesterday,...
MANNING FUMBLES HIS DEBUT
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Eli Manning fumbled a snap. He slipped as he faded back. He threw a dreadful, wobbly pass that more resembled a punt, the ball somehow dropping into the...
EASY FIRST WORKOUT FOR JOSE
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - The first step in the Jose Contreras Reconstruction Project was a small one taken at the Yankees' minor- league complex in Tampa yesterday. Sent to work...
NASSAU, BOLD RULER TOP CARD
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amLed by the Todd Pletcher-trained entry of Frenchglen and Cherry Bomb, eight three-year-old fillies will contest the Grade 2 $200,000 Nassau County Handicap at Belmont today going seven furlongs, one...
BROWN SHOULDN'TSINK TO THIS LEVEL
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Larry Brown should be one of those coaches for whom fables are written. Encroaching his mid-60s, he should be reaching that point of his career, and...
KIDD IS LIKELY TO PASS ON OLYMPICS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Jason Kidd is a probable Olympic scratch. "I'll probably pass on it," said Kidd, who insisted his knee problem is not the main reason for...
PRINCE-RJ MATCH-UP'S KEY FOR NETS
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - If Tayshaun Prince wins the small forward match-up with Richard Jefferson, the Nets' playoff run will likely end soon. It may be the biggest matchup of the...
MARA IN COACH'S CORNER; GIANTS OWNER APPLAUDS EMBATTLED COUGHLIN
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amBig, bad Tom Coughlin is too tough? He's pushing the envelope by working his new team so hard? Players have been jolted out of their comfort zone and - gasp!...
TIGER BACK IN COMMAND ; 66 LEADS WACHOVIA
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE - Tiger Woods has been telling anyone who'll listen since his alarm-inducing tie for 22nd at the Masters last month that he's been getting "close" with his supposedly-slumping game....
METROS FACE CHARACTER CHECK
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amAlmost all teams - even good ones - have a game when the wheels fall off, when they're beaten convincingly. But great teams, especially championship ones, respond. Over the next...
EARLY BP BACK ON ITINERARY
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - It used to be a normal occurrence. The first day of a new series on the road, the ballpark would be filled with Yankees taking part...
STERN WANTS AGE MINIMUM
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - NBA commissioner David Stern said yesterday Sebastian Telfair's decision to enter the draft after being offered a $10 million guarantee from adidas makes him feel stronger about...
ROD RIPS 'BUSH' BROWN
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Nets CEO Rod Thorn delivered a short, to-the-point message to Detroit coach Larry Brown for comments about Lawrence Frank: Stuff it. "I think that's totally off-base," Thorn...
NOTHING BREWING ; GLAVINE, METS SEE STREAK END
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amBrewers 7 Mets 5 In the Mets' recent hot streak, they've gotten some rare timely hitting and brilliant pitching from what had been a leaky bullpen. But their starters have...
2ND-HALF COLLAPSE PUTS JERSEY IN 2-0 HOLE
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 2 Pistons 95 Nets 80 AUBURN HILLS - The Nets were coasting in Game 2, up a dozen points in the third quarter, when the worst imaginable scenario occurred....
PISTONS WANT TO GRAB TWO IN THE SWAMP
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - When Detroit's second-half domination was over last night and the Pistons had taken a 2-0 lead with the series shifting to The Swamp, Big Ben Wallace was...
IT'S GUT-CHECK TIME NOW
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - All season long there were signs, warnings that these weren't the same Nets, that the karma that fueled them for two seasons was missing, that the savvy...
YANKS FALL IN LINE - JOE HOPES JUGGLING OVER
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amSEATTLE - When the Yankees completed the deal for Alex Rodriguez, some seriously believed they had enough parts to form The Best Lineup Ever Assembled. Bernie Williams or Jorge Posada,...
THORN STICKS UP FOR NETS, FRANK - SAYS COMMENTS BY BROWN 'TOTALLY OFF-BASE'
May 8, 2004 | 4:00am"For what he's done, he should be commended, rather than be the target of some catty remark like that. That's bush." - Rod Thorn on Lawrence Frank AUBURN HILLS -...
SUDDENLY, METS ARE HEADED IN RIGHT DIRECTION
May 8, 2004 | 4:00amMike Cameron strode through the Met clubhouse before last night's series opener against Milwaukee with an extra hop in his step. He pointed to his headband, which bore a rising...