October 18, 2013
Mattingly falls short of reaching Series as Dodgers lose NLCS
ST . LOUIS — Donnie Baseball was left off the World Series party list once again. Perhaps the Dodgers can go to Disneyland instead. “Sorry, Mr. Mattingly, you can’t come...
Cardinals rout Dodgers to reach World Series
ST. LOUIS — Carlos Beltran is finally done wondering if he ever will get to play in the World Series. By the time the fifth inning concluded Friday night at...
End of an era: Roseland Ballroom closing
New York’s legendary concert hall Roseland Ballroom will close after nearly a century in the music business, Billboard.com reports. The sprawling Midtown venue — which has hosted acts such as...
Grambling players refuse to travel, game canceled
JACKSON, Miss. — Grambling canceled its football game against Jackson State after Grambling’s disgruntled players refused to travel to Jackson for the game Saturday. Jackson State officials announced the cancellation...
UFT nixes evaluations at its own charter school
The UFT’s own charter school, which barely won state accreditation this year, has decided to opt out of new teacher evaluations that all its members in public schools have to...
Stephen Baldwin pays $100,000 in overdue taxes
That’s another $100,000 down and $243,068 to go. “Celebrity Apprentice” star Stephen Baldwin, 47, handed over a certified check for a hundred grand to the state Tax Department Friday in...
Still weighting: Christie hasn't produced promised med records
His promise turns out to be smaller than his bite. Chris Christie joined his Democratic opponent in the New Jersey governor’s race last week in a pledge to release medical...
De Blasio flip-flop: NYPD doing great
A mayoral candidate said Friday he thinks the NYPD is “the best-trained police force on earth” — and praised its accomplishments under Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. He also...
NJ's top court rules gay marriages start Monday
Same-sex marriages will begin within days in New Jersey after the state's highest court ruled unanimously Friday to uphold a lower-court order that gay weddings must start Monday and to...
Sex on a plane: Mile-highers guilty
LAS VEGAS — A man and a woman accused of engaging in oral sex on a flight from Medford, Ore., to Las Vegas have pleaded guilty in federal court to...
Kid-sex rap on LI rabbi
WEST HEMPSTEAD — A rabbi has been arraigned on charges he molested a 10-year-old religion student on Long Island. Fifty-six-year-old Gary Lieberman, of Far Rockaway, pleaded not guilty in Nassau...
American Kennel Club socked with suit by breeders
Two Pennsylvania dog breeders are suing the prestigious Manhattan-based American Kennel Club claiming they were ensnared in a real life version of the hit comedy “Best in Show” gone bad....
Eagles backup QB made for nice fantasy fill-in
Normally it’s easy to avoid taboo activities. Don’t talk about politics or religion at a bar. Refrain from asking about income. Never ask a lady her age. Steer clear of...
JPMorgan Chase close to $4 billion FHFA deal
JPMorgan Chase is edging closer to a multi-billion dollar deal to end its crisis-era mortgage woes. The nation’s biggest lender has agreed to pay roughly $4 billion to settle claims...
JCPenney to open stores on Thanksgiving
JCPenney hopes its plan to open on Thanksgiving isn’t a turkey. The ailing department store chain’s confirmation Friday that it will open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving came as its...
Government gridlock might have 'shut down' holiday shoppers
Uncle Sam has been spared. Now Santa Claus is in trouble. Washington signed a bill this week to avert the debt crisis, but retailers fret that the fiscal chaos may...
Kitty collared smuggling weed to prisoners
CHISINAU, Moldova — A furry felon was nabbed toting baggies of contraband to inmates, and it wasn't catnip. Guards became suspicious about the feline, who routinely entered and left the...
Washington is already $300B over US debt limit
Congratulations, fellow taxpayers, the US is now more than $17 trillion in debt! The number climbed by more than $300 billion on Thursday night the second President Obama signed into...
Supreme Court at a loss over racial discrimination
Like a bad penny, cases involving race keep turning up before the Supreme Court, largely because the high court won’t definitively make up its mind how much racial discrimination it...
Facing uncertainty, Yankees open meetings Monday
The Yankees won’t be playing in The Bronx next week, but what happens there over the course of the organizational meetings that will begin at Yankee Stadium on Monday will...
King of the jungle... and B'way: 'Lion King' headed to $1B
"The Lion King" has more reason to roar — it's on pace to end the week as the first Broadway show to earn $1 billion. According to The Broadway League,...
With Callahan out, Pyatt, Powe get more ice time for Rangers
How often is it that an NHL coach, in the middle of an early-season swoon, finds it necessary to leave his club on the eve of a game and head...
Do food-and-fitness combos work?
Spending an hour at the gym can be boring and time-consuming, and it also typically involves not much in the way of tasty food. But New Yorkers are bucking the...
Exhilarating Gatti-Ward doc breaks no new ground
Floyd Mayweather likes to say, “There’s nothing cool about taking punishment.” But with all due respect to boxing’s current pound-for-pound king, there can be beauty in blood. A revisit of...
Tea Party hunting extinct beast
"We’ve got to get the Rockefeller Republicans out of the party,” a fellow told me in Minnesota recently. Or was it Arizona? Or Wilkes-Barre, Pa.? Actually, I think it was...
Jason Kidd gives Nets extra 'push-ups' to make free throws
After watching his team shoot just over 65 percent from the free throw line during the first five preseason games, Nets coach Jason Kidd decided to do something about it...
'30s period drama needs 'Edge'
Whether it’s coincidence or just dumb luck, the timing gods are smiling on Starz this weekend. I say that because the star of its new five-episode series, “Dancing On the...
ObamaCare software is endless nightmare
Amid all the tussling over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling, a couple of bombshells went off that may prove of more enduring importance. They suggest that there is...
Jersey farmer continues family cranberry tradition
Sitting in a windowed nook in his second-floor office, Bill Haines is seeing red. That’s not to say Haines is in a rage: Dressed in jeans and a pullover sweater,...
CBS orders up three first-year shows
Get ready for more Robin Williams on CBS. The network has given the comedian’s sitcom “The Crazy Ones” a full-season order, along with other first-year shows “The Millers” and “Mom.”...
De Blasio backtracks on campaign finance reform
Bill de Blasio’s habit of siding with labor against everyone else is legendary, but one of the best examples of that can be seen in his support for a cap...
Iman Shumpert's elbow sprain not serious
Iman Shumpert got a little worried at the sound of the diagnosis from Knicks medical director Lisa Callahan that he had sprained a ligament in his right elbow. But the...
Knicks rookie Murry's stock rising
Tour’e Murry, the Knicks’ fluid point-guard star in the Las Vegas summer league, is acing training camp thus far after nearly taking the Heat’s training camp invite, he said. With...
Hidden cameras found on LIRR ticket machines
LIRR riders’ bank and credit information may have been under surveillance by thieves. MTA police located hidden cameras at seven ticket machines -- and are asking riders to check to...
Patriots game is tipping point for Jets season
The Jets have been a Jekyll and Hyde football team this season, following a win with a loss over the first six weeks. At 3-3, they enter Sunday’s game against...
Long awaited celebration for Water Tunnel No. 3
Builder Robert Moses used to say that he was only interested in constructing bridges because “a tunnel is just a hole in the ground.” Which is to say, there’s nothing...
The ObamaCare taxi tax
Never mind nickel-and-diming. The city is now stooping to nickel-and-pennying. This week, The Post reported how the city’s taxi drivers are now being charged a new tax of 6 cents...
Rookie defenseman Donovan steps up for Islanders
Two games was just enough for Matt Donovan to gain some perspective. The Islanders rookie defenseman returned from his short stint as a healthy scratch to play well in Thursday’s...
Tigers catcher's status uncertain for ALCS Game 6
BOSTON — Jim Leyland wasn’t sure Friday if the Tigers will have starting catcher Alex Avila for Saturday’s Game 6 of the ALCS against the Red Sox at Fenway Park....
Yankees watch from home as Red Sox close in on World Series
BOSTON — From 1919 to 2003, no matter how bad the Yankees’ seasons went, their fans put the year to sleep knowing the hated Red Sox were never described as...
No hate crime charge, but teen still faces prison in convent fire
The teen punk accused of setting last week’s Staten Island convent fire dodged hate-crime charges — but could still get 25 years to life in prison on arson. Vincent Calder,...
Solution to Giants pass-rush woes? 'Whip somebody's ass'
Perry Fewell has an idea of how to fix the Giants’ anemic pass rush. It doesn’t include exotic blitzes or personnel changes. “Sometimes you just gotta whip somebody’s ass, and...
Dad killed in hit-run after city rejects request for speed bumps
A father of two was killed by a hit-and-run driver near an elementary school in Washington Heights on Friday — just two days after residents learned that the city Transportation...
Jets ready for Rob Gronkowski's expected return
Rob Gronkowski’s anticipated return to the Patriots will come as no surprise to the Jets, who insist they have a plan for handling the star tight end so they won’t...
Deron Williams irked by slow-healing ankle
As the Nets squared off against the defending champion Heat in Brooklyn Thursday night — after coach Jason Kidd saw his No. 5 jersey retired forever — Deron Williams sat...
A-Rod, MLB shelled out cash for drug evidence
As Alex Rodriguez’s appeal hearing against Major League Baseball reached its halftime, The Post has unearthed details from what has transpired in the first eight days. According to one source...
A viral video may woo a mate -- but it can go way wrong
A model walks into a coffee shop. It sounds like the perfect set-up for a joke — but thanks to the power of the Internet, the situation resulted in the...
Nets' Terry returns to practice, brushes off LeBron
The Jet is finally ready for takeoff. Jason Terry, who has been limited in practice throughout the first three weeks of Nets training camp and the preseason as he recovers...
The worst 'Monday Night Football' game ever
Perhaps the Giants, in an effort to spice up what shapes up to be a bland “Monday Night Football” clash against the Vikings, teams with a combined record of 1-10,...
Former model blows off 'mugging' incident in court
The former “Project Runway” contestant charged with falsely claiming that she was mugged by an armed hobo at a Murray Hill bodega blew off the bizarre incident Friday in Manhattan...
Fordham finds the QB it's been waiting for
The relationship that has fueled the best start to a Fordham football season in more than 80 years took root in Virginia, grew in Connecticut and blossomed in The Bronx....
More and more boneheads pointing lasers at planes
The FBI on Friday reported an alarming increase in the number of people aiming laser pointers at airplanes -- with 22 such incidents recorded around JFK and LaGuardia airports alone...
Male model avoids jail in fiancee choke case
A male Wilhelmina model accused of choking, biting and imprisoning his Guess Jeans-model fiancée in their West 31st Street apartment last September copped to harassment Friday as part of a...
'Downton' fans should eat up 'The Winslow Boy'
A legal drama drives the story but Rattigan also throws in a subplot about a love that dare not express itself between feisty suffragette Catherine Winslow and arrogant barrister Sir...
Tesla CEO snags Bond car
The mystery buyer of the actual Lotus Esprit used in the 1977 James Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me” -- a.k.a. the super spy’s submarine car -- has been...
Jonas Brothers delete Twitter account
The Jonas Brothers’ future as a band continues to look bleak. The mega-popular pop group deleted its Twitter account, the latest in a string of bad signs for the brothers'...
Homeless pervert busted for groping teen girls
Two teen girls were groped by a homeless man near the Lincoln Tunnel in Hell’s Kitchen, authorities said. John McConnoel, 56, walked up to the first teen and grabbed her...
Toy chopper-crash pilot snagged by his own video
The bassist for a cheesy ’80s tribute band was busted after his toy helicopter smashed into a Midtown building and nearly brained a pedestrian below, sources said Friday. Cops used...
Return of center Baas could boost Giants offensive line
David Baas was talking to a group of reporters about his chances of playing Monday night against the Vikings, discussing his injury-riddled season. Instead of a health checkup, it felt...
Air marshal accused of taking photos under skirts
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal air marshal has been arrested and accused of taking cellphone photographs underneath women's skirts as they boarded a plane at Nashville International Airport. Assistant Supervisory...
Carmelo Anthony to coach: Free agency won't distract me
Don’t worry about me, Mike. Carmelo Anthony issued a message to Knicks coach Mike Woodson on Friday that he will not be distracted by impending free agency because he’s too...
Google breaks into $1,000 club
They should call him rocket man. With Larry Page in the CEO seat, Google shares skyrocketed more than 13 percent on Friday to become only the second S&P 500 stock...
‘Don’t hate me because I’m rich!’
She’s right on the money when she says she’s a spoiled brat. A local college student penned a sophomoric essay online entitled “I’m not going to pretend that I’m poor...
Jets will be without Santonio Holmes vs. Patriots
Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes and newcomer Greg Salas have been ruled out for Sunday’s AFC East showdown with the Patriots at MetLife Stadium. But the Jets are getting corners...
Sick Jason Pierre-Paul misses Giants practice
Jason Pierre-Paul declined interview requests on Thursday, saying he wasn’t feeling well. He wasn’t feeling any better a day later. The Giants took the field for practice on Friday and...
Meet Riley, the official dog of 'Call of Duty'
LOS ANGELES — His name is Riley. Unlike his squad mates in the next installment of the rabidly popular "Call of Duty" series, he's not adept at sniping enemy combatants...
Malala meets the Queen
LONDON — Malala Yousafzai skipped school for the day but she had a pretty good excuse: she was meeting Queen Elizabeth II. The 16-year-old advocate for girls' education and survivor...
Nets Rewind: Fans in Brooklyn shrug at Kidd ceremony
Here are my three thoughts on the Nets’ 86-62 victory over the Heat in Brooklyn Thursday night: 1. The Nets did a very nice job with Jason Kidd’s jersey retirement...
Where does Giants-Vikings rank among 'MNF' duds?
Are you ready for some poorly played football? The Giants and Vikings will do battle in prime time Monday night, but neither deserves the bright lights or the national platform....
Former House Speaker Tom Foley dead at 84
Tom Foley, the courtly former speaker of the House who lost his seat when Republicans seized control of Congress in 1994, has died of complications from a stroke. He was...
Homegrown al Qaeda wannabe busted
He’s American-born with a brother in the Air Force – but the feds say he wanted to join al Qaeda. Marcos Alonso Zea, 25, was busted Friday morning at his parents' Long Island...
NCAA rule bans coach from late wife's game
Kimani Young won’t be at Gauchos Gym on Saturday night when the top players from New York City and New Jersey honor the memory of his deceased wife with two...
Subway kittens need a home
The two playful kittens who brought a Brooklyn subway line to a standstill while rescuers raced to save them from the tracks are ready for adoption. The cuddly, 10-week old...
Baseball's best beards
Here's a trend to comb through: Beards are making a growing impression in baseball this October. Mike Napoli (above) and the Boston Red Sox have been razor-sharp in the playoffs,...
'Dangerous' asteroid headed toward Earth
A large asteroid has been discovered zipping past Earth that astronomers say is dangerous and will return on August 26, 2032. "A 400-metre asteroid is threatening to blow up the...
2 NJ cows gain freedom after daring escape
MONTVALE, NJ — Two cows headed to a New Jersey slaughterhouse this week had other plans. They busted out of a trailer in Montvale Tuesday and caused chaos in northern...
3 teens busted in convent fire 'hate crime'
Cops have now arrested three teenagers in connection with a Staten Island convent fire that forced a nun to jump to safety from a second floor window. Vincent Calder, 19,...
Why 83-point loss was a 'true blessing' for Knicks' Diogu
It was no joke to power forward Ike Diogu, captain of Nigeria’s Olympic basketball team. Diogu, emerging as a legitimate candidate to make the Knicks roster, knows his squad became...
Oilers' Hall scores 2 goals in 8 seconds vs. Islanders
The Islanders were the better team for 59 minutes and 52 seconds on Thursday night. But the other eight seconds made the game interesting with Taylor Hall netting two goals...
White Sox to shell out $68M for Cuban slugger Abreu
The White Sox are set to sign Cuban slugger Jose Abreu to a six-year, $68 million contract, pending a physical, according to MLB.com. The mega-deal for the 26-year-old first baseman...
Agent: Gronkowski set to face Jets
It appears Tom Brady will have one of his favorite targets back Sunday when the Jets face the Patriots. Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski has been cleared by doctors to...
Cops hunting for 2 killers freed with fake Casey Anthony judge signature
ORLANDO, Fla. — As authorities hunt for two killers who were mistakenly freed by bogus court documents, prison officials and prosecutors across Florida scrambled to make sure no other inmates...
Uganda, US on alert for ‘Westgate-style’ mall attack
Uganda heightened its "terror" alert to maximum on Friday for the first time since bombings in 2010 that killed 79 people, given domestic and U.S. intelligence indications of a possibly...
De Blasio's daughter gets a turn in spotlight
Move over, Dante. After turning his son into a local phenom with a star turn in a campaign ad during the primary, Democratic mayoral nominee Bill de Blasio is now...
Undertaker sued over 'YouTube vid'
Ghoulish undertakers used video of a 13-year-old’s funeral to market their services on YouTube, a Brooklyn lawsuit charges. Tiffany Orr claims the video by the Robeson & Brown funeral home...
Julia Roberts gets a 'pizza' of the past
One slice of nostalgia, extra saucy, coming up! Lili Taylor, Julia Roberts and Annabeth Gish (from left, both photos) hammed it up for Entertainment Weekly (above) 25 years after they...
Daughter sues her embezzler dad
You’d think a guy who crippled his own nonprofit mental health institute by embezzling $2.5 million couldn’t stoop any lower - but then he fleeced nearly $50,000 from his own...
Anti-de Blasio advocacy group has GOP ties
A newly-formed Hispanic advocacy group that slammed Democrat Bill de Blasio’s stop and frisk stance at City Hall Thursday has ties to the Republican mayoral candidate’s campaign, The Post has...
Cops cuff 2 in violent robbery spree
Cops have arrested two men wanted in connection with several violent Brooklyn robberies, where victims were viciously beaten with a blunt object and punched before having their belongings stolen. Kareem Ahmed,...
Colbert roasts pols and prelates at charity dinner
On the menu at the Waldorf Astoria: skewered sitting ducks. Comedy central funnyman Stephen Colbert roasted the city's rich and powerful Thursday night, lambasting everyone from Gov. Cuomo to Cardinal...
Ohio's casinos spun by NY crime ring's roulette scam
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Authorities say all four Ohio casinos have been hit by a New York crime ring that operates a roulette scam. The director of enforcement for the Ohio...
Backpedal on yeshiva teacher's sex abuse plea
TOMS RIVER — A former New Jersey yeshiva teacher who admitted sexually assaulting a young boy wants to withdraw his guilty plea, saying he was pressured by members of his...
17 collared in $31M Spanish watch heist
MADRID — Spanish police have arrested 17 people for their role in stealing watches worth $31 million, resolving one of the country's biggest jewelry heists. A police statement Thursday said...
Scientology tax-exempt in Netherlands
AMSTERDAM — A Dutch court has ruled the Amsterdam arm of Scientology is a charitable organization and exempt from paying taxes. The ruling by the Amsterdam Appeals Court overturns a...
Egg donor baby bump
CHICAGO — U.S. women are increasingly using donated eggs to get pregnant, with often good results, although the ideal outcome — a single baby born on time at a healthy...
Yeti clue: It's got bear DNA
LONDON — A British scientist says he may have solved the mystery of the Abominable Snowman — the elusive ape-like creature of the Himalayas. He thinks it's a bear. DNA...
Lhota, de Blasio hailed for Muslim holidays stance
A leading schools advocate hailed the news that both mayoral candidates support giving schoolkids two Muslim holidays off. “I’m very pleased to hear that,” said City Councilman Robert Jackson (D-Manhattan),...
Long Island lawyers look to strengthen prenups
The Nassau County Bar Association has called an emergency meeting to discuss ways to strengthen prenuptial agreements after a woman had hers tossed by a judge earlier this year, The...
Bail denied in NYU 'rape' try
A married Scarsdale dad accused of trying to rape an NYU student after she left a study group was ordered held without bail Thursday. Prosecutors said Glenn Williams, 28, grabbed...
School-approved smut
A hot, little book just distributed to 13-year-old public-school students is so mind-numbingly filthy, it could embarrass Carlos Danger's favorite porn star, Sydney Leathers. Some principals around town are freaking...
Tigers lineup switch falters
DETROIT — After his revamped Tigers lineup produced seven runs and a victory in Game 4 of the ALCS, Jim Leyland said he was going to use it again in...
Battle over Biggie street renaming
He was too “Biggie” to be honored. Naming a Brooklyn street corner after the late rapper Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, would send a bad message to kids because he...
Bloomberg: I'd wear high heels
Move over, Carrie Bradshaw. There’s another famous New Yorker who is enamored of high heels — Mayor Bloomberg. “If I were a woman, I think I would wear high heels,”...
Pet shop sues activists after kids trash store
Their bark was so loud that this Manhattan pet shop decided to bite. The owners of a Chelsea pet store are suing two rabid animal-rights activists they say hired kids...
Big rig makes big mess in Queens
A tractor-trailer hauling garbage tipped over on the entrance ramp to a Queens highway Thursday, authorities said. The driver, Fatma Guclu, 59, was maneuvering a turn at Grand Central Parkway...
How I saw Madoff: Secretary's 'star-struck' defense
Ponzi monster Bernie Madoff was her White Knight. That’s the message a lawyer for Madoff’s longtime former secretary Annette Bongiorno presented on Thursday to jurors in an elaborate power-point presentation...
Outer-borough cabbies cleaning up
Outer-borough cabbies are taking home the green. Drivers of the outer-borough taxis say that the apple green rides are major money makers. Jenny Ahmed, vice president of Brooklyn’s PIA Car...
Suicide teen takes 2 innocents with him: cops
A 15-year-old New Jersey boy scrawled a frantic suicide note on his own flesh and then slammed his parents’ car into another vehicle — killing himself and two innocent travelers,...
Docs worried sick over ObamaCare
New York doctors are feeling queasy about ObamaCare — and many won’t participate in the new national insurance program because they fear they’ll go broke, The Post has learned. “ObamaCare...
Players laud Jason Kidd as Nets retire his jersey
Here is some reaction from various players involved in Thursday night’s Nets-Heat preseason game about Jason Kidd’s No. 5 jersey being retired by the Nets: Kevin Garnett: “I thought it...
X factor: Youngster Bogaerts giving Boston a lift
DETROIT — Brian Butterfield did not want to use the name. It felt like baseball sacrilege to the Red Sox third base coach. To say Derek Jeter. And then to put...
A bold attack to topple de Blasio
With Anthony Weiner back in his cage and Washington engulfed by the federal shutdown, Americans have forgotten New York’s mayoral race. What started as a sex farce starring Weiner as...
Red Sox push Tigers to brink in ALCS
DETROIT — Thanks to Mike Napoli’s biceps and Koji Uehara’s filthy splitter, the Red Sox are nine innings away from the World Series. The blue collar first baseman and the...
Lawsuits claim Papa John's takes tips from deliverymen
Papa John’s has more than one way of taking an unfair slice of deliverymen’s wages, several lawsuits claim. The chain, subject of a state probe of fast-food chains allegedly underpaying...
Lhota’s Republican problem
When a Democrat says he doesn’t understand Republicans, it’s not news. Especially when the Democrat is a man who honeymooned in Cuba and thinks Daniel Ortega can teach us about...
Probe into Papa John's wages
These ingredients aren’t what telegenic pizza chain founder John Schnatter is talking about. Several Big Apple Papa John’s pizza joints have received subpoenas as part of a probe into fast...
Job comes first for Jason Kidd even as jersey gets retired
He had downplayed the moment plenty, mostly out of respect for his job, for not wanting his old career to serve as a distraction for the new — even if...
Find your way to 'All Is Lost'
In an age of hyperconnectedness, the completely solitary adventure acquires a harrowing attraction. In “127 Hours,” “Life of Pi,” “Gravity” and now “All Is Lost,” life without so much as...