May 9, 2005
DASH TO FINISH - DEF JAM LIKELY TO END PACT WITH DAMON THIS WEEK
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amFor Damon Dash, it's over almost before it began. Dash's new record label the Damon Dash Music Group - a joint venture with Universal Music's Island Def Jam - has...
PEN & PEN - NOVEL IDEA: LOCKING UP WRITERS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amWRITERS often do their best work behind bars. Cervantes penned most of "Don Quixote" in the pen. Dostoevsky found inspiration in incarceration. In the tradition of those literary inmates, three...
STUCK IN A SPACE JAM FROM MARS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Mars Volta's dense show of prog-rock at the Roseland Ball room Friday revealed just how outside these boys are. Latin jazz, hard-core punk and psychedelic rock mixed during the...
STARR REPORT
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amIt's not often that someone is "discovered" for a life in show biz like in some 1930s B-movie - but it could be happening to Dawntavia Bullard, who won ABC...
'IDOL' STILL SINGS AFTER PAULA-GATE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amIT might be a very long summer for Paula Abdul, but not for "American Idol." In the wake of allegations and an internal investigation that the "American Idol" judge coached...
MISSION FOR MARS - BUFFY THE DETECTIVE CLOSES CASE ON THIS SEASON
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amWHO killed Lilly Kane? That question has been on the minds of roughly three million fans of UPN's noir, teen detective drama "Veronica Mars" for the last eight months. The...
DAVE UNDER HEAVY STRESS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amTHE mystery of why comic Dave Chap pelle's show was suddenly shut down is still alive - but some "friends" say they can explain what the problem is. He was...
'GI BILL' FOR N.Y. SOLDIERS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - A proposed bill would give the families of public-sector workers killed while serving in the military the same insurance and death benefits as on-the-job workers. The bill, proposed...
HASIDS' E. END BATTLE - FIGHT FOR SYNAGOGUE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amA group of Hasidic Jews have found themselves in a no-holds-barred battle with ritzy Southampton residents as they try to establish the first synagogue there on a mansion-studded street. The...
NO. 1 'KINGDOM' COMES UP SHORT
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amHollywood limped into the start of the summer movie season with lackluster action at the box office, as "Kingdom of Heaven" - the big-budget epic about the Crusades - earned...
WORKING FAMILIES PARTY ALL BUT OVER FOR MIKE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Bloomberg campaign has all but given up on winning the support of the Working Families Party - which could have saved it from getting in bed with the odious...
PRESIDENT BUSH BRAVED A CHILLY RAIN YESTERDAY TO PAY TRIBUTE ...
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amStanding amid American graves in a Dutch cemetery, President Bush braved a chilly rain yesterday to pay tribute to World War II soldiers' "unique contribution to the story of freedom."...
FEWER STATE HIGH SCHOOLS AMONG THE ELITE: REPORT
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amPublic high schools in New York state have lost ground over the last two years, notching only 19 of the top 100 slots in the country - down from 31...
WHAT THE MINUTEMEN WANT - AMERICA'S DEADLY BORDER DEADLOCK
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amTRYING to stop the flow of migrants crossing the border into the United States is like trying to enforce a 25-mile an hour speed limit on the interstate. It's going...
GROOM VISITS JILTIN' JEN AT HER MOM'S
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amGAINESVILLE, Ga. - The father of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks admitted yesterday to being "concerned about her" - even as her ditched fiancé spent several hours at the house where...
CRASH NIGHTMARE - SIX INJURED IN SMASH-&-ROLL
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amSix people - including an infant girl - were hurt yesterday when two cars crashed in Queens. The accident occurred about 11:45 a.m. when a Kia SUV heading along Queens...
PUTT-PUTT DIPLOMACY - PREZ TAKES VLAD FOR VINTAGE SPIN
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amPresident Bush and Vladimir Putin tossed their tensions into the back seat yesterday as they gleefully tooled around the Russian leader's private compound in a vintage Soviet auto. With Bush...
NIGHTCLUB KNIFE FIGHT SHAKES UP W. SIDERS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amA dispute at a popular Upper West Side dance club yesterday morning that escalated to a stabbing has residents in the upscale neighborhood shaken, cops said yesterday. Police said a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A woman was arrested yesterday for critically injuring her boyfriend - by tossing bleach in his face, cops said yesterday. Stephanie Lawrence, 46, got into an argument...
QAEDA THUG PLANNED U.S. ELEX TERROR
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe third highest-ranking official in al Qaeda took part in a terrorist plot timed to coincide with the November election, a chilling new report says. Abu Farraj al-Libbi, a Libyan...
MORGY'S CAMPAIGN GAL-VANIZED
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amSeveral prominent female leaders are set to endorse Robert Morgenthau for Manhattan District Attorney today. Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Nydia Velaquez, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, Manhattan Borough President Virginia Fields,...
BABY ON THE WAY FOR NEW 'BENNIFER'
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amIt looks like Jennifer Garner will assume a brand-new alias this fall - Mommy. The "Alias" TV star - here in Santa Monica, Calif., yesterday with her beau and "Daredevil"...
ZARQAWI TOP AIDE BAGGED - HIT PLOT FOILED
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amA deputy of al Qaeda's chief in Iraq has been captured while preparing to assassinate an Iraqi bigwig, officials announced yesterday. Ammar al-Zubaydi, an aide to terror boss Abu Musab...
THINGS SOON TO GET HAIRY FOR COPS WHO USE DRUGS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYPD will soon pluck a strand of hair - rather than rely on a cup of urine - to test cops for illegal drug use. The new system for...
U.S. 'ROYAL' WEDDING - KENNEDYS IN L.A. FOR SHRIVER NUPS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amIt was Camelot on the West Coast as the Kennedy clan converged in Los Angeles for the wedding of Bobby Shriver, the nephew of JFK and brother of California First...
MEMORY STANDS GUARD AGAINST HATE: SURVIVORS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amWe will never forget. That was the message yesterday as political leaders and Holocaust survivors gathered to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II - and...
BRIDE SPENDS MOTHER'S DAY HIDIN' AT MA'S
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amGAINESVILLE, Ga. - The father of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks admitted yesterday to being "concerned about her" - even as her ditched fiancé spent several hours at the house where...
CHUCK WANTS MOMS TO DONATE UMBILICAL CORDS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer yesterday used Mother's Day to push his $15 million federal aid plan to create a national registry for umbilical-cord donors. Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants new mothers to donate...
'CHECK'ERED PAST - NYU KID PROBED BEFORE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYU whiz kid nailed in an alleged $43 million check-kiting scheme was being criminally investigated by the feds for at least six months previously for other suspect activities, The...
COP SHOOTS TENANT DEAD IN RENT DISPUTE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amAn off-duty Internal Affairs cop fatally shot a tenant in his mother-in-law's Brooklyn building yesterday when a rent dispute erupted into violence, police sources said. In a 911 call, Lt....
LAST DIVE - 4 FT. - SCUBA INSTRUCTOR DROWNS AT HS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amAn experienced scuba-diving instructor in top physical shape mysteriously drowned in 4 feet of water in the pool of a Long Island high school, police said yesterday. David Rampersad, 38,...
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS MARK V-E DAY
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amPolitical leaders and Holocaust survivors gathered yesterday to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe - and the Nazi concentration camps. Sen. Charles Schumer...
MORGY GETS GAL-VANIZED BY WOMEN POWERBROKERS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amSeveral prominent female leaders are set to endorse Robert Morgenthau for Manhattan district attorney today. Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Nydia Velazquez, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, Manhattan Borough President Virginia Fields,...
SHADY PAST OF NYU KID - EYED IN OTHER PROBES
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYU whiz kid nailed in an alleged $43 million check-kiting scheme was being criminally investigated by the feds for at least six months previously for other suspect activities, The...
FAMILY AFFAIR FOR TEACH & BOY DAD
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amHere's a rare glimpse of the oddest family portrait in America - infamous ex-teacher Mary Kay Letourneau and her one-time schoolboy lover going for a Mother's Day spin with their...
FATAL RENT FLAP - LANDLORD COP KILLS TENANT
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amAn off-duty Internal Affairs cop fatally shot one of his Brooklyn tenants yesterday when a dispute over two months' back rent erupted in violence, police sources said. In a call...
BICYCLE GIRLS BADLY HURT IN COLLISION
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amTwo young Long Island girls doubling up on a bicycle were seriously injured yesterday when a pizza deliveryman driving a car collided with them in West Islip. Valerie McCarthy, 14,...
'KINGDOM' COMES UP SHORT
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amHollywood limped into the start of the summer movie season with lackluster action at the box office, as "Kingdom of Heaven" - the big-budget epic about the Crusades - earned...
MAYOR MIKE'S TIN-EAR TRIBUTE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN New York - city and state - teetered on the brink of fiscal disaster 30 years ago, Hugh Leo Carey saved the day. For this and other achievements, the...
GRID STAR IN TACKLE-ISH SITUATION - SEXY PAL SNEAKS IN AS STRAHAN FAMILY STEWS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amGiants sack king Michael Strahan pulled a seamy stealth move off the field over Mother's Day weekend - bringing in his Canadian "Cupcake" for a hush-hush weekend rendezvous. As the...
N.Y. BIDS TO RAISE AGE FOR SMOKING
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - First, they raised the taxes on cigarettes, and now legislators are considering raising the smoking age, The Post has learned. A bill quietly making its way through the...
PATAKI PITS FREEDOM VS. W. SIDE $TADIUM
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amAIDES to Gov. Pataki have privately told Bloomberg administration officials to get the NYPD to drop its resistance to construction of a Freedom Tower at Ground Zero - or risk...
LAWSUIT CALLS IT HOSP FROM HELL - EX-EXEC BLAMES WYCKOFF FOR WRONGFUL DEATHS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amYOU go to a hospital in New York and get the best treatment in the world. Right? Very wrong, according to a former executive of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in...
25G SUIT VS. GYM 'RANDY' - STEAMED OVER 'GAY SEX'
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amA high-end Chelsea gym has been slapped with a $25,000 lawsuit claiming that gay sex is rampant in the locker room and that the club's staff has been unable to...
POLLEN HITS NEW GESUND-HEIGHTS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amIt's nothing to sneeze at for allergy sufferers: Pollen counts are now at their highest in years - and they're about to get even worse, experts say. "It's early for...
MORE SENIORS ABUSING DRUGS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amOlder Americans are checking into substance abuse centers at record rates - mainly because they're taking too much prescription pain-relief medication, says a new federal government report. Admissions for adults...
BELLY UP TO THE 'BAR' LIKE GIS DO
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amIt's been tested in combat, proven on the battlefield - and now it's coming to a store near you. A secret weapon in the fight against terror? No. It's an...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amA Massachusetts woman says she found something a little too special in the house special at the Jade Chopsticks restaurant - a mouse head. "It was disgusting-looking. It had two...
SAFER, SLEEKER SPACESHIP - DESIGN SCUTTLES SHUTTLE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amHere's a first peek at the next generation of space shuttle. The sleeker, trimmed-down spaceship is about one-quarter the size of the shuttle in use today. NASA believes the new...
THE BOSS BUTTS OUT - LETS DERBY BE THE STORY
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amWE'RE not often moved to compliment a George Steinbrenner decision, but he made a peach julep of one, over the weekend, deciding to let Bellamy Road and Nick Zito do...
NOBODY WITH HORSE SENSE HAD CLUE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - If it's any consolation to the horseplayers bloodied by Giacomo's calamitous Kentucky Derby victory, two of the greatest trainers of the modern era made him an automatic betting...
'ALEX' PRIMING FOR PREAKNESS - LOOMS AS TOP CHOICE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Giacomo's shocking victory in Saturday's Kentucky Derby at 50-1, a half-length ahead of 71-1 runner-up Closing Argument and a length better than Afleet Alex in third, isn't likely...
BEING BACK IS ENOUGH FOR XAVERIAN'S BEATO
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amPedro Beato wasn't hitting 93 mph on the radar gun like he did as a sophomore and his control wasn't quite as precise as he would have liked. But that...
BAFFERT: SMITH WAS DUE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Yesterday morning, many were still struggling to make sense of Saturday's Kentucky Derby. Not Bob Baffert, whose colt Sort It Out ran 17th. Baffert, who believes fate determines...
MASIELLO HIRED TO HELP PITINO
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe ripple effects of the Big East Conference's latest expansion are being felt in coaching circles in the East. Louisville coach Rick Pitino has hired Manhattan assistant Steve Masiello to...
PHIL FAILS TO SURVIVE 17TH
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE - Phil Mickelson electrified yesterday's final round of the Wachovia Championship at the Quail Hollow Club before he was electrocuted by his nemesis for the week, the treacherous 17th...
'SWEET' WIN IN BOUWERIE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amDespite breaking slowly and ducking in at start, Sweet Sweet was able to stalk pace and edge away in stretch to win the $116,000 Bouwerie Stakes for 3-year-old New York-bred...
STOLEN VICTORY - DISPUTED SWIPE IN 9TH HELPS BEAT METS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amBrewers 5 Mets 4 MILWAUKEE - Many times this season the Mets have won games late, with clutch homers or big hits. But the reverse - the Mets losing a...
RENEGADE ROOKIES LOOK GOOD TO GIANTS
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe advice is simple enough. To defy the odds, to claim one of the precious roster spots, a rookie who was not selected in the NFL Draft must show himself...
CARLOS STARTING TO BELT
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Carlos Beltran may be about to embark on an offensive explosion. Beltran had three hits yesterday for the second straight game, the first time he has done that...
WILLIE GIVES DIAZ HIS DUE
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES MILWAUKEE - Willie Randolph stopped short of saying he would rotate Victor Diaz into the outfield. But the Mets manager does want to make sure he gets Diaz...
TIGER: DON'T FENCE ME IN
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amWACHOVIA NOTEBOOK CHARLOTTE - Tiger Woods ended an otherwise nondescript performance at the Wachovia Championship yesterday when he left the grounds ticked off after a two-shot penalty cost him a...
SINGH LOUD - VIJAY RALLIES, WINS IN PLAYOFF
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE - The sun always rises in the morning and sets at night. Christmas always falls on December 25. Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. George Steinbrenner is always stressed...
THEY DISPLAYED SOME FIGHT, BUT ALL IS STILL NOT RIGHT IN BRONX
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amTHEY have evolved into more of a brand name than a baseball team over the last few years, the most-renowned this, the most-successful that, the most marquee names money could...
A STRONG SEVEN SHOWN BY KEVIN - GEM TAKES HEAT OFF STOTTLEMYRE, BROWN
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Athletics 0 Fire Mel Stottlemyre? Are you kidding? If George Steinbrenner is still considering boxing one of the best pitching coaches in baseball, then The Boss should...
GORDON BEGINS TO CLIMB BACK
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Kevin Brown wasn't the only Yankees pitcher to rebound yesterday. Struggling reliever Tom Gordon looked like last year's model instead of the pitcher who has made Yankee fans...
GIMPY GARY - SHEFFIELD SPRAINS ANKLE IN THE FIFTH
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amGary Sheffield sprained his left ankle and took a 96 mph fastball off his left arm in the same inning yesterday, yet he wouldn't acknowledge it was a tough day...
TORRID TINO - MARTINEZ MAKES MOST OF GREEN LIGHT IN 8TH
May 9, 2005 | 4:00amLately, Don Mattingly has been cajoling Tino Martinez to be more aggressive. Well, it doesn't get any more aggressive than swinging at a 3- and-0 pitch. The suddenly scintillating Martinez...