March 4, 2006
NASD CLEARS LANGONE FIRM
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amBillionaire Kenneth Langone has scored a big win against Wall Street regulators nearly three years after his investment bank was accused of operating a pay-to-play scheme for hot IPOs. The...
WARREN BUFFETTED FOR $1.8B IN '05
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amWarren Buffett, the second-richest man in America, is $1.8 billion poorer this year due to bad bets - also losing billions for his loyal following. The 75 year-old "Oracle of...
GREENSPAN MEMOIR BIDDING MAY TOP $8M
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe white hot auction for the rights to former Federal Reserve boss Alan Greenspan's memoirs nudged into the $8 million range late yesterday. At the end of the second full...
BLACK'S IN RED TO SOTHEBY'S
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amSotheby's is suing disgraced media baron Conrad Black for stiffing them on their commission for selling his $10.5 million Park Ave. apartment. But the once-powerful newspaper mogul wasn't trying to...
PATENT ENDING; BLACKBERRY WILL PAY $612M TO KEEP WIRED
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amBlackBerry maker Research in Motion said yesterday it will pay $612.5 million to settle a bitter patent dispute that could have shut down every BlackBerry in America. The deal came...
GIMME SHELTER
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amFlav pad at Plaza MODELIZING auto-racing magnate Flavio Briatore is spending lots of money on another high-maintenance Manhattan beauty. The well-financed Formula One Casanova, who's fathered a child with Heidi...
DESIGN SHOWDOWN - THREE EVENTS OFFER CLASSIC AND MODERN STYLE - FOR ANY BUDGET
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amHERE'S a way to cure the mean winter blues: Head to the city's sprawling design shows. The Architectural Digest Home Design Show will be held March 9-12 at Pier 94...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB - PICKS AND PANS
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amButter and Eggs 83 W. Broadway, between Warren and Chambers streets (212) 676-0235 Sale: through March 15 Open: Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m./Sun., noon-5 p.m./Mon.-Wed., Fri., noon-7 p.m./Thurs., noon-8 p.m. Select...
THE RED CARPET DIARIES - JOAN TURNS TART TONGUE TOWARD OSCARS
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amJOAN Rivers, who spends more time on the red carpet than your Uncle Morty in the rug business, will be sinking into fibers again on tomorrow's Oscars along with her...
'IDOL' LOSER LETS LOOSE
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amOUTSPOKEN "Ameri can Idol" wannabe Brenna Gethers still believes she's going to be a superstar - even after she was booted off the Fox talent show this week. "It's all...
SCOTTISH RULE
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amONCE you get over the major dweeb factor that's at the core of Scottish indie pop rockers Belle & Sebastian, it's easier to enjoy the septet's affable melodies about oddballs...
DULLTRAVIOLET
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amULTRAVIOLET (zero stars) Monotonous mess. Running time: 88 minutes.Rated PG-13 (action violence). At the E-Walk, the Orpheum, the Kips Bay, others. 'ULTRAVIOLET," a cut-rate ripoff of "Aeon Flux" with Milla...
ARE WE NOT KIDS? THEY ARE DEVO 2.0, A YOUNG NEW TAKE ON A NEW WAVE BAND
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amWITH its red flowerpot-shaped "energy domes," sunny yellow jumpsuits and robotic dance moves, Devo seemed tailor-made for kids. Which is why Jerry Casale, who co-founded the group with Mark Mothersbaugh...
MAKING A SPLASH
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amIN the film "Aquamarine," Emma Roberts - "Pretty Woman" Julia Roberts' pretty little niece - plays Claire, a shy, water-phobic, 13-year-old scaredy cat with only one friend in the world....
'GIRL-SEX' LAWYER IS BUSTED IN THE BUFF AT HIDEAWAY
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amLewd lawyer James Colliton was nabbed in a Manhattan hotel yesterday - a week after going into hiding to avoid arrest on charges of paying a mother for sex with...
ZARQAWI'S 'BIG BANG'
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Al Qaeda is reportedly plotting to unleash a vicious "big bang" attack in Iraq - a massive strike against a single high-profile target or a coordinated bombardment of...
SEN. CHUCK AND FOE TEAM UP IN PORT WAR
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Congressional opposition to the Dubai port deal is so broad that it's making for some very strange bedfellows: Sen. Chuck Schumer has even teamed up with a Republican...
LT. GOV IS UP FOR FED BENCH
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Little-known Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue is being considered for a federal judgeship, aides to Gov. Pataki said yesterday. Pataki, who decided against seeking a fourth term this year,...
QUIET TIME: MAFIA BOSS GETS 4 YRS.
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amFormer Genovese family acting boss Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo stayed true to his name as he was sentenced to almost four years in prison yesterday. When Brooklyn federal court Judge...
MADONNA SEEKS HOLY LAND; LOOKS TO BUY HOME IN ISRAEL FOR KABBALAH HQ
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Madonna is shopping for a posh Israeli home to be a center for the study of the mystical Jewish text of kabbalah - in a town where some...
FILM CRASHER COPS PLEA
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amA former firefighter 'fessed up yesterday to drunkenly smashing a truck into the Greenwich Village movie set of Oliver Stone's 9/11 flick. "I plead guilty, your honor," Eugene Scharf told...
'CLOAKED' W. IN PAKISTAN
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amPresident Bush vowed a push to "reduce the appeal of radical Islam" as he landed last night under extraordinary security in Pakistan, where terror kingpin Osama bin Laden is believed...
ARCHITECT TOTTERING; JAVITS PLANNER TO BE GRILLED OVER ISRAEL 'HATE'
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amControversial architect Richard Rogers is coming to New York next week to defend himself after the state's economic-development czar called him on the carpet yesterday over suspicions of his being...
PAIR SHOT IN JEWEL HEIST
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amFour armed-to-the-teeth bandits stuck up a Bushwick jewelry store just before noon yesterday and made off with whole racks of gems - but not before shooting the shop's owner and...
SHOCKING ADMISSION
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amCon Ed officials said yesterday there was indeed stray voltage at the Harlem street corner where a 9-year-old boy apparently got jolted after stepping on a manhole cover Thursday night....
MOUSEKETEER SCAMPERS FREE
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe feds call her a racketeer, but Darlene Gillespie, 65, had that old Mouseketeer twinkle in her eye yesterday in Ventura, Calif., as she slipped out of her handcuffs and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** An off-duty NYPD traffic agent was busted for driving with a suspended license in Hamilton Heights, police said yesterday. Domingo Medina, 40, was pulled over for a defective...
'YOU SHOULD NEVER BE SET FREE': DWI KIN
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Long Island man who killed a retired New York City cop while driving in a drunken haze got a slap on the wrist yesterday when a judge said the...
IMETTE MA: CATCH HIM ; TEARFUL PLEA SO 'NO FAMILY GOES THROUGH THIS AGAIN'
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe heartbroken mother of slain grad-school student Imette St. Guillen made a desperate plea at her wake yesterday for help in catching the psycho who savagely raped and murdered her...
HUBBY HAD NO HEART; DON JUAN DOC $LAPPED
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amOn his Web page, Dr. Gerson Gomes comes across as a nice guy, promising patients "time, quality care and follow-up" - but a Queens judge says behind the heart doc...
ELECTRICIAN$ JUICE UP 'BID-RIGGER' POL
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amPowerful labor boss and Queens Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin yesterday denied any wrongdoing in an alleged bid-rigging scandal of city street-lighting contracts - even as campaign reports show he's the king...
COPS: IPERV'S IPOD HAD IPORN
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Texas man's been busted for having child pornography - on his iPod. Ron Guzman, 38, of San Marcos, was indicted Wednesday on nine counts of possessing child porn, including...
BEEP CREEP SWEEP
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amA worker who played hooky from the Bronx borough president's office was arrested yesterday after being caught forging doctor's notes so he could collect sick pay, officials said. Robert Bell,...
'BUBBLE' MAY BURST IN TRIBECA MOSQUE WOE
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amSome TriBeCa residents are glad they found the neighborhood mosque - not because of an interest in Islam, but because it's given them a way to shut down bars and...
CANCER HITS RAD LAWYER
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amLynne Stewart, the lawyer convicted last year of smuggling messages from blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman to his terrorist followers, has breast cancer and needs months of radiation therapy. Her lawyer,...
CHUCK AND FOE TEAM UP
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Congressional opposition to the Dubai port deal is so broad that it's making for some very strange bedfellows: Sen. Chuck Schumer has even teamed up with a Republican...
AIDE: GOV STILL ON THE MEND
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki is "continuing his recovery" and remains in "good spirits," a spokesman said yesterday. The update on Pataki's medical condition comes two days after the frail-looking governor...
EAST RIVER PLUNGE; TEEN TELLS LITTLE SIS 'BYE'
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amNYPD divers yesterday were searching the East River for a 14-year-old boy who jumped into the frigid water after handing his 6-year-old sister his coat and telling her, "Bye, Keema,"...
MOM FOUND DEAD IN S.I. SHELTER
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amPolice are investigating the death of a 22-year-old mother of three found dead in a Staten Island shelter where she was living. Maria Perez was found unconscious in an apartment...
DAD HAD PORN PIX OF HIS GIRL: COPS
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amA state Department of Transportation employee was arrested yesterday after pornographic pictures of his own 11-year-old daughter were found on his computer at his Queens office, police sources said. The...
MAN KILLED IN TRASH-TRUCK CRASH
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amA 65-year-old Brooklyn man was struck dead yesterday after a garbage truck hit his car head-on, police said. The driver, who was not identified, was driving through the intersection of...
TEEN IN E. RIVER PLUNGE - TELLS SISTER 'BYE'
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amNYPD divers yesterday were searching the East River for a 14-year-old boy who jumped into the frigid water after handing his 6-year-old sister his coat and telling her, "Bye, Keema,"...
CANCER HITS CON LAWYER
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amLynne Stewart, the veteran lawyer convicted in February 2005 of smuggling messages from blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman to his terrorist followers, has breast cancer and needs to undergo months of...
BUBBLE BURSTS - WOE FOR PUBS NEAR MOSQUES
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amSome TriBeCa residents are glad they found the neighborhood mosque - not because of an interest in Islam, but because it's given them a way to shut down bars and...
HAMAS DIPLO DOUBLE TALK
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amHamas is willing to renew its yearlong cease-fire and respect past Palestinian agreements with Israel if the Jewish state does the same, Russia said yesterday. But it otherwise refused to...
FIREWORKS RIOT ROCKS NAZARETH
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Thousands of angry worshippers and villagers rioted outside the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth yesterday after a troubled Israeli family set off firecrackers inside the site, one...
MOUTHWASH SUIT SPITS ON CREST
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amA stinging mouthwash war has erupted over Crest's claim that four out of five dentists would recommend Crest Pro Health, and that it doesn't burn like the leading mouthwash. Although...
O'TOOLE QUITS FAIRFIELD
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amNew York native Tim O'Toole resigned as coach at Fairfield last night after eight years. O'Toole informed his players after the Stags (9-19) fell to Niagara, 84-77, in the MAAC...
ISLANDERS CELEBRATE '80 CHAMPS
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe Islanders, eight points out of the playoffs, may be hanging onto their season by a thread, but tonight they will be Cup champions again. Lord Stanley's hardware will be...
MIGLIORE RETURNS WITH WIN
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amWe've said it before, we'll say it again: The best handicapping angle in the history of racing is betting a jockey returning from a long layoff for injury or suspension....
CLOUDY CONDITIONS ; TEAMS STALL WHILE NFL, UNION TALK
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amWith an extra 72 hours until the opening of the NFL free-agent signing period, the purging of big-name players slowed considerably yesterday as the league and the players union plowed...
NENAD'S IN FOUL MOOD - SAYS REFS DON'T RESPECT HIM
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amNenad Krstic's face grew long, like a child's trying to figure out why he was sent to his room. The Nets center's dour expression arrived as he tried to explain...
WORLD OF DIFFERENCE IN THIS LINEUP
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEARWATER - How long will it be before George Steinbrenner blames the WBC for a lousy exhibition record? The Boss' biggest fear is Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Johnny...
THROW THESE FOUR STAKES ON THE GRILL
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe ghosts of Kentucky Derbies past meet the ghost of Derby future this afternoon, the biggest day of thoroughbred racing so far this year, in four major stakes being run...
GOAL-DEN BOYS; BRODEUR, LUNDQVIST ADD COLOR TO RIVALRY
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe showdown of the past two Olympic gold-medal goalies may have to wait. Still, it's Rangers-Devils tonight at the Meadowlands, meaning more than it has in years. It's the Rangers...
JAROMIR EARNING HIS KEEP
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amYou have to give credit where it is due, and no player is more deserving of such acknowledgment than Jaromir Jagr. Jagr, who netted his league-leading 41st and 42nd goals...
BLOOM CLEARLY OFF ROSE
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Jalen Rose was the last Knick to leave the court, shooting baskets a good 10 minutes after his mates had left for the locker room following yesterday's morning...
KNICKS MAKE BROWN SICK; HEALTH WON'T CAUSE LARRY TO 'WALK AWAY'
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amLarry Brown joked yesterday that his brief hospital visit in Memphis on Tuesday night was simply "the indigestion of losing." The NBA's losingest team, on pace for its worst record...
CAPTAIN AMERICA; A-ROD 'EXCITED' HE CHOSE TEAM USA
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amPHOENIX - Alex Rodriguez supplied his plane - dubbed "Air A-Rod" by Johnny Damon - for him and his Yankees teammates to fly here from Tampa for the World Baseball...
ULTIMATELY, IT'S ON THE PLAYERS
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amIT would have been the perfect setting for a giveaway promotion at the Garden last night, something you usually see during the baseball season when the home team wants to...
PAYBACK PITCH; YANKS TRADE HBPS WITH PHILLIES AGAIN
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amPhillies 11Yankees 10 CLEARWATER - For the second time in four years, the Phillies and Yankees were involved in what the Yanks believed was an incident of a player being...
ROCKET CONSIDERS TARGETS
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amWBC NOTES Free-agent pitcher Roger Clemens yesterday acknowledged that the Yankees are one of four teams chasing him. He also listed the other three: the Astros, Red Sox and Rangers....
A COUPLE OF ODD TEAMMATES
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amPHOENIX - Other than last year's All-Star Game, this is the first time Alex Rodriguez and Jason Varitek have been teammates since the two got into that infamous brawl in...
LARRY WON'T 'WALK AWAY'
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amLarry Brown called his brief hospital visit in Memphis on Tuesday night for indigestion a "non-issue," but next month's medical issue facing the Knicks coach will have a great impact...
RULAND DECLARES MAAC WAR
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - With five of the past eight MAAC tournament crowns divvied between city rivals and top seeds Manhattan and Iona, this year's tourney, which tipped off last night at...
MCGILL POWERS ST. RAY'S
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amCHSAASt. Ray's 60Holy Cross 50 Torrance McGill isn't the best player on St. Raymond. That honor belongs to either of the Ravens' top juniors, Gerald Colds or Daryl Bryant. But...
SKILES IS NO FAN OF CURRY
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amBulls coach Scott Skiles said he isn't shocked Eddy Curry has been an underachiever in New York. Skiles was asked if he was surprised Curry hasn't flourished in the Big...
KNICKS LOOK FOUL AGAIN; LATE COLLAPSE DOOMS TEAM TITANIC
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amBulls 108Knicks 101 Even for Team Titanic, this was a disgusting choke. The Knicks sold out last night's game vs. the Bulls, and even Knicks officials felt the fans were...
TOUGH TO STOMACH
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amAT least the booing didn't begin until there were 3.3 seconds remaining last night. By then, the Garden crowd had gone from hopeful to thoroughly disgusted after watching the Knicks...
FIGHT TO FINISH - NEW CHAD DEAL LIKELY WILL COME DOWN TO LAST-MINUTE DRIVE
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amMIAMI - Talks between the Jets and Chad Pennington's agent regarding a restructured contract continued yesterday, but both parties went to bed without a resolution. Though neither the Jets nor...
DELGADO'S PERFECT SPRING INTACT
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Two spring games now, and Carlos Delgado is still perfect. A day after going 3-for-3 in his spring debut, Delgado went 2-for-2 last night in the...
PEDRO THROWS SOME MORE, TOE STILL SORE
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Pedro Martinez said his right big toe was "a little sore" yesterday following Thursday's bullpen session, but the Mets ace was not concerned. Martinez...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 4, 2006 | 5:00amA seventh-grader's science project has stomachs turning in Tampa, Fla. Jasmine Roberts, 12, visited some local fast-food restaurants and checked for bacteria in water from their toilet bowls and in...