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March 9, 2006

OVERSTOCK WINS ONE

Overstock won an important legal battle late Tuesday in its bid to force an independent research shop and a short-seller into court. A Marin County, Calif., judge ruled that Overstock...

NEWSDAY EXEC IN PLEA DEAL

A former top Newsday executive has reportedly pleaded guilty as part of a secret deal with prosecutors probing the tabloid's circulation scandal. Newsday reported yesterday that Robert Brennan, the former...

DISSIDENTS RIP $8.9B VNU BID, THREATEN PROXY FIGHT

The battle over Dutch media giant VNU NV intensified yesterday after a slightly sweetened offer by a consortium of private-equity firms failed to satisfy some of the company's largest and...

CHANGE YOUR TUNE - SPITZER CHARGES ENTERCOM MADE PAYOLA BRIBES

In his first prosecution of radio's music payola scams, Eliot Spitzer is hauling in the nation's fourth-largest station owner, Entercom, for allegedly corrupting pop music airwaves. The New York attorney...

2 RIDDER BIDDERS DROP OUT

Knight Ridder's list of suitors just got shorter. Spooked by the gloomy outlook for the newspaper industry, two groups of private-equity investors are pulling themselves out of the running for...

ONLINE HOOPLA - CBS GETS 'NET FEVER OVER MARCH MADNESS

CBS is betting that it will draw more viewers - and ad dollars - by airing much of March Madness over the Internet. CBS SportsLine will make the first 56...

FUTURE STOCK - AS NYSE GOES PUBLIC, FLOOR TRADERS ARE WARY

When the opening bell rang at 9:30 yesterday morning, the New York Stock Exchange began life as a for-profit, public company, but its floor traders headed into an uncertain future....

HEY BERNANKE, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

THE weather is heating up and so are interest rates. They are rising at an alarming pace. Tomorrow's employment report - while probably neither too good nor too bad -...

NOT SO FAST-OW - DEFENSE CALLS EXEC 'COWARD'

A verbal slugfest erupted on the stand yesterday between Andrew Fastow - Enron's chief accuser - and a defense attorney attacking him as a vile coward, prompting a judge to...

SALMON FILLETED: OBSERVER SHINKS

After a fruitless search to find a new sugar daddy, the New York Observer has apparently decided to shrink its size to one section a week in order to save...

SCRUSHY EYES ENRON JURORS

One surprise celebrity - sort of - at the Enron trial was Richard Scrushy, the fired HealthSouth chief who beat a similar cooked-books criminal rap by blaming his four junior...

BONDS SHOW STILL ON

ESPN's Barry Bonds reality show will go on as planned - even in the wake of bombshell allegations about the slugger's steroid abuse. Announced just last week, the ESPN show,...

ENERGETIC BRIT TRIO ROLLS THROUGH N.Y.

THE Subways, a young Brit-rock trio, rumbled out from underground and onto the Bowery Ballroom stage to play a gig as steady and bumpy as a rush-hour ride on the...

HAPLESS 'FELLA'

HOW happy is Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella," which, starring an enthusiastic if underwhelming Paul Sorvino, opened New York City Opera's spring season Tuesday night? Well, not miserable, but...

HER FINE DESIGNS - CHLOE WINS 'RUNWAY'

IT WAS a clothes call - but in the end, Chloe Dao (left) had victory sewn up. The diminutive designer and entrepreneur from Houston withstood stiff competition to emerge last...

FACE TO FACE - QUICK SCAN CAN FIND YOUR PLACE AMONG THE STARS

MY editor looks like a Chilean dictator, and I'm not just saying that because he gets mad at me when I miss deadline. According to myheritage.com, a Web site pioneering...

APPRENTICE RUNS FOR CONGRESS - RAJ HAS REAL CHANCE TO WIN

RAJ Bhakta was fired by Donald Trump, but he's convinced voters want him as more than an "Apprentice." The bow-tie-wearing reality-show contestant, who tried to woo tennis babe Anna Kournikova...

STARR REPORT

No one's laughing So how bad off is NBC's "Joey"? The "Friends" spinoff, starring Matt LeBlanc, averaged a puny 4 million viewers Tuesday (8 p.m.) - and was beaten by...

TUBE TOPS 'NET - VIDEO-CLIP CLEARINGHOUSE ATTRACTS FANS, LAWSUITS

You've probably already snorted with laughter over the live action version of "The Simpsons" opening credits or incredulously watched a girl getting thrown through a basketball hoop. Chances are that...

THREE'S COMPANY - 'BIG LOVE' THE NEW 'SOPRANOS'

Shakedowns. Extortion. Vending-machine rackets. Kickbacks. Attempted murder among family members. Protection money. Sex between older men and young girls. And old men wielding power among illegal "families" that are rife...

SCHOOL WIDOW GETS $3.4 MIL

A Manhattan Supreme Court jury awarded $3.44 million yesterday to the widow of a custodian who died when he fell down an elevator shaft at Louis Brandeis HS on the...

PET PROJECT FOR DISASTER

ALBANY - Senate Republicans want to require shelters to allow pets during times of disaster in hopes it would convince more people to evacuate their homes. The measure, part of...

MCCAIN WILL STIR 'STRAW'

REPUBLICANS kick off their first 2008 cattle show today, with Sen. John McCain as the star - and Rudy Giuliani playing coy from off-stage. Which pretty much sums up the...

'FAT NICK'S' BIG MOUTH MAY GET HIM FAT SENTENCE

Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci's words may come back to haunt him - for up to 25 years. A judge yesterday denied Minucci's motion to suppress incriminating statements the accused Howard...

WAR HERO FOLLOWS IN FIRE-HERO DAD'S STEPS

It's taken Brooklyn firefighter Peter Regan more than a year and a half to pursue his dream of following in the footsteps of his fire-hero father, who died in the...

ZAC'S CHILLING DREAM - 'FLY PLANE INTO WHITE HOUSE'

More than a year before 9/11, Zacarias Moussaoui told a Malaysian al Qaeda terrorist he had a dream about flying a plane into the White House, according to bombshell videotaped...

SILVER'S ED BLAST

An angry Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday called on a "disingenuous" Mayor Bloomberg to stop playing politics in order to get additional school funding from the state. Silver is livid...

JAVITS DELAY WORTH IT, SAYS SILVER

Delays in the project to expand the Javits Convention Center are worth the price to protect the legacy of the man for whom it is named, a key official said...

HEVESI'S STRONG STATE-MENT

ALBANY - State Comptroller Alan Hevesi launched a crackdown on corrupt or lax state agencies yesterday - and directed that they stick to new guidelines to ensure contracts go to...

ELIOT'S TACTICS ILL-SUITED: TOM

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Tom Suozzi attacked his rival, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, for "issuing subpoenas and filing lawsuits" instead of tackling problems head on. "You cannot reform the state...

NEW YORK WON'T 'LIVE' THIS DOWN

Sure, New York has the Yankees, Niagara Falls, the Empire State Building and 24-hour delis, but when it comes to the most livable state in the nation you can't do...

MAMAS & THE PAPA - POPE GROOVES WITH NEW IPOD

Guess you could call him the iPope. Pope Benedict XVI has an iPod loaded with his favorite tunes. The pencil-thin, ultra trendy iPod Nano - in papal white, of course...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BROOKLYN * Police yesterday released a photo of a teen who allegedly shot and killed a man in Brownsville. Butchie Middleton (above), 19, argued with Enrique Gonzalez, 24, at Mother...

$OROS TO BUILD HILL A 'BASE' - DATA BOOST FOR '08

WASHINGTON - One of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's top political advisers is taking in big bucks from liberal moneyman George Soros to create a massive Democratic voter database - a...

'PARA$ITE' IN WIDOW-BILK

A Long Island man was busted after allegedly bilking a widow out of her husband's $50,000 life-insurance policy, cops said yesterday. Nassau County Police nabbed Sayem Khan, 26, of Floral...

DA: OFFICER STABBED 'DOING JOB'

A Queens man used a carpet knife to slash the throat of an NYPD cop "for no reason other than the officer was trying to do his job," a prosecutor...

LABOR BIGS HIRE LAWYER TO FIGHT BID-RIGGING PROBE

The New York City Central Labor Council yesterday hired criminal-defense lawyer Paul Shechtman to help respond to a federal probe linking its president, Brian McLaughlin, to alleged bid-rigging of street-lighting...

TOP JAIL IMAM IN HATE TIRADE - CITY CHAPLAIN RAGED AT BUSH & ZIONISTS

WASHINGTON - The head of Islamic chaplains in the New York City Department of Correction said in a recent speech that the "greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White...

$75M FUND TO TREAT 9/11 COPS & FIREMEN

WASHINGTON - Brave cops and firefighters who are still suffering from the health effects of working at Ground Zero after 9/11 can get treatment thanks to $75 million in new...

BOY, GEORGE DODGES PRISON - JUDGE GIVES HIM A 'RAKE' BREAK

Coming soon to a park near you - Boy George, raking leaves. Felony cocaine-possession charges were dismissed yesterday against the androgynous pop dinosaur - but a judge told him he...

BANK WIFE CRIES AT LAST WORDS

The widow of a Long Island banker slain by a police impersonator broke down in tears yesterday during testimony about her husband's last words. As James Gottlieb was being treated...

AUXILIARY CHIEF WAITHE DIES

An NYPD auxiliary chief - who spent 56 years on the force - has died of cancer, police said yesterday. James Waithe, 89, who was assigned to Patrol Bureau Manhattan...

SILVERSTEIN BLINKS

Ground Zero developer Larry Silverstein yesterday backed away from his long-standing refusal to give up control of two towers that will one day rise as part of a rebuilt World...

BROOKLYN GI KILLED IN BATTLE

An Army sergeant from Brooklyn was killed in action Iraq last month, the Pentagon announced yesterday. Staff Sgt. Dwayne P.R. Lewis died from small-arms fire while on patrol in Baghdad...

THUG GETS 15 YRS. FOR GUNFIGHT THAT KILLED LITTLE DAE-DAE

A gun-toting hoodlum got the maximum sentence of 7 ½ to 15 years yesterday for his role in a wild street shootout with drug dealers in Brooklyn that killed an...

'PERVERT' ATTORNEY IS BROKE

Alleged Lolita-loving lawyer James Colliton used to make $500,000 a year as a tax-law expert at the prestigious firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore. But now that he's been fired...

TOUGH TO SWALLOW - NELLO SERVES UP 'ABUSE' EXCUSE

NELLO Balan is accustomed to cooking for celebrities and folks whose IQ digits can't keep pace with the price of one of his entrees. But yesterday, the chef-to-the-stars did none...

PERV VICTIM'S PA HAILS TERI - PRAISES BRAVERY AFTER TEEN'S SUICIDE

LOS ANGELES - A heartbroken dad whose teen daughter committed suicide after being sexually molested by the uncle of actress Teri Hatcher praised the "Desperate Housewives" star for helping put...

EX-CON A 'TAPE' WORM - IMETTE BOUNCER TOP SUSPECT IN WRAP RAPES

The prime suspect in the gruesome slaying of grad-school beauty Imette St. Guillen is now also the principal suspect in a terrifying rape spree - including one in which the...

6 MONTHS FOR TORM'RENT'OR

An angry Manhattan judge threw former fringe mayoral candidate and perennial political pest Christopher Brodeur in jail for six months yesterday on his recent conviction for viciously harassing his landlord...

RACKET BUSTERS - FEDS NAB 15 B'KLYN 'GANG THUGS'

A hard-core mob of eastern European racketeers was indicted in Brooklyn yesterday. Prosecutors said "The Greenpoint Crew" allegedly ran a violent organized-crime ring that trafficked in weapons, drugs, stolen cars...

VANISH GIRL IN 'TEXT' MYSTERY

A 13-year-old New Jersey girl who mysteriously vanished on Monday has been text-messaging her mother for help, cops said yesterday. "Help I'm scared I don't know where I am," is...

IRA GUNMAN LAUNCHED BAR EMPIRE IN APPLE

The high-society brothers who own the bar at the center of the Imette St. Guillen murder are part of a colorful and controversial New York pub family. The Falls owners...

AMEX IN DEAL TO SETTLE ITS 'SCORES'

There's a deal in the lawsuit over a former communications exec's claim he was stripped of $241,000 at Scores nightclub - but nobody's laying bare the details. "The parties have...

SNAPPLE DEAL GOES $OUR

You can lead city workers to Snapple, but you can't make them drink it. Sales of the not-so-popular beverage are running an astonishing 93 percent below projections, officials revealed yesterday...

L.I. PARKS MAN IN PERV BUST

A Nassau County parks supervisor has been charged with making unwanted sexual advances on convicts doing community service, cops said. Thinking the female workers -pitching in at Eisenhower Park as...

'HIGH' FLIER LANDS YEAR IN PRISON

The high-flying Connecticut man who stole a plane and went on a drunken joyride was brought down to earth yesterday. Philippe Patricio, 21, of Bethel, Conn., was sentenced in Westchester...

BX. SEX THUG ASSAULTS TEEN AND ELDERLY KIN

A vicious thug followed a Bronx teenager home from school yesterday - then sodomized her and terrorized her elderly grandparents and baby sister, police said. The pervert had watched the...

HEVESI'S ALL BIZ

ALBANY - State Comptroller Alan Hevesi launched a crackdown on corrupt or lax state agencies yesterday, directing them to stick to new guidelines to ensure contracts go to legitimate businesses....

6 MOS. FOR TORM'RENT'OR

An angry Manhattan judge threw former fringe mayoral candidate and perennial political pest Christopher Brodeur in jail for six months yesterday on his recent conviction for viciously harassing his landlord...

15 YEARS IN DAE-DAE SLAY

A gun-toting hoodlum got the maximum sentence of 7 ½ to 15 years yesterday for his role in a wild street shootout with drug dealers in Brooklyn that killed an...

$CORES BOOB 'DEAL' - AMEX BILL SETTLED

There's a deal in the lawsuit over a former communications exec's claim he was stripped of $241,000 at Scores nightclub - but nobody's laying bare the details. "The parties have...

'HIGH' FLIER LANDS IN JAIL - JOYRIDE PLANE THIEF GETS HIT WITH A YEAR

The high-flying Connecticut man who stole a plane and went on a drunken joyride was brought down to earth yesterday. Philippe Patricio, 21, of Bethel, Conn., was sentenced in Westchester...

'PERVY' PARKS MAN CHARGED

A Nassau County parks supervisor has been charged with making unwanted sexual advances on criminals doing community service, cops said. Thinking that the female workers - who were ordered to...

$3.4M FOR JANITOR'S WIDOW

A Manhattan Supreme Court jury awarded $3.44 million yesterday to the widow of a custodian who died when he fell down an elevator shaft at Louis Brandeis HS. The panel...

$3M FOR JANITOR WIDOW

A Manhattan Supreme Court jury awarded $3.44 million yesterday to the widow of a custodian who died when he fell down an elevator shaft at Louis Brandeis HS. The panel...

SNAPPLE GOES SOUR FOR CITY

You can lead city workers to Snapple, but you can't make them drink. Sales of the not-so-popular beverage are running an astonishing 93 percent below projections, officials revealed yesterday as...

CLASSROOM EXTRA - PRESIDENTS EDITION

Chester A.Arthur,21st president -1881 -1885 1881 was a busy year for presidents,as Chester A.Arthur became the third commander-in-chief that year,following the assassination of James Garfield,who died only six months after...

NET SUBS SINKING THE SHIP

The starters are playing enormous minutes. The bench is routinely crushed by opposing subs - regardless of whether playing time is comparable. The leading scorer is shooting as if he...

PEDRO'S GROOVIN' FOR METS' OPENER

Mets 7 - Indians 1 WINTER HAVEN - It was a mini-celebration, an indicator of a small triumph. When Pedro Martinez finished his most extensive bullpen session of camp yesterday...

PAVANO'S PUSHING TO SPEED UP RETURN

YANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The hardest task facing the Yankees this spring is keeping the harness on Carl Pavano. Slowed by a back problem when camp opened, Pavano still lags...

GIAMBI MUM ON LINK TO BONDS

"Barry is a friend of mine, but I don't know what's going on. It's in the past and I am moving forward." - JASON GIAMBI TAMPA - Every time Barry...

WHOA, CANADA! - WBC SHOCKER PUTS U.S. HOPES IN JEOPARDY

Canada 8 - USA 6 PHOENIX - This was an international disgrace. Team USA came into the World Baseball Classic worried about being beat by teams from Latin America. Turns...

KNICKS REALLY ROLLIN'

The Knicks laced up their bowling shoes for charity last night and rolled balls down the lanes of Chelsea Piers. It was an activity symbolic of a club finally beginning...

SELIG STEWS ON BONDS

PHOENIX - Bud Selig didn't exactly act like Kenesaw Mountain Landis yesterday with his comments regarding the Barry Bonds scandal. The commissioner said his office intends to "review" the latest...

755 MUST BE BONDS-PROOF

TAMPA - Bud Selig's mission is clear now, and simple: He has to protect The Number. He has to make certain "755" remains the gold standard for power hitters for...

BARRY LETS LAWYER DO TALKING

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - While Barry Bonds remained in the shadows, his attorney came out to attack the latest investigative work on the steroid-stained slugger. "My client, Barry Bonds, has not...

KLEE TRADED TO DEVILS

This is a tip of the cap, not a sip of the Cup. Even while Vladimir Malakhov's "retirement" remains a point of contention, the Devils last night spent some of...

ISLES PACK PARRISH, SOPEL OFF TO KINGS

The Islanders essentially pulled the plug on their season last night when they traded popular right wing Mark Parrish and defenseman Brent Sopel to Los Angeles for young talents Jeff...

CARL CRAVING RETURN

Yankees 8 - Pirates (ss) 3 TAMPA - The hardest task facing the Yankees this spring is keeping the harness on Carl Pavano. Slowed by a back problem when camp...

RICE, CTK MARCH INTO CHSAA AA TITLE GAME

SEMIFINAL: Rice 63 - St. Ray's 57 SEMIFINAL: CTK 75 - All Hallows 50 Edgar Sosa sat on the bench for the first month of the season for disciplinary reasons...

JUST ANOTHER DAY FOR VENEZUELANS

Venezuela 6 - Italy 0 LAKE BUENA VISTA - A mismatch more than a match-up, last night's clash between Venezuela and Italy produced a predictable result. In other words, there...

EVERYBODY WINS

TOUCHDOWN. On fourth-and-greed, the NFL finally scored, and here's what labor peace means: The Giants, laggards in locally-generated revenue and therefore not equipped for a 2007 free-agent shootout with Jerry...

JUICY DETAILS - BUD PLAYS WEIGHT-ING GAME

PHOENIX - Bud Selig didn't exactly act like Kenesaw Mountain Landis yesterday with his comments regarding the Barry Bonds scandal. The commissioner said his office intends to "review" the latest...

IT'S IN HIS BLOOD - DOUBY HAS BEEN SHINING KNIGHT

The first time he took the Garden court as a junior for Brooklyn's Grady High, sharpshooter Quincy Douby - who's as confident as Charlton Heston at an NRA rally -...

SELIG AVOIDS - '755' MUST BE PROTECTED

TAMPA - Bud Selig's mission is clear now, and simple: He has to protect The Number. He has to make certain "755" remains the gold standard for power hitters for...

HALL KNIGHT LONG - RUTGERS FORCES PIRATES TO WALK THE PLANK

FIRST ROUND: Rutgers 61 - Seton Hall 48 The frustration came to a head with 2 ½ minutes left and Seton Hall staring at the kind of loss that will...

NFL, UNION FIND END ZONE - CHAOS AVOIDED AS OWNERS OK 6-YEAR DEAL

While the debate raged and the battle waged, the name of Wellington Mara was invoked. And when, at long last, labor peace came to the NFL last night, the late...

HOYAS HOLD OFF IRISH

FIRST ROUND: G'town 67 - N. Dame 63 All year, Georgetown coach John Thompson III has prodded Brandon Bowman, pushed and pleaded for the senior to be the player Thompson...

ZERO HOUR IN NFL TALKS

The meeting among the men who own NFL teams went down to the wire yesterday, dragging on into the night as they attempted to settle their considerable differences with the...

MIKE STILL KNOWS WHERE HE'S FROM

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Mike Piazza still considers himself a New Yorker, even though both Big Apple baseball teams declined his services last off-season. But Piazza has deeper roots,...

ESPINOZA, FRAGOSO GET BANS

Case of "road rage" in Sunday's sixth race landed jockeys Jose Espinoza and Pablo Fragoso in hot water with stewards; after repeated, deliberate bumping down backside, both were slapped with...

PANTHERS SURVIVE RALLY

FIRST ROUND: Pittsburgh 61 - Louisville 56 Shake up the Panthers. Pittsburgh coach Jaime Dixon, obviously not content with a 21-win season, made a change in his starting lineup last...

BONDS LETS LAWYER DO TALKING

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - While Barry Bonds remained in the shadows, his attorney came out to attack the latest investigative work on the steroid-stained slugger. "My client, Barry Bonds, has not...

MCNAMARA-CLE - GAME-WINNING 3 GIVES ORANGE SOME JUICE

FIRST ROUND: Syracuse 74 - Cincinnati 73 After Gerry McNamara drove the length of the court in just six seconds - after his running, one-handed desperation 3-pointer with a half-second...

JETS TAKE LOOK AT RAMSEY

With Chad Pennington re-signed and guaranteed to remain in New York for at least the 2006 season, the Jets yesterday began their search for a veteran safety-net quarterback with starting...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Talk about a dog's life. There was an unusual clause in the contract when Jared and Whittnie Essner bought a quaint old house in Scott City, Mo. "Rocky will be...