May 10, 2008
I WON'T QUIT
Defying disgusted constituents and angry Republican leaders, disgraced Rep. Vito Fossella has told pals he plans to seek re-election. And, shockingly, the Staten Island pol is feeling "pretty good," he...
Mets aim to stay hot in Game 2
Sudden offensive juggernauts after their 12-6 win over the Reds in today's first game, the Mets will try to keep their hitting hot streak alive tonight at Shea in the...
THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE KNICKS
The New York Knicks have agreed in principle with Mike D'Antoni to become the next head coach of the team. A press conference will be scheduled upon the completion of...
METS BEAT REDS 12-6
Johan Santana wasn't sharp today, but did he really have to be? The Mets are on a mission lately, and that involves turning their starting pitching into an afterthought. Just...
NEWS CORP. BAILING ON $580M BID FOR NEWSDAY
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has pulled its $580 million bid for Tribune Co.'s Newsday off the table, a company spokesman said today. News Corp. - which also owns The Post...
It's Mike D'Antoni
By MARC BERMANIt’s Mike over Mark. It’s experience, speed and a winning track record over potential and New York sentiment.Knicks president Donnie Walsh made a four-year, $24 million offer to...
YOU'VE GOT A DEAL
It's Mike over Mark. It's experience, speed and a winning track record over potential and New York sentiment. According to a member of Mike D'Antoni's inner circle, the Suns' marquee...
Weather nice, so twinbill a go
Friday night's rainout will make for a long day at Shea Stadium, where the Mets and Reds are set for a day-night doubleheader that could have as much as four...
Mets coverage in today's Post
Beautiful day here in New York, so the Mets and Reds are about to have an Ernie Banks day and play two at Shea. In the meantime, colleague Kevin Kernan...
MORE SOCCER ON TV THAN YOU CAN HANDLE
(Majchrzak/Getty) By BRIAN LEWISThere is a football feast for soccer fans to enjoy this weekend on TV; and on opposite ends of the Premier League spectrum, two that will draw...
Pens Take First Game of All-Penn Series
It was all Pens in the all-Penn Conference Finals last night. They struck first and, though they fell behind by a goal, they scored three unanswered to put the Flyers...
SURVEY FIRM POLL-AXES CLINTON
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton may go on to West Virginia and Kentucky in hopes of proving she's a better candidate than Barack Obama, but at least one major national...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 090; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 8480; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 167; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 3815;...
GOLF AND THE CITY
THE last time I hit a golf ball, the hole was shaped like a blue dragon and my putt was timed to enter just as the beast was opening his...
THESE LINKS DON'T 'LIE'
BEST-selling author and columnist Carl Hiaasen recently returned to golfing after a short break of 32 years. In his new book, "The Downhill Lie," he chronicles his "Return to a...
MOTHERS SUPERIOR
FROM what we hear, many mothers not only take the cake - they've baked it, frosted it and served it up whenever our readers needed a lift. Just in time...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAYBIG TOP B'DAY: No wonder Grandma's hair is gray. The Big Apple Circus turns 30 this year, and its new show "Celebrate!" is a greatest-hits mix of dancing dogs and...
RAW PANIC STEALS THE SHOW
A youthful vibe reigned at the Honda Civic Tour at the Roseland Ballroom Thursday night as fresh- faced fans rocked out to optimistic music played by Motion City Soundtrack, Phantom...
HOUSE OF HORRORS
HOW can you rate a movie that is well- crafted, brilliantly acted, meaningful, yet unwatchable? That's the dilemma I'm faced with, which is why I haven't given a rating to...
WEINER: END ALL $LUSH
In a frontal assault on a possible 2009 mayoral rival, Rep. Anthony Weiner yesterday called for an end to all City Council pork-barrel spending. Weiner dismissed reforms announced this week...
'YARD' SALE ALIVE: MIKE
Mayor Bloomberg insisted yesterday that Tishman Speyer's plan for the West Side rail-yards project "isn't dead by any means," and met with the developers to discuss its future. Another meeting...
SCHOOL-JAM CHAOS FEARED
The city's process for determining where and when to build new schools is flawed and leaving dozens of neighborhoods that have jam-packed schools with no hope of relief, according to...
SHOCKER! CON ED EYEING RATE HIKES
Con Ed wants to plug into your wallet again, seeking three straight years of 4.9 percent electric-rate increases from residential customers after more than a decade of lax state regulation...
HOUSEWIVES OF NYC
More than half of white, high-school-educated married women who live in the Big Apple have opted out of the rat race to become not-so-desperate housewives, a new study shows. The...
SCORNED MARY PAT A SPOUSE DIVIDED
Mary Pat Fossella has left the family home to deal with her philandering politico husband's drunken-driving arrest and revelation he fathered a secret love child with his mistress, her friends...
CHEATO VITO KIN HELPED HIM SIN
The rich father and uncle of shame-faced, two-timing Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella have been making sure his gal pal and love child are well taken care of in Virginia,...
TECH-HEAD TEEN 'NETS 'BURGLARS'
A tech-smart Westchester woman administered a dose of point-and-click justice to two alleged thieves who thought they had gotten away with her Macintosh laptop. Kait Duplaga, 19, of White Plains,...
LAUREN RUNS THE GAM-UT
A leggy Lauren Conrad briefly traded "The Hills" for the streets of New York. The star paid a visit to the Big Apple for an MTV show and wore a...
SLAIN TOT'S 'HIT-RUN' DRIVER GIVES UP
The hit-and-run drag racer whose BMW smashed into another car on a Queens street, killing a 5-year-old-boy, turned himself in yesterday, police said. Shelmar Adams, 30, of Jamaica, surrendered to...
BONKED BORK SETTLES SUIT
One-time Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork has settled a $1 million lawsuit he lobbed at the posh Yale Club over a tumble he took from a raised platform during a...
ANOTHER AMADOU SUES 'TAUNT' COPS
A Bronx man named Amadou Diallo has hit the NYPD with a wrongful-arrest lawsuit, accusing crass cops of trying to frame him and taunting him because he bears the same...
H'WEEN KILLER SLAIN IN B'KLYN
An ex-con who served a decade behind bars as a teenager for a Halloween slaying 15 years ago was gunned down at his Brooklyn housing project yesterday - and investigators...
REMY TO BE A RIKERS JAILBIRD BRIDE
Pistol-packing rapper Remy Ma is tying the knot Monday on Rikers Island, her lawyer told The Post. But her wedded bliss might be short-lived - she's due back in court...
DAD HAS KILLER IN TEARS
The father of a Columbia student killed after he was chased into traffic by a teenage attacker bared his agony in court yesterday - in testimony so heart-wrenching that even...
GANG BUST AT MOM'S
Police arrested a reputed gang member suspected of wounding an off-duty cop early yesterday in The Bronx - but only after dragging the tough guy out of his mother's house....
'HIT' ATTY. GETS LIFE
A coldhearted lawyer was sentenced yesterday to 25 years to life in prison for his role in setting up the murder of a client's estranged husband. Manuel Martinez, 57, convicted...
'EHUD WILL KILL ME'
The Long Island businessman at the center of a bribery scandal threatening to bring down Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he fears the leader may send thugs to silence...
DON'T EXPECT ANY BLING, MA
Everyone wants to make mom feel like a million bucks on Mother's Day tomorrow, but the economic pinch means some consumers will have to spend less. "I think Mother's Day...
HAMAS-LINK ADVISER AXED
Barack Obama has dumped one of his advisers for meeting with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, according to published reports. Robert Malley, who acted as an informal adviser to Obama...
UMA SUES LANCOME
"Kill Bill" star Uma Thurman yesterday threw a counterpunch in her legal battle with Lancome, firing off a $15 million federal breach of contract suit against the French cosmetics giant....
'SUPER' MAN CATCHES UP TO HILL
The floodgates started opening for Barack Obama yesterday as the Democratic front-runner hauled in nine more superdelegates to virtually erase Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead with the all-important bloc of decision...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX * Police are circulating surveillance camera footage to help them track down a bank robber. Cops said the crook (pictured above) passed a threatening demand note to a...
MOTHER LODE OF SLEAZEBAGGERY
TOMORROW is Mother's Day. If you happen to be a member of the Fossella family of Staten Island, one word of advice: Duck! This simple holiday, normally observed by men...
ENOUGH MCGREEVEY GROTESQUERIES
Please, please, please, let it be over. Former New Jersey Gov. Jim "I am a gay American" McGreevey and his bitterly estranged wife and former political prop, Dina Matos, agreed...
AN APPROPRIATE HONOR
Long Island Navy SEAL Michael Mur phy - already the posthumous recipi ent of the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary courage under fire in the mountains of Afghanistan -...
CUOMO'S QUESTION
It is no small matter to destroy evidence yet that is precisely what state At torney General Andrew Cuomo says someone at the New York Power Authority did. Question is:...
'68: RADICAL IDIOCY
'WHY don't we just vote to strike tonight - and we'll decide to morrow what we're striking for?" Those were the words of a student protester thoughtfully deliberating at Yale...
WEST SIDE MESS
IF only Assembly Speaker Sheldon Sil ver hadn't killed the proposal for a Jets stadium/convention center above the West Side rail yards, the MTA and city wouldn't be in the...
MICHELLE SAYS NO TO HILL FOR VEEP
CLOSE-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama's presi dential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice-presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama. Obama's wife...
HILLARY'S SWAN SONG: 'I'M NOT QUITTING'
How was Tuesday "A Disastrous Night" (Kirsten Powers, PostOpinion, May 7)? Sen. Hillary Clinton won Indiana and minimized Sen. Barack Obama's huge lead in North Carolina. She even did this...
STRUGGLING CIRCUIT CITY HANGS A 'FOR SALE' SIGN
A letter from billionaire Carl Icahn has opened the door for video rental chain Blockbuster to begin combing through Circuit City's books in the hope of making a formal bid...
THE CITI NEVER SPLITS
Despite unveiling a plan to dump $400 billion in assets, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit yesterday dashed hopes on Wall Street that he would take even more dramatic steps, such as...
HONDO STUMBLES
Hondo, who had won four straight, gave some back yesterday when the D'backs gummed up the works in Wrigley to reduce his haul to 80 sanfords. Today, Lincecum gets an...
THREE MORE TAKE AIM AT 'BROWN'
Big Brown scared away most of the colts he beat in Kentucky from following him to Baltimore. The same can't be said for a gaggle of "new shooters" aiming to...
'NEW' NORM DEAL
St. John's announced yesterday a "renewed contract" with coach Norm Roberts that isn't really renewed. Roberts is going into the final year of a five-year rollover deal, and this contract...
SPORTS SHORTS
BLOTTER: Jets' Elam's brother shot dead In Riviera Beach, Fla., the older brother of Jets safety Abram Elam was fatally shot, the third sibling in the family to die by...
'BECKS' ON TAP FOR RED BULLS
With nine days between games, one might've thought the Red Bulls would've been healthy for tonight's much-hyped matchup in Los Angeles with David Beckham, Landon Donovan and company. Apparently one...
NFL: SPYGATE IS NOT CLOSED
In response to Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's claims that the NFL has already dismissed the eight "Spygate" tapes that former Patriot employee Matt Walsh handed over to the league on...
TALK TO STRANGERS
Before this spring is through, coach Tom Coughlin said he'll make sure to sit down for private conversations with all seven Giants draft picks. Prior to yesterday's start of the...
IT COULD BE D' DAY
Signs continue to point toward the Knicks landing Mike D'Antoni as coach, and he could receive an offer from Knick president Donnie Walsh as early as today, according to a...
PEDRO'S PROGRESS POSITIVE
Pedro Martinez threw a combination bullpen/batting practice session (60 pitches) yesterday in Port St. Lucie, Fla., leaving Mets GM Omar Minaya "encouraged" with the right-hander's progress in his comeback from...
WILLIE . . . OR NOT
David Wright has heard all the criticism of Willie Randolph - and he's not happy about it. There's no doubt that the pressure is on the Mets to win and...
RAINOUT FORCES TWINBILL
Last night's Shea Stadium rainout left the Mets and Reds with a day-night doubleheader scheduled for today. The first game will begin at 1:10 p.m., with the nightcap slated for...
IT'S ANOTHER KEI-O
DETROIT - P.U. No matter what type of positive spin Yankee manager Joe Girardi tried to put on Kei Igawa's outing last night at Comerica Field, the truth can't be...
GIRARDI: IT'S JUST JOBA BEING JOBA
DETROIT - If Joba Chamberlain's yelling and screaming on the mound gets to the point where another team might take it out on another Yankee, Joe Girardi will talk about...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It was the real "Night of the Iguana" for some Florida residents. The giant lizard knocked out power for 20,000 people in Pompano Beach when it came in contact with...
LIVEBLOG: Finding the pot of gold
Oahu's Leeward Coast is the Hawaii you don't hear lots about, and all it takes to figure out why is the sixteen mile drive from downtown Honolulu to the industrial...
Rain postpones Mets-Reds
Tonight’s game against the Reds was postponed due to the rain and rescheduled for Saturday night, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for tonight’s game will be honored for the...