February 25, 2011
MLB loaned cash-strapped Mets $20M
Major League Baseball loaned the Mets more than $20 million in November in a bid to shore up the cash-strapped team, sources told The Post. "We did receive a loan...
Yankees prospect Brackman suffers 'minor' setback
TAMPA -- Yankees pitching prospect Andrew Brackman is idle with a groin injury that will force him to sit out three days, according to Joe Girardi.“We will do some (physical)...
David Beckham may skip Kate and Wills' royal wedding for Galaxy commitments
LOS ANGELES -- It is one of the most sought after invitations of the year, but English soccer star David Beckham said Thursday he is unsure if he will attend...
French radio to boycott Man United, Marseille Champions League match over 'racketeering'
PARIS -- French radio stations vowed Friday to boycott the UEFA Champions League clash between Manchester United and Marseille next month over the "exorbitant" transmission fees being demanded by the...
Van Persie to lead Arsenal at Carling Cup final with Fabregas injured
LONDON -- Arsenal striker Robin van Persie was named Friday as the man who will lead Arsenal out at Wembley Stadium on Sunday after Gunners captain Cesc Fabregas was sidelined...
Knicks can officially grab Jeffries on Tuesday
The buyout of Jared Jeffries with the Rockets became official Friday and he was placed on waivers, according to two NBA sources. If Jeffries clears waivers, it won't be until...
BA's Top 31 Mets Prospects; No. 24: Armando Rodriguez
Vitals: 23 years old (turned 23 January 28); 6-foot-2, 185 pounds; both htis and throws right-handed; signed as an international free agent from the Dominican Republic in 2007 by the...
Ringling Bros. kicking sand over Coney Island return this summer
World-famous Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus is pulling its Big Top out of Coney Island.The “Greatest Show on Earth” confirmed today that it’s dropping plans to return to...
BA's Top 31 Yankees Prospects; No. 24: Jose Ramirez
Vitals: 21 years old (turned 21 January 21); 6-foot-1, 155 pounds; both hits and throws right-handed; signed out of the Dominican Republic as a free agent by the Yankees in...
Igarashi stars in Mets intrasquad game
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Ryota Igarashi’s quest to prove he still belongs in the major leagues is off to a good start.The righty reliever fired two perfect innings Friday, striking...
Don't be afraid of Adam Rapp's 'Hallway Trilogy'
I quite enjoyed Adam Rapp's "Hallway Trilogy," which opened in installments this week (my review is in today's paper). The action in the three plays is set in the same...
Rutgers to play Army at Yankee Stadium on Nov. 12
A matchup with Army in Yankee Stadium and a trip to North Carolina highlight the 2011 Rutgers football schedule. The Nov. 12 matchup with Army will be the first time...
Torre named baseball executive VP
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Former Yankees manager Joe Torre has been hired as Major League Baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations, a person with knowledge of the appointment said. The...
Thug who killed man in chicken restaurant gets 35 years in prison
A violent thug will rot in prison for at least 35 years, paying the price for killing a beloved subway conductor during a wild 2007 gun battle in Harlem, a...
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CNN ousts Kathleen Parker from 'Parker Spitzer'
CNN ousted Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker from its show "Parker Spitzer," that she co-hosted with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the cable network said today. CNN executive Ken...
US to impose sanctions on Libya
WASHINGTON — The White House says the U.S. is moving forward with plans to impose unilateral sanctions on Libya in response to violence there. Obama spokesman Jay Carney says the...
Prokhorov to see Williams make Nets debut
SAN ANTONIO -- Avery Johnson admitted it. There is a difference around the Nets.And the big boss man, owner Mikhail Prokhorov, is flying in to experience it.As first reported by...
Knicks' Stoudemire calls foul on Bucks coach
Amar'e Stoudemire renewed his feud with Bucks coach Scott Skiles, who he believes lobbied to have the referees issue him his 15th technical of the season in the final minute...
Will streaming kill the video-store scene?
With even Blockbuster on the ropes, it's probably only a matter of time before video-store scenes, a staple of youth-oriented movies since the 1980s, will be appearing only in period...
CHSAA boys basketball Class A quarterfinals preview
CHSAA boys basketball beat writer Dylan Butler breaks down Saturday’s Class A intersectional quarterfinals at Mount St. Michael. Here’s the schedule: 11 a.m. – Mount St. Michael vs. Monsignor McClancy...
Coughlin not considering Burress' return to Giants
Giants coach Tom Coughlin said Friday the team has not seriously discussed the return of wide receiver Plaxico Burress. "You know, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking or...
New York Archdiocesan final preview
CHSAA boys basketball beat writer Dylan Butler breaks down Saturday’s New York Archdiocesan final between No. 1 St. Raymond and second-seeded Rice at Mount St. Michael. Who: No. 1 St....
George W. Bush cancels Denver speech after learning Assange also invited to appear
DENVER -- Former President George W. Bush canceled a speaking engagement in Denver after he learned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was another scheduled speaker, KKTV reported Friday. David Sherzer, a...
NY man Daniel Israel gets prison for '07 murder
A man convicted of murdering one person, wounding two others, and shooting at two police officers will spend 35 years to life in prison. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance...
Judge throws out defamation suit against Jerry Seinfeld
No damages for you! A Manhattan judge has thrown out a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Jerry Seinfeld that charged he'd defamed his wife's cookbook rival during an appearance on "The...
Deadly five-alarm Brooklyn fire caused by candles that were knocked over during voodoo sex ritual
A windswept, five-alarm fire that killed an elderly Brooklyn woman was started by candles placed on the floor near a bed while a man and woman were having sex after...
WTC developer will force city to rent space in new tower
Developer Larry Silverstein has exercised an option negotiated five years ago requiring the city to rent 582,000 square feet in the second tower going up at the World Trade Center...
Knicks' Anthony, former coach in dispute over defense
Nuggets coach George Karl took a shot on TNT regarding Carmelo Anthony's "defensive focus,'' prompting the Knicks' new superstar to fire back on his Twitter account. "Damn R U Serious,''...
James Franco grabs title role in 'Wizard of Oz' prequel
BURBANK, Calif. -- The multi-talented James Franco will be the man behind the curtain for Disney's "Wizard of Oz" prequel, Deadline reported Friday. Franco, 32, will reunite with his "Spider-Man"...
Staal won't play for Rangers against Capitals
WASHINGTON -- As suspected, Marc Staal's aching left knee will prevent the Rangers' first-pair defenseman from playing Thursday against the Capitals.Staal, who twisted the knee on the first shift of...
Staal ruled out for Rangers against Capitals
WASHINGTON -- As suspected, Marc Staal's aching left knee will prevent the Rangers' first-pair defenseman from playing Thursday against the Capitals.Staal, who twisted the knee on the first shift of...
At what point should we intervene in Libya?
Well here's a position you don't want to be in: "You've got to assume the worst about Moammar Gadhafi," Nicholas Burns, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and former under...
DVD Extra: Ted Turner to Peter Jackson: Mine's longer than yours as Civil War epic rises again
My eyes popped yesterday when I read a release from the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group announcing that a FOUR HOUR AND FORTY MINUTE extended cut of Ronald F. Maxwell's...
Staten Island chorus boards LA-bound flight ahead of Oscars
Members of the Staten Island fifth-grade chorus that will perform at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony boarded a Los Angeles-bound today from Kennedy Airport. The kids at PS 22 originally got...
Woman buried in New Zealand earthquake marries man who searched for her
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — A woman plucked from a building that collapsed in this week's earthquake went ahead with her planned wedding Friday — a bright spot in Christchurch as...
Charlie Sheen says he will show up for work despite show's suspension
Claiming he is completely sober, actor Charlie Sheen said today he plans to show up for work despite CBS's decision yesterday to pull the plug on the top-rated comedy "Two...
Oscar Watch: A very small crop of contenders
In honor of Sunday night's ceremony, here's a delightful short Technicolor cartoon that Walt Disney made specifically for showing at the 1932 Oscars, back when the awards were presented at a...
'Shore' without the bore - Season 3, episode 9
Our weekly "Jersey Shore" recaps this season are short and brutal -- 100 words, no more.***Fresh from “smushing” a boy, Snooki is still on the prowl and is spurned by...
No 'Hard Knocks 2' for Jets -- this year
No bleepin' way. Rex Ryan and HBO didn't go that far, but the head coach and network agree the Jets won't return as the featured team on HBO's "Hard Knocks"...
OCD Archives: Charlie Sheen, Heidi Fleiss and the Three Stooges
CBS and Warners' pulling the plug on "Two and Half Men'' because of Charlie Sheen's latest outburst comes just two days after Warners' DVD and Blu-ray release of "Due Date,'' which features an extended version of a...
Alleged Saudi bomb plotter pleads not guilty, inspired by violent video game
The terror suspect accused of plotting to kill former President George W Bush pleaded not guilty today as details emerged of his passion for violent video games and a woman...
Oscar Watch: Final predictions in all 24 categories
As one of the dullest Oscar races in recent memory finally grinds to a halt Sunday night, I dont think you should expect much in the way of surprises, at...
Brooklyn Museum’s Great Hall renovation completed
The Brooklyn Museum has completed the renovation of its historic Great Hall as part of an extensive redesign of its first floor. Four free-standing walls have been added to the...
Rep. Weiner urges removal of 'sexist' statue
A New York politician is calling on the city to remove a public statue in Queens that depicts a nude man standing over two prone women and to sell it...
Judge wants fewer defendants in Sept 11 wrongful death trial
A New York judge says he’d like fewer defendants for the June trial of the only wrongful death case remaining from the Sept. 11 attacks. Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein invited...
Aqueduct cancels live racing, open for simulcasting
With heavy wind gusts projected to reach 60 mph this afternoon - the same conditions that forced Aqueduct to cancel after three races last Saturday - the Big A will...
Board votes to send layoff letters to RI teachers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The school board of the state's financially troubled capital city has voted to send termination letters to all of its nearly 2,000 teachers after city officials said...
Porsche-Volkswagen merger hit by share investigation
STUTTGART, Germany -- Porsche warned that a widening investigation by German prosecutors into two of the luxury car company's former top managers could derail its planned merger with Volkswagen (VW),...
JFK experiencing delays due to rain
John F. Kennedy International Airport is experiencing some delays due to rain. The Federal Aviation Administration reports departures of up to 30 minutes. It says the delays are likely to...
3UP: Yankees roster, Wainwright, Joba
1. This is no great revelation, but I have been told by multiple Yankees officials that the team definitely will take 12 pitchers north. The Yankees do not have a...
Gunfire erupts in Libyan capital as Americans finally escape
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Government forces opened fire Friday on protesters in Libyan capital Tripoli, as the uprising against Col. Moamar Khadafy that already caused his regime to lose control of...
Man who barricaded self inside suburban New York home surrenders to cops
NANUET, N.Y. — Police say a 26-year-old man who barricaded himself inside his suburban New York home and fired a rifle during a five-hour standoff with police has surrendered. Francis...
Dior suspends John Galliano after he allegedly assaulted couple in Paris
PARIS -- Fashion house Dior suspended John Galliano Friday after police questioned the chief designer for allegedly assaulting a couple and using anti-Semitic insults in a Paris bar. Police briefly...
Knicks president says Nuggets did 'great deal'
Responding to Nuggets GM Masai Ujiri's claim he "got killed'' in the Carmelo Anthony trade, Knicks president Donnie Walsh retorted, on the contrary, Denver did very well."I think he got...
Girls basketball roundup: Molloy gets win over Kennedy
Archbishop Molloy will be heading into the playoffs on a high note. The Stanners got 17 points from sophomore forward Carolyn Gallagher and budding junior guard Kamille Ejerta dropped in...
What about Bob: Legendary coach guides Eagles to final Island title
Karen Connell played on Bob Daggett’s first St. Peter’s team. She sat in the stands Thursday night, cheering wildly for Daggett’s final St. Peter’s team.Things have come full circle for...
Mourning LeGrande lifts SIA past Tottenville
Rose Dunn was thinking of anything she could to distract Mayana LeGrande from her pain. “I think she was upset in the first half,” the Staten Island Academy girls basketball...
Baggs sends game to OT, but Moore falls to St. Peter's
Moore Catholic had stunned St. Peter’s once this season and was getting set for an encore performance. Gabriella Rubin made two monster 3-pointers to end the Eagles’ 34-game league winning...
Sweet 16: St. Peter's outlasts Moore in OT to preserve Island dominance
The streak lives on – forever. St. Peter’s, which will close its doors in June, celebrated its 16th straight CHSAA Staten Island girls basketball title in front a standing-room-only crowd...
In one week, sophomore goes from JV to St. Peter's immortal
Kristen Olsen had played all of two varsity games. The slight, 5-foot-4 guard looks every bit the sophomore that she is. Yet there she was in arguably the biggest game...
New offices for Brooklyn Bridge Park staff and conservancy
Brooklyn Bridge Park employees will soon have new offices – and in the heart of the 85-acre project.The city’s Brooklyn Bridge Park Corp. yesterday began soliciting bids from contractors interested...
Nets' Williams uncertain about future
The Nets introduced Deron Williams yesterday, the star they hope to build their future around. Williams spoke glowingly about the Nets’ grandiose plans, praising their planned move to Brooklyn and...
Knicks will learn quickly how team stacks up
It won’t take long for the Knicks to find out how their new superstar tandem of Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire matches up against the NBA’s elite. Anthony’s first week...
Failure follows Dolan’s every move
From the Great Big Book of Nevers: Never bet on the bully in an after-school fight. Never take financial advice from the son of a rich man. Never read the...
Fields happy he’s still with Knicks
Landry Fields is thankful he didn’t get shipped off to the Rocky Mountains. During the Knicks-Nuggets negotiations for Carmelo Anthony, Denver submitted a proposal two weeks ago that had Fields...
Walsh’s status next for Knicks
Perhaps the final trade deadline of Donnie Walsh’s NBA career passed yesterday without another move, so now the countdown begins on his future. In upstaging Carmelo Anthony’s introductory press conference...
‘Idol’ Bernard says Knicks scored by adding Carmelo
Physically Bernard King was hundreds of miles away, but his heart was at the Garden on Wednesday night, delighted about the Knicks' acquisition of Carmelo Anthony to team with Amar'e...
Jeffries set for return to Knicks
Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni never wanted to part with Jared Jeffries last February. Now he’ll soon be getting him back to solve the Knicks’ desperate need for a center following...
Sharing ball, spotlight challenge for Knicks
The Melo & ’Mar’e Show hits the road tonight in Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena against the sad-sack Cavaliers — away from the bright lights, but very much amid the intense...
Up to D’Antoni to make Knicks pairing work
It was like training camp all over again at the Knicks practice facility yesterday. Players stood in assigned spots as coaches pointed where they would go next. Then the ball...
Boys basketball roundup: Poly Prep clinches Ivy Prep League crown
Poly Prep is back on top of the Ivy Prep League. Jay Vido scored 15 points and Bradley Gifford added 11 in the Blue Devils’ 55-40 road victory over Riverdale,...
Drama mama
James Franco bookends his Oscar duties with a two-day return to the soap "General Hospital," starting Friday as a psycho murderous artist. Mama can relate -- if she sees one...
Natalee Holloway's mom gets reality show
John Walsh, meet the new sheriff in town: Beth Holloway. Lifetime Network has given the green light to "Vanished with Beth Holloway," a 10-episode reality series starring the mother of...
Hair's Tony!
After more than three years, James Gandolfini is heading back to HBO -- and he looks nothing like Tony Soprano. "It was shocking at first," he jokes of the thick...
'Oprah': 34 shows left to go
A mere 34 shows remain before talk show empress Oprah Win frey trundles off into the sunset in May. But before she takes a hiatus in March, she has lined...
Barely a flutter from jittery flick
'Heartbeats," the sophomore effort by precocious Montreal filmmaker Xavier Dolan, is an example of style over substance. There's lots of slo-mo and jittery hand-held camera work, and references to the...
Classy aliens in 'Area'
I feel their pain. Really, I do. I'm talking about the rampant, government-sanctioned torture of all captured, giant-headed, skinless, oozing, dirty-fanged aliens from outer space. This outrage against E.T.s is...
Firth and foremost Oscar favorites
This is the season for office Oscar pools. With the ceremony just two days away, here's some help for punters from Post film critic Lou Lumenick, offering his expert predictions...
Slow and heady
A hit in Cannes and a box-office success in France, Xavier Beau vois' "Of Gods and Men" has arrived in New York. It's based on true events -- the 1996...
Kim K. to play a Gotti?
Whatever Kim Kardashian wants, she's Gotti have. The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star is said to be in talks to grace the big screen in the proposed John Gotti...
The Over the Hill Band
'The Over the Hill Band" is a Belgian riff on "The Golden Girls." It re volves around Claire (Marilou Mermans), who is left with time on her hands when her...
Location, location, location: enter 'Hallway'
Shared space plays a big part in Adam Rapp's new "Hall way Trilogy." It even extends to the Rattlestick Theatre itself, where the stage now runs along the entire side...
Tambor battles 'Cage' fright
There's trouble in St. Tropez. The delightful Tony-winning revival of "La Cage aux Folles" has two new romantic leads -- Harvey Fierstein, as Albin, the high-strung drag queen, and Jeffrey...
A Good Man
Chris Rohrlach is a sheep farmer in Australia with a quadriplegic wife (the result of a stroke at age 21) and two sons, a teenager and an infant. When a...
The Grace Card
A racist cop tormented by the death of his 5-year-old son edges toward redemption in the churchy drama "The Grace Card." The movie's title turns out to be a play...
'Hall' of tame
Gifted with a one-week vacation from their marriages by their spouses, middle-aged suburbanites Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis find that scoring even with permission isn’t easy in “Hall Pass,” an...
Swag for Oscar losers only
The infamous “consolation prize” swag bag — presented by Distinctive Assets the morning after the Oscars to all nominees who don’t win — will include the following trinkets at these...
Oscars by the numbers
When Hollywood’s glitterati strut (500 feet) down the (33-foot-wide) red carpet for Sunday’s (83rd annual) Academy Awards at the (3,332-seat) Kodak Theatre, they may be more focused on the (50)...
Khadafy Qaeda-crazy
A desperate Moammar Khadafy played the terror card yesterday, saying al Qaeda is masterminding the Libyan revolt -- and the protesters are drug-crazed teenagers. "Bin Laden! This is the enemy...
Brain study goes out on a limb
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The human brain can be tricked into believing it has three arms, Swedish scientists said yesterday, giving hope to the advancement of prosthetic limbs for paralyzed stroke...
Other shoe drops
BAGHDAD -- The Shiite journalist who shot to fame when he threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in 2008 was arrested yesterday -- for allegedly "inciting" fellow Iraqis...
CBS shuts down 'Two and a Half Men' for rest of season; sitcom may be done
"Two and a Half Men" has been cut down to zero. CBS last night pulled the plug on the top-rated sitcom for the rest of the season after a ranting...
Vegas bandit in chip heist
LAS VEGAS --A man wearing a fedora hat, a fake mustache and sunglasses walked into the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino just west of the Las Vegas Strip, stole about...
Arm-&-a-leg deal
BOSTON -- A desperate parent was apparently offering to sell his body parts yesterday to pay off his children's $200,000 student loans. "Use my body for anything legal, or medically...
'South Park' fiend gets 25 yrs.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A college student from northern Virginia was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison for trying to join the Somalia-based terror group al-Shabaab, The Washington Post reported....
Worst system ever
The United Federation of Teachers maintains that laying off teachers according to seniority is the only "fair" way to accommodate New York City budget cuts. Fair for whom? It's certainly...
American safety: lost at sea
THE ISSUE: The hijacking and murder of four American yachters by Somali pirates. *** The free world must unite to track down and destroy pirates so that this unfortunate incident...
Carbon control isn't real goal
The Environmental Protection Agency is about to impose regulations and taxes on carbon emissions by execu tive fiat in the name of stopping global climate change. Yet the United States...
O's marriage move: All about the votes
And so another signature ini tiative of the Clinton admin istration goes down in flames at the hands of the Obama administration. First it was the "Don't ask, don't tell"...
Sucking up to Syria
The Obama administration's inaction in the face of Moammar Khadafy's brutal efforts to suppress the revolt in Libya is shameful enough. But when it comes to Syria, we're actively coddling...
Ivy early birds
Harvard and Princeton are re-embracing early admissions, once again accepting high-school seniors earlier than normal if they commit to attending. The Ivy Leaguers abandoned the program in 2006 and hoped...
Toyota recalls 2M more vehicles
WASHINGTON -- Toyota Motor Corp. yesterday recalled 2.17 million cars and trucks in the United States to address accelerator pedals that could become stuck in floor mats or jammed in...
New GOP proposal ripped as 'Trojan horse'
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats yesterday blasted Republicans for daring to offer any immediate spending cuts and refused to budge from their no-cuts-now stance in a budget fight that seems headed...
Twist in Raj trial
A whistleblower in the government's high-profile Galleon Group insider-trading case has agreed to testify on behalf of federal prosecutors against his former boss, New York billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, The Post...
Google eyes UK launch of YouTube movie service
Google's YouTube is eager to launch an unlimited subscription service for movies similar to Netflix and Amazon and is considering starting it overseas to cut down on the competition, The...
Iraq suicide fiend kills 15
FALLUJA, Iraq -- A suicide bomber blew himself up during a ceremony in a cultural center in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi yesterday, killing 15 people and wounding 21,...
Hosni buzz riles Egypt
CAIRO -- Egypt's new military rulers assured the nation yesterday they would guard against what protesters have called a counterrevolution by associates of Hosni Mubarak, deposed nearly two weeks ago...
Algeria loosens yoke
ALGIERS, Algeria -- Algeria yesterday lifted a 19-year-old state of emergency in a concession to the opposition designed to keep out a wave of uprisings sweeping the Arab world. Ending...
WikiFreak's extradition OK
LONDON -- Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden in a sex-crimes inquiry, a British judge ruled yesterday. Judge Howard Riddle rejected claims from the WikiLeaks founder that he would...
Bahrain open to talks
MANAMA, Bahrain -- Bahrain, which has seen thousands of mainly Shiite protesters take to the streets, is seeking a national dialogue where everything is on the table, the kingdom's foreign...
Yemen: Protect people
SAN'A, Yemen -- Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has ordered his security forces to protect demonstrators trying to end his 32-year rule, but a leading opposition figure said the move...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn A homeless prowler took a leap of faith while trying to flee cops in Bushwick, and landed in the hospital, police said. A real-estate agent was showing a vacant...
Lohan pal 'tied up' jeweler
A man who was with Lindsay Lohan at an LA jewelry store appears to have been caught on surveillance video distracting an employee as the "Mean Girls" star snatched a...
Two birds, one Stone
Silver-screen sirens Sharon Stone and Rosario Dawson get plenty friendly at a pre-Oscars dinner party thrown by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and Dior at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los...
Appeals court upholds Remy Ma's prison term
Hip-hop star Remy Ma is going nowhere fast. Ma, whose real name is Reminisce Smith, yesterday learned that the state's highest court had upheld her eight-year prison term for shooting...
Target aims for $100B in sales
Target Corp., the second-largest US discount retailer, said annual sales may top $100 billion within the next seven years, bolstered by its first expansion outside the US. That would amount...
MySpace seeks bids
News Corp.'s efforts to sell MySpace are advancing, as bankers Allen & Co. begin to schedule meetings with suitors, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources. The meetings will give...
Brooklyn mortgage biz for MetLife
Snoopy's moving into the Slope. MetLife's push into the mortgage origination business is taking it to Brooklyn. The New York business known for insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs is...
Lucky son of a gun
A Florida man busted in the city for driving with an unloaded gun that was legal in his home state jubilantly bounced out of a Manhattan courthouse yesterday after a...
Scarlett Johansson's dad collapses
Just days before his glamorous daughter takes center stage at the Oscars, the dad of screen siren Scarlett Johansson collapsed near his West Village home — opening a huge gash...
UFT bigwigs cash in
Even as Mayor Bloomberg warns that aid cuts could force him to fire more than 4,500 teachers, the union that represents them is enjoying a surge of six-figure salaries, The...
Fear stalks projects
They're afraid -- very afraid. A survey of more than 1,000 residents of the city Housing Authority's projects found that 78 percent were fearful of crime in their developments. Fifty-five...
Business briefs
AIG profit AIG posted its first profit in three quarters on gains from divesti tures. AIG advanced 2.8 percent to $41.57 in ex tended trading.Homes hit US new home sales...
LinkedIn lockout
The LinkedIn revolution is offline in China. Beijing blocked access to the social network for professionals as it has other sites that the government sees as subversive, including Twitter, YouTube...
Slain man begged to die: con
A career criminal smiled on the witness stand yesterday, fondly recalling how he ripped off $4,000 from a suicidal Long Island man with empty promises to kill him. Melvin Fleming,...
Art gallery was a real 'drag'
A Manhattan woman filed suit yesterday alleging she was dragged on the floor by a cop inside the Gagosian Gallery after being mistaken for an anti-Israel activist. Ingrid Homberg, 59,...
Publicis disses women: lawsuit
Advertising and public-relations giant Publicis Groupe is being slapped with a $100 million lawsuit accusing it of "pervasive and discriminatory employment practices" that keep women on the bottom rungs of...
Anti-abort ad pulled in SoHo
An inflammatory anti-abortion ad equating abortion by black women with genocide will be taken down from a SoHo billboard, officials said today. The controversial advertisement -- posted on a billboard...
Estate must face Madoff claims
The estate of investment adviser Stanley Chais must face claims by the trustee liquidating Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities that Chais and related entities fraudulently received more than $1 billion...
I got wart Rx as eyedrops: suit
A Queens man is suing Walgreens for $1 million, saying the pharmacy incorrectly gave him wart remover instead of his prescribed eyedrops. Smith Maceus had routine eye surgery in June...
Push to $top 'drive-by' cabbies
Ride on! Cabdrivers who refuse passengers on the basis of race or their far-flung destinations are being targeted by taxi officials who want to stiffen fines for the escalating problem....
TSA crook 'fesses
A corrupt TSA worker yesterday admitted stealing $10,000 to $30,000 from passengers flying from Newark Airport and making payoffs to his corrupt boss. Al Raimi, 29, told a Newark federal...
Army's evil 'psych-ops' on US pols
WASHINGTON -- The military is investigating charges that a three-star Army general in Afghanistan ordered his team to conduct "psychological operations" on visiting senators to try to get them to...
Banks, Obama butt heads on mortgages
The nation's biggest banks are championing a plan that would defer principal payments for troubled borrowers who are "underwater" on their mortgages rather than reducing the loans. Big banks, including...
Dov to bolster Staff
Is American Apparel big enough for two eccentric retail geniuses? Investors may soon find out. Sources told The Post that Chief Executive Dov Charney, famous for his libertine lifestyle as...
Change in store at Apple
The official tally is in: A whopping 74 percent of Apple shareholders want more say over the board. They approved a measure, backed by the California Public Employees' Retirement System,...
Wisconsin troopers dispatched to homes of missing Democrats
Frustrated Wisconsin Republicans pulled out the big guns yesterday, siccing the State Police on AWOL Democrats who, for more than a week, have stymied high-profile efforts to pass an anti-union...
Cuomo's a LIFO foe
ALBANY -- Momentum to repeal the "Last in, first out" protection for underachieving city teachers built a head of steam yesterday as Gov. Cuomo declared flatly that he favors "an...
Lampert's letter is a doozy
Eddie Lampert seems to have tech on the brain. The hedge-fund billionaire -- who as chairman of Sears Holdings took three years to name a permanent CEO for the struggling...
It's $7M 'fire' in the hole
The battle to get bad teachers out of the classroom has put the state Education Department in the hole for $7.5 million, The Post has learned. Critics say the notoriously...
Alan Alda playing Madoff-like Ponzi schemer in 'Tower Heist'
One of Hollywood's best is channeling one of New York's worst. Alan Alda eerily morphs into a Ponzi monster much like Bernie Madoff in a revenge-is-sweet comedy caper titled "Tower...
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein: I'm a sex offender, not a predator
Billionaire pervert Jeffrey Epstein is back in New York City -- and making wisecracks about his just-ended jail stint for having sex with an underage girl. "I'm not a sexual...
WTC is off the 'rail$'
Brother, can you spare $180 million? The chronically over-budget transportation hub that's part of the massive Ground Zero rebuild will eat into even more taxpayer dollars than expected -- for...
Crude crisis sparks rapid-fire price hikes
Surging crude is already sending some consumer prices sky-high. With energy costs up more than 10 percent in just a week on unrest in the Middle East, airlines have hiked...
One pol in hiding is, well, 'showing'
Of all the Wisconsin Democrats on the run for the last week, one is moving a little more slowly than the others. State Sen. Julie Lassa is six months pregnant....
Farewell to arms: cops
The Bronx hasn't seen this much firepower since the '27 Yankees. A drug raid led cops to a massive cache of powerful weapons -- including 2,000 rounds of ammo and...
City sued in snow death
A Brooklyn woman died during the December blizzard because the city never declared a snow emergency and its lackluster response left the streets impassable and the 911 system in disarray,...
Last rites for Adweek's iconic Hot List of mags
The Adweek Hot List, a staple of the magazine world since the legendary Clay Felker launched it in the mid-'80s, will not appear next month -- and it may be...
Flouting the rule of law
Just what is it about the rule of law that President Obama doesn't get? The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it now believes the federal Defense of Marriage Act --...
Andrew's opportunity
Gov. Cuomo suggested yesterday that he favors merit-based teacher lay offs in times of fiscal hardship, rais ing this critical question: Does he support the principle strongly enough to make...
NYC kids trailing in science
Less than one in five city fourth- and eighth-graders met the national standards in science in 2009, according to new results that contrast sharply with students' performance on state-issued exams....
Gay heir apparent
A New York man who's the surviving partner in a same-sex marriage is legally entitled to inherit his spouse's estate, an appeals court ruled yesterday. In a landmark decision, a...
Meters may go private
The next quarter you plunk into a parking meter might end up in the bank account of a private company. The Bloomberg administration is looking for a financial advisory firm...
Gov and health bigs forge Medicaid deal
ALBANY -- Gov. Cuomo last night announced a dramatic agreement with the powerful health-care lobby to end perennial fights over ballooning Medicaid costs and permanently cap spending for the massive...
Celeb victims' $tarr struck
The well-heeled celebs swindled by crooked money manager Kenneth Starr will be lucky to get back more than 10 percent of their dough, prosecutors predict. Papers filed yesterday in Manhattan...
Feds foil baby-doll bomb plot
A bloodthirsty Saudi Arabian college student was busted in Texas for a sickening plot to pack baby dolls with explosives, put them in strollers and set them off at the...
Defense in '87 kidnap
The fake mom charged with snatching a newborn from a Manhattan hospital 23 years ago simply raised the girl after someone else kidnapped her, her lawyer said yesterday. "We don't...
Tunnel horror
A motorcyclist was in critical condition this morning after he was run over by a bus yesterday in a horrific Lincoln Tunnel collision that left more than 50 commuters injured....
Putting out the hits, Jeter deserves the Ritz
THE ISSUE: Whether the Yankees 2010 season can be blamed on Derek Jeter's home contruction. *** I was always wondering why the New York Yankees didn't make it to the...
Gulfstream
Post time: 12:55 p.m. All horses appear in post position order FIRST-5 ½ fur; $15,000; cl($6,25); 4up FREEDOM AFLEET won last start at this claiming price. MIZZEN THE RHYTHM won...
Aqueduct Analysis
Today's analysis.1. 1 mile; $21,000; clm($14,000); 4upDORIAN WILL drew the rail and drops to lowest claiming level of career while switching to Dominguez after tiring this distance in first start since...
Tomorrow's Aqueduct Entries
Post Time: 12:30 p.m. All horses appear in post position orderFIRST6 fur; $16,000; clm($7,500); 4upPNHorse Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds2Undocumented(L),123D Cohen4-6-3Jacobson 5-13Castle Harbour(L),123N Alvarado4-5-3Loaiza 4-11a-Sawtooth Mountain(L),116C Amaro5-9-8Persaud 3-14Logical Order(L),123J Samyn8-11-5FMartin 30-15Buzz Off Buster(L),123J...
Bill Smith At Meadowlands
Post time: 7:00 p.m.Best Bet: Ridge Jumper (6th)FIRST-mile; pace; $15,000; conditional3SpiritToSpare(JCampbell)1-1-19-51LightningDragon(BSears)2-4-24-14CycloneNightN(DMiller)7-2-25-22LrDancingDream(PBerry)6-9-315-15China Gal(R Pierce)5-5-76-16OnlyTheWorld(TTetrick)5-5-45-17ForAllWeKnow(YGingras)3-7-310-1SECOND-mile; trot; $15,000; conditional2Macs Bad Boy(B Sears)1-1-55-17MonsignorFlan(JCampbell)1-2-83-15Alcarine(D Bier)7-3-19-21Ellen's Isle(A Miller)2-7-25-23Spicy Caviar(T Tetrick)2-8-38-14No Doze(J Meittinis)3-3-610-16Aachoo(B Simpson)7-1-76-18So You De Vie(R...
Santa Anita
Post time: 4:00 p.m. FIRST-1 1/8 miles(T); $54,000; mdn; 4up PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 6 TheUnuslOne(L),122 CSthrd 2-3-2 3-1 4 Kumiva(L),122 DFlors 2-2-7 5-2 1 Recap(L),122 PVlnza 5-11-x...
Aqueduct Charts
February 24, 2011 Cloudy And Fast. ©2011 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST6 fur; $26,000; clm; 4upOff: 12:30 p.m.St.good, won drivingTime: 23.31, 46.45, 58.28, 1:10.49.Trainer: Naipaul ChatterpaulWinner: CH G, 5, by Storm...
Thole catching praise from Mets
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Josh Thole is modest enough to admit he's a work in progress behind the plate, but hopes the Mets can live with those growing pains. The...
Wells makes pitch for Yankees catcher Martin
TAMPA -- When Russell Martin, who is rehabbing from right-knee surgery, is cleared to catch in games, David Wells predicts Yankees pitchers are going to adore throwing to their new...
Workout plan has Yankees' Sabathia full of zip
TAMPA -- In an early morning workout yesterday, CC Sabathia didn't need the dew on the brilliant green grass to refresh him. As he pumped a river of batting-practice fastballs...
Hotshots light up Devils' playoff push
Career performances are fueling the Devils' Preposterous Dream. Johan Hedberg's seven-game winning streak is one. Ilya Kovalchuk's point streak is another. Kovalchuk has amassed 684 career points, but as the...
Rangers will face Capitals without Staal's streak
WASHINGTON -- Of all the times for Rangers defenseman Marc Staal to miss his first game after playing in 247 straight since sitting out a pair of matches with the...
Tannenbaum gets Jets ready for a lockout
INDIANAPOLIS -- Fresh off his cameo role in "CSI: NY," Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum is now ready to play "Beat the Clock." With a likely lockout ready to bring...
Yankees can't deal with losing ace like Cards did
TAMPA -- CC Sabathia pitched from behind an L-screen and 10 feet in back of the mound -- protected by another screen -- were manager Joe Girardi, Yogi Berra, pitching...
Deron pointed about future with Nets
Billy King has a bare frame of a team to go with a bare frame of a new arena. So if Deron Williams was sincere yesterday in being excited about...
Giants owner says coach's contract in works
INDIANAPOLIS -- Almost two months have passed without a formal contract extension for Tom Coughlin since the Giants announced he would be back as head coach. The formal part will...
No field trip for Yankees yet
TAMPA -- Two years ago it was a billiards tournament. Last spring training it was a visit to an arcade for video games. Each outing was designed to help Yankees...
Vic C.'s Tampa Bay Grade
Post Time: 12:25 p.m.FIRST-1m&40yds; $11,000; clm; 4up5-Joey'sSuprise 1221-Only Lassie 1222-Omegamefurst 1206-UntuttablChrm 1203-Marks Choice 1207-Casually Put 1224-Act Right 1208-BitofHeaven 122SECOND-6 fur; $20,200; clm; 4up2-Southern Truth 1181-She'sMyDiary 1184-Nicotina 1185-HarmonusUn 1183-Brezing Rain 1186-Cloud...
5 questions for ... Al Leiter
Al Leiter took a break from shooting promos at the MLB Network studios in Secaucus, N.J., to talk with The Post's Justin Terranova about the Yankees' rotation and how their...
NFL labor talks head to wire
WASHINGTON -- Just as many expected would happen all along, labor negotiations between the NFL and the players' union are heading right down to the wire -- and possibly beyond....
Mets giving Tejada second look
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Don't count out Ruben Tejada. Though the 21-year-old infielder technically isn't part of the Mets' second base competition, manager Terry Collins hasn't closed the door completely...
Fowler sends Mickelson home
MARANA, Ariz. -- Hotter than his matching pink shirt and shoes, Rickie Fowler led a dynamic charge of the next generation yesterday in the Match Play Championship. Fowler brought Dove...
Nets act quickly, boldly to snag star
For five months, beginning with a clandestine, late September night meeting between general managers Billy King and Masai Ujiri in a back room at New York City's Ritz Carlton, the...
NBA DEADLINE: Celtics trade Robinson to Thunder
The Celtics and Thunder weren't content with just being top-tier playoff contenders, swapping starters yesterday in a surprising deadline deal. The Celtics sought a throwback to their style of play...
Sports shorts
NFL: 'Pacman' gets probation Bengals cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones was sentenced to probation and 200 hours of community service under a plea deal for his role in a 2007 strip...
Tigers' Cabrera 'sorry' for arrest
Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera arrived at spring training in Lakeland, Fla., yesterday for the first time since he was arrested last week on suspicion of drunken driving and promptly...
Today's Sports on Air
Auto Racing11 a.m.NASCAR: Camping World Truck Series, practiceSPEED1, 4 p.m.NASCAR: Nationwide Series, practiceSPEED2:30, 6 p.m.NASCAR: Sprint Cup, practiceSPEED8 p.m.NASCAR: Camping World Truck Series, Lucas Oil 150SPEEDBasketball7 p.m.Siena at FairfieldESPN27 p.m.Detroit...
Islanders lose to Flyers in OT
PHILADELPHIA -- Moral victory, right, boys? "I don't know if we really believe in moral victories," Islanders defenseman Andy MacDonald said after last night's heartbreaking 4-3 overtime loss to the...
The Post Line
NCAA BasketballFavoriteLine UnderdogWRIGHT ST.5½DetroitHarvard9BROWNYALE12½DartmouthPRINCETON11CornellPENN6ColumbiaFAIRFIELD8SienaIona2ST. PETER'SCANISIUS13ManhattanLoyola, Md.3½NIAGARARider11MARISTN. DAK. ST.PickS. Dakota St.Home team in CAPSNBAFavoriteLineUnderdogKnicks 8 CAVALIERSSPURS10½NetsSIXERS 9 PistonsBOBCATS 7 KingsPACERS 5 JazzSuns 4 RAPTORSHEAT15 WizardsHornets 4½T'WOLVESMAGIC 5½Okla. CityWARRIORS 2½HawksT. BLAZERS 5...
Chandler helps Nuggets defeat Celtics
DENVER -- Integrating five new players offensively will take time for the Denver Nuggets. Defense? That came right away. The Nuggets held the short-handed - and shortened - Boston Celtics...
Rex guarantees Jets will win Super Bowl -- again
INDIANAPOLIS -- Rex Ryan made yet another Super Bowl guarantee here yesterday, and the Jets head coach didn't appreciate a New England-based reporter challenging him about it. Talking to reporters...
N.Y. next stop for 'free fishing' fight
New Jersey anglers just won the right to fish their marine waters for free. Now that fight moves to New York. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed his state's free...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYFeb. 25SATFeb. 26 SUNFeb. 27 MONFeb. 28 TUEMar. 1WEDMar. 2THUMar. 3KnicksCleveland7:30TV -- MSG NetworkRadio ESPN 1050 AMNOGAMEMia.8:00MSGESPNNOGAMEOrl.7:00MSGESPNN.O.7:30MSGESPNNOGAMENetsSan Antonio8:30TV -- YES NetworkRadio WBBR 1130 AMHou.8:30YESWFANNOGAMEPho.7:00YESWFANNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMERangersWashington7:00TV - MSG2 NetworkRadio WNYM 970...
Weird but true
It not just this kid's personality that's magnetic. The 7-year-old, from Serbia, has been attracting attention because his body is apparently magnetic, and all kinds of metal objects stick to...
St. John's Mullin glad for shot at Hall
Chris Mullin, the greatest player ever to wear a St. John's jersey who now is with ESPN, was at his old stomping grounds yesterday interviewing Lou Carnesecca and Steve Lavin...
UConn loses to Marquette OT
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Marquette's players have heard over and over the last couple of weeks that they needed a quality road win to enhance their NCAA tournament resume. They got...
BA's Top 31 Mets Prospects; No. 25: Jordany Valdespin
Vitals: 23 years old (turns 24 on December 23); 6-foot and 174 pounds; bats left-handed and throws right-handed; signed as an international free agent from the Dominican Republic in 2007;...
Libyan revolutionaries used dating website to dodge Khadafy's secret police
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libya's revolutionaries posed as star-struck lovers on a dating site to organize their revolt against Col. Moamar Khadafy, ABC News reported Thursday. Former business and opposition leader...
'Two and a Half Men' shut down for the rest of the season, Charlie Sheen's behavior blamed
"Two and a Half Men" has been cut down to zero. CBS television said tonight that it was discontinuing production of its top-rated comedy show for the rest of the...
CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens Diocesan final preview
CHSAA boys basketball beat writer Dylan Butler breaks down Friday’s Brooklyn/Queens Diocesan final between top-seeded Christ the King and No. 3 Holy Cross at Christ the King. Who: No. 1...
City's poor blizzard response killed woman: lawyers
A Brooklyn woman died during the December blizzard because the city never declared a snow emergency and its lackluster response left the streets impassable and the 911 system in disarray,...