August 12, 2000
DISNEY MUST PAY $240M FOR STEALING SPORTS IDEA
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Walt Disney Co. has been found guilty of mouse-ke-theft by a Florida jury. The House of Mouse will have to fork over $240 million to an architect and a...
MALONE, AMOS LOSE BILLIONS ON AT&T
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amWhen you cause billionaires to lose their billions, it's probably time for a job change. After seeing AT&T's stock plummet by half in just eight months, Chairman and Chief Executive...
CHRIS-CRAFT SALE NEWS CORP. NEAR DEAL WORTH $5B
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amNews Corporation is in final negotiations to acquire Chris-Craft Industries for about $5 billion. In a deal set to be announced before the markets open Monday, News Corp. would pay...
'AUTUMN' FALLS SHORT BUT GERE-RYDER WEEPER IS STILL A GUILTY PLEASURE
August 12, 2000 | 4:00am'YOU'VE got to look on the bright side," a dying Winona Ryder tells much-older boyfriend Richard Gere. "In a year or so, I'll be this sob story you can use...
'20/20' HINDSIGHT FOR STOSSEL - ADMITS FLUB ON ORGANIC FOODS
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amABC News correspondent John Stossel apologized on air last night for part of a "20/20" report on organic foods that was "just wrong" - but stood by another portion of...
VICTORY IS OURS
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amFor many families, it's the hottest ticket in town: Where else can you see live theater, dance, music and circus acts for as little as $6 a seat? That's the...
PRISON COP QUESTIONED IN GYM SLAYING OF HIS EX
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amA city correction officer was being questioned late yesterday in the murder of his 30-year-old ex-girlfriend, shot dead inside the Queens gym where she worked, police said. A judge had...
WARY L.A. BEEFS UP ITS CONVENTIONAL FORCES
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amLos Angeles is taking on the appearance of a city under siege as it awaits tens of thousands of demonstrators planning more than 20 protests and marches during next week's...
DEM POWER COUPLE PLAYING LA-LA LAND
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES. LITTLE wonder Bill Clinton is running around Hollywood like Willie Sutton. He needs millions upon millions of dollars for his presidential library in Little Rock. There will be...
FOUR MORE YEARS OF RUDY? WAIT FOUR YEARS
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amMAYOR Giuliani can't run again next year because of term limits - but that doesn't mean he might not try for a third term in 2005! "It's clearly within the...
GOV ASKS PREZ FOR $20M IN SKEETER FIGHT
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday called on President Clinton to give New York $20 million to combat the West Nile virus. Pataki in a letter asked Clinton to declare a...
DIPLO DENIES DAUGHTER DISSED 'SCRAWNY' BRITS
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe U.S. ambassador to Britain accused a tony English society magazine of putting words into his teenage daughter's mouth - including the controversial remark that "British boys really suck." Ambassador...
EGYPT AIR CO-PILOT A SEX MANIAC?
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe co-pilot of the doomed Egypt Air Flight 990 was the subject of numerous sex complaints at a Manhattan hotel - including exposing himself to teen girls and propositioning maids,...
QUEENS BOSS-SLAY SUSPECT BOTCHES SUICIDE ATTEMPT
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amA hysterical fugitive wanted for killing his boss shot himself in the head yesterday at a playground in front of stunned cops - and somehow survived the last-ditch suicide bid....
MAMA MADONNA DELIVERS A BOY TOY
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amMadonna's Next Best Thing is a bouncing baby boy named Rocco, born to the Material Mom yesterday - healthy and three weeks ahead of schedule. Just the day before, the...
LIEBERMAN TAKES A DAY OF REST
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amDETROIT - Sen. Joe Lieberman returned to Washington yesterday, making good on a promise to shelve politics on the Sabbath, the Jewish holy day. Lieberman, the first Orthodox Jew on...
FEARLESS HEROES RISE 900 FEET TO THE OCCASION
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amIt was all in a day's work for the 10 heroes who rescued 12 frightened and injured passengers aboard a crippled World Trade Center elevator yesterday. But what a day....
DYNO-GYNO'S MEDICAL LICENSE IS SUSPENDED
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A celebrity Park Avenue gynecologist known as the "Dyno-Gyno" had his medical license suspended yesterday. State Health Commissioner Antonia Novello ruled that Dr. Niels Lauersen, who has been...
MOSCOW BOMB SURVIVOR BACK IN B'KLYN
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amA "terrified and scared" Brooklyn teen injured in a terrorist bombing in Moscow returned home yesterday and vowed never to visit his homeland again. "I don't want to go back...
8 HURT AS TRADE CENTER ELEVATOR RAMS CEILING 12 RESCUED FROM 78TH-FLOOR DISASTER
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe express elevator to the Sky Lobby at the World Trade Center roared 24 feet past its stop and slammed into a ceiling 960 feet above ground yesterday, injuring eight...
'PACIFIST' EXEC WHO BASHED WIFE COPS A PLEA
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amA former securities executive pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he savagely beat his estranged Wall Street-wizard wife in the head with a 10-pound dumbbell. Aftab Islam, 58, a self-described "pacifist,"...
BUSH CALLS ON GORE TO TAKE STAND ON SEXGATE
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - George W. Bush yesterday challenged Al Gore to "explain" his problem with President Clinton, but Bush running mate Dick Cheney said Gore shouldn't be blamed for Clinton's sins....
WORKER TRAPPED FOR 2 DAYS BETWEEN PIPES
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amAn injured hospital worker spent 2½ terrifying days jammed between two pipes, barely able to move, shouting cries for help that nobody heard - until he devised an ingenious plan...
TRIAL ORDERED FOR 2 N.Y. MEN IN TORTOLA SLAY
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amFour American men, including one from Long Island and one from Manhattan, were ordered yesterday to stand trial for the murder of a Connecticut artist in the island paradise of...
COPS ID SUSPECT IN QUEENS RAPES
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amPolice yesterday identified an alleged serial rapist who uses his livery cab to target women leaving Queens bars. Detectives say Cesar Vicuna, 28, is suspected of attacking six women, four...
BUNNY-MONEY REBEL RELENTS! CALIF. DEM AGREES TO RELOCATE FUND-RAISER
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amDETROIT - Faced with a direct threat from Vice President Al Gore, Rep. Loretta Sanchez last night moved her planned fund-raiser from the Playboy Mansion to a G-rated spot -...
PAT TAPS BLACK WOMAN - BUT FOES DISPUTE HIS VICTORY
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amLONG BEACH, Calif. - Pat Buchanan won the Reform Party's vote-by-mail primary last night in a disputed ballot that left both the winner and loser delivering rousing victory speeches. Buchanan...
'TONIGHT SHOW' HILL-ARITY - TELLS JAY HOW SHE NIXED JOHNNY
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES -Thirty-one years after she turned down Johnny Carson, Hillary Rodham Clinton last night said yes to Jay Leno, appearing on "The Tonight Show" to help pump up her...
EWING: I'D MOVE ON IF SITUATION'S RIGHT
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing continues to stir the pot. The Knick center told MSG Network last night that if the championship opportunity is right somewhere else, he will gladly move on from...
ED BOARD RETHINKING QUEENS SCHOOL SITE
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Board of Education has scrapped a controversial plan to build a new, 1,000-seat elementary school covering grades K through 8 on congested Queens Boulevard. But the board is now...
POLISH COURT CLEARS WALESA OF SPY RAP
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amA Polish court yesterday cleared Nobel laureate Lech Walesa of charges he was an agent of the Communist secret police. The ruling came after documents alleging Walesa was a Cold...
BARAK IS WORKING ON NEW TALKS
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is working with the Palestinians on preparations for a "short and decisive" summit - while waging a legal battle with his own top...
LIBERALS RIP RICK AD AS MISLEADING
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amLiberal Party leader Ray Harding slammed Rep. Rick Lazio's "negative and misleading campaign tactics" yesterday and unveiled a commercial questioning a controversial pro-Lazio TV ad. Harding went on the attack...
THOSE 19 SECONDS STILL HAUNT RUIZ
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - In his eight years as a professional boxer, Johnny Ruiz has had 39 fights. He has fought 132 complete rounds, and parts of 28 others, which adds...
ADUBATO ANTICIPATES MYSTIC-AL PROBLEMS
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Liberty have come a long way this season, but now as the WNBA playoffs begin, their true character will be tested. After winning 13 of their final 16 games,...
JETS LOOKING FOR LEAKY 'D' TO PLUG HOLES
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - As the Jets prepared for their third of four preseason games, tonight's 8 p.m. meeting with the Ravens here, you could hear the voice of their defensive line...
JUMBO WANTS TO PLAY AGAIN
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Jumbo Elliott's changed his mind and wants to un-retire. Elliott, 35, retired from the Jets in March, then underwent back surgery, but has applied to the NFL to...
BACK IN NEW YORK, KENT IS OLD SELF
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amAnyone who saw Jeff Kent play in a Mets uniform could not possibly have seen the offensive juggernaut he has turned into. But as stunning as that turnaround has been,...
HAMILTON IN SWING OF THINGS
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amMaybe Darryl Hamilton should take a few months off more often. After returning from the disabled list on Wednesday, Hamilton has been on fire. He slammed a pinch-hit home run...
YANKEES NIX MLB REQUEST FOR BERNIE
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Wanting to bring the best possible All-Star team to Japan in November for an eight-game slate against an All-Star squad from Nippon, Major League Baseball asked the Yankees...
ROOKIE GRIFFIN OPENING SOME VETERAN GIANT EYES
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amJACKSONVILLE - In time, the sting and shock of a pre-season loss will fade and, no doubt, for many of the veteran Giants, perspective has already been sprinkled on last...
DIXON LETTING RETURN JOB SLIP THROUGH HIS HANDS
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amJACKSONVILLE - Remember all that talk about Ron Dixon being the surprise rookie in Giants training camp? Well, temper that talk just a bit. Dixon, the small-college receiver, is having...
EL DUQUE FLOPS AGAIN
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amANAHEIM -The first game of the Yankees' California Fly By Experience did little to answer a very big question concerning Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez. They will leave the West Coast...
JINTS CHILL OUT ON GOLDEN GOOF
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amJaguars 16 Giants 13 JACKSONVILLE - In time, the sting and shock of a pre-season loss will fade and, no doubt, for many of the veteran Giants, perspective has already...
HAMMER KNOWS WHEN TO STRIKE
August 12, 2000 | 4:00amJACKSONVILLE - He looks older than he is, yet he is younger than you might think. Keith Hamilton, the elder statesman of the Giants' defense, is only 29, but he...