September 3, 2005
ARAB BANK'S TERROR TRIAL HIT
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Federal judge in Brooklyn ordered Jordan's Arab Bank to stand trial in New York on charges that it knowingly financed the Palestinian suicide bombers who have killed and maimed...
RAZOR MAG'S LIFELINE CUT
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amRazor, the four-year old men's lifestyle magazine has been shut down by Richard J. Botto, its fast-living Arizona-based owner. Several company insiders confirmed the news, first reported on the Gawker.com...
BRING HOME THE BEACON
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amBrooklyn-born 1960s sex symbol Connie Stevens has always known how to make a buck. When she was just a 22-year-old starlet, legendary gossip columnist Louella Parsons asked her what she...
MEET THE TEACHER - KISS STAR SCHOOLS KIDS ON 'ROCK'
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amKISS frontman Gene Simmons is an arrogant, aging, know-it-all rock superstar who presides over one of the best-kept reality-show secrets on TV. "Gene Simmons' Rock School" is VH1's new show...
WRONGEST DAY - BILLIE JOE & CO. MORE FLUFF THAN TOUGH
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amIN his big opening song Thursday night, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong spat the lyrics "I don't wanna be an Ameri can idiot." But at Giants Stadium - in the...
RUMMY BACKS OUT ON DAVE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amDEFENSE Secretary Don ald Rumsfeld has canceled his visit to David Letterman next week. Rumsfeld had been expected to be a guest on "The Late Show" Tuesday night, but his...
N.Y. OPEN - CROWD-LESS CITY RIPE FOR FUN
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amWHILE everyone else is at the beach - or in the Hamptons - for Labor Day weekend, it leaves the city blissfully open for the rest of us. Enjoy these...
READY, FREDDY! - MUCH ADU ABOUT MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER'S YOUNGEST STAR
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amBetter think twice before you tell Freddy Adu he's the next Pele. "No way," Freddy says firmly, a diamond stud twinkling in one ear. "That's definitely an honor, but I'm...
TOWERING HERO - BED-STUY TEENAGER SURVIVES FALL AFTER SAVING NEIGHBORS
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amA courageous Brooklyn teenager raced through a fiery blaze in his Bedford-Stuyvesant building yesterday morning to rescue neighbors - then survived a four-story plunge while desperately fleeing smoke that had...
B'KLYN TEEN HURT IN CAR WRECK
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen was critically injured early today after he lost control of his car, police said. The 18-year-old slammed his Volvo into a tree near Strickland Avenue and East...
CATASTROPHIC FAILURE - EXPERTS BLAST 'BUNGLED' RELIEF EFFORTS
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amWith the situation in New Orleans looking more and more prone to disaster, emergency-management experts are dumbstruck that so much has gone so wrong with the initial relief effort. Many...
ECONOMY WILL TAKE AT LEAST A $100B HIT
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amHurricane Katrina will cost the U.S. economy more than $100 billion, the latest financial forecast says. That includes more than $100 million a day in lost business activity in the...
LAURA SHOWS 'CLASS' AMONG REFUGEES
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amFirst Lady Laura Bush yesterday urged Hurricane Katrina survivors to enroll their kids in school no matter where they're stranded so the kids can hang onto a "sense of normalcy"...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A man was arrested for gunning down two men behind a Brownsville building last week, authorities said yesterday. Eugene Maxwell Jr., 28, was busted Thursday in the shooting...
112 PRINCIPALS ON THE OUTS
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe city Department of Education yesterday released the names of 112 principals who left their posts over the last year, but it refused to say which ones got their walking...
'GET OFF YOUR ASSES!' - N.O. MAYOR RIPS SLOW RELIEF EFFORT
September 3, 2005 | 4:00am"Get off your asses and do something!" That's what the mayor of flood-ravaged New Orleans demanded of President Bush and federal officials in a rambling, cuss-filled radio interview filled with...
NO CROWDS AT TRAGIC THRILL PARK
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThrillseekers stayed away in droves from Long Island's Adventureland yesterday as authorities investigated the second death in less than a week at the popular amusement park. Some workers estimated that...
TRIBUTE IDEAS FOR FLIGHT 587
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe city displayed yesterday six proposals for a Flight 587 memorial, one of which will be chosen next month after being reviewed by a panel of city officials, Rockaways residents...
PARADE OF PRIDE - WITH GRIM SHADOW
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amON Monday, the West Indian Day Parade, the largest festival in the city, will go forward - even as the death toll in the Gulf may exceed that of 9/11....
BUBBA'S LADY FAIR - BOOSTS HILL AT STATE FARM EXPO
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amSYRACUSE - Former president Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance yesterday with his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, during a high-profile visit to the State Fair - a must-stop on...
THE GAS GOUGING HAS BEGUN ...
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe gas gouging has begun - but New Yorkers are fighting back. Almost 500 angry drivers from across the state reported their local stations to federal authorities yesterday for spiking...
RANDY REV. ON THE RUN - STAYS IN SHAPE ON N.J. SHORE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amNo wonder the church ladies love him! The randy reverend who allegedly confessed to an affair with a blonde from his well-to-do parish keeps himself in tip-top shape, as this...
GEN. RAGIN' CAJUN - 'JOHN WAYNE' LEADS CHARGE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe "John Wayne-type dude" directing National Guard operations in New Orleans is a three-star general who speaks with a Cajun accent. Lt. Gen. Russel Honore was commander of the 1st...
'JUNIOR' GOTTI CHICKENS OUT OF TESTIFYING
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti appeared poised to take the unprecedented step of testifying at his racketeering trial after a judge dealt a serious blow to his defense yesterday - but he...
STATEN IS. SUICIDE-BLAZE HERO A MODEL FIREFIGHTER
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe FDNY's "Mr. October" made September his month for heroism yesterday when the fire-calendar pin-up man saved an apparently suicidal driver who crashed his car into a Staten Island gas...
CALL TO MAKE RUDY RELIEF CZAR
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amSome prominent Republicans yesterday urged President Bush to appoint Rudy Giuliani or two former military officials to head relief efforts in New Orleans - saying local officials aren't up to...
RUSSIAN AT U.N. BUSTED - $$-LAUNDER RAP
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Russian diplomat was ordered held on $1.5 million bail yesterday for allegedly taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in payouts to turn a blind eye to corruption at the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amA 75-year-old Greek woman's excuse for growing pot on her balcony is for the birds. Hariklia Griva, a widowed mother of four from the Aegean Sea island of Lesvos, was...
DOMINO EFFECT: FATS ALIVE & WELL
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amFats Domino is alive and well. The legendary rock-'n'-roller and his family spent two days at the Baton Rouge home of Louisiana State University quarterback JaMarcus Russell after being rescued...
SCARY SWAY TO RIDE - TRAM STUCK 90 MINS.
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amMore than 80 people spent 90 frightening minutes on the Roosevelt Island tram yesterday when the power failed, leaving them suspended in the air. The drama ended when the only...
BUSH GIVES 'CANE VICTIMS BIG HUG AND A VOW: 'WE WILL MAKE IT RIGHT'
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday hugged refugees from Hurricane Katrina as he got a firsthand look at the human tragedy left by the storm and vowed that New Orleans and other stricken...
PLANE SLAMS INTO JERSEY POST OFFICE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amA small plane crashed into a New Jersey post office last night, killing the pilot and injuring one passenger. The pilot had radioed in shortly before the accident to say...
N.Y. RESCUE TEAMS CAN ONLY WAIT
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amOne hundred fifty NYPD officers will head to New Orleans today with a mission to escort 100 city buses that will be used to evacuate hurricane victims from the Crescent...
'ANTI-BLACK' BUSH BLITZED BY KANYE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amRapper Kanye West used last night's televised Concert for Hurricane Relief to blast President Bush, the National Guard and the media for the poor response to the storm that devastated...
112 SCHOOL PRINCIPALS ON THE OUTS
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe city Department of Education yesterday released the names of 112 principals who left their posts over the last year, but it refused to say which ones got their walking...
SCHOOL CHANGE AT TOP - 112 PRINCIPALS GONE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe city Education Department yesterday released the names of 112 principals who left their posts over the last year, but it refused to say which ones got their walking papers...
ALL'S 'FAIR' FOR BUBBA - BOOSTS HILL AT STATE FARM EXPO
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amSYRACUSE - Former president Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance yesterday with his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, during a high-profile visit to the State Fair - a must-stop on...
FRUSTRATED N.Y. RESCUE EXPERTS CAN ONLY WAIT
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amHundreds of firefighters specially trained in disaster relief and Emergency Service cops have been "chomping at the bit" for days, waiting for the green light from Washington to race to...
GOP BIGS: HURRY UP & MAKE RUDY RELIEF CZAR
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amSome prominent Republicans yesterday urged President Bush to appoint Rudy Giuliani or two former military officials to head relief efforts in New Orleans - saying local officials aren't up to...
SWISS BOB - FEDERER ELUDES SANTORO
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amRoger Federer jumped to a 5-1 first-set lead against unseeded Fabrice Santoro last night, even though the Frenchman Pete Sampras once dubbed "The Magician" was using his entire bag of...
IRISH WILL FIGHT FOR TOUGH ACADEMICS
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - What's the quickest way to tick off a Notre Dame football player these days? It is not reminding him of last year's 6-6 record that cost Ty Willingham...
GUT-CHECK TIME FOR METROS
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amIt all comes down to this: The MetroStars kick off a home-and-home series with the Kansas City Wizards at Giants Stadium tonight, and anything less than a sweep by the...
TAYLOR PUTS DENT IN FOE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amSometimes when No. 25 Taylor Dent - the highest-seeded American remaining besides Andre Agassi - would double-fault or miss an easy shot yesterday, he heard his opponent, Nicolas Almagro, say,...
METS HAVE PLANS FOR BIG ROAD TRIP - TRACHSEL WILL GET START AGAINST BRAVES
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Mets always have a meeting before the start of a series, so Willie Randolph talking to his players before last night's game against the Marlins was not...
JETS' CELESTIN WORRIED ABOUT FAMILY'S SAFETY
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amJets coach Herman Edwards was coy yesterday about the few starting positions in question on the team's roster, including the one that perhaps has been the most competitive: strong safety....
HOUSE OF PAIN - MOOSE COULD BE DONE FOR YEAR
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Injuries are part of the game. But the part of the season they occur often adds more hurt to the aches and pain. The latest comes at the...
'DANGER' SPOT - PLETCHER HORSE IS FOREGO FAVE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Today's $250,000 Forego Handicap at seven furlongs drew a field of seven veteran sprinters, but it does not include the best racehorse who will appear today at...
PEACHY TEENS - SHARA[[POVA TO FACE MIRZA AS YOUTH TO SERVE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThey are both 18 and are both icons in their own way. You know Maria Sharapova, the No. 1 seed on the women's side of the U.S. Open. You may...
WILLIE KNOWS THIS PRESSURE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - September baseball is all about one thing, and only one thing: winning. Willie Randolph has been there in so many ways. "Like when we [Yankees] came from 14...
SCOUTING SHAKEUP
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Omar Minaya sensed when he became general manager after last season that the Mets needed a significant restructuring of their drafting apparatus, but wanted to wait...
SERENA'S SIGH - DEFENDS KATRINA DONATION
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe Williams Sisters have had their own reality show, but they really deserve a soap opera. Yesterday, after Serena Williams smashed her way into a potential fourth round match against...
KATRINA DONATIONS ACCEPTED
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - American Red Cross is collecting donations for Hurricane Katrina relief at Old Spa this Labor Day weekend from noon to 5 p.m. at a booth set up...
MANNINGS FLY HOME WITH HELP
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amGiants quarterback Eli Manning, a New Orleans native, will fly with his brother, Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, to Louisiana today to bring aid to their Hurricane Katrina-ravaged hometown. The brothers...
GIANT SWITCH - KATRINA FORCES GAME VS. SAINTS TO MOVE TO N.J.
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe Giants' second game of the regular season, against the Saints, is no longer just a football game, but a Hurricane Katrina relief event. Giants Stadium will play host to...
HIRAPOUR ROLLS IN TURF WRITERS
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Hirapour, winner of last year's Eclipse Award as the nation's top steeplechase horse, took a big step toward defending that honor yesterday with a decisive victory in...
TRACHSEL BACK INTO ROTATION
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - As the Mets play a key stretch of the season, they continue to mix up their starting rotation. Steve Trachsel will return to the rotation to...
MENACE ELBOW - MOOSE COULD BE DONE FOR YEAR
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The Yankees' postseason dreams took a big hit yesterday in Los Angeles, where Dr. Lewis Yocum told Mike Mussina to avoid pitching for an undetermined period of time....
A PAIR OF PEACHY TEENS
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK They are both 18 and are both icons in their own way. You know Maria Sharapova, the No. 1 seed on the women's side of the U.S. Open. You...
BLING IT ON! - CRITICISM MARS SERENA-VENUS COURT MATCHUP
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe Williams Sisters have had their own reality show, but they really deserve a soap opera. Yesterday afternoon, after Serena Williams smashed her way into a fourth-round match against her...
METS STUMBLE TO START ROAD TRIP - WILLIS, MARLINS SHUT DOWN BATS IN FLORIDA
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amMarlins 4 - Mets 2 MIAMI - On the infield grass here at Dolphins Stadium, the outlines for some of the NFL team's yardage markers can be seen. For the...
CLOCK'S TICKING ON AMAZIN'S
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - This was the difference between Cy Young and cyanide. Dontrelle Willis last night showed everyone how to pitch, hit, and run the bases in a September race. Victor...
DOOMSDAY - 'BAD NEWS BOMBERS' HAVE BRUTAL NIGHT
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amAthletics 12 - Yankees 0 OAKLAND - On a night the Yankees desperately needed a boost to their moral, Al Leiter was spanked so hard you wonder if the A's...
PLAYOFFS? CAN'T SAY FOR SURE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Pitch by painful pitch last night, minute by agonizing minute, Al Leiter reinforced every negative vibe that had buzzed through the Yankees clubhouse only a couple of hours...
FIELD OF SCREAMS - GRIDIRON GAME GRINDS UP OAKLAND GRASS
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - McAfee Coliseum's playing surface was an embarrassment last night when the A's hosted the Yankees, thanks to the stadium hosting an NFL exhibition contest Thursday night. All day...
PLAYOFFS? NOTHING'S FOR SURE
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - With five words, Mike Mussina may have delivered a more devastating blow to the Yankees' September fate than all of the missteps and misfortunes that littered the team's...
MENACE ELBOW - MOOSE MAY BE OUT FOR YEAR WITH TENDINITIS
September 3, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The Yankees' postseason dreams took a big hit yesterday in Los Angeles, where Dr. Lewis Yocum told Mike Mussina to avoid pitching for an undetermined period of time....