July 3, 2006
EUROPEANS MAKING NYSE OVER EURONEXT
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amFrench and German officials seem to be retreating from their staunch opposition to the New York Stock Exchange's multibillion-dollar merger with European stock market Euronext. In meetings last week with...
STAR-RY EYED - SOAP-OPERA ANTICS ADD UP TO 3-MIL KING VIEWERS
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Star Jones firing continues to be a gift that keeps on giving - headlines, at least. The former co-host of "The View" drew a huge audience to "Larry King...
A LIL' MARATHON C OF KIM'S TV SHOW
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amWHAT better way to celebrate the release from jail today of rapper Lil' Kim than a marathon of the TV reality show that followed her to prison last fall. BET...
'GILMORE' GETS RESPECT
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amCOULD it really be - an Emmy nomination for the long-suffering "Gilmore Girls"? According to reports, Lauren Graham, who plays the flighty mom on the series, is on the short...
ORPHANS GET OK TO SUE 'X-TREME HOME'
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amFIVE orphan kids who are suing ABC and "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" are a step closer to a legal showdown with the tear-jerker show and the family that tossed them...
BACK TO 'BEACH'
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amMTV finally has a debut date for the new season of its addictive teen reality show, "Laguna Beach." Season three - with a new cast - is set to start...
JULY 4TH FESTIVITIES
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amTHE fireworks don't start till dark - that means there's a whole day in which to have some Fourth of July fun. These events will wrap up in plenty of...
PHONE CUTS OFF DRINKIN' AND DIALING
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe world's first cellphone equipped to combat both dangerous drunken driving and embarrassing drunken dialing is flying off the shelves overseas. Developed by LG Electronics, the LP4100 incorporates a real...
SUPERMAN FLIES TO TOP OF WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amTights beat heels at the movies over the weekend as "Superman Returns" whipped "The Devil Wears Prada" and leaped to the top of the box office, according to studio estimates...
ISRAELI JETS HIT HQ OF HAMAS PM
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amIsrael yesterday warned that no one in the Hamas-led government in Gaza was immune to attacks in the wake of an Israeli air assault on the office of Palestinian Prime...
MIKE EYES SITE FOR FOUNDATION
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amWhen Mayor Bloomberg leaves office in 2009 to run his philanthropic foundation, he won't have a very long commute. According to published reports, Hizzoner is set to buy the historic...
MAN STRUCK BY SUBWAY
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amA northbound No. 2 train severed the leg of a Bronx man at a busy Upper West Side subway station yesterday morning after he wandered onto the tracks and was...
COPS CRASH CAR IN HARLEM
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amTwo cops were injured early yesterday when their cruiser collided with another vehicle at 139th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem, police said. The cops, a man and a woman,...
BERNIE'S BAD SIGN - CITY PULLS DISGRACED KERIK NAME OFF JAIL
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe city quietly yanked signs bearing Bernard Kerik's tainted name from a Manhattan jail in the dead of night - and then promptly sent them to Rikers Island to be...
PARENTS FUME OVER 'TOXIC' BX. SCHOOL PLAN
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amParents and teachers at a public school near Yankee Stadium are seeing red over plans to build a new school complex on an adjacent lot that is soaked in toxic...
LIFE IN THE APPLE IS NO WALK IN THE PARK
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe Big Apple has to devote more green to its greenery, a nationwide report has found. The Trust for Public Land, an environmental advocacy and conservation group, found that New...
WONDER TWINS' BIRTH ONE FOR AGES - MOTHER, 60, SETS DELIVERY RECORD
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amLauren Cohen has gotten a priceless gift for her 60th birthday: She delivered twins despite life-threatening health complications. Cohen is believed to be the oldest woman in the world to...
SHOE DROPS FOR 'HEEL'-RAISER GAL
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amA Manhattan clubber who whacked another woman in the head with the spike of her stiletto shoe could face 25 years in prison after cops charged her with felony assault,...
SOUND AND FURY - MOST GRIPES IN WA-SHH!-INGTON HTS.
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amCover your ears but keep reading - the noisiest neighborhood in the city is Washington Heights-Inwood, The Post has learned. No other neighborhood is close to being in the same...
BEACH TEEN FEARED DEAD
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amA teenage swimmer was reported missing yesterday off the Rockaways. A lifeguard saw the 18-year-old Brooklyn youth go under off Beach 149th Street in Neponsit, but never saw him come...
BORN NOT TO RUN - SHUTDOWN IRKS N.J. - FURIOUS CITIZENS BLAME POLITICIANS
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe effects of New Jersey's government shutdown threatened to spread today as residents fumed that their so-called leaders - who remain at an impasse over the Garden State's budget -...
BEACH TRAGEDY - HELPLESS MOM, KIN SEE TEEN GO UNDER
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen was missing and feared drowned yesterday after horrified family members watched him pulled beneath the surf by strong currents off Riis Park. Trevon Gidding, 18, was hanging...
BRAZILIAN MA SAYS MADAM IS FLAT BROKE
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe mother of a Brazilian beauty who has admitted to being a high-paid madam with two corporate-exec sugar daddies doesn't believe those charges or that her daughter smuggled millions of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Detectives chased down a teenage thief who beat and robbed two people on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street, authorities said yesterday. The violence began at 12:45 a.m. Saturday, when Michael...
MOM OF SHOT TEEN IS BUSTED
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe mother of a teenager shot by cops during a botched Brooklyn buy-and-bust operation was arrested yesterday and charged with assaulting a police officer during the melee Saturday, friends and...
LASER SUCTION 'VAPORIZES' FAT
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amA new fat-zapping laser-liposuction technique has been melting away double chins, upper-arm batwings and unsightly cellulite in an hour or less at a Manhattan cosmetic-surgery center - and will be...
UPSTATERS IN 'POWER' STRUGGLE WITH CITY
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amUpstate residents want to pull the plug on a planned megapower line that would snake across 200 miles and feed electricity to the energy-hungry Big Apple. The private project, New...
QAEDALIST.COM - U.S. EYEING SITE THAT'S MECCA FOR AMERICA-HATING MILITANTS
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies have begun monitoring a frightening new Web site that functions as a "Craig's List" for terrorists across the globe, The Post has learned. In the...
SKINNY ON LATEST LASER - MELTS FAT & KEEPS SKIN TAUT
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amA new fat-zapping laser-liposuction technique has been melting away double chins, upper-arm batwings and other unsightly cellulite in an hour or less at a Manhattan cosmetic-surgery center - and will...
UNITING THE RIGHT - THANK YOU, N.Y. TIMES
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amLAST week's wildly controversial Supreme Court ruling about the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals may prove a key moment in healing some of the political and ideological fractures that have opened...
FEDS STILL PROBING AL PIRRO 'MOB LEAK'
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amFEDERAL prosecutors are continuing to probe an explosive, nearly 2-year-old allegation that former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro's husband leaked information from her office to the mob, The Post...
QUEENS 'QUAKE' BATTLE - HOMEOWNERS SUE
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amFrustrated Queens residents whose homes sank into the ground are furious after authorities claimed earthquakes - not leaking city pipes - caused their properties to collapse. Adding insult to injury,...
CITY'S WATT KNOT - POWER STRUGGLE
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amUpstaters want to pull the plug on a planned megapower line that would snake across 200 miles and feed electricity to the energy-hungry Big Apple - an upstate-downstate battle that...
'HOME WORK' SOARS IN CITY - HOUSING CONSTRUCTION RISES FIVEFOLD SINCE '95
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe Big Apple's residential building boom is reaching historic proportions, with developers last year planning five times more private housing units citywide than a decade ago. The city issued building...
MCCAIN IS LATEST TO RIP TIMES
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amSen. John McCain yesterday joined the chorus of critics who say The New York Times was wrong to out a top-secret terror money-tracking program, and he called for prosecuting the...
CHUCK COY ON PREZ HILL
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amSen. Chuck Schumer yesterday ducked the question of whether he will do what home-state senators usually do and back fellow New York Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for...
EVI-DUNCE TECH WRECKS NYPD'S 'CSI' - BLUNDERS MAY HAVE KEPT THUGS FREE
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amTHE NYPD is reviewing hundreds of criminal cases - dating back eight years - after revelations that a veteran police-lab technician's "sloppy" and "incompetent" work led her to miss key...
DEMS AND GOP UNITED ON NEW GITMO BILL
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amDemocrats and Republicans in Congress yesterday said they hope to work together to fix problems raised by the U.S. Supreme Court so military tribunals can try enemy combatants held at...
AIR ID-IOTS JAIL WRONG GAL: SUIT
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amA woman claims she was tossed in a Rikers jail cell for more than a week - because authorities at Kennedy Airport confused her with someone else. Hui Ping Wang,...
BELLY KELLY'S STRONG'SUIT'
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amKelly Ripa says the sands of time can't keep her out of swimsuit photo spreads - like this dazzler from Hamptons magazine. Even with three young kids, a 10-year-marriage and...
SUPE'S ON, UP & AWAY WITH $52M
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amTights beat heels at the movies over the weekend as "Superman Returns" whipped "The Devil Wears Prada" and leaped to the top of the box office, according to studio estimates...
KNICKS OFFER $1M TO BUTLER
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe Knicks extended a $1 million qualifying offer yesterday to their free-agent 6-foot-10 center Jackie Butler, making him a restricted free agent. The Knicks can match any offer from another...
PEDRO'S HIP IS SLOWING - METS ACE OUT FOR TONIGHT, MAYBE LONGER
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amPedro Martinez will miss his first start of the season tonight. Martinez is suffering from an inflamed right hip, the Mets said yesterday. The right-hander has had the problem for...
HEALTH A SORE SUBJECT FOR MARTINEZ
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amHE ISN'T the first athlete to bristle when the subject turns to health, to vanished youth, to the way a body betrays you just as your brain catches up. Pedro...
WIE STILL WAITIN' TO WIN
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amNEWPORT, R.I. - She's still young and ebullient as always, but it's getting about time for Michelle Wie to close the deal on a tournament victory. Though she delivered a...
AMAZIN' PARADE OF STARS
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amNearly a quarter of the Mets roster is now part of the NL All-Star roster. The Mets had six players named to the All-Star team yesterday, with a seventh a...
NO MORE GROIN PAIN FOR RELIEVED MOOSE
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amSUBWAY SERIES CONFIDENTIAL In a year when most of the medical news has been bad, the Yankees received positive information yesterday when Mike Mussina encountered no problem with his right...
GARDEN OF EVIL
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amOH, WHEN the Saints, go marching out . . . I'm glad that John Davidson, after 20 years calling Rangers games, is leaving the Garden. He's a good man. And...
ISLES SIGN SILLINGER
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe Islanders and freshly minted general manager Neil Smith got into the game yesterday when they made Mike Sillinger the first free agent acquisition under the team's new front office...
HURST-QUENCHER - RALLIES ON 18 TO TIE ANNIKA, FORCE PLAYOFF
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amNEWPORT, R.I. - Seventy-two holes of the excruciating mental grind Newport Country Club dished out to the best women's golfers in the world the last three days weren't enough to...
AILING BULL CAUGHT AT WORLD CUP
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amIt's hard to imagine this season getting any more embarrassing for the Red Bulls. While the last-place club was losing 3-2 in New England Saturday, reigning team MVP Youri Djorkaeff,...
HIP-CHECKED - PEDRO WILL MISS START TONIGHT
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amPedro Martinez will miss his first start of the season tonight. Martinez is suffering from an inflamed right hip, the Mets said yesterday. The right-hander has had the problem for...
QUICK HOOK FOR JARET
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amHis team scored 16 runs, and Jaret Wright didn't get the W. In fact, he didn't even get out of the second inning. Before last night's story became the second...
NYERS SHOW STAR QUALITY - SIX METS, FOUR YANKS PICKED
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amYesterday's All-Star results suggested something Mets fans were already thinking: They have a better team than the Yankees. A franchise record six Mets were named to the Mid-Summer Classic yesterday...
A-ROD CATCHES LO DUCA'S IRE
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amAfter Alex Rodriguez hit a grand slam with no outs in the third inning last night, Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca angrily jawed at the Yankees third baseman and fellow...
BOSS FEELING 'GOOD'
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe day after stumbling down the executive office steps, George Steinbrenner walked into Yankee Stadium with a noticeable limp but without incident. The Boss has been seen limping throughout this...
NO BRIDGE-JUMPING YET
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amBEFORE we get too far along here, and before Mets fans begin to ponder whether to use hemlock or Drano to do the deed this morning, we should start with...
BLUE SKIPS - PATIENT RANGERS STAY COURSE
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amTHE RANGERS didn't get tougher up front this weekend, they didn't add muscle on the back end, and they didn't become a more difficult team to play against, either. But...
A-ROD AN ALL-STAR, BUT STILL NOT TORRE'S STAR
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amJOE TORRE was asked to identify the first-half MVP of his team and, within his answer, unintentionally delivered one of the strongest blows yet against Alex Rodriguez. And it was...
YANKS RIDIN' THE HOT ROD - ALEX'S 7 RBIS KEY BOMBERS RALLY
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 16 - Mets 7 The top team in the National League may be the second-best club in New York thanks to Alex Rodriguez' muscles. Yes, the Mets and Yankees...
RODRIGUEZ SLAMMIN' ALL OF HIS CRITICS
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amJOE TORRE was asked to identify the Yankees' first-half MVP before last night's Subway Series finale and unintentionally delivered one of the strongest blows yet against Alex Rodriguez - and...
N.Y. GETS STAR TREATMENT - SIX METS, FOUR YANKS HEADED TO PITTSBURGH
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amYesterday's All-Star results suggested something Mets fans were already thinking: They have a better team than the Yankees. A franchise record six Mets were named to the Mid-Summer Classic yesterday...
JUST AN AMAZIN' FEELING
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe highlight of David Wright's career so far came yesterday. The Mets' superb third baseman was picked to start the NL All-Star Game, a first-time berth for the 23-year-old. "You...
IT'S A BAD DAY FOR FAVORITES
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amTrack was fast, turf firm. Chalk-eaters took beating, to delight of bombs-away crowd. SECOND RACE: Discreet Thievery was hammered to 2-5 with Edgar Prado up; went right to front, took...
'REBEL' SCOOPS UP POKER POT
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amUnder a heady ride by Edgar Prado, the Irishbred colt Rebel Rebel struck the lead in midstretch, then drew off to win yesterday's Grade 3, $100,000 Poker Handicap at a...
GARDEN OF EVIL - J.D., ANOTHER TRUE PRO, LEAVES DOLAN AND CO. BEHIND
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amOH, WHEN the Saints, go marching out ... I'm glad that John Davidson, after 20 years calling Rangers games, is leaving the Garden. He's a good man. And good men...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 3, 2006 | 4:00amHere's an idea that makes "cents" to some - stop producing pennies. The U.S. Mint announced this year that the penny now costs more than 1 cent to make. Jeff...