June 20, 2002
MARKETS ON EDGE - MIDEAST BOMB SCARES INVESTORS; DOW FALLS 144
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe U.S. stock market was trying for a third consecutive day of gains until news of yet another terrorist attack in Israel unsettled trading floors, sending stocks plunging. The Israeli...
SEC INVESTIGATING IMCLONE STATEMENTS; STOCK TUMBLES
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amImClone's troubles are mounting, as the Securities and Exchange Commission fingers the biotech company for statements made when the application for its much-hyped cancer-fighting drug was denied last December. The...
FLEETBOSTON AGREES TO ROBERTSON STEPHENS BUYOUT
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amAfter haggling with executives of its Robertson Stephens subsidiary for more than a week, FleetBoston Financial Corp. has finally thrown in the towel: The New England-based bank has agreed to...
KMART DIMS ITS BLUE LIGHT ON INTERNET
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amA tiger can't change its stripes. However, Kmart believes changing the name of its Web site from Bluelight.com to Kmart.com will make a difference. After polling customers, the company found...
MUCH BIGGER ARIA - LINCOLN CENTER EYES RED CROSS HQ IN EXPANSION
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amLincoln Center is looking to expand its giant West Side campus. Among properties the center is considering making offers to buy are the nearby American Red Cross of Greater New...
ADELPHIA MAY LOSE BUFFALO SABRES FRANCHISE TO NHL
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTroubled Adelphia Communication Corp. could lose it's struggling Buffalo Sabres hockey franchise today, even as the giant cable company moves closer to filing for bankruptcy. National Hockey League officials are...
JETER PLAYING IN LONG BEACH
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amSINCE becoming a Yankee, Derek Jeter hasn't wandered too far from New York's boroughs. Last year, he took a 5,000-square-foot pad on one of the top floors of the 90-story...
TRADERS ARE RIDING LUCENT GRAVY TRAIN
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amLUCENT already has enough trouble. So it didn't need a group of wiseguy Wall Street traders pushing its stock even closer to oblivion just so they could convert some preferred...
INDIAN BURNS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amAfter a nearly 50-year hiatus, America's first motorcycle is bent on reaffirming its icon status.The Indian Motorcycle Company began over a century ago in Springfield MA when bicycle racer George...
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTHE noise can be deafening, the audience is mobile - and the pay often comes in quarters. So saying, a few fine subway musicians are about to get a token...
TREY BIEN FINALE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTREY ANASTASIO ------ AT his solo Radio City Music Hall debut Tuesday, former Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio not only stepped outside the limits of verse/chord/verse pop and his former band...
STARR REPORT
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amOn your Mark: Meloni to play Fuhrman? "Law & Order: SVU" star Christopher Meloni (Det. Elliot Stabler) has emerged as a frontrunner to play Mark Fuhrman in USA/Columbia TriStar's adaptation...
EMINEM TOPS LIST
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTHANKS to good press and word-of mouth, rapper Eminem's three-week-old disc, "The Eminem Show," continues its white-knuckled grip on the No. 1 slot on the top 200 album sales charts...
THEY'RE THE NEW FRIENDS (...BUT SEXIER)
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amNBC is hoping a British import called "Coupling" will help viewers forget "Friends" when that series ends next May. NBC has snagged the rights to the BBC 2 comedy, which...
BRITNEY'S LOOKALIKE SIS LANDS ON 'SNL FOR KIDS'
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amBABY Britney is bound for the boob-tube. Pop queen Britney Spears' 11-year-old sister, Jamie Lynn, has landed a spot in the cast of Nickelodeon's "All That," a show described as...
COZZY VS. OZZY; 'OSBOURNES ARE A SAD BUNCH,' SAYS BILL
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amBILL Cosby, who played loving dad Cliff Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" and wrote several best-selling books about fatherhood and family, is blasting "The Osbournes" - and doesn't spare Ozzy...
TASTES OF THE TOWN
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTODAY is Restaurant Day, when some 200 eateries around town dish out samples of their specialties for $3 to $5, and donate $1 from each sale to hunger relief. Most...
SHAGGY DOGS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTHERE are plenty of awards for rock's coolest singers, hottest guitarists and most smokin' drummers. Now come the prizes for the best sex machines in the biz. And lizard-tongued Gene...
GROUND ZERO EYED AS A HOUSING SITE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amOfficials overseeing Ground Zero yesterday said they could use properties near the World Trade Center site for residential housing development. Lower Manhattan Development Corp. president Louis Tomson said his agency...
MIKE & COUNCIL OK $42B BUDGET DEAL
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amAfter six months of tough talking, Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller last night announced a $42.3 billion budget deal that "recognized the practical reality" of the city's...
COP-CAR BOMB ALERT - BID TO BUY REPLICAS SPURS FEAR THEY CAN PACK EXPLOSIVES
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amFire and police brass are on alert for a new and especially insidious threat - terrorists bearing bombs in replica cop cars, ambulances or firetrucks. Fears of such a tactic...
THE NATION'S EAVESDROPPING AGENCY INTERCEPTED OMINOUS MESSAGES ON SEPT. 10
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The nation's eavesdropping agency intercepted ominous messages on Sept. 10 - "The match begins tomorrow" and "Tomorrow is zero day" - but nothing was done until it was...
FERRIES $INKING FAST - FEW ON BOARD FOR LOWER MANHATTAN SERVICE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe Port Authority has spent more than $5 million in federal funds to increase ferry service from New Jersey to lower Manhattan - but so far, the program, has drawn...
NO PREGNANT PAUSE FOR SARAH JESSICA
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amIn the next few weeks, the producers of "Sex and the City" might need to get creative to cover up Sarah Jessica Parker's growing belly, the pregnant star says. Parker...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amAn Ohio judge has sentenced a man to run in a five-mile race rather than throwing him into jail for six months. Painesville Judge Michael Cicconetti ordered Michael Logar to...
HOME AIDE SCAMMED WOMAN, 91, FOR 166G: DA
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amA home health-care aide was charged yesterday with ripping off a 91-year-old Queens patient for more than $165,000. Bibi Khan, 40, wrote 105 checks totaling $166,673 and had the victim,...
FOUND STRANGLED
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amAn elderly woman was found strangled to death in a closet in her Hamilton Heights apartment late last night, police reported. Officers made the gruesome discovery at about 9 p.m.,...
COPS NAIL PSYCHO IN SEX ATTACK
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amA mentally ill man was grabbed at a Manhattan homeless shelter yesterday and charged with sexually attacking a counselor at the Brooklyn office of a well-known crime-victims agency, police said....
15 CHARGED AS CHARITY $$ CHEATS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amFifteen people were charged yesterday with stealing a total of $52,724.56 from Twin Towers charities, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said. The DA said he hopes the charges send a...
KELLY WANTS TO CAST CRIME-FIGHTING 'NET
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday laid out his high-tech vision for New York's Finest, complete with cops carrying instant-messaging devices and squad cars and precincts stocked with computers. To accomplish...
NAKED 'MERMAID' SUES COPS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amA "mermaid" who was arrested for exposing her breasts at Coney Island's famous summer parade last year is taking the two party-pooping cops for a swim - into federal court....
MCCALL: GIVE EX-CONS COLLEGE $$ 'PREFERENCE'
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amGubernatorial candidate Carl McCall yesterday said ex-convicts should "get preference" when applying for government aid for college - sparking his two opponents to quickly attack him. McCall, the state comptroller,...
VINEGRAD THE VICIOUS SHOULD BE LOCKED UP
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amWHEN a man of the cloth agrees with me, I feel closer to God, even though the priest might occasionally use the same profanity as I. "That Alan Vinegrad is...
SEARCH OFF FOR 4 L.I. FISHERMEN
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe U.S. Coast Guard yesterday called off the air and sea search for four weekend fishermen who vanished in high seas off Long Island Saturday during a shark-hunting tournament. The...
'JUMBO' JET FLIERS MUST PAY FAT FARE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amSouthwest Airlines hit turbulence yesterday over its plans to enforce a porker-profiling policy that doubles airfares for overweight fliers. A spokeswoman for Southwest defended the policy and said tubby travelers...
WHITE HOUSE: ARA-FAT CHANCE - YASSER FADING FROM BUSH'S PEACE PICTURE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's spokesman yesterday came close to ruling out Yasser Arafat as a partner for peace - and strongly defended Israel's right to self-defense after the latest homicide...
ONE FAMILY'S DEVASTATING TRAGEDY
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Noa Ahlon's family paid the price yesterday for trying to be happy in a time of crisis, relatives said. The grandmother thought her family and friends needed to...
COPS UNLEASH TICKET BLITZ ON 'OFFICIAL' PARKING HOGS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTraffic agents began slapping summonses yesterday on illegally parked vehicles with official placards hogging commercial spaces on Reade Street in lower Manhattan. The crackdown came one day after The Post...
A DEUTSCH TREAT - MATCH PITS AMERICAN FANS VS. ROOTIN'-TEUTON BUDDIES
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTomorrow's World Cup match pitting the United States against Germany has reached fever pitch - with celebs, top athletes and sports fans choosing sides. Tennis power couple Steffi Graf and...
MARTHA'S GOOD THING - DENIAL OF INSIDER TRADING BOOSTS HER HOLDING BY $63M
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amMartha Stewart faced her public for the first time yesterday since the ImClone scandal broke - and it paid off to the tune of $63 million. The 60-year-old doyenne of...
NOT JUST WIDE-BODIES OPPOSE THE POLICY
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amSouthwest Airlines took a heavy pounding from fatties and skinnies alike yesterday for demanding that "people of size" buy two tickets. "It's ridiculous. It's unfair. It's really discriminatory," said Brooklyn...
WHERE ELITE MEET TO BEAT DEMONS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amSilver Hill Hospital is an elite rehab facility for the rich and famous. It's also very discreet - keeping a tight lid on the bold-face names who have spent time...
BLOOMY NIXES SLAVE-REPARATION PANEL
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amReparations for descendants of slaves here would be "divisive," Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday, shooting down an idea for a city-funded commission to study the emotionally charged issue. The mayor's comment...
2G BOUNTY ON FLAG BURNERS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amCops are offering a $2,000 reward for help in finding those who've been setting American flags on fire outside homes in Franklin Square, L.I. Since May 13, there have been...
TODDLER SAFE IN B'KLYN CARJACK
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amA woman got the scare of her life yesterday when she left her 2-year-old daughter unattended in her running car, only to see both of them disappear and resurface 30...
AVENGERS GROWL - PET LOVERS SNAPPING AT DOG-PLUNGE SLAY SUSPECT
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amIf looks could kill, accused terrier-tosser John Jefferson would have far more to worry about than his 15-count indictment in Manhattan Supreme Court. He would be fearing the Avengers of...
ED BOARD DIES WITH A WHIMPER
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe lame-duck Board of Education completed its business yesterday in an emotional farewell meeting before handing over the reins of the school system to Mayor Bloomberg. The new school-governance law...
ALL HAIL LIBERTY AWARDS - POLS TOAST POST'S MEDALS FOR EVERYDAY HEROES
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe mayor and the governor were among the many New Yorkers yesterday who cheered The Post's new Liberty Medal Awards to salute the city's everyday heroes. "Our citizens are the...
9/11 HINTS WERE INTERCEPTED 9/10
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The nation's eavesdropping agency intercepted ominous messages on Sept. 10 - "The match begins tomorrow" and "Tomorrow is zero day" - but nothing was done until it was...
PIANO MAN'S SAD SONG - BILLY JOEL IN REHAB AFTER GALPAL DUMPS HIM
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amBilly Joel has checked himself into rehab in a bid to overcome his addiction problems - while the woman who dumped him and broke his heart is off on her...
DADA BING! LIZ BABY'S DAD REVEALED
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amDNA tests show that Hollywood producer Steve Bing really is the father of actress Liz Hurley's son, Bing's spokeswoman confirmed yesterday. The test results were released yesterday at a hearing...
GOV TAPS KERIK AS BOXING CHIEF
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday nominated former city Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik as chairman of the State Athletic Commission. Kerik, Mayor Rudy Giuliani's last police commissioner, will succeed current top...
E. SIDE CHASE DRAMA - COPS NAIL 'THIEVES' IN POSH NABE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTwo car thieves led cops on a high-speed chase on the posh Upper East Side yesterday afternoon, throwing tires at their pursuers and causing an NYPD van to slam into...
QUEENS TEEN DROWNS IN L.I.
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amA 15-year-old Queens boy who didn't know how to swim fell off a jetty and drowned off the beach at Long Beach, L.I., yesterday, police said. Lavell Patrick and his...
SUIT'S SORDID SAGA OF GAY REV. & GO-GO TEEN
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amA gay Catholic priest looted his working-class Queens parish by playing "sugar daddy" to an 18-year-old go-go dancer who lived with him in a church rectory, a shocking lawsuit charged...
POLS OK BILL ON FDNY LUNG DISEASE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - State lawmakers yesterday gave final approval to a bill making it easier for firefighters suffering lung problems after the Sept. 11 attacks to collect benefits. The measure's sponsor,...
THIEF TAKES CAR - AND BACK-SEAT BABY
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amA woman got the scare of her life yesterday when she left her 2-year-old daughter unattended in her idling car, only to see both disappear and resurface 30 minutes later....
SISTERS SAY ABUSED THEM
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amLong Island's Catholic diocese is being threatened with a lawsuit by a woman who says the priest who allegedly sexually abused her sister for years also molested her as a...
TERROR WAR HAS CAMPAIGN FALLOUT
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTHE war on terror is popping up in surprising ways in races for the House and Senate around the country. Here are some examples of the quirky ways that big...
FERRIES $INKING FAST: FEW COMMUTERS ON BOARD FOR LOWER MANHATTAN SERVICE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe Port Authority has spent more than $5 million in federal funds to increase ferry service from New Jersey to lower Manhattan - but so far, the program, has drawn...
COPS' TICKET BLITZ ON PARKING HOGS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amTraffic agents began slapping summonses yesterday on illegally parked vehicles with official placards hogging commercial spaces on Reade Street in lower Manhattan. The crackdown came one day after The Post...
MAN, JAILED 15 YEARS, WANTS VERDICT VOIDED
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amA man who's been incarcerated 15 years for a manslaughter he said he didn't commit was in court yesterday to support his bid for freedom - along with more than...
DOWNTOWN FERRIES $INKING FAST
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe Port Authority has spent more than $5 million in federal funds to increase ferry service from New Jersey to lower Manhattan - but so far, the program, has drawn...
BRAVEST ARE SEEING STARS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThree 9/11 firefighter heroes will have their dreams come true next month when they get to tee off on the golf course with sports stars that include Michael Jordan, Emmitt...
SARAH GETS NO PREGNANT PAUSE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amIn the next few weeks, the producers of "Sex and the City" might need to get creative to cover up Sarah Jessica Parker's growing belly, the pregnant star says. Parker...
CYNTHIA HAILS SCHOOLS AND THE CITY
June 20, 2002 | 4:00am"Sex and the City" siren Cynthia Nixon boasted of her New York City public education yesterday after a judge dropped charges against her for protesting school budget cuts. "I was...
QUEENS CLERIC IN GAY LAWSUIT
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe principal of a Catholic elementary school in Queens yesterday sued the parish's former pastor for sexual harassment by flaunting his homosexuality and being "vulgar" around her. And a Queens...
'PRIEST ABUSED ME 1,000 TIMES'
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amLong Island's Catholic diocese is being threatened with a lawsuit by a woman who says the priest who repeatedly sexually abused her sister for years also molested her as a...
25 INNOCENTS: SIX MORE ISRAELIS DIE IN SECOND BLAST IN TWO DAYS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A Palestinian bomber yesterday jumped from a car, ran into the middle of one of the busiest bus stops in Israel - and killed himself and six innocent...
PROSPECT CLAUSSEN LIKELY HEADED FOR SURGERY
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES DENVER - Unless a second opinion vastly differs from one offered yesterday, lefty Brandon Claussen is headed for Tommy John surgery. Claussen, the Yankees' top pitching prospect and...
KENYON TO GET WRIST 'SCOPED
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amIn Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Net forward Kenyon Martin played the finest game of his career with a right wrist that will undergo surgery today. In addition to...
NO DOUBT THOMAS CAN AID JET RUSH
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe Jets are in a hurry to improve their weak pass rush and Bryan Thomas is in a rush to start sacking quarterbacks for them. With that, Thomas, the 22nd...
METS STAYING ON FAN
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amWFAN will shortly announce that it has renewed its Mets radio rights as part of a multi-year deal. The station's previous rights to broadcast the Mets expire after this season....
WELLS: FINE IS DOUBLE STANDARD
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amDENVER - Add another chapter to baseball's most intense rivalry. This one involves David Wells and Pedro Martinez and could get nasty since Wells believes MLB has a set of...
KNICKS MAY ROLL A 7 WITH WILCOX
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe Knicks are licking their chops following Mike Dunleavy's decision yesterday to stay in the draft, raising the likelihood of Maryland power forward stud Chris Wilcox falling into their laps...
KLITSCHKO DREAMS OF BOUT VS. LEWIS
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amWladimir Klitschko already has been in the ring with Lennox Lewis. The two squared off during filming of the remake of the movie "Ocean's Eleven," when the two heavyweights rehearsed...
BEANBALL JUSTICE A JOKE: BOBBY: SAY 'I'M KIDDING,' SAVE MONEY
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Bobby Valentine remains perplexed over Shawn Estes' $750 fine for throwing behind Roger Clemens while Clemens avoided any fine after he "introduced" himself to Barry Bonds with a...
CYCLONE 3RD SACKER ON CASTILLO WATCH
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amCyclones 6SI Yanks 4 San Pedro de Macoris is known as a breeding ground for baseball players - perhaps most famously Sammy Sosa. But right now, one native of that...
IT'S ALL LEIT NOW ; AMAZIN' AL STICKS IT TO MINNESOTA
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amMets 4Twins 2 Has it come to this? There was Steve Phillips taking batting practice three hours before last night's game at Shea. Was the GM going to sign the...
YANKEES ROCK 'N' ROLL
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 20Rockies 10 DENVER - The only thing missing at Coors Field last night was a tent large enough to cover the circus produced by the Yankees and Rockies as...
MORE THAN A SLUMP: PHILLIPS HAS NO EASY ANSWERS FOR AMAZIN'S PROBLEMS AT THE PLATE
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amIs it really this bad? Three hours before last night's game against the Twins at Shea, there was this silver-haired gentleman in red shorts taking batting practice. His name was...
RONDELL FEELS LEFT OUT: JOHNSON GETS NOD TRYING TO PLAY OF
June 20, 2002 | 4:00amDENVER - To say Yankee Rondell White was mad about not starting in left field Tuesday night at Coors Field would be wrong because anger isn't part of White's bubbling...