April 4, 2009
SCHOOLGIRL RAPE HORROR
A girl was raped for hours on a school trip to Central Park last year - and the school never noticed she was gone, according to a lawsuit. The 12-year-old...
Wright swayed Sheffield
From BRIAN COSTELLOGary Sheffield made it to Citi Field today during the Mets-Red Sox exhibition game. The 40-year-old slugger said he picked the Mets over the Reds and Phillies because...
RBNY captain Angel looking for form, goals
Despite all of the Red Bulls' offseason movements and mechinations, the fact is they will take the field today at hated archrival Chicago (3 p.m., MSG) as the only team...
Love the new Yankee Stadium
Today was my first time in the House That Money Built and I love everything about the new Yankee Stadium.Yes, it's over the top. But so are the Yankees.From the...
Young Red Bull striker Mac Kandji is improving; next up comes scoring
Photo from Getty The Red Bulls' most-improved player from their Week One abomination to their Week Two heartbreak was 23-year-old forward Macoumba Kandji. He went from subpar in Seattle to...
ELEGY FOR THE ANCHORMAN
These are days of change indeed. The Free Market has turned out not to be so free, it turns out having eight kids and getting plastic surgery lips is not...
PEREZ AWFUL IN LAST START
New stadium, same old Oliver Perez. The Citi Field upgrade clearly hasn't solved all of the Mets' problems, including Perez's inconsistency. Perez gave a putrid performance in his final spring...
KNICKS ELIMINATED
There is always some team that based on its late-season surge might have been a dangerous playoff underdog, if only it had qualified. This year's version could be the Toronto...
TEIXEIRA HITS 2HRS IN YANKEES WIN
Mark Teixeira dropped two not-so-subtle hints today that he will enjoy hitting in the new Stadium. It won't count in his stats, but the Yankees' new $180 million first baseman...
Perez rocked again
Wow, this is ominous: Oliver Perez was blasted so badly by the Red Sox this afternoon at Citi Field that the erratic left-hander didn't even make it out of the...
RANGERS FALL 1-0 TO BRUINS
BOSTON--The Rangers needed a big play in the third period and didn't get it. Again. The Rangers needed Henrik Lundqvist to come up with a pristine performance and didn't get...
THUGS LEAD COPS ON WILD CHASE
A team of armed thugs engaged cops in a guns-blazing, high-speed car chase through Long Island and Queens after a home invasion robbery early today, cops said. The miles-long pursuit...
OFFICERS SLAIN IN SICKO TRAP
PITTSBURGH -- A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and "lying in wait" opened fire on officers responding to a domestic-disturbance call yesterday and killed three of them, police said. Pittsburgh...
MICHELLE OBAMA DODGES PROTESTERS AND KISSES CARLA
It was perhaps not what Michelle Obama expected on her first presidential foray to France. But it was certainly very French. Anti-war and anti-capitalist protesters tangled the streets of the...
A look ahead to Chicago
Two games into the MLS season, the Red Bulls are still looking for their first goal and their first victory _ and they'll have to get them tomorrow (3 p.m.,...
Yet more Ronaldo-to-Real rumors
Well, we barely made it into the spring before the Ronaldo-to-Real Madrid rumors popped back up. The latest one is a report from the Guardian that the powerhouse from La...
POLICE CHIEF: BINGHAMTON GUNMAN WORE BODY ARMOR
The lunatic behind the Binghamton massacre was a pathetic, gun-loving coward who got divorced, lost his job and was driven to depression because he could barely speak English after many...
NETS' LOPEZ NOT SO 'BULL'-ISH ON ROOKIE OF YEAR CHANCES
CHICAGO -- The Bulls have sent out "Rose-Colored Glasses" promoting point guard Derrick Rose for Rookie of the Year. Brook Lopez smiled and reacted favorably to thoughts of a PEZ...
WHO IS AL-AMRIKI?
He is the rare caucasian face in al Qaeda's online propaganda videos. No one knows his name. In jihadi circles, he is simply known as "The American." What is known...
Exhibition: Red Sox at Mets
The lineups are ready for the second of two Citi Field weekend exhibitions with the Red Sox this afternoon. Oliver Perez is scheduled to start for the Mets against Boston's...
Somalia’s ‘Lost Boys’ in US prime targets for terror recruiters
Kenyan officials say 2-3 of the terrorists who attacked a Nairobi mall may have been Americans, who had “lived in Minnesota and one other place.” In 2009, Post reporter Maureen...
Oops...And Same lineup
By FRED KERBERCHICAGO -- Sorry, we were rushing to catch a plane...which got delayed anyway.The last Rookie of the Year for the Nets was Derrick Coleman in 1990-91. The only...
Sheffield coverage wrapup
For your one-stop shopping convenience, here is a rundown of our extense coverage in today's print and online editions of the Post on the Mets' signing of Gary Sheffield: The...
IMMIGRANTS SLAUGHTERED
A lunatic armed to the teeth burst into a citizenship class for immigrants yesterday in Binghamton and turned their search for the American dream into a bloody nightmare, slaughtering 13...
Lopez or Rose
By FRED KERBERCHICAGO -- The Bulls have sent out "Rose-Colored Glasses" promoting Derrick Rose for Rookie of the Year. Brook Lopez smiled and reacted favorably to thoughts of a "Pez"...
RANGERS RARELY RUIN PLAYOFF SPOT LATE
It's happened three times since World War II -- three times since World War II that the Rangers failed to make the playoffs when holding a spot with five or...
CUTLER GETS FRESH START IN CHICAGO
Jay Cutler grew up rooting for the Chicago Bears in Santa Claus, Ind. Now, after a stormy exit from Denver, he's the franchise quarterback for his once-favorite team. One thing,...
SQUADS GET SET FOR FINAL CHORE
FRONTCOURT The Spartans have managed to lead the nation in rebounding margin despite not having a healthy Raymar Morgan (pneumonia) for most of the season. He can be the X-factor...
WILDCATS EYE UPSET IN DETROIT SHOCK CITY
DETROIT -- The final weekend of the month-long amazing race known as the NCAA Tournament is at hand, and the four teams in Motown look to claim this journey by...
HUSKIES' PRICE GETTIN' IT RIGHT
DETROIT -- It is like sitting at a high-stakes card game tensely waiting for each player to reveal his hole card. Villanova's hand is that of the newcomer, the one...
COACHES IRRITATED BY STOOL SAMPLE
DETROIT -- It's a terrible stool sample. The coaches in tonight's national semifinal games will have an awkward adjustment to make during timeouts. Because of the raised court in Ford...
FOLLOW UCONN ON THE ROAD TO RICHES
Each day during the NCAA Tournament, the Post's Tim Sullivan offers his plays of the day: LEAVE it to Tom Izzo to tell it like it is. Even when the...
UNC THE CLASS OF FINAL FOUR FIELD
DETROIT -- All season long, they have been the presumptive champions, the titlists in waiting, the uncrowned kings of college basketball. The hardest part for the North Carolina Tar Heels...
RANGERS RARELY RUIN PLAYOFF POSITION LATE
BOSTON -- It's happened three times since World War II --three times since World War II that the Rangers failed to make the playoffs when holding a spot with five...
ISLES' PARK PINES FOR PERENNIAL PLAYOFF SPOT
It seems like forever since Richard Park saw the postseason. "When you're a young player, you almost forget you have to qualify for the playoffs," said Park, who reached the...
AGING DEVILS BATTLE ANOTHER SWOON DOWN STRETCH
Always listening for a road restaurant recommendation, one of the best bets is the annual Rookie Dinner. The newbies foot the bill at a favorite of the vets, a time...
IF DRAFT GOES THEIR WAY, KNICKS MAY BE SINGING
There is one truth about this year's draft lottery, which, barring a miracle, the Knicks and Nets will be part of again. After Oklahoma's sturdy 6-foot-10 Blake Griffin, it's a...
PAINFUL LOSSES CRIPPLE NETS' PLAYOFF HOPES
Jarvis Hayes said the low point came on the road against Golden State and the Clippers. Vince Carter regrets the nights where the Nets couldn't close out opponents. Bobby Simmons...
ED FOUNTAIN'ES STAKES SPOT PLAYS
BAY SHORE Aqueduct, 7th race. Grade 3. Purse: $200,000. Seven furlongs, 3-year-olds. Post: 4:13 p.m. LOWDOWN: Not for Silver won his first three starts for the sharp Maryland-based trainer Mike...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan * A brazen mugger surprised a woman in her SoHo apartment building yesterday, police sources said. The thief, in his 40s, was lurking in the building on Mercer Street...
PLAYBOY'S GAY- &-GRAY FUROR
Playboy's former fashion director says he was the victim of discrimination at the girly mag because of his sexual orientation and age. In a $4 million Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit,...
'GREENER' PALM
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Christian churches are turning over a new leaf for Palm Sunday. About 2,500 congregations nationwide this weekend will use fair-trade palm fronds in their annual celebration of...
BREINDEL AWARD TO WRITER KRAUTHAMMER
Internationally syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer is the winner of the 11th annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Eric Breindel Foundation announced yesterday. Krauthammer, whose previous awards include...
RAPIST EYED HIT MAN: COPS
A suspected rapist tried to hire a hit man to kill his alleged victim and a witness, authorities said yesterday. Anthony Perez, 41, of The Bronx, allegedly offered $100,000 to...
COP GUILTY IN BX. SHOOT
A Bronx cop was convicted yesterday of killing an unarmed drunken driver who had crashed outside the officer's home. Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy rejected an argument by Officer Rafael...
NYC WATER BOARDED
One way or another, you're going to get soaked if you're a property owner in New York City -- first by another 14 percent rate hike and down the line,...
MICHELLE, THE BELLE
Victory! Call it a French surrender in the fashion face-off yesterday between Michelle Obama and France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Meeting for the first time, at the NATO summit arrival...
'I THOUGHT MY LIFE WAS OVER
Zhanar Tokhtavayeva was just trying to build a better life in America by taking English classes when her quiet day of study became a struggle for survival. "I thought my...
OBAMA OUT OF LIP SYNC
There was kissing confusion as President Obama was greeted by France's first lady with an awkward handshake and later had to be coaxed by France's president to plant one on...
MAD MOM MADGE
A judge shot down Madonna's bid to adopt a second child from Malawi yesterday, citing residency rules that the stunned Material Mom successfully circumvented the first time around. The reportedly...
BOARDWALK ROCK
The city is in talks with the nation's top concert promoter to bring major acts to the Coney Island beach this summer that could draw 100,000 people, The Post has...
GOURMET GOODBYE AS BALDUCCI'S SHUTTERS
There will be two fewer places for Big Apple foodies to buy $39.99-a-pound triple-cream goat cheese and $23.99-per-pound veal chops. Balducci's, the storied high-end grocery chain that first opened in...
JUDGE THAWS 10G A MONTH FOR MADOFF BRO
After whining that a freeze on his assets left him too broke to buy "a cup of coffee," the brother of mega-Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff was granted an eye-popping $10,000...
O TO EUROS: BE MES AMIS AGAIN
WASHINGTON -- President Obama barnstormed through Europe yesterday, trying to boost the tattered relations between the Continent and the United States. Calling on Americans and Europeans to be "honest with...
TRAGEDY IN DOWNTRODDEN 'TWILIGHT ZONE' CITY
Rod Serling, Binghamton's best-known native son, left an indelible image of the town in a classic "Twilight Zone" episode. In "Walking Distance," a big-city business executive wistfully returns to his...
RUDY'S FIRM IN DECLINE
Rudy Giuliani's once-thriving consulting firm is on the ropes, heavily pared down after his aborted presidential run last year, several sources told The Post. The firm's client list has thinned...
WEINER: WE ERRED
Rep. Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign admitted yesterday it had mistakenly deposited illegal checks made in the names of foreign models. The Post reported last month that Weiner, who championed a...
NYU FOOLS' E-MAIL FLUB
What a bunch of April fools! NYU accidentally sent acceptance e-mails to 489 grad-school applicants earmarked for rejection, the school admitted. The messages were erroneously sent out April 1 --...
PLAYING DEAD ALLOWED BRAVE GAL TO LIVE
Playing dead saved her life. With her colleague fatally shot by her side, a quick-thinking receptionist at the American Civic Association fooled a crazed gunman into thinking she too was...
GOTTI LAWYER GETS $TIFFED
A lawyer for cash-strapped mob scion John "Junior" Gotti won't be getting a taxpayer-funded bailout after all. Attorney Seth Ginsberg was looking to secure public funds to pay his fees...
CAR-SWAP KICKBACK LABOR RAP
Queens labor leader Brian McLaughlin pulled a switcheroo to cover up a kickback he allegedly took from the former owner of a scandal-scarred electrical company, according to federal-court papers. Prosecutors...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
While his sons must think he's dad of the year, prosecutors just think he's a pervert. Steven Russo pleaded guilty in Bethlehem, Pa., to hosting a drunken teen bash where...
ICHIRO (ULCER) TO DL
SEATTLE -- Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki is being treated for a bleeding ulcer and was placed on the 15-day disabled list yesterday, sending Seattle into opening day minus one of...
TIME WILL TELL IF NEW YANKS CAN TAKE A PUNCH
THIS was late on the night of Jan. 22, 1988, back when Mike Tyson still was viewed as the baddest man on the planet. He had just done much to...
'REVENGE' ON MIND FOR WOOD MEMORIAL
Which horse will be favored to win this year's Kentucky Derby on May 2? Barring a mishap over the next four weeks, that honor almost certainly will fall to Quality...
DANILO AWAITS BACK SURGERY
Dr. Russel Huang, a spine surgeon in Manhattan, yesterday characterized Danilo Gallinari's upcoming back surgery as "the smallest back surgery that there is," and said he thinks that because the...
GARY ADDITION BETTER NEVER THAN LATE
RANDY Johnson and Gary Sheffield were teammates on the 2004-05 Yankees, glum and glummer. Johnson was a Yankee, essentially, because he was the organization's white whale. They had begun pursuing...
METS HOPE CONTROVERSIAL SLUGGER A GOOD FIT AT 40
The Mets made a splash yesterday, and not just with the major-league opening of sparkling new Citi Field. Shaking up both their outfield and clubhouse practically on the eve of...
BIG BAT ALL WRIGHT WITH METS
David Wright said he thinks Gary Sheffield still has some tread left on his tires. "I know that when I'm playing third base, I back up about 10 feet every...
PLAXICO FIRING LONG OVERDUE
AT A time when Plaxico Burress should have been grateful that the Giants did not unceremoniously dump him and shout good riddance to the Big Blue heavens, they went as...
REPLACING BURRESS WILL BE GIANT TASK
Teammates who regularly marveled at the on-field exploits of Plaxico Burress during his four years with the Giants gradually grew disgusted with many of his off-field antics. Still, most wanted...
BIG BLUE GIVE UP ON BURRESS
In the end, the Giants gave Plaxico Burress what he truly wanted: to be an ex-Giant. SERBY: THIS FIRING WAS LONG OVERDUE Convinced their talented and troubled receiver -- who...
UPDATED BRONX DIGS MAKE PINIELLA SENTIMENTAL
Lou Piniella barely could hold back tears yesterday after taking his first tour of the new Yankee Stadium. Sweet Lou? This was more like Sentimental Lou. Piniella only had to...
PLAYERS PLEASED WITH PITCHERS' PARK
Fernando Tatis learned about the way Citi Field will play the hard way last night. Tatis drilled a shot to left field that looked like it was sailing out when...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSNFL: Judge nixes Vick's plan to pay creditors In Newport News, Va., fallen NFL star Michael Vick told a bankruptcy judge yesterday that he became a changed man in...
DEVILS SNAP SLUMP AFTER MARTY'S BIG PARTY
This night of chaos, injury and heroics put a memorable end to the Devils' longest losing streak in eight years. "There certainly was a lot of drama tonight," coach Brent...
BOMBERS OPEN NEW PAD WITH VICTORY
Too much has been made of what the Yankees hauled across 161st Street to their new home. Ghosts, pride and Yankees tradition supposedly drifted a block north. However, they can't...
WANG UNSTEADY IN FINAL SPRING START
Four of the first five outs Chien-Ming Wang recorded were in the air, so right away he didn't appear right against the Cubs. "OK," Wang said when asked what he...
K-ROD CLOSES OPENER
The first Mets game at Citi Field last night ended with what the Mets hope will be common sight: a Frankie Rodriguez save. The club's new All-Star closer needed just...
BONU$ FLAP HITS THE FAN
Beleaguered mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are dealing with their own bonus scandal after a top legislator blasted the companies' plans to parcel out a whopping $210 million...
FISERV SUED OVER MADOFF
Fiserv, a publicly traded technology company formerly in the financial-custody business, was slapped with a lawsuit yesterday alleging that it failed to protect investors' nest eggs from self-confessed swindler Bernie...
MAKING GOOGLE EYES AT TWITTER
Google's talks with Twitter are a defensive play aimed at forming an alliance with the fast-growing micro-blogging service before it starts eating into the Internet giant's search advertising business, sources...
DUBIOUS WAYS TO 'SAVE THE PLANET'
Fervent. 1. Hot, burning, glowing, boiling. -- Oxford English Dictionary 'FERVENTLY" is how America will henceforth engage in talks on global warming. So said the presi dent's climate-change negotiator Sunday...
MADONNA AND CHILD . . . AND CHILD . . . AND . . .
Does anyone see anything wrong with a wealthy white woman roaming around poor African villages to select a child to add to her family ("Shopping Mall-awi," Andrea Peyser, March 31)?...
BAM'S AFGHAN CLAN PLAN
I want to commend Ralph Peters and his excellent article, "Bam Channels LBJ" (Post- Opinion, March 28). I agree that India is fast becoming a success, because it has embraced...
BAM'S FALSE HOPE
ONE would think Barack Obama would have learned something about the limits of his personal charm at the G-20 summit in London. Even with the hated George W. Bush back...
BEND OVER & SMILE FOR UNCLE SAM
IT'S that time of year again. Uncle Sam puts on his white smock and snaps that all-too-familiar rubber glove into place. And we, the taxpayers, must gird ourselves for intrusions...
THE ULTIMATE ELECTION-RIGGING
I have seen the electoral future, and it is rigged. With fraud-prone, ideologically driven interest groups swarming the Census-gathering process, the left is solidifying its chances of a permanent ruling...
DAVE'S LATEST EMPTY VOW
Gov. (de jure) Paterson, promising a fare-saving bailout of the MTA, says he's going to call lawmakers back to Albany and force a deal. "I'll just make everybody stay right...
MAYOR MIKE'S MACY'S MISCUE
Here's another reason to be skeptical of Mayor Mike's scheme to close down Broadway at Times Square and Herald Square and turn the areas into pedestrian promenades: The put-a-plaza-on-Broadway plan...
O TALKS THE FREE-TRADE TALK
After months of mixed messages, President Obama used the highest-profile stage possible to deliver an un equivocal endorsement of free trade. In the closing moments of the G-20 summit Thursday,...
BANNED IN BOSTON
NBC is girding for battle against a renegade Boston TV station owner who refuses to air Jay Leno's forthcoming show in prime time. A source close to the situation said...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Mortgages Though lenders are boosting their attempts to curb record-high home foreclosures, fewer than half of loan modifications made at the end of last year actu ally reduced borrowers' payments...
MARKETS IGNORE JOBLESS RISE
Even the worst unemployment rate in 25 years wasn't enough to blunt the momentum of the best four-week stock-market rally in more than 70 years. Stocks managed to close above...
AD FIRM JWT EXITS CHICAGO, AXES 50
In another sign of the abysmal ad market, JWT, one of Madison Avenue's storied agencies, is closing its 118-year-old Chicago outpost and cutting 50 jobs. The office, which once ranked...
TIMES MAY FOLD GLOBE IF $20M IN CUTS NOT MET
The New York Times Co. is threatening to shutter The Boston Globe if the paper's union doesn't acquiesce to $20 million in concessions, as the cash-strapped newspaper company ratchets up...
COME CALLING
PEOPLE can't seem to resist making the same dumb joke whenever writer Michael Malice hands out his card. They ask him if there is any money on it. That's because...
RECESSION DODGERS
IN boom times, New York feels like the center of the universe. But in slow times, even the most die-hard city folk can develop a wandering eye for other destinations....
DORA TAKES THE STAGE
DORA the Explorer -- the real one, not the new, souped-up teenage model -- comes to Radio City Music Hall this week with her best friend Boots the Monkey, cousin...
HAPPY MEALS
WHEN Amelia Hale's parents asked her where she'd like to celebrate her third birthday, she made it clear: "I want to go to the restaurant in the cab." By which...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY ONE-STOP SHOP: Pirouette past racks of tulle skirts and rhinestone leggings at "The Tiny Dancer Experience," which turns a Gap store into a ballet studio complete with mirrors and...
GITMO'S SECRETS REVEALED
NEXT to politics, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more galvanizing issue in America than the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The home, since 2002, to "enemy combants" charged...
AFTER DEATH, UGK HAS A FINAL PARTY
SOMETIMES the rapper, not the reaper, gets the last laugh. When Pimp C., half of the rap duo Underground Kingz (UGK), accidentally killed himself in late 2007 slurping a codeine...
'ER' FINALE FARES WELL
'ER's" series finale didn't set any records -- but performed respectfully for the veteran NBC hospital drama. While "ER's" goodbye offered no shockers -- and no George Clooney, rumored to...
'SLUMDOG' STAR TO '24'
'SLUMDOG Millionaire" co-star Anil Kapoor will play a Middle Eastern envoy on "24" next season, Fox announced yesterday. Kapoor played the host of India's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"...
NORTH KOREA LAUNCHES ROCKET,DEFYING WORLD PRESSURE
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea defiantly carried out a provocative rocket launch Sunday that the U.S., Japan and other nations suspect was a cover for a test of its...
K-Rod caps long night
The first game at Citi Field ended tonight with what the Mets hope will be common sight: a Frankie Rodriguez save. The club's new All-Star closer needed just 10 pitches...
Blog poll: Gary Sheffield
Be sure to take our poll on the Mets' signing of Gary Sheffield today for the veteran's minimum salary of $400,000:Do you like the signing of Gary Sheffield? ( online...
Citi sights and sounds
Here is video I shot today before and during the Mets' Citi Field exhibition opener with the Red Sox. Be sure to check it out:
GUNMAN KILLS 13 IN UPSTATE NY SHOOTING RAMPAGE
A gunman barricaded the back door of a community center with his car and then opened fire on a room full of immigrants taking a citizenship class Friday, killing 13...