December 23, 2006
DAWSON CHARGED; LEFT CLIENTS UP THE CREEK
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amThe high-flying confidence man allegedly behind the disappearance of at least $50 million in pension and retirement funds was finally arrested yesterday. Peter Dawson, accused of bilking dozens of New...
MERRILL FIXED BIDDING: SUIT
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amMerrill Lynch is being accused of rigging the bidding on the Seminole Tribe's $965 million deal to buy the Hard Rock entertainment empire, and even secretly blocking one of its...
THE SANTA PAUSE - H'DAY WEEKEND SHOPPERS WAITING TIL LAST MINUTE
December 23, 2006 | 5:00am'Tis the season of procrastination. While shoppers have become ever more adept at waiting until the last minute to nab the best holiday bargains, this year promises to be more...
ARCTIC CHIC - FORGET THE PENGUINS, IT'S ALL ABOUT THESE 'TALKING' POLAR BEARS
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amEVEN with the avalanche of talking animal movies this year, nothing you or your kids have seen so far will top "The Great Polar Bear Adventure," premiering tomorrow on Discovery...
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED - FESTIVE NEW CHESTNUTS FOUND ONLY IN N.Y.C.; RAD, TRAD N.Y.C. NOEL
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amSURE there's the tree at Rock Center, the departmentstore window displays, prostrating toy soldiers at Radio City - but who wants city sidewalks, busy sidewalks? If you think locally, not...
B'KLYN HIT-RUN
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amA woman crossing a Brooklyn street was killed after being struck by a speeding driver who fled the scene last night, police said. The 54-year-old woman, whose name is being...
S.C. GUN DEALER GIVES IN
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amAnother Southern gun dealer has reluctantly agreed to be overseen by a special monitor, two weeks after being sued by New York City for allegedly selling guns illegally to undercover...
CITY WORKERS IN ID FEAR OVER DATA THEFT
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amA major health insurer has delivered a gloomy holiday message to 42,000 city employees, warning that their personal data may have been compromised during a burglary in Massachusetts, The Post...
PAL: DEVIL HAS HOLD ON 'HIT' HUBBY
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amThe Long Island church leader charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife before Christmas for a $1 million life-insurance payoff is the victim of "the...
BRITS FEAR YULE TERROR
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Britain's top cop said yesterday his country faces its gravest security threat since World War II, as authorities scramble to prevent an al Qaeda terrorist attack over the...
BIG-$$ BIZ DEAL EYED IN BRUNO 'FRAUD' PROBE
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amFeds probing state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno are focusing on hundreds of thousands of dollars paid by an upstate businessman to Bruno's consulting company, it was reported yesterday. Investigators...
SLEEPING COP ROBBED
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amA cop's gun and badge were stolen from her Queens home as she slept yesterday - and the light-footed bandit also appeared to make off with her car, police said....
IOWA: ALL DOWN HILL; SHE PLUNGES TO 4TH IN CAUCUS POLL
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amDemocratic 2008 front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a lot of ground to make up in crucial Iowa, with a new poll showing her in fourth place behind Sen. Barack...
LAW & ODOR: DARING BID TO CLEAN UP ALBANY STINK
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - With Alan Hevesi's guilty plea to felony fraud, it's one down and probably many more to go before the stench of corruption that hangs over the Empire State's...
COP VS. COP FURY; 'FATHER FAVOR' IGNITED FATAL S.I. BADGE BRAWL
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amA retired cop, whose brawl with a former detective led to the death of a Staten Island man, had been furious that the detective did not pull strings to help...
SLAY-GUN MATCH; WEAPON KILLED CLINTON NEIGHBOR: REPORT
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amThe handgun fished out of a Westchester lake near where Bill and Hillary Clinton's neighbor was mysteriously shot to death has been identified as the weapon used to kill her,...
APARTMENT BLAZE KILLS BRONX MAN
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amA man was killed last night in a Bronx fire while another blaze in Brooklyn left five people injured - including a two-year-old child, authorities said. The first blaze, which...
RAPE RAP KO'D; BUT DUKE DA WILL PUSH KIDNAP CASE
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amRape charges were dropped against three Duke lacrosse players yesterday, but the Long Island dad of one of the men voiced outrage that the DA in the increasingly flimsy case...
COPS WANT PATH TERROR STUDY
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday called on the Port Authority to share information regarding the vulnerability of the PATH tunnels to a terrorist attack. Though the authority yesterday dismissed a...
'WRONG MAN'S' THRILL; TELLS OF FREEDOM PLANS
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amJoshua Rivera won't be home for Christmas, but he's still expecting to have his happiest New Year in more than a decade. "The first thing I want to do is...
10G BAIL FOR 'DWI' GRANDMA
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amA dazed-looking Queens grandmother charged with killing her best friend in a drunken-driving wreck was arraigned yesterday in the hospital bed where she's been for four days. Clutching an Elmhurst...
HEVESI IS ONE GUILTY GONER; ADMITS FRAUD, QUITS COMPTROLLER JOB AND SAYS 'SORRY'
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Disgraced state Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday got a new title: crook, liar and felon. A somber Hevesi pleaded guilty to a felony count of defrauding the state, resigned...
$OAKED BY CITY H2OAFS; WIDOW'S 22G ORDEAL
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx widow is getting the royal flush from bumbling city bureaucrats who soaked her with a whopping $22,000 water bill after insisting that in just 18 months, she and...
CABLEVISION IN DEAL TO AIR RUTGERS GAME
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amRutgers fans can breathe easy - all Cablevision basic subscribers will get to watch their Scarlet Knights play in the Texas Bowl Thursday. After months of wrangling, Cablevision and the...
THIS IS A STICKUP; ROBBERY OF 2 GALS ON TAPE
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amTwo women were robbed at gunpoint in the vestibule of an East Village building - and the terrifying ordeal was all caught on video. The two women, ages 21 and...
DRIVER SHOT IN B'KLYN ROAD RAGE
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amA driver was nearly killed yesterday when he was shot by another motorist who chased him through the streets of Brooklyn during a fit of road rage, police said. The...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amQUEENS *** Cops have released the above sketch of one of two suspects who robbed and raped a 46-year-old woman at a Jackson Heights laundry, police said. The two unidentified...
CONCORDE TAKES FLOAT
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amA Concorde jet, once capable of supersonic speed, takes a sluggish trip from its home on Manhattan's Pier 86 to Brooklyn early yesterday. The 203-foot, retired British Airways aircraft known...
THIS ONE HURTS; NENAD INJURES KNEE AS NETS FALL
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amLakers 99Nets 95 The night had such promise for the Nets. It ended pretty much with disaster. The Nets lost center Nenad Krstic to an apparent serious left knee injury...
HEAD COLD CAN'T KEEP DOWN KOBE
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES Kobe Bryant felt horrible. But not nearly as bad as the Nets did. Bryant (21 points) battled heavy congestion and a cold but still came away with a...
MONDAY'S SCORE THE ONLY ONE THAT MATTERS
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amJET NOTES Their standing in the playoff chase will become a little clearer tomorrow, but the Jets won't be parked in front of TVs or refreshing Web site scoreboards, they'll...
SNAP DECISION; JINTS' CENTER O'HARA EXPECTED BACK
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES For the first time this week, Shaun O'Hara yesterday was able to practice on his sprained ankle, and it appears he will be able to start at center...
TO THE FOUR; LJ'S MIRACLE PLAY BOOSTED KNICKS
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amThe Knicks, trailing Indiana by eight with 3:21 to go, battled back in Game 3 of the 1999 Eastern Conference finals. But after the Pacers' Mark Jackson hit two free...
BOMBERS TAXED A LUXURIOUS $26M
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amThe price of doing business for the Yankees is expensive. Yesterday the Yankees were hit with a $26 million luxury tax bill by the commissioner's office. That brings the Yankees'...
PREZ PASSES; GOLD STAR AS KNICKS' HEAD, THOMAS SAYS
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amOn his three-year anniversary yesterday as Knicks president, Isiah Thomas gave himself a solid report card, saying the team is in much better shape for the future championship run than...
A GREEN MACHINE; HOBSON BLITZES JETS OPPONENTS
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amWhen Victor Hobson found out he'd be playing in a 3-4 defense this season, he didn't know what to expect. It was something new for the Jets linebacker, but quickly...
STORM BREWS FOR ST. JOHN'S
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amBefore this season of great expectation began for St. John's, coach Norm Roberts believed one of his team's strengths was the dynamic inside duo of 6-10 Lamont Hamilton and 6-10...
TWO POINTS & TWO PAINS ; ELIAS, GOMEZ DINGED IN DEVILS' VICTORY IN D.C.
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amDevils 4Capitals 1 WASHINGTON - This is how back-to-back games stretch a team. Although the injuries Patrik Elias and Scott Gomez suffered in the Devils' 4-1 victory over the Capitals...
HOLIDAY CHEER; PARTY TIME AT GARDEN AS KNICKS WIN 3RD IN ROW
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amKnicks 103Bulls 92 NBA commissioner David Stern broke up the Knicks last Monday by three brawl-related suspensions. Now it may be time again to: "Break Up The Knicks." You knew...
ISIAH: KNICKS ON UPSWING
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES On his three-year anniversary yesterday as Knicks president, Isiah Thomas gave himself a sold report card, saying the team is in much better shape for the future championship...
DADDY DAY CARE - NETS VETS FATHER FIGURES FOR YOUTHFUL BENCH
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amIt's not quite Miss Crabtree teaching the kindergarten class, but the likes of Vince Carter, Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson have been full-time teachers, mentors and instructors to a very...
GATORS BUZZ AFTER LEE TIP
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES David Lee got a phone message from his former Gators coach Billy Donovan and a text message from former Florida teammate Joakim Noah in the wake of his...
FIZZ THE SEASON - GIANTS LOOK TO REVIVE AFTER FLAT PRACTICE WEEK
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amIt's a fair question, given all the Giants have been through this season, how they have collapsed and regressed and lost in the fleeting final seconds and come up small...
JUAN MORE YANK
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amThe Yankees announced yesterday they signed a first baseman. Unfortunately for their 2007 pennant chances, it wasn't Shea Hillenbrand or Doug Mientkiewicz. Instead, Cuban refugee Juan Miranda's four-year, $2 million...
STORM WARNINGS
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amBefore this season of great expectation began for St. John's, coach Norm Roberts believed one of his team's strengths was the dynamic inside duo of 6-10 Lamont Hamilton and 6-10...
PHIL: IT'S OK TO PROTECT PAINT
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES There is a way to send a message and protect your NBA paint without forcing league officials to scramble for video and hand out fines and suspensions. So...
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS - TWO-YEAR RENOVATION PROJECT IN WORKS
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Nothing lasts in the New NHL. The Penguins, Islanders and even the Rangers can rise to respectability. The final proof is that the Caps are threatening to make...
REUNION DEAL WITH RUCINSKY
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amRANGERS at LIGHTNING - Tonight 7:30 - FSN; WABC (770 AM) TAMPA - Jaromir Jagr has scored in only one of the last seven games. His risks are yielding few...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 23, 2006 | 5:00amHundreds of people in central China who planned to bare it all to protest the use of "excessive packaging" on holiday gifts will have to get naked on their own...
Sick it to them
December 23, 2006 | 12:16amThe Fantasy Tracker feels like Eugene Robinson on Super Bowl eve. On the threshold of the biggest weekend of the year, we're having a hard time concentrating on the game....