June 24, 2002
ISRAELI MISSILES KILL SIX
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a suspect car in Gaza today, killing six people, Palestinian sources said - as Israeli tanks continued another siege of Yasser Arafat's...
LIBERTY MEDAL NOMINATIONS POURING IN
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amNew Yorkers bursting with pride are grabbing the chance to shine a spotlight on fellow citizens so unique they deserve a Post Liberty Medal for making life in the city...
LET'S KILL OSAMA BY 9/11/02: BUSH
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush wants terror master Osama bin Laden toetagged by Sept. 11, 2002 - the first anniversary of the devastating attacks that killed thousands of Americans in New York and...
ATLANTA, YANKS WON'T BE AS GENEROUS TO AMAZIN'S
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amMets 5Royals 4DON'T be fooled by the Mets' feeble win over the Royals yesterday at Shea. Some games you win, some are handed to you by bad, bad teams. Count...
LATE SNAG MAY KO MING TO NBA
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amWith the draft just two days away, a roadblock has arisen in negotiations with the Chinese Basketball Association that could prevent 7-5 center Yao Ming from being drafted Wednesday, sources...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amA 70-year-old Florida man, furious a teenage driver in front of him was taking too long at a drive-through bank, rammed her car three times. Hugh Allen McMahon was charged...
AMERICANS ARE OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOR OF ASSASSINATING IRAQI DESPOT SADDAM HUSSEIN
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amAmericans are overwhelmingly in favor of assassinating Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein, a new poll reveals. The Time/CNN poll revealed that 51 percent of Americans say the U.S. should whack Saddam,...
MUGGERS BATTER MCCARTNEY DAUGHTER
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amPaul McCartney's pregnant daughter was left bruised and battered after two muggers viciously attacked her on a London street, it was reported last night. The assault occurred as Mary McCartney,...
COPS: TEEN CARJACKS 3 VEHICLES IN ONE DAY
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx teen went on a wild carjacking spree yesterday, stealing three cars at gunpoint and attempting to seize a fourth before he was nabbed by cops, authorities said. Shaun...
TOTS MAY GET A 'BOOST' IN CABS
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn councilman wants yellow taxis and livery cabs to offer child seats or booster seats as extra protection for children under 8 years old. David Yassky (D-Brooklyn) said yesterday...
NO SIGN YET OF JEWISH PATROLS
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amRight-wing rabbi Yakove Lloyd yesterday said he was going ahead with plans to have armed squads patrol Borough Park and Flatbush in Brooklyn to protect their Jewish residents from terrorist...
CITY NEEDS $10B FOR SECURITY : SAFEGUARDS WOULD DRAIN 25% OF HOMELAND BUDGET
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe city will need upwards of $5 billion - possibly even $10 billion - to adequately secure itself from future acts of terrorism, a Queens congressman said yesterday. Rep. Joe...
MO FEELING 'GOOD TO GO'
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Mariano Rivera fired aspirins to Alberto Castillo and Nick Johnson during a five-minute batting practice session yesterday. When he was finished, Rivera said he would be ready...
DEVAREZ DELIVERING SOME CYCLONE CLOUTS
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amPlaying minor league baseball in Brooklyn - calling KeySpan Park and Coney Island home - is unlike any other bus league experience in the game. While others play among the...
SCI-FI FLICK IS TOP DOG
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amTOM Cruise neutered "Scooby-Doo" over the weekend as his sci-fi flick "Minority Report" roared to the top of the box office. The Steven Spielberg thriller about a police force that...
'NYPD TRUE'
June 24, 2002 | 4:00am"My Father's Gun" Tonight at 9 on The History Channel AFTER the cops in this city proved themselves to be the bravest cops in the world on September 11th, it...
LETTER COULD HAUNT MCCALL
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amDEMOCRATIC gubernatorial hopeful Carl McCall's controversial statement that ex-convicts should "get preference" when applying for state college aid has revived memories of an earlier controversy in which then-state Sen. McCall...
ACTRESS BASSETT HOUNDS HALLE FOR 'SLUTTY' ROLE
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amAngela Bassett has come out swinging against Halle Berry and her Oscar-winning performance in "Monster's Ball" - saying it's demeaning for black actresses to play sluts. Bassett tells Newsweek she...
SNAPPLE HIGH ON EMPIRE STATE
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amArtist's conceptionThe Empire State Building, for the first time in seven years, will let a company shine its corporate colors from atop the building's crown, The Post has learned. On...
PREZ: LET'S KILL OSAMA BY 9/11/02
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush wants terror master Osama bin Laden toe-tagged by Sept. 11, 2002 - the first anniversary of the attacks that killed thousands of Americans in New York and Washington....
ANDY: CHECK FUEL TANKERS
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amGubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo sent a letter to Gov. Pataki yesterday, recommending random anti-terror checks on fuel tankers coming into the state. "We want to send a signal - as...
DO-IT-YOURSELF COP CAR FOR 2G - PROBE FINDS IT'D BE EASY FOR TERRORIST IMPOSTORS
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amFor $2,000, anyone - including terrorists - can get a car and dress it up to look like a New York police vehicle, a Post investigation has found. Last week,...
IT'S 'PAYWATCH' - TEACHER WHO MAKES 75G AS LIFEGUARD IS PROBED
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe Board of Ed is probing a teacher who double-dips into the city till as a chief lifeguard for the Parks Department's public beaches and pools. Peter Stein has been...
M'SOFT TO TOUGHEN SECURITY
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amMicrosoft wants to make your computer more secure - and also to make a lot more money in the process. The Seattle software giant is cooking up a new system,...
ISRAELIS ON '9/11' ALERT
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Israeli air force is on high alert against a Sept. 11- type plane hijacking on its own soil, officials revealed yesterday, as Israel continued a forceful military...
CARDS, CUBS HONOR DARRYL
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - If Darryl Kile had pitched as scheduled last night for the Cardinals, the team would have been booed off the field at the end of batting practice. Because...
BLUESHIRTS GET OLIWA
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Wanting to get tougher but apparently unable to get a young, tough heavyweight, the Rangers yesterday picked up 29-year-old Krzysztof Oliwa from the Penguins in exchange for the...
NETS MAY MAKE CASE FOR CASEY
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amThey could trade it for a couple of second-round picks. They might swap it for a future lottery-protected first rounder. They might pick an overseas type player and wait and...
METS SIDESTEP ROYAL STUMBLE ; TAKE 2 OF 3 FROM LOWLY KC, SET SIGHTS ON BRAVES
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe tantalizing matchups against the Braves and the Yankees during the next week will spell out much about where the Mets are headed. Yesterday, after Roger Cedeno's two-run eighth inning...
ALOMAR'S GLOVE ROBS K.C.
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Subtly and spectacularly, Roberto Alomar has shown lately why his defense ranks with the best second basemen of all-time. Alomar is getting better jumps on the ball than...
THUMB-THING DESIGNATES GIAMBI FOR DH DUTY
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SAN DIEGO - When Jason Giambi was a free agent, he made it very clear that DHing was something he didn't want to do. However, for at least...
KNICKS' SECOND LOOK AT EUROPE
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amBy the way, the Knicks also have a second-round pick, and if they go international in the draft, it won't be with their cherished lottery selection. Holding the 36th overall...
CYCLONES' DEATON RUNS OUT OF STEAM
June 24, 2002 | 4:00am11 INNINGSIronBirds 7Cyclones 6 Kevin Deaton has cracked people's ribs before. The Brooklyn Cyclones right-hander, at 6-4, 260, has handed out his share of abuse as an offensive lineman who...
RIVERA DECLARES HE'S READY TO GO
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - While the Yankees haven't been hurt by Mariano Rivera's absence from the late innings, they will gladly welcome back their best closer from the disabled list tomorrow...
ADS NAUSEUM - SILVER SCREEN SELLS PRODUCTS
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S getting harder to find a plot line amid the barrage of ads in this summer's big movies."Minority Report" features 15 major brands, including The Gap, Guinness, Lexus, Nokia and...
HEAD 'TRIP' - BROOKLYN AUTHOR IS THE PRETTY NEW FACE OF MANIC-DEPRESSION
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amUP until she started seeing blood on the walls and microphones in the ceiling, 17-year- old Lizzie Simon was living a charmed life. Well-loved, bubbly and creative, she was spending...
APPLE'S CRIME DROP STEEPEST IN THE STATE
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Major crimes in New York state dropped 8 percent during 2001, thanks mainly to another huge drop in New York City, figures released yesterday show. The new figures...
LOUIMA 'PERSECUTOR' MAKES LAST STAND
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amTODAY, prosecutor-persecutor Alan Vinegrad will have to resign his role as a master musician who played an aging judge, an uninformed jury and an unwitting public like a violin. Vinegrad...
OIL TRUCKS EYED AS JULY 4 BOMB VESSELS
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top lawmakers said yesterday that terrorists have "perfected" oil-tanker truck bombs as a new form of terrorism and may be angling to use them against Americans with a...
WE'RE IN RAIL TROUBLE - POLS PUSH FOR AMTRAK BAILOUT $$
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amA threatened shutdown by Amtrak on Wednesday would suspend national passenger rail service and wreak havoc on the commute for up to 300,000 suburban rail riders, a trio of senators...
GIRL, GRANDMA KILLED AS SUV JUMPS CURB
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman and her 11-year-old granddaughter were killed when an out-of-control SUV jumped a curb and slammed into them as they sat in front of their building, police said...
SCREAMS & TEARS AS B'KLYN FIRE KILLS SEVEN IN FAMILY
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amSeven members of a Brooklyn family - a mother, father and their five daughters - were killed yesterday when a raging grease fire swept through their apartment from the kitchen...
HICKS MUSE JOINS BURGER KING SWEEPSTAKES
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amAs the auction for Burger King approaches its second round, a few hungry buyers are joining forces as others leave the table. The latest changes to the line-up include Hicks,...
(4TH) ESTATE SALE - WASSERSTEIN BOSS BUYS HAMPTONS PAPER STAKE
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amVulture capitalist Fred Seegal, in a bid to become a media player on the East End of Long Island, has agreed to buy out Arthur Carter's 50 percent stake in...
DRIVING OFF WITH A FORTUNE
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amNOBODY can sell cars like action heroes. That's why Lexus custom-built a sports car for "Minority Report" - and is now running TV ads featuring scenes from the Tom Cruise...
STARR REPORT
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amSo what is it with these D.C. lovefests? There seems to be something in the air in Washington that brings out the feelgoods between the ultra-competitive morning shows. To whit:...
HOW WRESTLING LOST ITS CABLE COOL TO SIR OZZY
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amWRESTLING showman Vince McMahon's once high-flying World Wrestling Federation has fallen on hard times. Suddenly, WWF shows - which used to take up six or seven places on the cable...
MOM MADE UP 'KIDNAP': COPS
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amA 2-year-old girl who had been reported missing over the weekend was found by police at her aunt's Brooklyn home, police said. The girl's mother, Giselle Smith, 31, was charged...
GOODIES 'INN' STORE FOR POSH GUESTS
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amIT TURNS out that the rich really are different from you and me. Take investment banker Robert Podesta. He's a busy guy. And he travels a lot. And, yes, he's...
KISSING COED'S TALE - SMOOCH FOR SEXY PREXY ALL 'INNOCENT'
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe grad student at the center of the scandal that toppled the president of prestigious Rockefeller University confessed to kissing and canoodling the embattled academic, but denied they were lovers....
DOCS REMOVE LEFT-BEHIND SPONGE
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amA 16-year-old girl who underwent a liver transplant last month had to go under the knife again recently to remove a surgical sponge left in her body, hospital officials told...
RED-TAPE BLUES FOR EX-COPS IN THE CLASSROOM
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy has searched the globe and varied professions to find teachers. Perhaps new education boss Mayor Bloomberg should take a stroll through the New York Police Department's...
TROTS TO TELL MESS: LESS CAN BE BETTER
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Other coaches have asked Mark Messier to do as they said. Bryan Trottier is going to be able to tell Messier to do as he did. While The...
YES' TIME WARP A SLAP IN FACE
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amPERHAPS the greatest challenge that sports offers is the one to our intellects. Thursday's Yanks-Rockies game was played, live, late that afternoon, on Ch. 2. That night, the YES Network...
VALENTIN'S DAY TO SHINE
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amAccording to Bobby Valentine, anger filled the Mets dugout as they watched the lowly Kansas City Royals take a three-run, sixth-inning lead. But the next inning, veteran John Valentin turned...
ANGER MOTIVATES BLISTERING BURNITZ
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amAn hour after he had crossed the plate with what proved to be the winning run, Jeromy Burnitz, who figured prominently in both rallies in yesterday's 5-4 victory, was asked...
PAST CHAMP J-BURG LIKELY DONE RACING
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amJohannesburg, winner of last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile and 2-year-old champion in the United States and Europe, probably won't race again after finishing ninth in Saturday's six-furlong Golden Jubilee Stakes...
BACK ON TOP IN JUNE ; RUN IN NINTH GIVES BOMBERS LEAD IN AL EAST
June 24, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 3Padres 2 SAN DIEGO - The message was as clear as the cobalt sky above Qualcomm Stadium yesterday: Leading the AL East in June doesn't mean much to a...