September 16, 2004
MORE 'O.C.'
September 16, 2004 | 4:00am'THE O.C." isn't coming back with new episodes until November - but there is hope for the "O.C." obsessed. The first of two "O.C." specials - including outtakes, recaps, cast...
LOOKING FOR REAL 'O.C.' - MTV SOAPS UP REAL ORANGE COUNTY STUDENTS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amNOT since "Beverly Hills, 90210" has a nighttime soap opera taken off like "The O.C." Now there's even a reality show loosely based on - and even filmed like -...
'RED' DEAD?
September 16, 2004 | 4:00am'METHOD & Red," a summer comedy that had been expected to be back this fall appears to be over. "The show is done. It's on the long hiatus," rapper Method...
WIFENAPPER WENT TO MOM
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe mother of a Queens man accused of kidnapping his wife at gunpoint says they acted like a normal, happy couple when they visited her shortly after the horrific abduction....
KIDS COMFORTED AS DAD HUNTED
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amRelatives have rallied around the three young children whose mother was brutally bludgeoned in her home on Long Island three days ago. Diane Malone, 32, was found dead Monday evening...
ZETA-JONES 'STALKER' ORDERED TO TRIAL
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A judge yesterday ordered the woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta-Jones to stand trial for allegedly making dozens of threats against the actress. L.A. County sheriff's deputies...
FUROR AS POLS PROBE 'GOP' BUSTS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe City Council held a hearing yesterday to determine whether the Police Department mishandled hundreds of arrests during the GOP convention - and mayoral aides charged it was grandstanding. A...
DAD'S DEADLY RAGE: JURY HEARS OF WIFE, BABY SLAYS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man saw "only darkness" when he went into a rage and savagely slashed his wife and 8-month-old son to death with a meat cleaver, his cousin testified yesterday....
EX-JET WILL PAY CHAUFFEUR 250G
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA limo driver who says he was assaulted by ex-Jet and Giant offensive lineman John "Jumbo" Elliott settled a lawsuit against the gridder for $250,000, lawyers said yesterday. Donald Matinsky,...
HOME-INVASION NIGHTMARE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man is under arrest in a frightening home-invasion assault on a 17-year-old girl, cops said yesterday. Miguel Soto, 23, is charged with sexual abuse, assault, and other crimes...
EMILY IS CITY'S TOP BABY NAME
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amLook out, Ashley, there's a new girl in town. For the first time in more than a decade, the most popular girl's baby name in the city isn't Ashley -...
BERMUDA BASH FOR VID SAMARITANS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe Manhattan heroes who saved a British couple's vacation to Bermuda from ruin by returning their lost video camera are about to be rewarded with their own vacation - to...
HARDING FIT FOR TRIAL: SHRINKS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amFormer city housing official Russell Harding is fit to stand trial on federal charges that he y embezzled more than $250,000 in housing funds, according to a psychiatric report. Harding...
MYSTERY BIKER SLASHES QNS. SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA masked motorcycle rider armed with a boxcutter slashed the face of a public-school principal outside her Queens home yesterday, then roared off, police said. Wanda Rivera-Switalski needed three stitches...
JACKO 'VICTIM'S' MA: IT'S GOD'S WILL
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The mother of the boy who charges Michael Jackson molested him says "God handpicked" her family to take down the King of Pop, and charged Jacko offered...
ATTACKER ON MOTORCYCLE SLASHES B'KLYN PRINCIPAL
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA masked motorcycle rider armed with a boxcutter viciously slashed the face of a Brooklyn public-school principal outside her home yesterday, police said. Wanda Rivera-Switalski, 53, needed almost 100 stitches...
MOM MYSTIFIED BY B'KLYN BLAST
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe mother of an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl whose hand was nearly blown off in a mysterious kitchen explosion relived the horror yesterday as she wondered how many fingers her daughter...
DAD'S DEADLY RAGE - B'KLYN JURY HEARS OF SAVAGE WIFE AND BABY SLAYS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man saw "only darkness" when he went into a rage and savagely slashed his wife and 8-month-old son to death with a meat cleaver, his cousin testified yesterday....
PELOSI JURORS YANKED - PEEVED PANELISTS GET THEIR WISH
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amTwo prospective jurors at the murder trial of contractor Danny Pelosi were tossed yesterday because other potential jurors claimed they were disruptive. The contentious juryselection process continued as Pelosi's fiancée,...
SOUNDS LIKE LOU FITS BILL FOR METS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES So who's next? Now that the Mets officially need a new manager next year, the question is, what they'll be looking for? Yesterday, principal owner Fred Wilpon laid...
LUCIOUS CUT LOOSE - NETS WAIVE KIDD'S BUDDY
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amJason Kidd wants to win. And he doesn't think that is going to happen with the Nets. So Kidd let the team know he'd prefer a trade rather than be...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amMARYLAND at WEST VIRGINIA Noon ESPN2Line: West Virginia -6 1/2. Angle: Mountaineers (2-0) have emerged as a power under Rich Rodriguez. Unless, of course, they're playing Maryland (2-0). Terps have...
DECISION NEWS TO REYES, KAZ
September 16, 2004 | 4:00am"I'd like to play [short] again, but I'll do whatever they want me to do." -JOSE REYES In a bizarre move, Met principal owner Fred Wilpon told the media yesterday...
CABIN GABBIN' - RULES TO ALLOW CELL CALLS IN FLIGHT
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amPhone yakkers could soon be making the friendly skies a bit noisier. Airline passengers will be able to use their cellphones on flights in two years, after tests aboard an...
311 JU$T THE TICKET FOR COMPLAINT CALLS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe number of quality-of-life summonses issued by the Police Department shot up 33 percent last year to more than 700,000 - raising millions of dollars for the city, new figures...
PARALYZED WOMAN'S 'SHOOTER' GIVES UP
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA 21-year-old man has surrendered on charges he shot two women in Brownsville last month, leaving one of them paralyzed, police said yesterday. Wayne Millington, who is homeless, appeared Tuesday...
MOB MTA 'SCAM' - GAMBINOS SNATCHED $10M IN BUILD JOB: FEDS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe Gambino crime family controlled a massive fraud scheme that stole more than $10 million from the MTA's renovation of its headquarters at 2 Broadway, the feds alleged in a...
PELOSI JURORS ARE YANKED
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amTwo prospective jurors at the murder trial of contractor Danny Pelosi were tossed yesterday because other potential panelists claimed they were disruptive. Prosecutor Janet Albertson eliminated a pony-tailed man who...
CHAIR FAN'S DEATH FEAR
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The woman who caught a folding chair in the face said yesterday she feared for her life during an ugly confrontation between fans and baseball players earlier...
CRITTER JITTERS AS PETS LOSE 'MOM'
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Martha Stewart heads off to the big house, she'll be leaving her beloved animal house behind. Her 165-acre Turkey Hill estate in Westport, Conn., is home to a menagerie...
PUNK-ROCK LEGEND JOHNNY RAMONE DIES
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amJohnny Ramone, one of the giants of the city's early punk-rock scene, died last night in Los Angeles after a long struggle with cancer. The Rock and Roll Hall of...
PAIR'S KIDNAP TWIST - VISITED HUBBY'S MA
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe mother of a Queens man accused of kidnapping his wife at gunpoint says they acted like a normal, happy couple when they visited her shortly after the horrific abduction....
TIKI: 'NO USE' FOR KEYSHAWN
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants, as usual, play the Cowboys twice this season. Maybe, just maybe, Tiki Barber will ask to play defense in one of those games - just to...
BETTMAN DISSES DEVS, ISLES
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amEVERYONE agrees that the Devils and Islanders are going to face pretty serious financial issues unless, and until, they move into new arenas. Everyone understands that under any objective basis,...
MONTY PYTHON - GREAT SCOT! HE'S STILL A LETHAL WEAPON
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Had this turned out to be the first Ryder Cup since 1989 without Colin Montgomerie - a possibility that seemed rather real as his tournament results...
LEFTY ROLLS DICE WITH NEW CLUBS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBLOOMFIELD TOWN SHIP, Mich. - More than a few eyebrows were raised this month when it was announced Phil Mickelson, the world's No. 4 ranked player and reigning Masters champion,...
GMS ARE SPLIT
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe Red Sox are nipping on the Yankees' heels, and a group of American League GMs was deadlocked about whether it will be the same old ending in October. In...
YANKEES AMEND SCHEDULE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Pay attention, this gets tricky. In order to accommodate MLB's desire to make up every game before the end of the regular season Oct. 3, the Yankees'...
BOMBERS, BOSOX SET FOR BATTLE - * YANKEES BUILD LEAD TO 4 ½ GAMES * SECOND STRAIGHT SHUTOUT OF ROYALS * BOSTON FIGHTS TO STAY IN EAST RACE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Face to face. Jaw to jaw. After listening to the Red Sox chirp about being the best team in the American League, and that the Yankees are...
MGM DEAL FALLOUT MAY MEAN TIME WARNER-COMCAST FEUD
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amNOW come the repercussions. Comcast swooped in to save Sony Corp.'s bid for MGM Corp., but highly-placed people on Wall Street are now wondering what the real price will be....
JOURNAL ADDS A SIXTH DAY
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe Wall Street Journal finally got the green light from parent Dow Jones to add a sixth day of publication, staffed by a 150-person battalion of new hires. The hiring...
'IDOL' TEDDY BEAR TO LOSE SOME STUFFING
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amHEAVYWEIGHT "American Idol" winner Ruben Studdard, who tips the scales at 360 pounds, is getting a makeover. Studdard, 26, has moved to L.A. to work with the "Extreme Fitness Team"...
BOUNCE LETS BUSH NARROW GAP IN N.Y.
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - President Bush picked up significant support among heavily Democratic New York voters after the Republican convention, according to two polls released yesterday. The Marist College and Quinnipiac University...
JEWS RING IN YEAR 5765
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amJews across the city flocked to synagogues last night to celebrate the start of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year. The holiday, which began at sundown and ushers in the...
CHOLESTEROL ANTIDOTE 'BLOSSOMS'
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amFlower power may hold the key to taming high cholesterol, scientists say. They discovered that an extract from the hibiscus flower seems to have the same heart health benefits as...
JAILHOUSE STOCK - MARTHA'S PRISON POSITION COULD BOOST COMPANY
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amIt worked for Leona Helmsley and Michael Milken, and now Martha Stewart hopes to put her legal troubles behind by serving a five-month prison term as soon as possible. Observers...
FORCES OF NATURE EATING INTO RESTAURANTS' PROFITS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBig Apple restaurants are eyeing a new round of menu price hikes to pay for higher energy and runaway food costs - but fear not. The tactic could actually be...
HUE GO GIRLS - FASHION TWEAK: A RAINBOW OF COLOR IS THE NEW BLACK; COLORIZE & DRAMATIZE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amSTART saving. That all-black wardrobe will look utterly out of date come spring. There will be no getting away with just a splash of color - say, a bright pair...
IVAN GOIN' MOBILE - SHIFT PUTS 'BAMA IN LINE FOR DIRECT HIT
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amIvan the Terrible - the killer storm that's taken 70 lives in the Caribbean and Florida - bore down on Mobile, Ala. this morning, packing 135-mph winds. The monster hurricane...
CHICKEN HUNT SHUTS GOETHALS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amWhy did the chickens cross the bridge? To get to Staten Island. A truck accidentally dumped part of its load of chickens on the Goethals Bridge yesterday, forcing cops and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA frat boy allegedly found an unusual way to supplement his income - fake parking tickets. Cops in Madison, Wis., said Anthony Gallagher, 23, of the Acacia fraternity placed official-looking,...
SOROS' $$ TOPPLES DA IN WAR OVER DRUGS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - In an unusual infusion of big money into local upstate politics, billionaire George Soros poured cash into the Albany County district attorney's race - and engineered a stunning...
2 PASSENGERS CARJACK VAN
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amTwo thugs hailed a dollar van in Queens and stole the vehicle at gunpoint once they reached their destination, police sources said yesterday. The episode began around 10 p.m. Tuesday,...
WTH THS RNG I THEE WD - IRAQ MARINE MARRIES CALIF. GAL BY CELLPHONE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amCan you hear me? Can you hear me now? That's what a San Diego bride asked her overseas Marine groom minutes before saying, "I do" in California's first-ever cellphone wedding....
MOM MYSTIFIED BY B'KLYN BLAST THAT MAIMED GIRL
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe mother of an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl whose hand was nearly blown off in a mysterious kitchen explosion relived the horror yesterday as she wondered how many fingers her daughter...
MENINGITIS CLAIMS N.J. BOY
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amNew Jersey health officials sent out a statewide medical alert yesterday after an eighth-grader died of bacterial meningitis, becoming the state's eighth victim of the infectious blood disease this year....
KILLED OVER $15 - BROKEN WATCH - & HEART - BLAMED IN BELMONT DEATH
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe fight between two Belmont Park riders that ended with one man dead and another facing life in prison started over a broken $15 watch, police said. But there may...
DRUG 'CRACK' DOWN - 18 BUSTED AT PROJECT
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amEast Harlem's Lincoln Houses project has been "emancipated" from drug gangsters, the Manhattan DA said yesterday, in announcing the indictment of 17 alleged crew members and their motorcycle-riding leader. The...
KAMIKAZE KERRY RIDES ALONG WITH LOSER DAN
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBIZARRELY, John Kerry is now clutching onto the document-challenged Dan Rather like a drowning man grabbing onto a sinking ship. Ask outside Democratic strategists, and they all say it makes...
9/11 MURAL GONE? SAY IT PAINT SO
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe Twin Towers have been destroyed again - just days after the anniversary of 9/11. For the past three years, a two-story-high mural of the New York City skyline at...
B'KLYN TRIAL JUDGE GRABS CBS FOOTAGE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA judge yesterday confiscated video footage shot by a CBS "48 Hours" crew during a sensational corruption trial, saying the cameraman caught more than he should have. Brooklyn Supreme Court...
CBS BLINKS - WILL PROBE 'CONTRADICTIONS' IN GUARD MEMOS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00am'Given all the questions about them [the documents], we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing' -CBS chief Andrew Heyward WASHINGTON...
PINIELLA: LOSING'S NOT FUN
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Lou Piniella is a walking, talking, exasperated example of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it." In what he claimed was...
LOSS COULD LEVEL LIBS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBack in the good ol' days of July, the Liberty sat perched atop the Eastern Conference, winners of four of five before the August break for the Olympics. But pounds...
JOE FEELING PITCHING PINCH
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - Next week's rearranged schedule has Yankee manager Joe Torre searching for a starter Tuesday against the Blue Jays and Sunday in Fenway Park versus the...
CURTIS A QUIET STORM
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES Curtis Martin is just nine yards away from passing Freeman McNeil's 8,074 yards as the Jets' all-time leading rusher, and another 1,000-yard season would place him fifth on...
ART: I'LL FINISH SEASON - HOWE'S FIRED - BUT HE'S NO QUITTER
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThere was no need yesterday for Met GM Jim Duquette to go into all the details of why Art Howe needed to be fired. In Duquette's mind, the move had...
A FINE LINE - MARTIN CREDITS BIG FELLAS FOR OUTBURST
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Jet team that couldn't run worth a damn for the first month of last season began 2004 with one of the great Opening Day individual rushing performances in NFL...
GMS SPLIT ON SERIES
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe Red Sox are nipping on the Yankees' heels, and a group of American League GMs was deadlocked about whether it will be the same old ending in October. In...
MYSTICAL GIRL MADONNA ON RETREAT IN ISRAEL
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amTEL AVIV, Israel - Madonna arrived in Israel on the eve of the Jewish New Year yesterday for a five-day spiritual pilgrimage to explore her interest in kabbala mysticism. The...
EX SUES 'DEADBEAT' SOAP STAR
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amSoap star Tonya Pinkins is a deadbeat mom who set up a dummy corporation to get out of paying more than $100,000 in back child support, her ex-husband says. In...
JUSTICE IS BLIND DRUNK - JUICED WTC JUROR 'OK'
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amDrink up, jurors! In a wacky ruling yesterday, a judge said she won't overturn the petit-theft conviction of a ghoulishly sticky-fingered Ground Zero volunteer - even though a juror on...
TOP GOPER DEMANDS INQUIRY OF RATHERGATE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A powerful House Republican is demanding a congressional probe into whether CBS News has "aided and abetted fraud" by airing possibly forged documents about President Bush's National Guard...
CAMS FOR ALL SCHOOLS AS CRIME SKYROCKETS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amMajor crimes shot up 12 percent in city schools in the last school year, officials said yesterday. The figures were released as the City Council prepared to pass a bill...
KIDNAP DRA-MA - THUG TOOK WIFE TO HIS MOMMY
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe mother of a Queens man accused of kidnapping his wife at gunpoint says they acted like a normal, happy couple when they visited her shortly after the horrific abduction....
WIPE OUT TOILET-PAPER SHORTAGE NOW: ED. POL
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe head of the City Council Education Committee would like all toilets in city schools to flush, but she'll settle for toilet paper in every stall. That was among the...
DIVA HAS GALL OF FAME TO DEMAND JAIL NOW
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amPITY the poor jailers. Our federal prison system has never seen anything quite like this dame. The pathological dominatrix and budding jailbird formerly known as Martha Stewart materialized yesterday in...
MOB GEEZER GETS 10 YRS. FOR LEAKS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn aging Genovese family associate was sentenced to 10 years yesterday for leaking information about federal mob investigations. Manhattan federal Judge Jed Rakoff came down hard on Federico "Fritzy" Giovanelli,...
CONGRESS BIGS NIX PROBE INTO 'RATHERGATE'
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Congressional leaders yesterday put the kibosh on demands from a powerful House Republican for a probe into "evidence that CBS News has aided and abetted fraud" by peddling...
COP KILLS PAL - SAYS GUN WENT OFF ACCIDENTALLY
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn off-duty city cop killed his friend in Brooklyn last night after he inadvertently fired a round from his gun, law-enforcement sources said. "I shot my best friend," the distraught...
PHILLIPS: NO REGRETS ABOUT HIRING HOWE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The ax finally fell on Art Howe yesterday, and former Met GM Steve Phillips certainly knows that feeling. But Phillips - who helped make the ill-advised, universally panned...
BOSOX, MILLAR BOUNCE BACK
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Tonight at Fenway Park, Curt Schilling goes for his 20th victory. The Yankees are idle, so there's a chance to pick up a half game before the blood...
A ROYAL SENDOFF - YANKS LEAVE K.C. WITH WIN, READY FOR BOSOX
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 3 - Royals 0 KANSAS CITY - Gary Sheffield called it the biggest series in the world of any sport, and he may have been light. Welcome to Red...
HAL KEEPS U.S. PAIRS TOP SECRET
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amCUP NOTES BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - U.S. captain Hal Sutton is holding his cards close to the vest until today when he's required to announce his pairings for tomorrow's foursome...
LOCKED OUT! NHL, PLAYERS GO TO WAR
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amHe launched his own professional suicide yesterday, and the only way off the ledge for Gary Bettman is to break the NHL Players' Association. It's going to be all about...
BOMBERS, BOSOX SET FOR BATTLE - * YANKEES' LEAD REMAINS FOUR GAMES * SECOND STRAIGHT SHUTOUT OF ROYALS * BOSTON FIGHTS TO STAY IN EAST RACE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Face to face. Jaw to jaw. After listening to the Red Sox chirp about being the best team in the American League, and that the Yankees are...
YANKS RESET GAMES FOR MONDAY, THURSDAY
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Pay attention, this gets tricky. In order to accommodate MLB's desire to make up every game before the end of the regular season Oct. 3, the Yankees'...
OMAR OUT FOR SEASON - KNEE INJURY KOS GIANTS DB
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amJust when the Giants' defensive backfield was trying to clear its head and move forward after a dreadful season debut, one of its key reserves is gone, ridding the club...
STEPH LOVES NEW WEAPONS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amStephon Marbury is tired and beaten up, and has only a bronze medal to show for it. Still, he doesn't regret his decision to go to the Olympics. "I'm happy...
FOR LOU, LOSING'S NOT FUN
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Lou Piniella is a walking, talking example about being careful when making a wish. In what he swore was his final interview on the subject, Piniella discussed his...
TOTES-ISOTONER DEAL COMPLETED
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBuyout firm Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. has sealed a deal to buy umbrella maker Totes-Isotoner Corp. for more than $100 million. Yesterday, New York-based Bruckmann said it would purchase...
TRADING PLACES - POPULAR QQQ JUMPING FROM AMEX TO NASDAQ
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe Nasdaq 100 index trust - a fund though which billions of dollars flow each trading day - is moving to the Nasdaq from its longtime home on the American...
CREATIVE JUICES FLOW FROM STAFFERS' SOUR MOODS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amBad moods can make you more creative at your job, says a new study, which also cautioned bosses against making employees' lives hell. In the first research of its kind...
WIRE TO WIRE - COPS KEEP GROWN-UP TV HOPES ALIVE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00am"The Wire" [***] (Three stars) Sunday night at 9 on HBO THE next time you're driving on I-95 near Baltimore, keep going. And don't stop until you see the city...
POLS PROBE CONVENTION BUSTS
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe City Council held a hearing yesterday to determine whether the Police Department mishandled hundreds of arrests during the GOP convention. Councilman Bill Perkins (D-Manhattan) threatened to subpoena city officials...
DOCS' DOPE HOPE TO FIGHT CANCER
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amA big joint could help fight the Big C. Scientists have found evidence that smoking marijuana produces a high that could help stop the spread of cancer. They say the...
'I LOVE MY DAD MORE THAN ANYTHING': LITTLE BOY BLUE
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amSOMETIMES 9-year-olds become men before their time. Yesterday was such a time for little Kevin Rafferty. The youngster bravely stood up at St. Mary's Church in East Islip, L.I., yesterday...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 16, 2004 | 4:00amQUEENS * A woman in her 30s was found dead inside a Jamaica apartment building yesterday, cops said. The unidentified woman's decomposed body was discovered lying in her bed with...