September 16, 2004

MORE 'O.C.'

'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

NOT 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?

'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

The 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

Relatives 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

LOS 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

The 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

A 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

A 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

A 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

Look 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

The 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

Former 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

A 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

LOS 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

A 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

The 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

A 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

Two 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

MET 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

Jason 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

MARYLAND 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

"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

Phone 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

The 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

A 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

The 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

Two 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

LOS 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'

When 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

Johnny 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

The 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

GIANT 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

EVERYONE 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

BLOOMFIELD 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

BLOOMFIELD 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

The 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

KANSAS 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

KANSAS 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

NOW 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

The 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

HEAVYWEIGHT "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.

ALBANY - 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

Jews 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'

Flower 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

It 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

Big 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

START 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

Ivan 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

Why 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

A 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

ALBANY - 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

Two 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

Can 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

The 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

New 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

The 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

East 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

BIZARRELY, 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

The 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

A 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

'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

BOSTON - 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

Back 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

YANKEE 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

JET 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

There 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

A 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

The 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

TEL 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

Soap 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'

Drink 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

WASHINGTON - 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

Major 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

The 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

The 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

PITY 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

An 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'

WASHINGTON - 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

An 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

BOSTON - 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

BOSTON - 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

Yankees 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

CUP 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

He 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

KANSAS 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

KANSAS 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

Just 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

Stephon 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

BOSTON - 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

Buyout 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

The 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

Bad 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

"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

The 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

A 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

SOMETIMES 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

QUEENS * 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...

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