July 28, 2001
MRSWAP DIDN’T FIND A SWAPPER
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amMrSwap.com, the last of the great online swap sites, will close its digital doors on Monday. Chairman Patrick Ford sent out a notice to registered users Thursday saying the service...
WOW! WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: POST READERS FRACTURE THEIR FAVORITE FAIRY TALES
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amOnce upon a time, The Post asked you to fracture your favorite fairy tales - and about 200 of you did just that. We received lots of variations on that...
BABY-SHAKE SLAY SITTER GETS 5 TO 15
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amA baby sitter was hit with the maximum sentence of five to 15 years in prison for fatally shaking an upstate 5-month-old to stop her from crying. Jennifer Curcie, 24,...
‘MOLEST’ MASSEUR RUBS STATE WRONG WAY
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amState authorities said they have no record that a Long Island masseur arrested in the sexual molestation of a client at a trendy suburban spa is licensed to practice his...
GRAND JURY TO PROBE BLAZE AT SETON HALL
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amA New Jersey judge agreed yesterday to call a special grand jury to hear evidence in last year's Seton Hall University dorm fire that killed three freshmen. Superior Court Judge...
NYPD: TROOPERS STONEWALLING IN SHOOTING PROBE
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amCity police complain that state troopers aren't cooperating in the investigation of a trooper's shooting of a Brooklyn woman in a drug probe. The woman, Charmene Pickering, 27, remained in...
TYSON EYED IN RAPE : EX-CHAMP FACES NEW ASSAULT CHARGE OVER CALIF. WOMAN’S CLAIM
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amBoxing bad boy Mike Tyson is under investigation for rape - again. Cops want to interview the former heavyweight champ over an allegation he sexually assaulted a woman in the...
BUBBA RAISING DEM $$ WITH L.I. GOLF GIG
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amGet ready for Bubba gridlock in the Hamptons. Bill Clinton's Aug. 8 golf-with-fat cats outing will be held at the Atlantic Golf Club in Bridgehampton, Democrats say. The event will...
FONZIE FALLS TO SEVEN HOLE
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amWhen the season began, who ever thought that Edgardo Alfonzo would bat seventh in the Mets lineup? But for the first time since 1997 that is exactly what happened last...
BOMBERS NOT HOT FOR ASTACIO
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - The buzz around baseball yesterday was that the Yankees were back in the Pedro Astacio race. The story went like this: Having watched the Tigers punish Randy Keisler...
HERMAN TO JETS: COUNT THE CLUBS
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amOn the eve of his first training camp as an NFL head coach, Herman Edwards' mind was racing with thoughts about what he'll say to his players once he has...
SANTANA MAY BE A LITTLE LATE
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amAlthough Jets GM Terry Bradway said yesterday that he was "cautiously optimistic" that No. 1 pick Santana Moss would be signed and in camp in time for today's reporting deadline,...
UNITED, US AIR DEAL KO’D
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amDoomed for at least a year, the $12.3 billion deal of United Airlines to buy US Airways was finally buried yesterday by federal regulators. The Justice Department, citing antitrust concerns,...
STOCKS SPUTTER AFTER GDP REPORT
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amThe markets closed mixed yesterday breaking a two-day rally in blue chips after bleak economic news dampened trading interest. Markets stayed mostly flat even after the Fed said the economy...
WILL SCULLY PAIR UP WITH A GIRL NEXT YEAR?
July 28, 2001 | 4:00am'On the 'X-Files,' anything can happen. So, I don't want to discount anything. Life is complicated.' 'X-Files" Agent Dana Scully, played by Gillian Anderson, has had her share of alien...
POST OFFICE BANS BAM’S NUDE BUTTS
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn Academy of Music film series is getting more free publicity than it could ever have dreamed of - thanks to the U.S. Postal Service. Thousands of postcards promoting...
BUSH RIPS U.N. OVER ANTI-ZIONIST STANCE
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's spokesman is vowing the United States will boycott an upcoming U.N. conference unless it drops harsh anti-Israel rhetoric that echoes the infamous 1975 resolution painting Zionism...
N.Y. GETS SUSPECT IN CARNEGIE SLAY
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amJoseph Sean Salley, arrested in Florida as the suspected triggerman in the May triple homicide above the Carnegie Deli, has decided to return voluntarily to Manhattan, officials said yesterday. Salley,...
PROBERS WANT TO KEEP QUIZZING POL
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Police detectives have even more questions for Rep. Gary Condit in the wake of a fourth interview with him as they continue to press their search to find...
NYPD RINGS JUDI WITH RUDY-LIKE SECURITY
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amHoward Koeppel and Judith Nathan are learning that having the mayor as your pal makes life a lot more secure. A full complement of detectives is watching over mayoral gal...
N.Y. LITERACY GETS AN $82M BOOST
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Gov. Pataki boasted yesterday that an $82 million reading grant from the Bush administration shows New York isn't on the president's hit list. Pataki's aides say the Clinton...
HAP CRUISES HOME IN BERNARD BARUCH
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - No one appreciates turf racing at the Old Spa more than the trainer-jockey team of Bill Mott and Jerry Bailey, except perhaps their standout grass horse Hap....
PARKER TAKING IT EASY AFTER CANCER SCARE
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The offseason became trying for guard Glenn Parker when he learned he had a cancerous mole on his right calf that needed to be surgically removed. After that...
MET DEAL’S ON THE TABLE TURK AND COOK HEADING TO PHILS FOR CHEN, WALKER
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amOne of GM Steve Phillips' main goals heading into Tuesday's trade deadline is to cut payroll and get younger. Last night, Phillips was closing in on accomplishing two of his...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amThe week has gone faster than a W train, and now it's time to feast on the facts of the past seven days. Hey, it's more fun than being an...
CITY’S HOTTEST TICKET
July 28, 2001 | 4:00am"The Seagull" - whose all-star cast includes John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken - runs through Aug. 19 at...
JUST SAY ‘OHM’
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amIt's a musical. It's a yoga class. "Ohmland" is two - two things in one! The show opens today, with a (flexible) cast of nine and a five-piece band that...
LEFT AT THE ALTAR : JILTED COUPLE SUES CATERERS FOR $46M
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amA Long Island couple preparing for their romantic September wedding on the beach where they fell in love said they were stunned to learn they had been jilted by their...
THE NEW YORK POST FROM JULY 28, 1942
July 28, 2001 | 4:00am"Nazis Massacre Warsaw Jews Too Old or Too Young to Work" read the headline above The Post's exclusive account of slaughter in the Polish city's ghetto. "Information received by Polish-government...
LOUIMA COP’S WIFE: ASSI$T US
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amCharles Schwarz, the embattled cop in the Abner Louima affair, has a glimmer of hope for his freedom, but his wife, Andra, says it comes with a hefty price tag....
EX-BODYGUARD: CONDIT WAS NO RED-HOT LOVER
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amCERES, Calif. - Rep. Gary Condit showed little affection for his wife or other women, Condit's former bodyguard told The Post yesterday. "He was never real compassionate," said Vincent Flammini,...
TRAGIC VAN TEEN BURIED IN ISRAEL
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Nid Yadgar, the Brooklyn teen who died when his friend accidentally plunged their van into Gowanus Bay, was laid to rest yesterday at a hillside cemetery in Israel....
B’KLYN POL’S MOM-IN-LAW: RIVAL INVADED MY HOME
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amBrooklyn police are investigating charges that a City Council candidate burst into the home of a rival and harassed his mother-in-law. Therese Noisil, 78, complained to police of Thursday night's...
MARIAH THE PARIAH : SNUBS DROVE HER TO BREAKDOWN, PALS SAY
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amTanking record sales. A diss from Eminem. Indifference from her once-devout fans. Problems with boyfriend Luis Miguel. It was too much for pop diva Mariah Carey to take, friends of...
BQE TRUCK TIP-OVER KILLS CAR PASSENGER
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amA tractor-trailer traveling along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway yesterday suddenly tipped over onto a car near the Brooklyn Bridge, killing a Queens man and seriously injuring his wife, police said. The...
BOMBERS NOT HOT FOR PEDRO : RUMOR JUST ROCKIE ‘PROPAGANDA’
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - The buzz around baseball yesterday was that the Yankees were back in the Pedro Astacio race. The story went like this: Having watched the Tigers punish Randy Keisler...
MICROSOFT’S XP NEARS STARTING GATE
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amMicrosoft has made it through the first gauntlet of attacks on Windows XP, with the launch today of the final test version of the new operating system. But getting the...
TUCKER DEAL, EH? ROYAL BANK OF CANADA NEARS ACQUISITION
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amTucker Anthony Sutro Corp., a regional brokerage whose biggest shareholder is buyout kingpin Thomas H. Lee, is in advanced talks to be acquired by Royal Bank of Canada, sources familiar...
A PRIMARY LOSS WOULD NOT HALT HEVESI: PUNDITS
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amPOLITICAL insiders are betting City Comptroller Alan Hevesi won't throw in the towel if he's narrowly defeated in September's Democratic primary for mayor - instead, he'll continue an all-out campaign...
COP DID NOT CAUSE DEADLY CRASH: NYPD
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amPolice and an eyewitness denied yesterday that a highway cop triggered a crunching collision in Jackson Heights, Queens that killed two elderly women. The incident began when the cop noticed...
SINGING COWBOY COLIN SLAYS ‘EM : SERENADES BIGS WITHA COUNTRY STANDARD
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amAfter two days at a foreign ministers summit in Vietnam - discussing serious subjects like North Korean missiles and Asian debt - Colin Powell just had to break into song....
SECOND FAST-FOOD FAN ‘NEEDLED’
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amA 22-year-old Bronx mother of two claims she was stuck with the tip of a syringe needle after biting into a Burger King sausage-and-egg sandwich in June - and she...
MOM TURNS BABY OVER TO POLICE
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amA 17-year-old mother who sneaked her baby out of New York Hospital rather than put the infant in foster care was persuaded by a friend to surrender last night. Ebony...
UNIFORM AGREEMENT: CITY’S PAY-HIKE DEAL FOR 50,000
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amA coalition representing 50,000 uniformed workers - but not rank-and-file cops - reached a tentative contract with the city yesterday for pay hikes exceeding 10 percent over 30 months. City...
WED PRIEST SPEAKS: ELOPED COUPLE SAYS GOD WILL UNDERSTAND
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amA Catholic priest from Queens and his church secretary said yesterday they did nothing wrong in the eyes of God when they secretly married and fled to Arizona. The Rev....
BAD-BOY BRUISER’S HARD-KNOCK LIFE
July 28, 2001 | 4:00am"Iron Mike" Tyson first wobbled onto the wrong side of the law when he was a kid in Brooklyn - and he's had a hard time staying on the straight...
ARABS HIDE BOMB IN MELON
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli security was faced with a new terrorist weapon yesterday - a watermelon bomb. Israeli bus drivers, wary of bomb attacks, have standing orders to check their vehicles...
TRACHSEL, ORDONEZ LEAD WAY
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amThe expensive bait played well for GM Steve Phillips last night. Rey Ordonez and Steve Trachsel tempted the scouts. Phillips is in the process of re-tooling the Mets for next...
ITALIAN HERO SET TO FEAST ON $1M BC TROT AT BIG M
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amHe's conquered Europe and now Italian trotting sensation Varenne looks to add a North American victory to his resume in the $1 million Breeders Crown Trot tonight at The Meadowlands...
ORSENO FINALLY FINDS WINNER’S CIRCLE
July 28, 2001 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Wrangler had to steady on the far turn, was bumped turning for home but was still able to draw off for the victory. It was the first...
JUSTICE, EL DUQUE ON SCHEDULE
July 28, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - The news coming out of Norwich and Tampa regarding David Justice and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, respectively, continues to be encouraging. Justice is on the DL with a...