2/18 NY Post: News

Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. NY Post: News GM PLAN CALLS FOR $16 BILLION MORE, 47,000 JOB CUTS February 17, 2009 at 6:20 pm General Motors Corp.'s restructuring proposal says the company may need up to $30 billion in government loans as it implements a survival plan that includes cutting 47,000 jobs and closing five more U.S. factories. GM submitted the dire plan to... RIVAL GANGS SCUFFLE AT COURTHOUSE February 17, 2009 at 6:18 pm A scuffle between rival gangs 2 Deep and MSH - for Money Stacked High - erupted Tuesday outside a courtroom where a 17-year-old is on trial for attempted murder. Dozens of armed court officers rushed to control at least two dozen people who... 3-YEAR-OLD'S SUBWAY ADVENTURE February 17, 2009 at 6:08 pm Authorities say a 3-year-old wandered out of a McDonald's in Queens while his mother went to get napkins, and then he got on a subway and traveled four stops before transit workers noticed him and called police. Christian Marquez was reunited with... STOCKS PLUMMET NEARLY 300 POINTS February 17, 2009 at 5:45 pm Investors around the world are betting that even with government stimulus and bailout programs, the global recession will just have to run its course. The problems that slammed stocks last year - ailing banks, foundering automakers, tumbling home... OBAMA TO INCREASE TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN February 17, 2009 at 4:12 pm WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has signed off on an increase in U.S. forces for the flagging war in Afghanistan, defense and congressional officials said Tuesday. The Obama administration is expected to announce by Wednesday that it will... GM, UAW CLOSE TO CONCESSIONS AGREEMENT: REPORT February 17, 2009 at 3:55 pm DETROIT - General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers were getting close to an agreement on concessions, a person briefed on the negotiations said Tuesday, just hours before GM and Chrysler LLC must submit a restructuring plan to the Treasury... CALIF. BUDGET STALEMATE SETS UP FISCAL CALAMITY February 17, 2009 at 3:48 pm SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California lawmakers gathered again Tuesday in another bid to end the state's multibillion-dollar budget stalemate, as the state was poised to start laying off as many as 20,000 government workers. After frustrating weekend... BLOOMBERG GIVES CITY DIRE FORECAST February 17, 2009 at 3:18 pm The streets of New York may look more like the canals of Venice in the coming decades as temperatures - and water levels - rise to dangerous new heights, according to a report released today by a panel of scientists assembled by Mayor Bloomberg... TWO PEOPLE HIT BY TRAINS IN NYC February 17, 2009 at 11:51 am New York City transit authorities say a person has been struck at the Brooklyn Bridge subway station in Manhattan. The accident occurred about 3½ hours after a woman was injured by a train at the 190th Street station in Manhattan. The... BOY'S REMAINS FOUND INSIDE CROCODILE February 17, 2009 at 10:48 am Human remains found in a crocodile caught near where a five-year-old boy disappeared in the far north Queensland Daintree River, Australia, are those of the child. Jeremy Doble disappeared on Feb. 8 after he followed his dog into the river where... CHIMP VICTIM HANGING ONTO LIFE February 17, 2009 at 10:33 am The Connecticut woman viciously mauled by a 200-pound chimp remained in critical condition this morning and faces "life-changing, if not life-threatening" injuries to her face and hands, officials said. The chimpanzee named Travis was shot dead by... AUTO-MATIC MONEY February 17, 2009 at 9:27 am WASHINGTON - Detroit is really in the driver's seat these days. General Motors is set to pocket billions in bailout bucks today - despite blowing a government-imposed restructuring deadline. Sources said the struggling car maker wasn't able to... NEW TAX BILL SEEKS FAIR 'SHEARING' OF WEALTHY February 17, 2009 at 8:38 am ALBANY - A day after Gov. Paterson hinted at plans to soak the rich, a Brooklyn assemblyman announced legislation yesterday to enact the $6 billion tax-hike plan backed by public-employee unions. Democrat Darryl Towns' bill would enact the... FAMILIES GATHER AT SITE OF TRAGEDY February 17, 2009 at 7:18 am Heartbroken relatives of victims from last week's commuter-plane tragedy visited the crash scene yesterday for the first time, seeing up close where their loved ones perished. The grieving family members were escorted onto tree-lined Long Street... NEW 'ICE' MYSTERY February 17, 2009 at 7:16 am Federal officials are trying to determine if a recent inspection of the de-icing equipment on the plane that crashed outside Buffalo last week was routine - or the result of a problem. National Transportation Safety Board prober Steve Chealander... JACKO: BID IT, JUST BID IT! February 17, 2009 at 7:09 am This auction could be a thriller. Michael Jackson's iconic white glove and more than 2,000 other items from Neverland will go under the hammer in April - including his throne, his Rolls-Royce, three suits of armor, fine paintings, costumes... OBAMA KID 'RUNS' FOR WHITE HOUSE February 17, 2009 at 4:37 am There's no place like home - the White House - for President Obama's youngest daughter. Seven-year-old Sasha looks positively joyful yesterday as the family returns to Washington, DC, after a three-day weekend in Chicago. She dashes off Marine... HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COMRADES February 17, 2009 at 4:23 am A young Marine from Long Island had only seconds to act when a fanatic driving a truck bomb came crashing through barricades and aimed straight for a building where 30 fellow Leathernecks and 25 Iraqi cops were just waking up. Lance Cpl. Jordan... RAISING A RACQUET February 17, 2009 at 2:33 am An Israeli tennis star, fuming over being banned from a tournament in Dubai, said yesterday that politics should have no place in sports. "I think a red line has been crossed here that could harm the purity of the sport and other sports," said... PAKISTAN CAVES IN TO TALIBAN February 17, 2009 at 2:31 am PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The government yesterday agreed to impose Islamic law and suspend a military offensive across much of northwest Pakistan, in concessions aimed at pacifying the Taliban insurgency spreading from the border region to the... HILL'S KOREA MOVE February 17, 2009 at 2:29 am TOKYO - Hillary Rodham Clinton - on her first official overseas trip as secretary of state - told North Korea this morning not to carry out a plan to launch a missile that might be capable of reaching the US West Coast. Speaking at a news... GILLIBRAND BED GUN-FREE February 17, 2009 at 2:29 am New York's new senator Kirsten Gillibrand has moved two rifles she kept under her bed for protection. The rifles were removed for security reasons because their location had been reported, Gillibrand spokesman Matt Canter last night. "Having... MAN SHOT AT VILLAGE DINER February 17, 2009 at 2:29 am A man was shot and critically wounded yesterday outside a popular all-night Greenwich Village diner, police said. Two groups of customers began arguing inside celebrity hangout Cozy Soup 'n' Burger on Broadway shortly before 5:30 a.m., then took... 'KIDNAP' BABY SITTER IS BUSTED February 17, 2009 at 2:27 am An East Harlem baby sitter was arrested yesterday after the child she kidnapped for 24 hours was reunited with his mother, police said. The 14-month-old boy, Heshesh Brent, was back safely in the arms of his relieved mother, Yenelle Brent, 34... WEIRD BUT TRUE February 17, 2009 at 2:11 am One upstate New York bowling alley is strictly BYOB - bring your own ball. Workers at Thurston's Restaurant bowling alley in Frankfort discovered that thieves had swiped all but one of about 150 in-house bowling balls. "I thought they were... PAPA'S PARENT TRAP$ February 17, 2009 at 2:09 am A con man bilked fellow parents at an elite Long Island school of millions of dollars to fund his dwindling day-trading business, The Post has learned. Steven Meszaros, 45, of Glen Cove, was convicted in December on federal counts of defrauding... NYPD DAILY BLOTTER February 17, 2009 at 2:08 am Queens * A diner was busted after he flew into a rage at a Flushing restaurant as he harassed his waitress and refused to pay for his meal, authorities said. Hojin Kil, 37, sought the company of his server at Seoul Soon Dae in the wee hours of... LI MAN SETS PAL AFIRE WITH TEQUILA: COPS February 17, 2009 at 2:08 am A Long Island man doused his drinking buddy with tequila and set him on fire - all because the guest refused to go home, police said. Epigmencio Garcia, 24, and his pal were knocking back shots of El Jimador tequila at Garcia's Westbury home when... CARD COUNTING GETS 'SMART' February 17, 2009 at 2:04 am You can beat the dealer - with the right smart-phone application. A program that can be run secretly on an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch makes it much easier to count cards, Nevada's gaming board fears. Card counting is generally legal, but using... COPS SINK POT PROBE OF PHELPS February 17, 2009 at 2:04 am Michael Phelps backstroked away from pot charges yesterday after South Carolina cops said their evidence wouldn't hold water against the Olympic hero. Even while announcing that Phelps was off the hook, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott had tough... PALS RALLY FOR BATTERED DIVA February 17, 2009 at 2:03 am Battered pop star Rihanna is resting at home in Barbados and getting "her life back on track" while recovering from injuries suffered in a domestic dust-up, her cousin said yesterday. "Rihanna is holding up well," Yvonne Fenty told the celebrity... OCTOGRANNY: ALL'S FORGIVEN February 17, 2009 at 2:03 am LOS ANGELES - The mother of the Southern California woman who used a fertility doctor to give birth to octuplets sounded a conciliatory note toward her daughter yesterday in a TV interview posted online. Angela Suleman had criticized Nadya... CHINA DEAL A HUM DINGER February 17, 2009 at 2:00 am The Sichuan Auto Industry Group, one of the smallest carmakers in China, is in talks to buy General Motors' Hummer sport utility vehicle unit, three people familiar with the negotiations said. Sichuan Auto, which has about $146 million in assets... IRAQ PILGRIMS KILLED February 17, 2009 at 2:00 am BAGHDAD - In the latest of a series of attacks on Shiite pilgrims, eight more died in separate bombings of two minibuses yesterday, officials said. The attacks followed bombings last week of pilgrims on their way to Karbala. Sixty were killed... HOT-DOG MAN'S BUN VOYAGE February 17, 2009 at 1:59 am He's going to relish his retirement. After 41 years peddling hot dogs in the same Times Square spot, Angelo Pipas is calling it a career. "I like what I do. I'm my own boss. But now my kids are grown, so I can relax more," said the 57-year-old... COPS DRAW BLANK IN FLA. GIRL HUNT February 17, 2009 at 1:57 am SATSUMA, Fla. - Authorities in north Florida have scaled back their search for a missing 5-year-old girl who vanished from her home last week, and a volunteer search group has ended its efforts. Haleigh Cumming disappeared early Tuesday while in... FAA SOLVES SPACE ODDITY February 17, 2009 at 1:57 am DALLAS - The fireball that streaked across the sky and alarmed Texas residents was likely just a big meteor and not wreckage from colliding satellites, experts said yesterday. FAA spokesman Roland Herwig said the fireball seen across a wide... BEATING LANDS SUGE IN HOSP February 17, 2009 at 1:57 am Rap mogul Suge Knight has been hospitalized after a fight in an Arizona hotel, police said. Cops arrested two men after the Death Row Records founder suffered facial fractures during the early-morning fracas yesterday at the W Hotel in Scottsdale... HAVOC AS CHIMP GOES APE February 17, 2009 at 1:56 am A massive chimp who loved flowers, filet mignon and the Yankees went berserk outside his Connecticut home yesterday, mauling his owner's friend before being killed by cops. Capt. Richard Conklin of the Stamford police said officers had no choice... 13-YEAR-OLD 'DAD' ALFIE TO TAKE PATERNITY TEST February 17, 2009 at 1:55 am LONDON - A DNA test will determine if a 13-year-old boy fathered a baby with his 15-year-old girlfriend, his spokesman said yesterday. The test comes after The News of the World reported Sunday that other teenage boys have come forward claiming... STATE: TEST KIDS LATER February 17, 2009 at 1:52 am The state is seeking to schedule annual reading and math tests later in the school year - a move that could erase one of the biggest hurdles to using students' exam scores to rate teachers. The tests, currently given to kids in third through... '93 WTC VICTIM GETS DAY IN COURT February 17, 2009 at 1:51 am Sixteen years after Linda Nash was struck in the head by concrete - suffering brain, lung and ear damage - during the first attack on the World Trade Center, her case goes to court in Manhattan today. Nash, 64, a former DeLoitte & Touche benefits... ALL SIDES 'RAISE' HELL OVER GOV'S PAY HIKES February 17, 2009 at 1:51 am ALBANY - Gov. Paterson yesterday was blasted by public-employee unions, legislative Republicans and even fellow Democrats for granting sky-high pay hikes to his key staffers at a time when he's asking 130,000 state workers to give up their 3... LANCE'S BIKE PEDAL-PILFERED February 17, 2009 at 1:50 am It was a tour de theft - thieves have stolen Lance Armstrong's unique, $10,000 bike. The Tour de France legend announced on Twitter Sunday that his distinctive, yellow and black time-trial bike was snatched in Sacramento. "There is only one...   This email was sent to autoblogs077@gmail.com . Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.