2/28 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 OBAMA COURTSIDE AT WIZARDS-BULLS GAME February 27, 2009 at 9:57 pm President Barack Obama took a break from politics Friday to sit courtside at a basketball game between his hometown team Chicago Bulls and the Washington Wizards. As Obama arrived at the Verizon Center, fans and the players applauded him. Obama... DUI MILLIONAIRE GETS WRIST-SLAP February 27, 2009 at 3:35 pm A millionaire accused of killing a woman in a drunk-driving incident was given a slap on the wrist today after he was allowed to plead guilty to misdemeanor DWI and pay a fine -- a punishment angry family members of the victim called a "rich man's... MORGENTHAU OPTS NOT TO RUN AGAIN February 27, 2009 at 1:37 pm Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's District Attorney for the past 35 years, has decided not to seek re-election this fall, The Post has learned. Morgenthau has begun privately calling top deputies into his office to deliver the news - which will... 'SLUMDOG' STAR GETS BRUTAL BEATING FROM DAD February 27, 2009 at 1:37 pm One of the child actors who starred in the Oscar-winning flick "Slumdog Millionaire" received a severe beating from his dad today after the 10-year-old star refused to be put on display like a trophy. Less than a week after strutting down the red... ALBANY NEARS AGREEMENT ON MTA TOLLS February 27, 2009 at 1:29 pm ALBANY, N.Y. - Gov. David Paterson and the Legislature are negotiating a deal to rescue the debt-ridden Metropolitan Transportation Authority that could put $2 tolls on bridges over the Harlem and East rivers. The Democrat-led Senate discussed the... FUNERAL FOR LI MOM, 3 CHILDREN February 27, 2009 at 1:23 pm Mourners have gathered to bid a final farewell to a Long Island mother and three of her children killed in a suspicious apartment fire last week. The funeral service was held Friday at Prince of Peach Pentecostal Church in Far Rockaway, Queens... AIRLINE MAY ENACT PAY-TO-PEE RULE February 27, 2009 at 12:40 pm Here's another reason air travelers should be pee'd off. The friendly skies may have just gotten a little more uncomfortable after Irish discount airline Ryanair said today it is considering charging passengers to use the toilet aboard its planes... OBAMA ANNOUNCES TROOP PULLOUT SCHEDULE FOR IRAQ February 27, 2009 at 12:28 pm CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - President Barack Obama says he'll withdraw America's combat brigades from Iraq over the next 18 months. He made the announcement in a speech to military troops and officers at Camp LeJeune, N.C. He said his administration... PUBLISHER TATUM DIES February 27, 2009 at 11:12 am The publisher emeritus of the New York Amsterdam News has died. The death of Wilbert Tatum was announced yesterday by the newspaper and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who knew him for more than 30 years. Tatum, 76, died Wednesday in a hospital in... GISELE & TOM WED: REPORT February 27, 2009 at 11:11 am New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bundchen reportedly tied the knot last night in suburban Los Angeles. Usmagazine.com said the 28-year-old Bundchen wore a Dolce & Gabbana ivory lace strapless gown - and her three... FILMMAKERS TO GOV: ROLL CREDIT$ February 27, 2009 at 11:08 am Faced with a film- and TV-industry exodus, Gov. Paterson signaled yesterday that he will propose new state funding to continue a tax-credit program responsible for keeping the highly lucrative business - and its 19,000 jobs - in New York... MY EX GAVE 'TIP-OFFS' ON MADOFF February 27, 2009 at 11:06 am A New York Stock Exchange securities analyst - who is being probed over allegations he tipped off his dad to the federal investigation of Bernie Madoff - said last summer that there "may be" problems at the accused swindler's firm, his estranged... QUINN'S INTERBOROUGH CLASH February 27, 2009 at 11:03 am City Council Speaker Christine Quinn appointed a Queens representative to the position of City Clerk yesterday, infuriating members in Brooklyn. Quinn's appointment of Acting City Clerk Michael McSweeney passed by a 32-16 vote. All but one... TEDISCO AHEAD February 27, 2009 at 11:01 am ALBANY - A new poll shows James Tedisco leading Scott Murphy in the race for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's former 20th Congressional District seat. The Siena College survey found Tedisco, the state Assembly's Republican leader, enjoying a 46-34... SAKS JEWEL GAL ON TRIAL February 27, 2009 at 11:00 am A jury got a peek yesterday into the not-so-glittery world behind the jewelry counters at Saks Fifth Avenue. Security was so lax among the diamonds and rubies at the chain's Manhattan flagship store that its No. 1 jewelry saleswoman, Cecille... AMISH SHOPS IN OT 'BILK' February 27, 2009 at 10:58 am The upscale Amish Market supermarket chain has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle charges that it bilked 550 employees out of overtime, officials said yesterday. Acting on a tip, the state Labor Department said it found that many workers were... STATEN ISLAND QUINTS TWO-FIFTHS OF WAY HOME February 27, 2009 at 10:56 am Two of Staten Island's miracle quintuplets (right) spent their first full day at home yesterday waiting for their siblings to join them. Alessia and Emily, the first- and third-born to Jamie and Kevin Ferrante were released from Staten Island... SWEEP VS. SUICIDE NETWORK February 27, 2009 at 10:54 am ATLANTA - As authorities try to determine how many deaths nationwide may be linked to an assisted-suicide ring, members of the group known as the Final Exit Network are defending a mission they call "self-deliverance." The network's president... THUG SWAPS PHONE FOR CELL February 27, 2009 at 10:51 am A violent, dimwitted rapist was busted after trying to use the iPhone he stole from his victim - because he'd dropped his cellphone at the scene of the crime, officials said yesterday. Jonathan Salva, 20, of Brooklyn, made it still easier to be... TAXIS JOIN JETTA SET February 27, 2009 at 10:50 am A small squadron of Volkswagen Jetta taxis has quietly infiltrated the city's taxi fleet, and more could be on the way. There are currently 13 of the clean-diesel cabs buzzing around the city - keeping them a rarity among the 13,237 registered... KID-SUPPORT BLITZ February 27, 2009 at 10:48 am City collections for child support jumped $50 million last year after investigators cracked down on deadbeat dads and other parents who owed money to their kids. That's an increase of 8 percent from 2007 - and 37 percent since 2002, when Mayor... WHALE OF A RESCUE February 27, 2009 at 10:47 am Rescuers yesterday freed a young humpback whale entangled in big wire fishing pots off the coast of New Jersey - and then it swam off. "It's in pretty rough shape. It's free and able to swim on it's own, but it's injured," Teri Frady, a National... YO QUIERO 500G FOR YAPPY CHIHUAHUAS February 27, 2009 at 10:45 am Ay-yi-yi, Chihuahuas! An Upper West Side woman has filed a $500,000 lawsuit charging that her downstair's yappy little dogs are driving her loco. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, lawyer Paulette Taylor says Theodore Henderson's two... MOMA'S AD MAN IN DEEP February 27, 2009 at 10:43 am The rogue ad exec who had "Poster Boy's" crew go ninja on a MoMA subway campaign he was hired to coordinate could end up paying a heavy price for his poor judgment. Douglas Jaeger, CEO of The Happy Corp. and a member of MoMA's marketing advisory... 'DIPLOMA MILL' RAPS VS. PAIR February 27, 2009 at 10:41 am The state broke up a Medicaid diploma mill in Brooklyn that issued bogus certificates to home health aides it never trained, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged yesterday. The scam sapped $1 million from the Medicaid program, said Cuomo in... THIS STORE'S FREE FOR ALL February 27, 2009 at 10:38 am Free trade is flourishing once more in the Financial District - the hippie commune variety, that is. No money is exchanged at the Free Store, which recently opened at 99 Nassau St., and all the merchandise - which ranges from jewelry and vintage... SMILE OF 'HATE' February 27, 2009 at 10:33 am The NYPD is hoping to get the last laugh in the case of a savage anti-gay hate crime. An image from a chilling video released yesterday shows a Bronx man giggling to his heart's content - just 19 minutes after he allegedly beat a man to death... ELIE: BERNIE'S EVIL February 27, 2009 at 10:30 am Existing punishments just aren't good enough. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel thinks something new, something creative should be devised to punish Bernie Madoff - who wiped out $15.2 million from the Holocaust survivor's charitable... NEW PHOTO RULE FOR GIS' COFFINS February 27, 2009 at 10:26 am WASHINGTON - Families of America's war dead will decide whether the flag-draped caskets of their loved ones can be photographed by news organizations when the fallen heroes return to US soil, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday. Gates... US DEPORTS TERRORIST IN '73 BOMB BID February 27, 2009 at 10:24 am A mysterious Black September terrorist who planted three car bombs in the city in 1973 was deported yesterday, a law-enforcement official said. It's not known what country agreed to accept the man known as Khalid Al-Jawary - a figure so shadowy... TAXI TRIAL RUN A FARE DEAL February 27, 2009 at 10:22 am Mayor Bloomberg might be on to something. His grand plan to shut down two big stretches of Broadway appears to be steering taxi riders to a cheaper alternative down Seventh Avenue. A Post road test of three possible routes from West 48th... B'WAY BLOOMY'S ROAD-KILL PLAN February 27, 2009 at 10:19 am It may be the unlikeliest spot in the city to pause for an alfresco refreshment, but pedestrians will soon be relaxing at outdoor tables in Times Square as traffic whizzes by on an expanded Seventh Avenue. Mayor Bloomberg yesterday took the... DEAL FOR TOLLS ON FREE BRIDGES ALL BUT 'DONE' February 27, 2009 at 10:15 am Like it or not, drivers will likely soon have to pay anywhere they cross the East and Harlem rivers. Speaker Sheldon Silver all but guaranteed that the state Assembly would approve $2 tolls on 13 crossings that historically have been popular... BIG BIZ GANGS UP ON 'MILLIONAIRE'S TAX' PLAN February 27, 2009 at 10:12 am Finally, someone is fighting for the rich guys. A group of powerful business organizations is preparing to fight a proposed "millionaire's tax" they say will drive affluent New Yorkers out of state. Taxpayers for an Affordable NY includes the... MAN ARRESTED FOR SENDING HIV-INFECTED BLOOD TO OBAMA February 27, 2009 at 10:09 am A man from President Obama's hometown of Chicago has been arrested for allegedly sending Obama and his staff envelopes containing HIV-infected blood, in the hopes of killing or harming them. It's only the second time ever that HIV-infected blood... 'FISHY' PIVEN DRAMA February 27, 2009 at 10:09 am Jeremy Piven was back on Broadway yesterday - dragged before a tribunal of actors and producers to convince them it really was mercury poisoning that forced him to leave "Speed-the-Plow." In a hearing that lasted almost as long as his run in... 2ND SUSPECT CAUGHT ECUADORIAN IMMIGRANT'S MURDER February 27, 2009 at 10:03 am Cops have finally gotten their joker. The man caught laughing on a surveillance video just 19 minutes after he allegedly beat an Ecuadoran immigrant to death with a baseball bat during a bias attack in Brooklyn was arrested this morning... BANK OF AMERICA BAIL$ ON YANKEES February 27, 2009 at 9:27 am They never got to first base. Much-maligned Bank of America has ended its negotiations for a major sponsorship deal with the Yankees in the wake of its massive taxpayer bailout. "We concluded our negotiations on a long-term agreement in early... ASTOR-CASE LAWYERS RAGE February 27, 2009 at 9:25 am Tensions in the Brooke Astor case nearly boiled over into courtroom fisticuffs yesterday, as the trial date of her accused swindler son, Anthony Marshall, was again delayed - this time until March 23. "Get your hand off me! Don't touch me!" lead... VICK GOING TO HIS DOG HOUSE February 27, 2009 at 9:23 am Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick is getting a pass. A government official told The Associated Press yesterday that Vick would be allowed to finish his prison sentence at home because there is no room at a halfway house for him. He is... POSTMAN BAGGED IN $90M IRS MAIL 'FRAUD' February 27, 2009 at 9:21 am The feds have busted a postal carrier and two accomplices, charging that they lifted bogus tax-refund checks out of the mailman's bag after arranging to have them sent to his route in a massive scheme to defraud the IRS of more than $90 million... NEW UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS HIT A GRIM 27-YEAR HIGH February 27, 2009 at 9:19 am WASHINGTON - New jobless claims rose more than expected last week and the number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits topped 5.1 million, fresh evidence that the recession is increasingly forcing employers to shed jobs. The Labor... GM TAKES A $31 BIL POUNDING February 27, 2009 at 9:01 am Cash-strapped General Motors yesterday reported a $30.9 billion loss over the last year - including $9.6 billion in the final quarter, as car sales plummeted amid a deepening recession. The sinking performance, among the worst in GM's history... WEIRD BUT TRUE February 27, 2009 at 2:30 am Dead men tell no tales, but dead women do. After a family failed to pay a Gadsden, Ala. funeral home to cremate a relative, the funeral director left the woman's body in a hearse for 1½ years. When someone complained about the odor... NYPD DAILY BLOTTER February 27, 2009 at 2:26 am Brooklyn Police yesterday nabbed a gunman who killed a 21-year-old woman in East New York - the fourth shooting in the neighborhood in 24 hours. Andre Wheatley, 26, for unknown reasons shot Ihsia Golphin, 21, once in the chest as she walked... EXPLODING DEBT LOAD FOR BUNCH OF FREELOADERS February 27, 2009 at 2:16 am WASHINGTON - Emblazoned on every page of President Obama's budget are the words: "A New Era of Responsibility." That would be a responsibility for you to fork over more taxes. That would be a responsibility for your company to pay even higher... MAD MIKE LOVES TOURISTS - BUT HATES NYERS February 27, 2009 at 1:54 am NEW YORKERS, don't take this lying down! Or stuck behind the wheel. We're here in the Crossroads of the World - soon to be known as the Traffic-Choked, Tourist-Loving, New Yorker-Hating, Immovable Crosswalk that Mayor Bloomberg has diabolically...   This email was sent to autoblogs077@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.