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FLAKY STORM BLOWS IN EARLY
By JOE McGURK, PERRY CHIARAMONTE and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
It's a blizzard - and it's not even winter yet! The first snowstorm of the season socked the Big Apple with 6 to 9 inches yesterday and will keep piling on the snow today - for a total that could reach 15 inches.
ON THE ROAD TO SNOWHERE
By LORENA MONGELLI and ADAM MILLER
When it comes to getting around today, it'll be snow going. A more powerful punch of snow and sleet is expected to batter the Big Apple. That's sure to wreak havoc on the roads, rails and bridges and fray the nerves of travelers trying to get around the city.
FLU TAKING FEVERISH TOLL IN CITY AND STATE
By SAM SMITH and ADAM MILLER
The flu is running rampant in New York - with the federal Centers for Disease Control saying the number of cases in the city and state are just below what it calls a "widespread" level.
MAYOR TO FERRY VICTIMS: SETTLE
By DAVID SEIFMAN and CLEMENTE LISI
Mayor Bloomberg repeated his call yesterday for victims of the Staten Island Ferry crash to drop their lawsuits and settle with the city because they will "be as generous as we possibly can."
MIKE GIVES LANDLORD-TAX BILL THE BOOT
By DAVID SEIFMAN
The fight over the absentee-landlord tax took another strange twist yesterday when Mayor Bloomberg vetoed a City Council bill that would have given the city more time to collect the tax.
MIKE: ELEX-$$ BOARD GETS FISHY FOR GIFFIE
By FRANKIE EDOZIEN
Mayor Bloomberg stepped up his attacks yesterday on the head of the city's Campaign Finance Board, accusing him of cutting a "backroom deal" to help City Council Speaker Gifford Miller.
DOWNTOWN-JOB TAX BREAK BACK
By LOIS WEISS
EXCLUSIVE A deal has been struck to renew a major corporate incentive program that will help lure jobs to lower Manhattan from outside the city, The Post has learned.
ROYAL BLUE: NYPD TO HOST JORDANIAN KING
By MURRAY WEISS
EXCLUSIVE For the first time in NYPD history, a foreign head of state will visit Police Headquarters and address the department's brain trust about terrorism and international affairs, The Post has learned.
'DIRTY COP' TWIST
By LARRY CELONA and MURRAY WEISS
EXCLUSIVE Investigators probing two suspected rogue detectives believe one of them may have been involved in a recent drug-related murder, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
'WHERE'S MY BABY?'
By ALISHA BERGER, PHILIP MESSING and RITA DELFINER
A grieving family of Ecuadoran immigrants plans today to bury Christian Plaza, 5, who was crushed to death in a sidewalk car accident outside his school, leaving behind only memories and dreams.
DROWNED BY MOM
By PATRICK GALLAHUE and PHILIP MESSING
A Brooklyn woman drowned her 20-year-old autistic daughter in the bathtub of their Fort Greene home early yesterday and then tried to kill herself, police said.
TRAIN RIDER SNOOZED, GOT BRUISED, NOW SUES
By LAURA ITALIANO
It happens to almost every rail commuter - take a little nap, miss your stop.
KIN SUE CITY FOR 'POTTER'S' BURIAL
By JOHN LEHMANN
The family of a man who died in Manhattan and was buried in a potter's field without their knowledge is suing the city Medical Examiner's Office for failing to contact them.
FOUNDATION BOOSTS LIBRARIES BY $6M
Associated Press
The Wallace Foundation is donating $6 million to the city's three public library systems to support and expand after-school programs, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday.
YIKES, HIKES: GOV AIDE SEES TAXES SOARING FOR SCHOOLS
By CARL CAMPANILE
EXCLUSIVE State lawmakers might have to hike taxes to comply with a court order to improve education in city public schools, the head of Gov. Pataki's school financing panel said yesterday.
SHELL OUT, STAFF TELLS OYSTER BAR
By BRADEN KEIL
Striking workers at Grand Central Terminal's Oyster Bar braved miserable conditions yesterday to picket outside the station, where the infamous union inflatable rat looked more like an angry Frosty the Snowman.
JUDGE SLAPS TINSELTOWN TITAN
By JOHN LEHMANN
A Manhattan federal judge dealt a blow to Hollywood supremo Jack Valenti yesterday, ruling that his controversial ban on sending advance copies of films to movie-award voters was unlawful.
GWYNETH SET TO TIE THE KNOT
By PAULA FROELICH and DAVID K. LI
Gwyneth Paltrow is gearing up for her upcoming role as a bride. The 31-year-old Oscar-winning actress and her rocker boyfriend Chris Martin may soon be taking a trip down the aisle after the two showed up yesterday at a Santa Barbara courthouse and applied for a marriage license, said Pam Smith, a supervisor at the Santa Barbara county clerk/recorder's office.
MARTHA NOT ALLOWED TO QUIZ BROKER
By JOHN LEHMANN
Martha Stewart yesterday lost the chance to grill the government's key witness against her, rookie broker Douglas Faneuil, before her ImClone securities trial kicks off next month.
NEWARK FLIERS HAVE MINOR 'WAIT' LOSS
Associated Press
Newark Liberty International Airport is no longer the worst in the nation when it comes to on-time landings.
B'KLYN MAN ACQUITTED OF SLAYING PAL'S RIVAL
By DENISE BUFFA
A jury found a man not guilty of the murder of a friend's love rival yesterday after a trial that was marred by reluctant witnesses - and a juror who said he was pressured to acquit.
EX-LIRR BOSS DERAILED OVER SUSPECT GIFTS
By CLEMENTE LISI
The former president of the Long Island Rail Road received opera tickets and free meals from a train-parts company that was negotiating contracts with the agency, officials said yesterday.
CLASSROOM AIDE BEATS UP KID: COPS
By JAMIE SCHRAM and ERIN CALABRESE
A classroom aide allegedly went berserk inside a Brooklyn school this week, punching a 7-year-old special-education student and slamming his head into a microwave oven - because the child didn't know the date.
GANG STABS STRAPHANGER
By JENNIFER FERMINO
A Manhattan man returning home from work on the subway was beaten and stabbed by a gang of thugs in a brazen rush-hour attack.
RAPE FIENDS' SICK FISTFIGHT
By ERIC LENKOWITZ
The five Mexican immigrants charged with savagely assaulting a woman in Queens were so anxious to rape the mom they got into a heated physical argument over who would "have relations" with her first, one of the attackers said yesterday.
LAST RESPECTS FOR FIRST BLACK COUNCILWOMAN
By FRANKIE EDOZIEN
The late council member Mary Pinkett will lie in state Monday at Brooklyn's Medgar Evers College, from 5 to 7 p.m., council officials said yesterday. An all-day wake will follow the next day, Tuesday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
By JAMIE SCHRAM and ZACH HABERMAN
BROOKLYN Cops yesterday said they were seeking to identify and question a man in an August shooting in Brownsville.
CURSING KERRY UNLEASHES FOULMOUTHED ATTACK ON BUSH
By DEBORAH ORIN
Struggling 2004 Democratic wannabe John Kerry fires an X-rated attack at President Bush over Iraq and uses the f-word - highly unusual language for a presidential contender - in a stunning new interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
DUBYA 'HEADS' TO HEARTLAND
By BRIAN BLOMQUIST
WASHINGTON - President Bush brought news of lower unemployment figures to a Home Depot store outside Baltimore, where he spoke with workers - including colorfully tattooed staffer Ray Pelsinski (left).
REAGAN-COIN BILL TURNS ON A DIME
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - House conservative Republicans want to put Ronald Reagan's image on the dime in place of Democratic icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Democrats are just as determined to prevent the change.
FED'S HORRID END
By NILES LATHEM
WASHINGTON - A federal prosecutor was brutally stabbed 36 times - as if he was being tortured - before he was dumped into a creek, law enforcement sources said yesterday.
EMINEM 'SLAY' WISH
By ALY SUJO
Eminem wants the president dead. A new, unreleased song by the vituperative Detroit rhymer - titled "We as Americans" - includes the lyrics: "F--- money. I don't rap for dead presidents. I'd rather see the president dead."
IOWA TV VOTES DOWN REV. AL SNL
Post Wire Services
Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton will host this weekend's broadcast of "Saturday Night Live," but viewers in Iowa won't see it.
ANOTHER KID ACCUSED JACKO IN '93
By BARRY BORTNICK
A second boy accused Michael Jackson of child molestation a decade ago, but the 9-year-old was too embarrassed and humiliated to testify, Santa Barbara County's former top cop said yesterday.
WEIRD BUT TRUE
By MARSHA KRANES and Post Wire Services
His tattoo left an impression. Witnesses spotted Samuel Moore's mark as he was bungling a stickup at a supermarket in Long Beach, Calif.
IRAQ WAR CRIMES PANEL
By DEBORAH ORIN
Iraq is about to set up a war crimes tribunal that could put Saddam Hussein and hundreds of his henchmen on trial, including some of the thugs in the "Most Wanted" pack of cards, officials said yesterday.
QAEDA NUT'S EXPLOSIVE SOCK A REAL STINK BOMB
By ANDY SOLTIS
An accomplice of "shoe bomber" Richard Reid may have been planning a new terrorist device - a sock bomb.
POWELL EYES ALTERNATE 'ROAD MAP'
By URI DAN
JERUSALEM - Secretary of State Colin Powell and other senior U.S. diplomats held a series of talks yesterday with authors of an unofficial Mideast peace plan - over the vocal objections of Israel.
RUSSIA TRAIN BOMB KILLS 41
Associated Press
YESSENTUKI, Russia - A suicide attacker set off an explosion that tore through a commuter train yesterday near the rebellious region of Chechnya, killing 41 people and wounding nearly 200 others in a bombing that President Vladimir Putin said was intended to disrupt this weekend's parliamentary elections.
COKE AND ECSTASY SCRAMBLE DNA: DOCS
Reuters
ROME - Cocaine and "ecstasy" not only cause addiction and raise the risk of cancer, but also provoke genetic mutations, Italian scientists said yesterday.
POT'S 'HIGH' RISK OF CANCER
Reuters
LONDON - Smoking weed is not the harmless recreational activity it may seem because it can cause lung cancer, researchers in England said yesterday.
WEIRD BUT TRUE
By MARSHA KRANES and Post Wire Services
A body painter in Lucerne, Switzerland, was fined $150 for polluting. It seems that after decorating the bodies of 124 women in a bid to break the world body-painting record, he realized he had forgotten to provide shower facilities for his human canvases.
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