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CROOKS DERAILED AS SUBWAY CRIME DIVES
By CLEMENTE LISI
Subway crime plummeted last year - falling to its lowest levels in 34 years, The Post has learned.
STATE DEVELOPS A QUEER EYE FOR GAY-GROUP NAMES
ALBANY - The state has undergone an extreme makeover in its attitude toward the word "queer."
BRAVEST STILL CALL FOR WTC NAME DISTINCTION
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
Firefighters who want the names of 9/11 rescue workers listed separately in the Ground Zero memorial renewed calls yesterday for Gov. Pataki to back their demands.
BROOKLYN JEWELRY HEIST BAGS 300G
Two men and a woman carried out a brazen midday robbery of a Brooklyn jewelry store yesterday, running off with $300,000 in gold chains and other baubles, police said.
N.J.'S GOT A LINE ON COVETED 212 CODE
By JEANE MacINTOSH
EXCLUSIVE
Cell-phone users from the suburbs can get something many Manhattanites would kill for - the much-coveted 212 area code.
MORE NYERS ON MINIMUM WAGE
ALBANY, N.Y. - The ranks of New Yorkers holding low-paying jobs have tripled since the 1970s, according to a study, released yesterday, that concluded an increase in the state minimum wage would directly help nearly 700,000 workers and lift the economy.
RUN DOWN
By MARK BULLIET
A 26-year-old budding high-school teacher who spent his spare time volunteering at an animal shelter was run down and killed by a stolen SUV - and his body dragged for more than a block - on the Upper East Side as his girlfriend and pals looked on in horror.
DEADLY INFERNOS
By IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON, ROOSEVELT JOSEPH and DAN KADISON
A rash of blazes in Manhattan and Brooklyn yesterday killed two people - including a beloved 82-year-old woman - injured several firefighters and left families homeless, officials said.
BANKER SLAY UNSOLVED ONE YEAR LATER
By ANDY GELLER and LARRY CELONA
Cops are asking for the public's help in finding the killer of a young banker who was shot to death a year ago today during a robbery attempt outside a Lower East Side apartment building.
BETTING BLUES CRUISE
By DAN MANGAN
Call it the casino boat cruise from hell: bad food, freezing temperatures, no TV - and winning gambles being paid off with checks instead of cash.
BOY, 14, NABBED IN BRONX BLAZE THAT KILLED IRAQ GI'S KIN
By LARRY CELONA, ED ROBINSON and ERIN CALABRESE
A day after a GI who had been serving in Iraq buried his wife and mother-in-law, cops busted a 14-year-old Bronx boy for allegedly setting the fire that killed them, police sources said.
FARE HIKE COULD MEAN SAFER CABS
By CLEMENTE LISI
Taxi drivers who make more money are less likely to get into car accidents, a new study says.
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn * A 32-year-old man was gunned down yesterday during a child's birthday party in Canarsie as stunned relatives looked on, police said.
MAYOR'S HOUSING CHIEF RESIGNS
By STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN
EXCLUSIVE
Mayor Bloomberg today is expected to announce the resignation of the highest-ranking official to leave his administration yet - Housing Preservation and Development Agency chief Jerilyn Perine.
L.I. GUN RAP FOR TUNESMITH
By CHRIS MICHAUD
Award-winning country music songwriter Hugh Prestwood, who scored No. 1 hits for Randy Travis and Trisha Yearwood, was arraigned yesterday on a weapons-possession charge after a loaded gun turned up in his carry-on bag at Long Island's MacArthur Airport.
RELIEF AND GRIEF FOR QNS. KIDNAP MOM
By ANGELINA CAPPIELLO and DAN MANGAN
A young Queens mother yesterday mourned her slain lover but thanked God that her 5-year-old daughter was rescued from the suspected killer.
4,000 FEWER GOPERS WILL BE 'INN' TOWN
By CHRIS MICHAUD
The Republicans are still coming this summer, but it looks like there will be fewer of them.
UFT AND CITY DISCUSS AFFAIRS OF THE HEART
By HEIDI SINGER
The teachers' union and city have scheduled an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss speeding up training efforts for the use of defibrillators in city schools, officials said.
GOP PHAT CAT OWNS CONEY I. HIP-HOP CLUB
By PATRICK GALLAHUE
Talk about a Grand Old Part-ay! The owner of a Coney Island building currently being renovated into a hip-hop dance club is none other than Brooklyn's Republican Party boss, Hy Singer.
MIKE JAMS IN JAMAICA, MON
By FRANKIE EDOZIEN
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Mayor Bloomberg got bitten by the music bug moments after he stepped off a plane here yesterday, seizing drumsticks from a welcoming band and playing mento music.
CRUMBLING CASE
By ERIC LENKOWITZ
The star witness is dead, the prosecutor has quit and the state's best evidence could get chucked, but the Queens DA's Office is rolling forward with its case against a correction officer charged with using a pipe to beat her dad to death.
HILLARY WARNS OF OT 'PAY CUT'
By STEPHANIE GASKELL
Nearly half a million New Yorkers - including cops, firefighters and nurses - could be disqualified from earning overtime pay if a $373 billion year-end spending bill passes the Senate later this month, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton warned yesterday.
CHENEY SCOFFED AT DEFICITS: O'NEILL
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
Vice President Dick Cheney once dismissed talk of federal fiscal worries by saying, "deficits don't matter," former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says in a controversial new book on his two years in the Bush White House.
JEWS WON'T BACK BUSH
U.S. Jews would overwhelmingly support any major Democratic candidate over President Bush if the election were held today, according to the 2004 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion.
CLINTON IS CLARK'S DOLLAR BILL
By FREDRIC U. DICKER
ALBANY - Bill and Hillary Clinton have told friends that now is the "key moment" for Wesley Clark's presidential campaign, and the former president has begun making last-minute fund-raising calls, key Democrats say.
REV. AL BEANS DEAN
By DEBORAH ORIN and VINCENT MORRIS
DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic front-runner Howard Dean bristled last night as he admitted - under fire from Al Sharpton - that he never named a black or Latino to his Cabinet in 12 years as Vermont governor.
NO DEBATING IT: HOWARD BLEW IT BIG TIME
By DEBORAH ORIN and VINCENT MORRIS
ANALYSIS
DES MOINES, Iowa - Howard Dean's worst debate performance came at the worst possible time: just as Iowans are getting ready to vote.
CHURCH IN GAY-WED PLEA TO LAWYERS
BOSTON - Archbishop Sean O'Malley urged Catholic lawyers yesterday to oppose gay unions, saying the institution of marriage and the family are under assault and attorneys must help protect them.
INCREDIBLE SHARK GIRL BACK IN ACTION
Amazing Bethany Hamilton rides the waves in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, in her first competition since losing her left arm to a man-eater 10 weeks ago. The gutsy 13-year-old placed fifth in her age group in the Open Women's Division in the National Scholastic Surfing Association Tournament. Bethany kicked her left leg to help propel her surfboard into the waves, and occasionally struggled when pushing off the board with one hand. But "once I get up on the board, I'm OK," she said.
JACKO'S PACK O' BOOSTERS ALL SET
LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's supporters are planning a massive show of support when the pop superstar is arraigned on child-molestation charges this week.
SEARCH HEATS UP FOR PILOT MISSING FROM '91 GULF WAR
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Military probers have resumed their active investigation into the fate of missing Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher, whose fighter jet crashed during the 1991 Gulf War.
HOSPITAL SUES 'KILLER NURSE' AGENCY
EASTON, Pa - Easton Hospital's former owner has filed notice that it plans to sue the staffing firm that supplied it with Charles Cullen, the former nurse who is charged with killing a patient in New Jersey and suspected in at least one patient death at Easton.
PENTAGON HIRE PROBE
The Defense Department has reportedly launched an inquiry into high level military officials who have been hired by defense contractors over the past few years - after a continuing probe into ethical problems at Boeing Co.
OWE, BROTHER!
By DAREH GREGORIAN
Doing good is its own reward - but in The Bronx courts, doing bad can get you rewarded.
BOB'S YOUR 'ANCHOR'
By DON KAPLAN
It's the all-new Baghdad Bob - he's cleaned up his act, dyed his hair and he's back on the air.
'PIRATES' TREASURED
By BRIDGET HARRISON
Disney's swashbuckling pirates made Tolkien's hobbits walk the plank last night at the People's Choice Awards.
BUBBA MAY BE BRIT SHORE THING
The Brits soon may not have to worry about their southern coast. Former President Bill Clinton has been tapped as the next possible Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Britain's oldest military honor and one that means he would technically be responsible for repelling any invasion of England's southeast coast.
TEEN BOMBER BLOWS HIMSELF UP
NABLUS, West Bank - Before dawn yesterday, 17-year-old Iyad al-Masri strapped on a belt filed with explosives and left this city - intent on carrying out an attack on Israelis. Hours later, his belt malfunctioned and exploded, killing him.
ISRAEL BIDS FOR TALKS WITH SYRIA
JERUSALEM - Israeli President Moshe Katsav today invited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to visit Jerusalem as word got out that the two countries had secret contacts months ago.
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Cops in Ohio feared the worst when they pulled over a man in women's clothes, high-heels and a wig for a traffic violation and he told them, "I am not going to jail. You'll have to kill me first!" and hit the gas.
SEARCH FOR MISSING ALBANIANS
TIRANA, Albania - Navy ships and a helicopter were scouring Albania's coast yesterday for seven people reported missing after an inflatable boat packed with would-be illegal immigrants headed to Italy sank, killing at least 21 people.
NASA PUTS A LEASH ON MARS ROVER
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA scientists said yesterday they had decided to keep the Spirit rover on its lander for an extra day, putting off its rollout onto the Mars landscape until at least late Wednesday.
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