LOS ANGELES – Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the best director award from the Directors Guild of America Saturday with her Iraq war thriller “The Hurt Locker,” a low-budget film gathering awards steam ahead of the Oscars.
The winner of the Guild’s top award has gone…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Roger Federer dismantled Andy Murray in the Australian Open final Sunday to extend his own record to 16 Grand Slam titles and prolong the British drought.
Federer collected his fourth Australian Open title with a 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (11) win at Rod Laver Arena that, apart from the…
No matter what Mayor Bloomberg has promised, get ready for new taxes.
So says John Liu, the new city comptroller.
Liu is casting doubt that the $63.6 billion budget plan for fiscal year 2011 that the mayor released Thursday — which contained a series of revenue increases, agency cuts…
The FBI definitely wants this senior citizen to quit his day job and retire, preferably into their custody.
A 70-something San Diego bank robber dubbed the “The Geezer” has stuck up six branches.
He most recently scribbled a demand note and flashed a handgun at a teller at the San…
This month’s 3.5 percent drop in the Dow Jones industrial average is doing more than putting the squeeze on average investors — it’s also socking the country’s wealthiest money mavens by slamming shut the window of opportunity for initial public offerings.
Several of what was expected…
Sounding more like a Park Slope food co-op clerk than the leader of the world’s most-feared terror cabal, Osama bin Laden released a new tape in which he gripes about how the United States isn’t taking global warming seriously and bemoans the corrupting influence of big business.
The…
Accused terror mom Aafia Siddiqui paid for private pistol lessons while a student at MIT during the early 1990s, a firearms instructor testified yesterday.
Gary Woodworth, a member of the Braintree Rifle and Pistol Club in Massachusetts, said in Manhattan federal court that he taught alleged al Qaeda associate Siddiqui…
Nearly 8½ years after 9/11, city officials yesterday said anthropologists would soon start sifting through new Ground Zero debris in hope of uncovering more human remains. Deputy Mayor Edward Skyler said 844 cubic yards of debris have been recovered since the last sifting, in 2007. The new round is…
George Costanza would be proud.
Residents of an Upper West Side co-op waged a three-month war with their board to fight for a lobby chair that was yanked from the doormen to keep them on their toes.
And just like Costanza — who famously fought to get a store security…
Forget health care and terror, President Obama is tackling an even bigger problem — the legality of the college football Bowl Championship Series.
The series has garnered loads of criticism over the years because teams are chosen to compete in the championship game by a subjective rating system, rather than…
