Adam Nichols

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Donaghy depicts NBA corruption

Disgraced NBA ref Tim Donaghy's on-game betting was made easy by a squad of colleagues so corrupt he could call a game as soon as he knew who was refereeing...

Shock finding: Cellphone-cancer link

Hold the phone! There is a definitive link between long-term cellphone use and brain tumors, the World Health Organization found after a decade-long study. The UN agency will soon reveal...

Study: Cell phone cancer link

A groundbreaking, $30 million study into cell phones has found a link between long term use and brain tumors. The World Health Organization is about to reveal that its decade-long...

Just plane ridiculous

Their tale just doesn't fly. Experts aren't buying two pilots' claims that a "heated discussion over airline policy" made them block out 74 minutes of desperate radio messages, screeching alarms...

Killer's frantic texts to NFL star

The jealous mistress who murdered former NFL star Steve McNair before killing herself sent him a barrage of distressed text messages in the days before the July 4 bloodbath in...

Train-hit miracle

A 6-month-old boy escaped with nothing but a cut to his forehead after his stroller rolled off a rail station's platform and into the path of a train outside Melbourne,...

Lady's hell on wheels

A marketing campaign for Toyota turned into a terror onslaught for a Los Angeles woman who became convinced a crazed British thug was making a beeline for her home, according...

Stompin' mad at Madonna

Madonna is spending so much time getting into the groove that she's driving her neighbor crazy. The Material Girl has turned her Central Park West apartment into a makeshift dance...

'Street' of schemes

Federal prison clearly hasn't knocked the scheming out of Gordon Gekko. The infamous stock trader, played by Michael Douglas, plots with Shia LaBeouf in Central Park yesterday during filming of...

Mel's anti-Jew-spew DWI wiped off books

Mel Gibson has atoned for his sins. The Oscar-winning "Braveheart" star -- who fired off a hate-fueled rant against Jews as cops arrested him for drunken driving in 2006 --...

'Smoke' detectors

It was a thug's bazaar. The state set up a sting to snare black-market cigarette dealers -- and wound up attracting smugglers with side businesses in prostitution, gun-running and drug...

Dr. O's grim prognosis

Half of all Americans can expect to lose their health insurance at some point in the next decade unless the system is revamped, President Obama warned in his weekly radio...

'Cattle drive-thru' mini-mart

Talk about fresh beef -- some West Coast cattle took a short cut to the meat section. Customers at a Puyallup, Wash., found themselves unexpectedly running with the bulls when...

Weird but true

Who says your sex life deteriorates with age? Cadavers are spending eternity locked in a loving clinch at an exhibition featuring dead bodies in Germany. The "Body Worlds" show uses...

'Robbing Hood' cop spared

A former Brooklyn police sergeant, fired after stealing $40 from a drug dealer to pay an informant, yesterday was spared a jail sentence -- but told, instead, to become a...

Jets tix king in fraud rap

The big-spending businessman who dropped $400,000 on the best seats in the Jets' new stadium was charged yesterday with masterminding an $11 million mortgage fraud. David Findel, 44, allegedly sold...

Tat's too bad for Rihanna

An East Village tattoo parlor where singer Rihanna illegally inked the employees now has an indelible stain on its record. Inspectors, tipped off that the pretty "Umbrella" crooner had left...

Jets tix bidder sacked

He might have the best seats in the Jets' new stadium, but big-spending businessman David Findel no longer has a corner office to sit in. Findel -- who paid a...

Stay away from 'net, tennis pros

Do tweets help cheats? US Open officials have prohibited players from sending Twitter messages during the short breaks in their games -- fearing they could provide "inside information" gamblers could...

O: AID SHOULD BE BIG EASIER

President Obama yesterday vowed to break through the "red tape" that is still stalling New Orleans' recovery four years after Hurricane Katrina. "We will not tolerate red tape that stands...