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Opening statements are set for Wednesday in the death-penalty trial of a former University of Illinois graduate student charged with kidnapping, torturing and killing a visiting Chinese scholar, a case closely watched by Chinese students across the U.S.

Florida A&M University has reached a settlement with the family of a drum major who died after being hazed by fellow band members.

A former Florida A&M University band member was sentenced Friday to four years in prison for his role in a drum major’s hazing death.

A former Florida A&M University band member who’s been awaiting his punishment for more than two years for his role in a drum major’s hazing death is set to be sentenced.

A former Florida A&M University band member who’s been awaiting his punishment for more than two years for his role in a drum major’s hazing death has had his sentencing postponed for a second time.

The attorney suing Florida A&M University over the fatal hazing of drum major Robert Champion has been reinstated to practice law in Florida.

Lawyers for the family of a Florida A & M University drum major killed during a hazing ritual say the family has offered to settle the wrongful-death lawsuit against the university for $8 million.

A former Florida A & M University band member is set to be sentenced more than two years after playing a role in a drum major’s hazing death.

A judge in the case of the final three defendants convicted in the hazing death of a FAMU drum major has found legal precedent to deviate from the recommended sentencing guideline, should she ultimately decide to.

Another former band member said Wednesday that she recalled seeing two of three defendants charged with manslaughter in the death of a FAMU drum major hitting him during a hazing ritual the night he died.

The manslaughter trial of the remaining three former band members charged in the hazing death of a Florida A&M drum major has begun.

More than 40 dogs have vanished from a North Texas county over the past two months, leaving behind no clues in a mystery that’s devastated their owners.

A victim of one of Mark Wahlberg’s racially motivated attacks as a teenage delinquent in segregated Boston in the 1980s insists he shouldn’t be granted a pardon for his crimes.

A former Florida A&M University band member was sentenced to 77 months in prison after being convicted last year of manslaughter and felony hazing in the death of a drum major.

Two former band members who were on the bus the night a Florida A&M University drum major was fatally beaten during a hazing ritual identified Dante Martin as the ring leader of the events.

A prosecutor said Tuesday that a former band member charged in the death of a Florida A&M University drum major was the chief organizer of a brutal hazing ritual that has been a secret tradition at the school for years.

The trials of three of four members of Florida A&M University’s marching band on charges of felony hazing and manslaughter have been postponed until April. But the trial of a fourth member began with jury selection Monday, nearly three years after drum major Robert Champion died from being beaten.