Police say the prep football star killed in South Florida hours after his team's homecoming game was likely an innocent victim of gang violence. ...more

September 28, 2008

Your sports page may have recently induced an unpleasant sense of deja vu. A pro football star, by all accounts, seemed caught in a spiral of depression. Friends and advisers were worried enough about suicide to call the police. After an ensuing public-relations fracas, the player and the team assured us that it was all a grand misunderstanding. ...more

September 28, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Former Ridgewood High football star Byronell Arline was arrested on a cocaine possession charge by the New Port Richey Police Department at 12:19 a.m. Sunday. He was released that morning on $5,000 bail. ...more

September 25, 2008

Jurors in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery and kidnapping trial on Friday heard a recording of the football star angrily accusing two memorabilia dealers of stealing his mementoes and saying, "Don't let nobody out of this room." ...more

September 20, 2008

Jurors who have been told to refrain from judging O.J. Simpson on his past heard a recording Thursday of a police employee exulting: "This is great. ... California can't get him. ... Now we'll be able to." ...more

September 19, 2008

An FBI expert testified via videotape Wednesday in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery trial that it's impossible to tell whether an audio tape of the hotel room confrontation was altered, but the judge said she still might let jurors hear the recording. ...more

September 18, 2008

A sports memorabilia dealer who claims O.J. Simpson and five other men robbed him at gunpoint testified Tuesday that some of the items taken from him were the former football star's family heirlooms. ...more

September 17, 2008

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A prosecutor told jurors Monday they will find "the true face" of O.J. Simpson during the former football star's trial on charges of robbing sports memorabilia dealers a year ago. ...more

September 16, 2008

Expecting to sell O.J. Simpson collectibles to a wealthy buyer in a hotel room here, memorabilia dealer Bruce Fromong was instead shoved, patted down and threatened with a gun by associates of the former college and professional football star, Fromong testified Monday. ...more

September 16, 2008

O.J. Simpson went to trial on kidnapping and robbery charges Monday with a judge determined to find a jury unaffected by his long-ago "Trial of the Century." ...more

September 9, 2008