The parents of a slain University of Utah student have filed a $56 million federal lawsuit, alleging college police and housing officials failed to act before her ex-boyfriend shot her to death on campus last year. Matt and Jill McCluskey, the parents of slain student Lauren McCluskey, 21, announced Thursday that they’re suing the college …
“Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman will be taking residence in prison if prosecutors have their way. TMZ reports that an assistant U.S. Attorney asked a judge in a Boston to hand Huffman a 4-month prison sentence for her admitted role in a college admissions scam. Huffman is in court to enter her guilty plea to …
A Kansas college football player who was drafted to the New York Giants on Saturday was reportedly wounded hours later in a shooting that killed his former teammate. According to ESPN, Washburn University defensive back Dwane Simmons, 23, was killed while his teammate, Corey Ballentine, 23, a cornerback drafted to the New York Giants in the …
An ex-Pennsylvania college student accused of leaving racist graffiti for his black roommate in their dorm room and poisoning him with a toxic metal is reportedly being investigated for a second poisoning. Per The Lehigh Morning Call, District Attorney John Morganelli announced Thursday that they’re investigating whether Yukai Yang, 22, poisoned another Lehigh University student. Morganelli declined …
An ex-Pennsylvania college student, accused earlier this year of leaving racist graffiti for his black roommate in their dorm room, was arrested for allegedly poisoning him with a toxic metal. Yukai Yang, 22, a chemistry major at Lehigh University, turned himself in Thursday and was charged with attempted murder. Authorities believe Yang slipped thallium—an odorless, colorless, …
A Florida man is facing criminal charges for allegedly threatening to kill his college professor for scheduling an early morning final exam. Rafael Decomas, 20, a student at Florida Atlantic University, reportedly threatened his data structure professor through Twitter over the scheduled 7 a.m. exam. According to WPLG, authorities managed to trace the tweet back to …
The former president of a fraternity at Baylor University who was indicted for allegedly sexually assaulting a female student in 2015 will likely avoid jail after pleading guilty to a lesser charge. Initially charged with four counts of sexual assault, Jacob Walter Anderson, 24, pleaded guilty Monday to unlawful restraint. The plea deal means Anderson will serve three years …
An administrator at Ripon College called the student org’s account ‘false and propagated’ in a recent email to CrimeOnline
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A Penn State University fraternity member who plied a pledge with vodka the night he was fatally injured in a series of falls avoided jail time Tuesday when a judge sentenced him to three months of house arrest. Ryan Burke, the first frat brother sentenced in the case, apologized to the …
A University of North Carolina fraternity was shut down Thursday, days after a 20-year-old student reportedly died when she fell out of a party bus window. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said sophomore Polly Miranda Rogers was aboard the Charlotte Party Charter bus Tuesday evening when she fell out an emergency window and was struck by two cars. WBTV …
Two University of Central Florida students were arrested on Tuesday after a female college student reported she was raped while attending a frat party on Saturday night. The Orlando Sentinel reports that David Anthony Kirk (pictured left), 20, and Jack Ryan Smith (pictured right), 26, are accused of sexual battery after a woman who attended a Alpha Tau …
A Pasadena, CA woman was taken into police custody Wednesday for allegedly sending a photo of herself bound and gagged to her parents in a fake kidnapping scheme focused on collecting cash. According to the Pasadena Star-News, Yimei Wang, 20, arranged to have a terrifying photo of herself restrained in a hotel room sent to …
