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 judge has thrown out involuntary manslaughter and some of the other most serious remaining charges against 11 of the former Penn State fraternity members arrested in a pledge’s hazing-related death last year. It’s the second major blow to the prosecution’s case. District Judge Allen Sinclair on Wednesday threw out nearly 300 new or refiled …
A district attorney’s office in Pennsylvania said it will reinstate most of the charges against 11 members at a now-nonoperational Penn State Fraternity, which were dismissed for incidents in connection with a sophomore pledge’s death earlier this year, according to Fox News. The incident comes after Tim Piazza, 19, fell down a set of stairs, …
Video of the last hours of Timothy Piazza’s life is being shown to a judge Monday to support the charges against 18 Penn State fraternity brothers accused in the student’s hazing death. Piazza, 19, died after an alcohol-fueled hazing ritual in the Beta Theta Pi frat house in February. While his blood-alcohol level was measured …
