Hazing

The parents of the FAMU drum major who was hazed to death said Tuesday that the university "needs to get its priorities straight" before the famous marching band can perform again. In an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, Robert and Pamela Champion...

A former Maine West High School soccer coach at the center of hazing allegations was aware of the physical abuse taking place  before and during practices over a nearly four-month period last year, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said...

A former Maine West High School soccer coach at the center of hazing allegations was aware of the physical abuse taking place before and during practices over a nearly four-month period last year, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said...

Former FAMU drum major Rikki Wills, who insists that he tried to shield his college roommate Robert Champion from a brutal hazing in Orlando in 2011, pleaded no contest today to felony hazing resulting in death. Wills, 25, will not be sentenced until...

An outside investigation into alleged hazing at Maine West High School found that school and District 207 employees and administrators “conducted themselves properly” and “responded appropriately” when they were reportedly first...

An outside investigation into alleged hazing at Maine West High School found that District 207 officials "conducted themselves properly" and "responded appropriately" when they were reportedly first notified about the allegations. Those findings came in...

Sylvester Young, a former music professor at Ohio University, has been selected as FAMU's new marching band director. Officials at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee announced early last month that they were interviewing two people for the job of...

An attorney for the family of a Northern Illinois University freshman who died after a pledge party earlier this school year has added 16 sorority members to a lawsuit he had filed against the fraternity and its members. The wrongful death suit,...

An attorney for the family of a Northern Illinois University student who died after a pledge party this school year has added 16 sorority members to a lawsuit he had filed against the fraternity and its members. The wrongful death suit, amended Friday to...

Former FAMU drum major Rikki Wills rejected a plea deal Friday in the fatal hazing of his roommate Robert Champion and is set to become the first ex-band member to go to trial in the case. Wills, 24, did not appear in court with Orlando attorney Bill...

An Orange County judge, rejecting FAMU's argument that drum major Robert Champion should be viewed as a voluntary "participant" in the illegal hazing that killed him, will not throw out a wrongful-death lawsuit against the university. Circuit Judge...

The Rosen Plaza hotel has been added as a defendant in the wrongful-death lawsuit of FAMU drum major Robert Champion, who was beaten to death in a hazing ritual on a bus in the Orlando resort's parking lot. The Champion family's lawyer claims that Rosen'...