Tag Archives: Legal proceedings

BEIJING (AP) — The former president of the Chinese Football Association has been sentenced to life in prison amid a wide-ranging crackdown on sports corruption. Chinese courts on Tuesday handed down sentences of between eight years and life in prison to officials in the Communist Party-controlled sports programs, accusing them of taking bribes and committing other financial crimes. Chen Xuyuan, …

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed against the company that owns the San Jose Sharks alleging that a 12-year-old player was sexually abused by a former youth hockey coach. The suit filed in Santa Clara Superior Court on Thursday alleges that Sharks Sports & Entertainment, LLC and its subsidiary, Sharks Ice, LLC, were negligent in the …

WASHINGTON (AP) — NCAA President Charlie Baker said Friday that action by Congress was needed to protect what he described as the “95 percent” of athletes whose ability to play college sports would be endangered by a court ruling or regulatory decision declaring them as employees of their schools. Speaking to a small group of reporters near the NCAA’s Washington …

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday threw out the convictions of a former sheriff’s deputy for falsifying firearms training and qualification requirements for former superiors — including the then-county sheriff, who is now serving prison time for crimes. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals vacated 12 felony obstruction of justice convictions against ex-Granville …

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday threw out the convictions of a former sheriff’s deputy for falsifying firearms training and qualification requirements for former superiors — including the then-county sheriff, who is now serving prison time for crimes. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals vacated 12 felony obstruction of justice convictions against ex-Granville …

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — A jury convicted a man of murder in the deaths of a teenage girl and a woman in northern Michigan, including one victim whose body was buried in a backyard. Prosecutors alleged that Brad Srebnik killed 17-year-old Brynn Bills and subsequently killed his girlfriend, Abby Hill, because she knew what he did in the Alpena area …

The NCAA, which represents some 1,100 schools and more than 500,000 athletes, is no stranger to lawsuits. It has been in court off and on since the early 1980s defending the amateur athlete model at the heart of college athletics. But it is now facing some of the biggest legal challenges in its history, spurred by a 2021 Supreme Court …

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A man already serving a life prison sentence for the 2014 death of a Tucson teenager is facing a retrial in the kidnapping and killing of a 6-year-old girl. Jury selection began Tuesday in the second murder trial for Christopher Clements in the Isabel Celis case. Celis vanished from her parents’ Tucson home in April 2012. …