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LOS ANGELES (AP) —

A Los Angeles jury could be the first in the U.S. to decide whether the NCAA failed to protect college football players from repeated blows to the head that cause serious brain injuries

Brown, 34, tweeted out after newly-released footage of Browns trip at the Armani Hotel Dubai on May 14 showed the troubled ex-player shoving his bare butt in a stunned womans face.

The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner said that former wide receiver Vincent Jackson died from chronic alcohol use and determined that the manner death was natural,.

Vincent Jacksons family says the late Tampa Bay Buccaneers star has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma.

Premium Content Subscriber only AN intoxicated driver found seated inside his car with blown tyres and vomit both in and outside the car, was waiting for a tow truck when police arrived. He’d been too drunk for police to interview but later admitted to being on a six-day bender. A friend who was seated in the car had already brought him water from a nearby house before the officers arrived, Ipswich Magistrates Court heard. Jessie Jack, 21, from Redbank Plains, pleaded guilty to driving whi...

Premium Content Subscriber only A LATE night triple-0 call sent police to a hotel car park where a security guard reported seeing a man trying to inject something in his arm. When officers arrived just after 2am they came across Shane Hodgkiss seated in a blue Suzuki. Prosecutor Senior Constable Andrew Smith told Ipswich Magistrates Court Hodgkiss was parked outside a Booval hotel. His Suzuki was searched and a clip seal bag with 1.42 grams of the drug ice was found in a black bag under the dri...

Premium Content Subscriber only A MAN charged with slapping a female police officer on the arm said he did so because he needed to get outside and vomit. The warehouse supervisors behaviour this week cost him a hefty fine, after James Allan Bradley Ross pleaded guilty to charges of serious assault on a police officer and obstructing police. Ipswich Magistrates Court heard police had been called to an Ipswich home on March 6 in relation to an earlier incident. Prosecutor Senior Constable And...

REVEALED: Staff at Florida hotel entered tragic ex-NFL star Vincent Jacksons room twice but thought he was sleeping, so only raised the alarm on the third day Ex-NFL receiver Vincent Jackson may have died days before he was declared deceased at his Tampa-area hotel room earlier this week, it has been revealed On both Saturday and Sunday, hotel staff entered the room, where they saw the 38-year-old Jackson slouched over on the couch, apparently asleep By Monday, after seeing Jackson in the same ...