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Vigil planned to remember FAMU drum major

FAMU hazing death was retaliation: parents

Florida A&M Marching 100 Drum Major Robert Champion during a performance at halftime of the game against Howard University at Bragg Memorial Stadium on Oct. 8, 2011 in Tallahassee, Fla. Champion became ill and died after a game on November 19, 2011.

/ AP Photo/Don Juan Moore

(AP) DECATUR, Ga. - The family of a Florida A&M drum major who died a year ago after being beaten during a hazing ritual plan a candlelight vigil on Monday to mark the anniversary.

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Sex abuse, hazing alleged at Calif. high school

La Puente High School in Pomona, Calif., where members of the boys' soccer team are accused of sexual hazing of younger players.

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(CBS) POMONA, Calif. - Felony sex charges have been filed against three boys accused of sexually hazing freshman students at La Puente High School in Pomona, Calif., CBS Los Angeles reported.

Four 14 and 15-year-old boys, who had made La Puente High's Varsity soccer team, were allegedly sexually assaulted by their older teammates in a room next to the coach's office in May 2012, according to attorney Brian Claypool.

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Defendant in FAMU hazing case gets probation

Brian Jones

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(CBS/AP) ORLANDO, Fla. - The first of a dozen defendants to be sentenced in last year's hazing death of Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion has avoided jail time but will spend more than two years under close supervision.

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1st defendant in FAMU hazing case to be sentenced

Florida A&M Marching 100 Drum Major Robert Champion during a performance at halftime of the game against Howard University at Bragg Memorial Stadium on Oct. 8, 2011 in Tallahassee, Florida. Champion became ill and died after a game on November 19, 2011.

/ AP Photo/Don Juan Moore

(CBS/AP) ORLANDO, Fla. -- Brian Jones, the first of a dozen defendants charged in last year's hazing death of a Florida A&M drum major, will be sentenced on a third-degree felony charge.

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"Sexual hazing" alleged at school, coach on leave

Students and a soccer coach at La Puente High School east of Los Angeles are being investigated in an alleged hazing incident involving sexual assault of freshman soccer players.

/ CBS Los Angeles

(CBS) LA PUENTA, Calif. - A coach is on leave and a Southern California high school is being sued amid allegations that four teenage boys were sexually assaulted as part of a hazing ritual by fellow members of their soccer team, CBS Los Angeles reports.

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FAMU wants Robert Champion hazing suit thrown out

FAMU hazing death was retaliation: parents

Florida A&M Marching 100 Drum Major Robert Champion during a performance at halftime of the game against Howard University at Bragg Memorial Stadium on Oct. 8, 2011 in Tallahassee, Florida.

/ AP Photo/Don Juan Moore
(CBS/AP) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida A&M University, which has been rocked by a hazing scandal for nearly a year, wants a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed against the university by the family of Robert Champion, the drum major who died after being beaten by fellow members of the marching band last November.

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Florida A&M to unveil anti-hazing website

Florida A&M Marching 100 Drum Major Robert Champion

/ AP Photo/Don Juan Moore

(CBS) TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-  Florida A&M University has announced it will be unveiling an anti-hazing website on Friday in the wake of the death of Robert Champion, a drum major from the famed "Marching 100" killed in a hazing ritual. The site is the school's next step in combating the hazing culture that has permeated organizations on campus, the Detroit Free Press reports.

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FAMU suspends dance team amid hazing allegations

Florida A&M University logo

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(CBS/AP) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida A&M University suspended its Torque Dance Team on Tuesday following allegations of an off-campus hazing incident. The suspension comes 10 months after the hazing-related death of a marching band drum major that made headlines across the nation.

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FAMU president resigns in wake of hazing scandal

FAMU pres. defends school's handling of hazing

Florida A&M president James Ammons

(CBS/AP) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida A&M President James Ammons resigned the same day parents of drum major Robert Champion, who died after being hazed, added the university to a wrongful death lawsuit.

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Parents of band member suing FAMU over his death

FAMU hazing death was retaliation: parents

Florida A&M Marching 100 Drum Major Robert Champion during a performance at halftime of the game against Howard University at Bragg Memorial Stadium on Oct. 8, 2011 in Tallahassee, Florida.

/ AP Photo/Don Juan Moore
(CBS/AP) ORLANDO, Fla. - The parents of Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion, who died after allegedly being beaten by fellow band mates in a hazing incident, say they are suing the university.

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