C H A R L O T T E, N.C., Nov. 20 -- After a month of jury selection, lawyersprepared today for weeks of battle over evidence in the murdertrial of former NFL player Rae Carruth. Prosecutors want the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Deadlocked jurors in Rae Carruth's murder trial were ordered Thursday to keep trying to reach a verdict on whether the former NFL player masterminded the killing of his ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Lawyers for former pro football player Rae Carruth claim his pregnant girlfriend was fatally shot by a friend of his who was angry because the athlete refused to finance a ...

Rae Carruth is still in denial. The onetime promising Carolina Panthers wide receiver was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the 1999 shooting death of Cherica Adams, who was pregnant with ...

On a dark night in Charlotte 25 years ago, Chancellor Lee Adams’ life began in blood and chaos. His pregnant mother, Cherica Adams, saved the life of her unborn son in 1999 with a remarkable 12-minute ...

In recent years, there have been many disturbing stories involving male athletes and the women in their lives. So it may be hard to remember just how shocking it was back in 1999 when Carolina ...

An ex-girlfriend of Rae Carruth told police the former Carolina Panthers player confided he'd seen his pregnant girlfriend shot, left the scene and worried he'd be implicated, according to reports ...

Former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth was released from prison Monday after serving nearly 19 years for orchestrating the murder of his pregnant girlfriend. If, for some reason, anyone ...

Many years after the fact, with Rae Carruth close to being released from prison, Carruth’s lawyer told the Charlotte Observer’s Scott Fowler that Carruth offered him new details for where he was the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The story of Chancellor Lee Adams' life so far involves more than its fair share of adversity. But since the beginning, he's been a fighter. Now, more than two decades after he came ...

Former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth walked out of prison and back into the free world Monday. At 8:02 a.m. on a cold and clear October morning, Carruth was released from the minimum-custody facility ...

Former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth was released from prison Monday morning, and apparently a few misguided fans tried to celebrate by creating a custom Carruth jersey on the NFL’s official shopping ...