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In a Tampa middle school locker room, prosecutors say four flag football players held down a younger teammate and committed a horrifying assault: Raping him with a hockey stick and a broom handle.

Joseph Brooks, 71, the songwriter and director behind "You Light Up My Life," has been indicted on charges of raping or sexually assaulting women who answered audition ads on Craigslist.

A man facing nearly 30 years in prison for raping three women who had advertised on Craigslist's former "erotic services" section apparently committed suicide in his Kansas jail cell, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

David Lee Gage, 52, of Wichita, was found dead at the Sedgwick County Jail early Monday after another inmate who was headed to breakfast looked through the window to Gage's cell and saw his motionless body, said Maj. Glenn Kurtz of the county sheriff's office.

A North Carolina man is accused of arranging to have his wife raped through personal ads on the Web site Craigslist, police said Wednesday.

A former U.S. general said graphic images of rape and torture are among the photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse that President Barack Obama's administration does not want released.

AP - An ex-soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and murdering her family has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that drew attention to the emotional and psychological strains on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A 30-year-old Northern California woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she had sex with three teenage boys.

A former U.S. soldier was convicted on Thursday of raping an Iraqi girl and killing her and her family near Baghdad in 2006 and now faces a possible death sentence.

Police are searching for any other alleged victims of a Sunday school teacher accused of raping and killing an 8-year-old girl from Tracy, California. While conceding "there has been no indication this has happened," Tracy Police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said the concern is that the suspect, Melissa Huckaby, is a Sunday school teacher and did have contact with children.

On March 1, ThinkProgress picked up on a story by News Hounds, which noted that Fox News host Bill O'Reilly -- who has made controversial comments about rape victims in the past -- was slated to speak at a March 19 fundraiser for the Alexa Foundation. The group is committed to supporting rape survivors...

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