Rape Trial Steubenville, Ohio

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- A school district in eastern Ohio added unarmed security guards to its buildings Tuesday amid increased attention over two high school football players who are facing rape charges.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The lawyer for one of two high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl wants to delay the trial and also have it moved out of an eastern Ohio city that has received international attention.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — A battle over closing the trial of two Ohio high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl appeared to end Friday as an attorney withdrew his motion, saying that moving the trial would suffice to protect his client.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — A "substantially impaired" 16-year-old girl was unable to consent to sex and suffered humiliation and degradation when she was raped by two high school football players after an alcohol-fueled party, a prosecutor said Wednesday at the start of a trial that's drawn international attention to a small, football-loving city in eastern Ohio.

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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- A teenage girl who says she was raped by two Ohio high school football players testified Saturday that she could not recall what happened the night of the alleged attack but remembers waking up naked in a strange house after drinking at a party.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, March 17 (Reuters) - A judge was set to render his verdict on Sunday in the rape trial of two Ohio high school football players charged with assaulting a 16-year-old girl while she was in a drunken stupor in a case that gained national exposure through social media.

March 18 (Reuters) - Two teenage girls were arrested in Ohio on Monday and accused of using social media to threaten the young victim in a high-profile rape trial that concluded this past weekend, state Attorney General Mike DeWine said.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An eastern Ohio grand jury will begin work in about two weeks to investigate whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football players last year.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The lawyer for a 16-year-old girl raped by two Ohio high school football players is disputing a prosecutor's account that the girl's father initially wanted the investigation dropped. The prosecutor stands by her statement, and said her office had a duty to proceed.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A grand jury on Tuesday began investigating whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl a judge determined was raped by two high school football players after an alcohol-fueled party last summer.

The attorney for one of two Ohio high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl wants the trial closed to the media and moved out of Steubenville, a small town he says has been torn apart by the emotionally-charged case.

Two high school football players go on trial this coming week on charges of raping a nearly passed-out-drunk 16-year-old girl during a night of partying in Steubenville.

On the eve of their trial, the attorney for one of two Ohio high school football players charged with raping a girl after an alcohol-fueled party said Tuesday that moving forward with the case is "patently unfair and un-American" because important witnesses haven't been compelled to testify.

Ohio prosecutors are preparing to call key eyewitnesses in the trial of two high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl.

A teenager who was granted immunity from prosecution has testified he saw a friend perform a sexual act on a 16-year-old girl after a party in eastern Ohio last summer.
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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio – Three teenagers have testified that a 16-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by two Ohio football players last summer was drunk and didn't seem to know what was happening.

STEUBENVILLE - A grand jury investigating possible additional charges in the rape of a 16-year-old girl won't hear from witnesses for about two weeks after it is convened Monday, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said in an interview.

A grand jury will be seated today in Ohio will investigate whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football players last year, including charges of a cover-up.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An eastern Ohio grand jury has finished its first day of work investigating whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl a judge said was raped by two high school football players.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Two teenage girls have been sentenced to probation after guilty pleas in the case of threatening tweets sent after a guilty verdict in a high-profile Ohio rape case.

A small eastern Ohio city where two high school football players face trial on rape charges has taken the unusual step of launching an explanatory website designed to fight beliefs "that the football team runs the city," the city manager said.

Former guardians of a high school football player facing rape charges in Steubenville, Ohio, say the young man isn't capable of such a crime and deserves to be tried in court and not by the social media firestorm surrounding the case.

A college student who joked on YouTube about the alleged kidnapping and gang rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl is no longer enrolled at Ohio State University, the school confirmed Monday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two high school football players go on trial this coming week on charges of raping a nearly passed-out-drunk 16-year-old girl during a night of partying in Steubenville. Around the football-powerhouse city, some are demanding to know why at least three other teens aren't facing charges, too.

Two teenage boys gave graphic testimony Friday about the alleged sexual assault of a drunken 16-year-old girl after a party in eastern Ohio last summer.

The much-publicized rape trial of two Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players accused of assaulting an intoxicated 16-year-old West Virginia girl ended Saturday. Judge Thomas Lipps says he will announce his verdict Sunday after reviewing evidence from the four-day trial, the Associated Press reports.

Even before the rape trial of two Steubenville, Ohio, teens, they had been convicted on social media.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The lawyer for a 16-year-old girl raped by two Ohio high school football players is disputing a prosecutor's account that the girl's father initially wanted the investigation into the case dropped.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A grand jury on Tuesday began investigating whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football players after an alcohol-fueled party last summer.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A grand jury on Tuesday began investigating whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl a judge determined was raped by two high school football players after an alcohol-fueled party last summer.