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Four freshman football players at a New York City college were arrested this week after robbing a bus driver in Jersey City's Journal Square last month, Port Authority police said. Alanta Barbour, 18, Albert Chisley, 19, Harvey Ray Robinson, 19, and Keonte Yorkshire, 18, were arrested Monday and charged with robbery in connection with the Oct. 15 incident in Journal Square, Port Authority police spokesman Joe Pentangelo said. The four men -- who are all members of the Globe Institute of Technology football team -- live in the same apartment on Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City, according to police

BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- A former Penn State player was convicted of murder for stabbing a student to death in what prosecutors said was a crime driven by a desperate need for money. LaVon Chisley Jr., 23, was found guilty by a jury Friday of first- and third-degree murder and immediately sentenced to life in prison. Centre County prosecutors said Chisley stabbed 26-year-old Penn State senior Langston Carraway 93 times in June 2006. A bloody rubber glove found at the murder scene had Chisley's DNA as well as the victim's, authorities said. Multiple witnesses testified that Chisley knew Carraway was a...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A former Penn State football player was arrested Tuesday in the killing of a student who was stabbed 93 times, after tests showed the ex-player's DNA was inside a bloody glove found at the murder scene. Lavon Chisley, 23, of Waldorf, Md., was taken into custody on Tuesday morning after voluntarily arriving at the county courthouse for a hearing in the case. He was charged with first- and third-degree murder in the death of Langston Carraway.