Aaron Hernandez

BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on deceased NFL star Aaron Hernandez being diagnosed with the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy: Lawyers for Aaron Hernandez's daughter are suing the NFL and the New England Patriots over his death...

BOSTON (AP) — Two families that filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the estate of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez have asked the team to compensate them for the loss of their loved ones. Hernandez was accused in the 2012 fatal shootings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado but was acquitted in April...

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for former NFL star Aaron Hernandez are formally asking that his first-degree murder conviction be dismissed in Massachusetts now that he has died. A spokesman for the Bristol district attorney's office says the motion was filed by defense attorneys on Tuesday in Superior Court...

BOSTON (AP) — Boston University researchers will study Aaron Hernandez's brain to determine if the former NFL star suffered from the same degenerative brain disease as Hall of Famer Junior Seau and former Bears defensive back Dave Duerson, who also took their own lives...

MILFORD, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez has killed himself in his jail cell. A Massachusetts prison official says the 27-year-old Hernandez hanged himself Wednesday morning with a bedsheet in his cell at a correctional center in Shirley, Mass...

BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on closing arguments in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez. A prosecutor in the double-murder trial of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez says in closing arguments that Hernandez killed two men because he had "an illogical sense of being disrespected...

BOSTON (AP) — A former friend of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez told the jury at Hernandez's double-murder trial that the player opened fire on a car because he believed two men inside had taunted him at a nightclub. Alexander Bradley testified about the shootings on July 16, 2012...

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez have asked for a three-month delay to the start of their client's double murder trial so they can plow through mountains of new information. The Boston Herald reports that Hernandez's lawyers were in court Friday to seek the delay from a skeptical judge...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) -- Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in a deadly late-night shooting, sealing the downfall of an athlete who once had a $40 million contract and a standout career ahead of him...

UPDATED 3:00 p.m. ET: Former New England Patriots tight Aaron Hernandez end has been charged with murdering Odin Lloyd, as well as other weapons-related crimes.