In what will be the final chapter to what was a troubling career and life, an autopsy found that former University of Nebraska Cornhusker, and Rams running back Lawrence Phillips hanged himself with a ...

Lawrence Phillips starred on the 1994 and 1995 Nebraska national title teams and was once a Heisman Trophy front-runner. From left, Vershan Jackson, Clinton Childs and Paul Koch help carry Lawrence ...

Christian Peter and Lawrence Phillips were once the poster boys for what was wrong with college football. They were abusive to women, in trouble with the law and yet still allowed to play on ...

Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips was found dead in his California prison cell early Wednesday, and officials said they suspect suicide.Guards at Kern Valley State Prison found Phillips, 40, ...

Officials at Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP) are investigating the death of inmate Lawrence Phillips as a suspected suicide. The incident occurred at 12:05 a.m. Wednesday, when staff conducting ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Imprisoned former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips had a ''Do Not Resuscitate'' note taped to his chest when he was found hanging in SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Imprisoned former ...

Last spring, Anderson wrote this about Phillips: “Twenty years have passed since my first conversation with Lawrence Phillips. I sit in my office, a middle-aged writer now, searching for clues about ...

Lawrence Phillips grabbed his then-girlfriend by the hair and then choked her until she lost consciousness, an August 2005 incident that followed a pattern in the troubled life of the former Nebraska ...

SAN DIMAS, Calif. — With former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne and more than a half-dozen former Nebraska players in attendance, mourners on Saturday remembered Lawrence Phillips as a different ...

Lawrence Phillips' brain will be donated by his family to researchers studying the impacts of traumatic brain injuries and CTE, according to an attorney representing his mother. Dan Chamberlain, an ...

— -- Former running back Lawrence Phillips plans to use the money he receives as part of the NFL's concussion settlement with retired players to fund his legal defense against first-degree murder ...