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The bands will not battle Saturday at half time during the Florida Blue Florida Classic clash between Florida A&M University and Bethune-Cookman University. The FAMU Marching 100  was suspended shortly after last year’s game when drum major Robert Champion Jr. died following a hazing incident on a band bus/ This year’s halftime show at the […]

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Florida A&M University has offered $300,000 – the maximum it says it can offer without state legislative action – as a settlement to the family of Robert Champion Jr., the drum major who died after a hazing ritual last year, a university attorney said Thursday. However, the family’s attorney, Chris Chestnut, said that the offer […]

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — As Florida A&M's Marching 100 quick-stepped across the grass, the stadium announcer's voice would boom through the speakers to remind those in the stands that no one could match the show they were watching: "Often imitated, never duplicated." This season, the words more commonly used to describe FAMU's famed marching band, […]

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ATLANTA (AP) — Florida A&M University's insistence that it is not to blame for a drum major's death during a hazing ritual shows school officials are not taking responsibility for the safety of students, the band member's parents said Thursday. Pam and Robert Champion Sr. said at a news conference in Atlanta that they were […]

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)– The so-called "president" of the band bus on which a Florida A&M University band member was fatally beaten now faces a felony hazing charge. The Orlando Sentinel cites recently revised court documents that now list 25-year-old Dante Martin as one of 12 felony defendants in the death of 26-year-old drum major Robert […]

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida A&M University's president reached an agreement with school officials to immediately resign from his post Monday, after facing months of criticism in the wake of the hazing death of a marching band member. Last week, James Ammons had submitted a resignation letter stating his resignation would not take effect until […]

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed are suing the university. Robert Champion's parents say they're filing the lawsuit in Orlando on Wednesday, more than six months after their son died after being hazed aboard a bus parked outside an Orlando hotel. Eleven FAMU band […]