Duquesne University

Duquesne University officials say construction should begin this year on a $10 million to $12 million recreation complex that will include a 6,500-seat arena for its basketball teams. The building will contain a main arena, racquetball courts, a weight room, training room, an auxiliary gym, locker room facilities and an indoor track. The Dukes have averaged 2,400 in nine home games this season.

Officials at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh are upset that bestselling author John Grisham mentions the school in connection with a fictional gang rape in his latest novel. Grisham's "The Associate" deals with a character who attended the private Catholic college and was involved in a drunken rape scene in an off-campus apartment in 2003.

Officials at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh are upset that bestselling author John Grisham mentions the school in connection with a fictional gang rape in his latest novel. Grisham's "The Associate" deals with a character who attended the private Catholic college and was involved in a drunken rape scene in an off-campus apartment in 2003.

Prosecutors on Thursday dropped charges against one of two men accused of shooting five Duquesne University basketball players, but filed charges against two additional suspects. All charges were dropped against Brandon Baynes, 18, in the Sept. 17 shooting after an on-campus dance party. Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala said Baynes was cleared after a witness recanted her story. Zappala also announced charges against Derek Lee and Erica R. Sager.

Allan Bailey, a former coach and the play-making guard at Duquesne University in the early 1950s, died of cancer in a hospital at Virginia Beach, Va. He was 54.

Duquesne University has named University of Pittsburgh law professor John E. Murray to be the school's first lay president in its 110-year history. Murray, 55, will be the first president not to be a Holy Ghost priest, a member of the order that founded the Catholic college, it was announced Thursday.

Prosecutors on Thursday dropped charges against one of two men accused of shooting five Duquesne University basketball players, but filed charges against two additional suspects. All charges were dropped against Brandon Baynes, 18, in the Sept. 17 shooting after an on-campus dance party. Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala said Baynes was cleared after a witness recanted her story. Zappala also announced charges against Derek Lee and Erica R. Sager.

Prosecutors charged one man, and another was being sought by police in the shooting of five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance. Authorities also accused a 19-year-old sophomore of helping get the men and their friends into the dance despite knowing some were armed. Brandon Baynes, 18, was arraigned on five counts of criminal attempt at homicide.

A second man sought in a shooting that wounded five Duquesne University basketball players turned himself in Wednesday, police in Pittsburgh said. William Holmes, 18, of the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, was scheduled to be arraigned on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, criminal conspiracy and weapons-related offenses. Holmes is the third person arrested in Sunday's shooting after a dance at the private, Roman Catholic university.

A second man sought in a shooting that wounded five Duquesne University basketball players turned himself in Wednesday, police in Pittsburgh said. William Holmes, 18, of the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, was scheduled to be arraigned on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, criminal conspiracy and weapons-related offenses. Holmes is the third person arrested in Sunday's shooting after a dance at the private, Roman Catholic university.

Prosecutors charged one man, and another was being sought by police in the shooting of five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance. Authorities also accused a 19-year-old sophomore of helping get the men and their friends into the dance despite knowing some were armed. Brandon Baynes, 18, was arraigned on five counts of criminal attempt at homicide.

They came from Canada, Colombia and Brooklyn, from junior colleges and other NCAA Division I programs, to help resurrect Duquesne University's faltering men's basketball team. The season hadn't started, but school had and early Sunday most of the 16 men on the basketball team were coming home from an on-campus dance. Moments later an unidentified shooter fired and five of them were bleeding from gunshot wounds. "It was chaos," Ron Everhart said Monday. "Just chaos."

Five Duquesne basketball players were shot on campus early Sunday, leaving at least one critically injured, after some of them tried to calm a man who apparently had been disruptive at a dance, officials said. Police searched for the gunman, and the downtown school stepped up its round-the-clock police protection with armed university police officers guarding dormitories and other buildings.

Duquesne announced its return to the Atlantic 10 Conference a year after leaving for the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. The move becomes official in July. Duquesne officials dismissed suggestions that the move was made because the MCC will lose its automatic bid to the NCAA tournament next season.

Duquesne and La Salle have joined the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, effective at the start of the 1992-93 school year.

They came from Canada, Colombia and Brooklyn, from junior colleges and other NCAA Division I programs, to help resurrect Duquesne University's faltering men's basketball team. The season hadn't started, but school had and early Sunday most of the 16 men on the basketball team were coming home from an on-campus dance. Moments later an unidentified shooter fired and five of them were bleeding from gunshot wounds. "It was chaos," Ron Everhart said Monday. "Just chaos."

Duquesne and La Salle have joined the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, effective at the start of the 1992-93 school year.

Duquesne basketball Coach Jim Satalin was fired, three days after his team finished a 13-16 season.