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 charges, ...

The family of former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips will donate his brain to chronic traumatic encephalopathy researchers at Boston University, attorney Dan Chamberlain told USA Today Sports.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Former running back Lawrence Phillips has been charged with murder in the death of his cellmate at a California prison. Phillips is suspected of killing 37-year-old Damion ...

A Nebraska running back has been named by USA TODAY Sports as one of the 50 biggest NFL draft busts of the last 50 years. Lawrence Phillips was ranked as the sixth biggest draft bust in the last 50 ...

FRESNO, Calif. -- Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips is suspected of killing his cellmate in a Central California prison, officials said Monday. Phillips' cellmate at Kern Valley State Prison ...

*Lawrence Phillips hanged himself with a bed sheet in his prison cell, according to a final coroner’s report, which also states that when guards found him unresponsive Jan. 13 at California’s Kern ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- 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 ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- The death of a man sharing a prison cell with former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips was ruled a homicide by strangulation, according to a coroner's report released Thursday.

— -- The family of former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips will donate his brain to chronic traumatic encephalopathy researchers at Boston University, attorney Dan Chamberlain told USA Today ...