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The Union County Prosecutor's Office has reportedly reopened its investigation into a priest who admitted to NJ Advance Media he had sex with a 15-year-old boy — but in the dozen years since alleged the encounter, has never been charged.

A program that taught college women ways to prevent sexual assault cut in half the chances they would be raped over the next year, a Canadian study found. It was the first large, scientific test of resistance training, and the strong results should spur more universities to offer it, experts say.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Rolling Stone magazine has apologized and officially retracted its discredited article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia.

BOSTON (AP) -- Three women who allege Bill Cosby sexually assaulted them decades ago say in a court filing that he doesn't have a right to lie and hide behind the statements of his representatives to have their defamation lawsuit dismissed.

A New Jersey man was sentenced Thursday to 110 years in prison in the rape of a girl and the stabbing death of her 6-year-old brother who had come to her defense.

NEW YORK (AP) -- With New York awash in murder and drugs, the 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger by what was said to be a gang of "wilding" teens was seen as evidence of a city sliding into lawlessness. A quarter-century later, it stands instead as a $40 million symbol of failure by the justice system.

Overall crime is down on college campuses across the country, but the number of sex offenses reported is up 51 percent over the last decade, according to a joint survey by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Police arrested a third suspect Saturday in the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in northern India, as a top state official said he was recommending a federal investigation into a case that has triggered national outrage.

Sexual assault, particularly on college campuses, has devastated millions of Americans. Between 20 and 25 percent of women and 15 percent of men will be victimized at some point during their college careers. Nearly 22 million American women and 1.6 million men have been raped during their lifetimes.

A man convicted of several rapes in Middlesex County has had some of his convictions reversed due to trial errors.