Mars’ Hockenberry headed to Tar HeelsADAMS TWP — Mars senior diver Taylor Hockenberry has verbally committed to the University of North Carolina.Carrying a 4.2 grade point average, she plans to study toward becoming a physician assistant.Hockenberry has won consecutive WPIAL and state championships in one-meter diving and set a district record in that event last year.

Rose cleared in rape lawsuitLOS ANGELES — NBA star Derrick Rose and two friends were cleared in a $21.5 million lawsuit that accused them of gang raping his ex-girlfriend when she was incapacitated from drugs or alcohol.Jurors in Los Angeles federal court reached the verdict in less than four hours after concluding there was a lack of evidence to support the woman's claims and dismissing her account as unbelievable.Rose remained stoic as the verdict was read and later thanked jurors and posed for photos with them in the lobby, draping his left arm around each one who wanted a souvenir of the Knicks point guard as one of his lawyers snapped photos on their phones.The case was X-rated at times with testimony from the men about poolside group sex at a mansion Rose rented in Beverly Hills in the summer of 2013 and multiple sexual encounters throughout the night and into the next morning.

Baylor facing federal investigationWACO, Texas — Baylor University is under federal investigation after its former Title IX coordinator filed a complaint over sexual violence on the university's Waco campus.In a statement, a spokesman for the federal Office for Civil Rights said the investigation opened after the agency received a complaint from Patty Crawford, Baylor's former Title IX coordinator.