Rape

MISSOULA, Mont. — A former University of Montana quarterback was acquitted Friday in a rape trial that has played out amid NCAA and federal investigations into how the city and school respond to rape allegations on campus.

The accusations against Jordan Johnson, 20, have drawn much attention in Montana, where UM football is the top sports attraction. Jurors deliberated for less than two hours.

Johnson led the University of Montana to a successful 2011 season as starting quarterback before being accused of assaulting a woman as they watched a movie together at her home last February.

His case has played out against a backdrop of NCAA and federal investigations of the university’s athletic department and the manner in which rape allegations are handled on campus, investigated by police and prosecuted by the Missoula County attorney’s office.

OGDEN — You wouldn’t think real estate agents need any special training in hand-to-hand combat or how to fire a handgun, but this week, that’s exactly what a group of them got.

About 70 local agents participated in the Realtor Safety and Self Defense Training Class, offered by the Northern Wasatch Association of Realtors and taught by instructors from SRW Strategic & Tactical Special Operations Training and Services.

Randy Benoit, with the Franklin Group, helped organize the event. He said real estate agents can be put in vulnerable situations when showing homes to potential clients.

NEW DELHI — The trial of five men charged with the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus began in a closed courtroom Thursday with opening arguments by the prosecution lawyers in a special fast-track court set up just weeks ago to handle sexual assault cases.

OGDEN — Plans for rape crisis advocacy training have been announced by the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Your Community Connection, in conjunction with New Hope Crisis Center in Brigham City.

OGDEN — An 18-year-old man has been arrested on charges he raped a Fremont High School student.

OGDEN — Formal paperwork has been filed to begin the process of returning Gregory L. Seamons to Ogden to stand trial in a cold-case murder and rape police say were solved by DNA testing.

Seamons, 45, is charged with rape and murder in the 1983 death of 11-year-old Rebecca Lemberger, of Ogden.

Seamons has been an inmate at the Idaho State Correctional Institution in Boise since 2007 following a conviction for second-degree kidnapping. He is scheduled to complete his sentence in December 2017.

SALT LAKE CITY — Formal charges have been filed against a University of Utah employee who police say kidnapped a woman, held her hostage and raped her on campus.