BOSTON (KABC) -- Massachusetts officials announced Thursday afternoon that the brain of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez would be released after his family said it was being illegally withheld. Jose ...

Aaron Hernandez is one of the most infamous players in NFL history and sadly his story came to a horrific end earlier this year when he took his life in his jail cell. In true Hernandez fashion, the ...

— -- BOSTON -- Tests conducted on the brain of former football star Aaron Hernandez showed severe signs of the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and his attorney said ...

The gunman who unleashed chaos in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper this summer is a stark reminder of how little we know about ...

Aaron Hernandez's lawyer says the former New England Patriots tight end's brain showed severe signs of the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy. In a news conference at his ...

SHIRLEY, Massachusetts -- Aaron Hernandez's family wants to donate his brain to science, but Massachusetts officials are refusing to release it despite turning over the rest of his body to a funeral ...

*Unfortunately, the Aaron Hernandez CTE diagnosis did not come as a surprise to many one-time fans. Just 10 months after Aaron Hernandez signed a $40 million contract with the New England Patriots, he ...

FILE - Ann McKee, director Boston University's center for research into the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, addresses an audience on the school's campus Nov. 9, ...