61.   Rape charges against Tadic had to be dropped after witnesses refused to testify.

62.   So did the fears of being at the mercy of others, like the inventors of fraudulent rape charges.

63.   Shockro was indicted by a grand jury, and pleaded not guilty to seven rape charges and six sexual assault charges.

64.   Sonics forward Ruben Patterson wept and offered apologies yesterday as he entered a modified plea to a third-degree attempted rape charge.

65.   That decision will focus the trial on the rape charges alone.

66.   That gave Hudock no opportunity to try to get Sherman to mention the second rape charge.

67.   The all-male nine-person panel acquitted Wiggs of rape charges but found him guilty of a separate charge of conspiracy to commit rape.

68.   The Cleveland Indians activated relief pitcher Jose Mesa from the restricted list, two days after a jury acquitted him of a rape charge.

69.   The captain, who has also not entered a plea, is to be tried on rape charges in March.

70.   The Court of Appeals declined to hear an appeal from the men, who had originally been indicted on felony rape charges.