IN BRIEF : Two Suspended in Death of Swan
Two Western Michigan University football players were suspended from school and face criminal charges accusing them of twisting the head off a swan on campus.
The suspensions, including forbidding them from playing football games this fall, were ordered Thursday at university administrative hearings, said WMU spokesman Michael Mathews.
Bradley Willis, 19, a 200-pound linebacker from Rossville, Ill., and Paul Johnson, a 231-pound defensive tackle from Rockford, Ill., pleaded not guilty in 9th District Court in Kalamazoo to misdemeanor charges of killing a protected waterfowl. Mathews said both players told police they had been drinking before the swan was killed.
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