BELLEFONTE -- A jury solemnly watched yesterday as photo after photo showed a gruesome crime scene: an apartment in disarray, a body sprawled in a State College kitchen, a blood-soaked textbook.

Accused murderer Andrew Rogers will stand trial today, 410 days after the bludgeoning death of Penn State student Youngcheol Park in Rogers' kitchen.

A judge ruled yesterday to allow about 60 crime scene photos prepared by the Commonwealth to be shown at accused murderer Andrew Rogers' trial, denying the defense's claim that the photos would "inflame" the jury.

With less than a week before accused murderer Andrew Rogers' trial begins, the jury -- which includes a Penn State student -- was selected yesterday to decide his fate.

Andrew Rogers, the man accused of murdering a Penn State student last year, wants to take the stand at his upcoming trial, his lawyer said Friday.

The attorney representing a man accused of murdering a Penn State student said he plans to call several witnesses during the trial, including police officers, the man's roommate and a Sheetz worker.

Exactly one year after a Penn State student was beaten to death in a State College residence, activity in the case of the accused murderer has suddenly increased as the trial date approaches.

Three bloody footprints found at the murder scene of a Penn State student cannot be linked to the victim or the man accused of the murder, the defense attorney said yesterday.

A bloody footprint in the kitchen of the alleged murderer of a Penn State student may prove that there was a third, unidentified individual involved in the murder, according to a defense attorney.

Public defenders representing the man charged with beating a Penn State student to death said they have found more evidence proving the existence of "Sweet," an alleged third party in the February homicide.

Defense attorneys are hopeful that newly released evidence related to the beating to death of a Penn State student will shed light on whether a third person played a role in the incident.

The State College man charged with murdering a Penn State student last February was denied bail yesterday, forcing him to remain in prison until his trial.

The State College man charged with murdering a Penn State student last year will have his bail hearing today in an attempt to establish bail and leave Centre County Correctional Facility for the first time in eight months.

Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira has decided not to seek the death penalty against a State College man charged with murdering a Penn State student in February.

Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira said at a pretrial hearing for Andrew A. Rogers yesterday that he does not believe a witness to the murder of a Penn State student actually exists.

The State College man charged with beating a Penn State student to death in February sat virtually motionless yesterday as a judge told the prosecuting district attorney that he could continue to seek the death penalty.

A hearing will be held July 31 to determine if the commonwealth can still seek the death penalty in the trial of Andrew A. Rogers, who is accused of murdering Penn State student Youngcheol Park in February.

The lawyer for the State College man accused of beating a Penn State student to death in February claims there is no proof his defendant can be convicted of second-degree murder.

As Andrew A. Rogers sat quietly in his prison-issued jumpsuit yesterday, a judge told him that he will be tried for murder in connection with the February death of a Penn State student.

A judge will decide today if the State College man who is accused of beating a Penn State student to death in February will go to trial.

A month has passed since the brutal beating in a State College residence, and police are still trying to determine whether a third person was involved in a fight that ended in the death of a Penn State student.

The State College man charged with the beating death of a Penn State student last month allegedly stole money from the victim and spent it at a local gas station, on a hotel room and on a cab ride.

While most of Penn State was away for spring break, almost 100 people gathered on campus to remember the life of a student who was brutally killed last month.

As police completed work yesterday at the residence of a State College man charged with the homicide of a Penn State student, new details reveal that cocaine may have played a role in the late Thursday-early Friday incident last week.

The attorney representing a State College man charged with the first- and third-degree murder of a Penn State student said yesterday that his client was acting in self-defense and should not be charged with first-degree murder.

As forensic technicians piece together what police said is a "messy scene," friends of Penn State student Youngcheol Park are beginning to pick up the pieces of his complicated and unclear death.

Despite three Penn State student deaths in the past month, Penn State students say they do not feel unsafe in State College.

A Penn State student was found dead yesterday in the bloody kitchen of a borough residence days after what police said was a "scuffle" in the home of a State College man, who has been charged with the first- and third-degree murder of the student.