Ex-Louisville basketball player Jones cleared on rape charge

Two months after his arrest on allegations of sexually assaulting two women at an off-campus apartment party, former Louisville basketball player Chris Jones and two other men were cleared Wednesday of rape and sodomy charges by a grand jury.

Jones was facing two counts of rape and two counts of sodomy. The two other men, 21-year-old Jalen Tilford and 19-year-old Tyvon Walker, were charged with sexually assaulting one of the women. Those two men also were cleared of rape and sodomy charges.

Jones, a senior, was kicked off the basketball team for violating curfew a day after scoring 17 points in a 55-53 win over Miami.