QUINCY, Ill. (AP) — Curtis D. Lovelace, an All-Big Ten center at Illinois who later became an Adams County assistant state’s attorney, was formerly charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the death of his wife.

Lovelace, a private practice lawyer in Quincy, is accused of suffocating Cory D. Lovelace, 38, on Feb. 14, 2006. A month later, a coroner’s jury ruled the cause of death undetermined. An autopsy reached the same conclusion.