College-Scandal Parent’s Guilty Plea Leaves 6 Awaiting Trial (1)

The handful of parents who remain facing trial in the U.S. college admissions scandal dwindled further as California media executive Elisabeth Kimmel agreed to plead guilty.

Kimmel, who will admit to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, was to go on trial next month. Her plea deal reduces the number of parents fighting the charges in the nationwide case to six. She will be the 32nd parent to plead guilty.

Kimmel, 57, was accused of agreeing to pay at least $475,000 in bribes to get her daughter into Georgetown University as a purported tennis recruit and ...