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April 16, 2013 11:56 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A whistleblower and defamation lawsuit against Penn State will go forward, a judge ruled Tuesday, denying the university's request to dismiss it. Former assistant football coach Mike McQueary sued the school in October, claiming he was portrayed as untruthful in statements made in 2011 by the university's...
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March 25, 2013 8:09 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Jerry Sandusky said in interview excerpts broadcast Monday that a key witness against him misinterpreted him showering with a young boy in Penn State football team facilities more than a decade ago. Sandusky told documentary filmmaker John Ziegler, in recordings played on NBC's "Today" show, that...
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March 1, 2013 5:56 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The insurance carrier for the children's charity founded by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky doesn't have to cover his criminal or civil legal costs related to acts of child sexual abuse, a judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane said Sandusky was not...
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March 1, 2013 5:48 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A federal judge says the insurance carrier for the children's charity founded by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky doesn't have to cover his criminal or civil legal costs related to acts of abuse. U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane's Friday ruling says Sandusky wasn't acting...
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February 21, 2013 8:59 AM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) Jerry Sandusky's attorney has filed notice that he'll take his quest for a new trial to a higher level court. Last month, the trial judge rejected arguments that defense attorneys didn't have enough time to prepare for the three-week trial at which the former Penn State assistant...
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February 20, 2013 5:40 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The head of the NCAA says the organization's need to enforce its own rules is part of the reason it sued over a new Pennsylvania law designed to keep the $60 million Penn State fine over the Jerry Sandusky scandal in the state. NCAA President Mark Emmert...
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February 7, 2013 5:59 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The NCAA said Thursday a judge should throw out the federal antitrust lawsuit the governor filed against it over Penn State's $60 million fine and other penalties resulting from the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. College sports' governing body said in a filing that it disagrees with...
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February 7, 2013 5:56 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The NCAA says it wants a judge to throw out the federal antitrust lawsuit Pennsylvania's governor filed against it over Penn State's $60 million fine and other penalties resulting from the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. College sports' governing body said in a filing Thursday it disagrees...
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January 25, 2013 5:05 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Penn State's negotiator for civil claims involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says the school is in talks with 28 people who have brought claims, 18 more than were connected to his criminal case. Ken Feinberg told The Associated Press on Friday that the talks could...
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January 22, 2013 5:09 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A young man who testified at the child sex abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky last summer is suing him, his charity and the university. The man was called Victim 6 in court papers. He sued Tuesday in federal court in Philadelphia,...
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January 10, 2013 8:49 AM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) The judge who sentenced Jerry Sandusky to at least 30 years in prison will hear his lawyers and prosecutors argue over whether the former Penn State assistant football coach got a fair trial. A smiling Sandusky, making his first public appearance in three months, arrived at the...
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January 4, 2013 5:57 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A Pennsylvania state senator sued the NCAA on Friday over its use of the $60 million fine that Penn State is paying for its handling of the child molestation scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, two days after the governor filed an antitrust lawsuit against...
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January 4, 2013 4:45 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A Pennsylvania state senator is suing the NCAA over its use of the $60 million fine that Penn State is paying for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. The suit filed in Commonwealth Court Friday by Sen. Jake Corman comes two days after Gov....
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December 20, 2012 11:52 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A Pennsylvania judge on Thursday denied Penn State's request to put on hold former assistant football coach Mike McQueary's whistleblower and defamation lawsuit until related criminal cases are resolved. Judge Thomas Gavin said the pending criminal matters "impose no burden on Penn State" because the university is...
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December 5, 2012 5:17 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Judges are postponing a preliminary hearing and a separate trial for former Penn State administrators accused of covering up the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. Court orders issued Wednesday mean a preliminary hearing won't be held as planned next week for the school's former president, vice president...
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November 28, 2012 2:23 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Penn State says its former president had total taxable income of $3.3 million last year, including $2.5 million in severance because he was forced out of the job after Jerry Sandusky's arrest on child molestation charges. The university said Wednesday that Graham Spanier's salary in 2011 was...
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November 28, 2012 7:42 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Two former high-ranking Penn State officials want to delay their preliminary hearings on charges they concealed child sexual abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The request Tuesday by former university Vice President Gary Schultz and athletic director Tim Curley seeks to have a Dec....
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November 7, 2012 8:50 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Former Penn State President Graham Spanier was arraigned and released on bail at a brief court appearance Wednesday on charges he lied about and concealed the child sex abuse allegations involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Spanier, accompanied by his wife, signed paperwork after his bail...
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November 7, 2012 8:36 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Former Penn State President Graham Spanier is free on $125,000 unsecured bail after being arraigned on charges related to the child sex abuse case of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Spanier was arraigned Wednesday morning by a Harrisburg district justice on charges including perjury, obstruction and...
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November 7, 2012 2:44 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The criminal case begins against Graham Spanier, the former Penn State president accused of lying during the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case and trying to derail the investigation. A district judge in suburban Harrisburg was scheduled to arraign Spanier and set bail on Wednesday, a proceeding that...
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November 7, 2012 2:40 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The third Penn State administrator to be charged criminally for his actions in response to complaints about Jerry Sandusky showering with children is due in court for a preliminary arraignment. A judge will also set bail Wednesday for former university president Graham Spanier, charged last week with...
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October 31, 2012 2:42 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is serving his child molestation prison sentence at an institution in far southwestern Pennsylvania that includes most of the state's death row inmates. The Corrections Department announced Wednesday that Sandusky was transferred to Greene State Prison after being evaluated...
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October 19, 2012 5:06 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A young man whose sexual-abuse claims triggered the investigation of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says in a new book Sandusky's wife once called down to the basement while he was being attacked and Sandusky told her he was busy. Aaron Fisher writes in...
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October 19, 2012 9:28 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The young man whose claims of abuse began the criminal investigation that put Jerry Sandusky in prison said he contemplated suicide because authorities took so long to prosecute the former Penn State assistant football coach. Speaking out publicly by name for the first time, Aaron Fisher said...
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October 19, 2012 8:26 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The young man whose claims of abuse began the criminal investigation that put Jerry Sandusky in prison says he contemplated suicide because authorities took so long to prosecute the former Penn State assistant football coach. Aaron Fisher is speaking out publicly by name for the first time....
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October 18, 2012 6:15 PM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky asked a judge on Thursday to overturn his child sexual abuse convictions and grant him a new trial, claiming his lawyers lacked sufficient time to prepare and the statute of limitations for some charges had expired. Sandusky's lawyers made...
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October 18, 2012 5:34 PM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) A man whose claims of being abused as a child began the investigation of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is speaking out publicly by name for the first time. Eighteen-year-old Aaron Fisher is known in court papers as Victim 1. He tells People magazine...
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October 10, 2012 2:00 AM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) Headed to prison for the rest of his life, Jerry Sandusky leaves behind a trail of human and legal wreckage that could take years to clear away. Victims face a lifetime of healing. Penn State is laboring under severe NCAA penalties. And at least four civil lawsuits...
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October 9, 2012 6:12 PM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) In what sounded at times like a locker room pep talk, Jerry Sandusky rambled in his red prison suit about being the underdog in the fourth quarter, about forgiveness, about dogs and about the movie "Seabiscuit." With his accusers seated behind him in the courtroom, he denied...
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October 9, 2012 4:07 PM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) In what sounded at times like a locker room pep talk, Jerry Sandusky rambled in his red prison suit about being the underdog in the fourth quarter, about forgiveness, about dogs and about the movie "Seabiscuit." With his accusers seated behind him in the courtroom, he denied...
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October 9, 2012 11:48 AM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) Jerry Sandusky, maintaining his innocence, was sentenced Tuesday to at least 30 years in prison effectively a life sentence in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno's downfall. A defiant Sandusky gave a rambling statement in which...
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October 9, 2012 7:47 AM
Editors, News Directors: The sentencing hearing of former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. EDT. The Associated Press plans to staff the hearing in Bellefonte, Pa., with reporters and a sketch artist in the courthouse and photographers and videographers outside. The judge in...
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October 8, 2012 7:56 PM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) Jerry Sandusky and at least some of his victims plan to address the judge at his sentencing, a proceeding that may last less than two hours, lawyers said after a closed-door meeting to iron out logistics ahead of the Tuesday hearing. Sandusky lawyer Joe Amendola said "it's...
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October 7, 2012 5:50 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Jerry Sandusky will walk into state prison with little more than a watch and wedding band. He'll be able to work a 30-hour week to make a few dollars. He'll be able to watch Penn State football but not violent movies. If the former Penn State defensive...
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October 7, 2012 9:51 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Jerry Sandusky will walk into state prison with little more than a watch and wedding band. He'll be able to work a 30-hour week to make a few dollars. He'll be able to watch Penn State football, but not violent movies. If the former Penn State defensive...
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October 2, 2012 5:57 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A former Penn State graduate assistant who complained he saw former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky showering with a young boy on campus and testified at his sex abuse trial sued the university on Tuesday for what he calls defamation and misrepresentation. Mike McQueary's whistle-blower lawsuit claims...
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September 27, 2012 2:44 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Two weeks before former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is expected to be sentenced on child molestation charges, a county judge determined that perjury charges should remain in place against two university administrators. Dauphin County Judge Todd Hoover ruled Wednesday against former Vice President Gary...
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September 27, 2012 2:14 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Two weeks before former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is due for sentencing, the Penn State administrators who looked into complaints about his behavior a decade ago are getting some bad news about their own criminal case. A judge in Harrisburg on Wednesday issued a ruling that...
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September 21, 2012 5:51 PM
Jerry Sandusky reversed course and decided not to take the witness stand after his adopted son came forward and told prosecutors the former Penn State assistant football coach had abused him, documents show. Trial transcripts posted online Friday offer a glimpse into Sandusky's decision to remain silent during his child...
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September 21, 2012 5:40 PM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) Documents show former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky decided not to take the witness stand in his own defense after his adopted son came forward and told prosecutors Sandusky had abused him. Trial transcripts posted online Friday offer a glimpse into Sandusky's decision to remain...
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September 20, 2012 11:33 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The lawyer who ran the Sept. 11 victim fund and other major victim compensation efforts has been hired by Penn State in its effort to settle personal injury claims related to former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's molestation. Penn State said Thursday that it retained the Washington,...
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September 17, 2012 5:50 PM
There's little doubt former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky faces a long prison sentence. In a few weeks, he'll find out just how long. A judge announced Monday he will sentence Sandusky on Oct. 9, nearly four months after Sandusky was convicted in the child molestation scandal that...
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September 17, 2012 5:28 PM
Two former Penn State administrators facing charges related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal are seeking to be tried separately. Defense lawyers asked a Dauphin County judge on Monday to split the criminal cases against former athletic director Tim Curley and retired vice president Gary Schultz. Curley and...
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September 17, 2012 11:07 AM
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) A judge announced Monday he will sentence Jerry Sandusky on Oct. 9, nearly four months after the retired assistant football coach was convicted in the child molestation scandal that brought shame to Penn State. Sandusky was convicted in June of 45 counts of sex abuse involving 10...
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September 4, 2012 5:51 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Penn State's costs for legal fees, consultants and public relations firms hired to help deal with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal have reached nearly $17 million. The university said it has spent almost $16.8 million through June 30. Nearly $10 million of that went to...
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August 28, 2012 5:11 PM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Former Penn State faculty leaders blasted the NCAA and former FBI director Louis Freeh on Tuesday over their handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal, saying Freeh's report prepared for the university and the NCAA's $60 million in fines unfairly punish the entire university community. The scholars...
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August 16, 2012 2:24 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Penn State's ousted university president is quietly awaiting a decision on whether he will face criminal prosecution in the Jerry Sandusky scandal while two former subordinates fight charges they tried to cover up the former defensive coordinator's sexual molestation of boys. Lawyers for Tim Curley, once the...
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August 16, 2012 2:01 AM
More than a month after an explosive investigative report accused Penn State's ousted president of burying child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky, Graham Spanier has so far avoided criminal charges unlike two of his colleagues. That doesn't mean he's in the clear, according to legal experts. As attorneys for...
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August 16, 2012 1:26 AM
More than a month after an explosive investigative report accused Penn State's ousted president of covering up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky, Graham Spanier (SPAN'-yur) has so far avoided criminal charges. Legal experts say that doesn't mean he's in the clear. Lawyers for two of Spanier's alleged conspirators,...
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August 13, 2012 2:33 AM
They didn't take a formal vote, but the vast majority of Penn State trustees voiced support for the university president's acceptance of severe penalties imposed by the NCAA over the school's handling of a child molestation scandal. Board chairwoman Karen Peetz told fellow trustees during a Sunday evening conference call...
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August 13, 2012 1:32 AM
The vast majority of Penn State's board of trustees have voiced support for the president's acceptance of tough penalties imposed by the NCAA over how the university handled child molestation allegations against a former assistant football coach. No vote was taken during a conference call on Sunday. Board chairwoman Karen...
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August 12, 2012 5:47 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State's board of trustees will not be voting yet on a consent decree with the NCAA that imposed tough penalties for how the university handled its child molestation scandal. Board chairwoman Karen Peetz told fellow trustees in an opening statement during Sunday evening's conference call...
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July 28, 2012 11:59 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) Penn State is adequately covered to handle lawsuits stemming from the sexual abuse scandal that has enveloped the campus, its president said, repeating that the university hopes to settle many of them "as quickly as possible" even though its insurer has sought to limit claims. Rodney Erickson told...
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July 28, 2012 11:51 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) Penn State's president says the university is adequately covered to handle lawsuits stemming from the child sex abuse scandal but hopes to settle many of them "as quickly as possible." Rodney Erickson told CBS's "Face the Nation" program in an interview taped for broadcast Sunday that the university...
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July 26, 2012 7:55 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) For months, the identity of the boy who was sexually assaulted in the locker room showers by Jerry Sandusky was one of the biggest mysteries of the Penn State scandal. Now, for the first time, a man has come forward to claim he was that boy, and...
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July 26, 2012 1:37 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) For months, the identity of the boy who was sexually assaulted in the locker-room showers by Jerry Sandusky was one of the biggest mysteries of the Penn State scandal. Now, for the first time, a man has come forward publicly to claim he was that boy, and...
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July 26, 2012 2:02 AM
Penn State's trustees may not like the NCAA's unprecedented sanctions against the university's football program, but they say the alternative the so-called "death penalty" would have been worse. In their first joint statement since Penn State was hit with a $60 million fine, a four-year bowl game ban, reduced football...
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July 26, 2012 1:38 AM
The Penn State Board of Trustees says the harsh sanctions imposed against its football program are not as bad as a four-year "death penalty" the NCAA had considered. The board met Wednesday night along with President Rodney Erickson. A spokesman for Erickson had earlier said the powerhouse program faced a...
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July 25, 2012 8:14 PM
Penn State faced the threat of a four-year ban on playing football before the NCAA imposed sanctions this week over the school's handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, a university spokesman said Wednesday. David La Torre said the potential for the multiyear "death penalty" was floated during discussions...
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July 25, 2012 5:51 PM
The Penn State Board of Trustees gathered Wednesday afternoon to discuss whether President Rodney Erickson had the authority to agree to unprecedented NCAA sanctions against the football program without first getting the board's approval, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. The trustees and Erickson assembled in a...
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July 24, 2012 6:17 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) State Farm is pulling its ads from Penn State football broadcasts, while General Motors is reconsidering its sponsorship deal and Wall Street is threatening to downgrade the school's credit rating, suggesting the price of the sexual abuse scandal could go well beyond the $60 million fine...
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July 24, 2012 4:08 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) State Farm is pulling its ads from Penn State football broadcasts, while General Motors is reconsidering its sponsorship deal and Wall Street is threatening to downgrade the school's credit rating, suggesting the price of the sexual abuse scandal could go well beyond the $60 million fine...
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July 24, 2012 2:32 PM
State Farm is pulling its ads from Penn State football broadcasts, while General Motors is reconsidering its sponsorship deal and Wall Street is threatening to downgrade the school's credit rating, suggesting the price of the sexual abuse scandal could go well beyond the $60 million fine and other penalties imposed...
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July 24, 2012 2:28 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Many in Penn State's hometown worry NCAA sanctions on the football program might inflict damage on a community that relies on big home game crowds and a loyal alumni base. Analyst Matt Powell of SportsOneSource says sales of Penn State apparel have already dropped. But the...
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July 23, 2012 5:45 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) A potential exodus of star athletes. No hope of playing in the postseason. More than a decade of accomplishments erased from the record books. And Joe Paterno's legacy in shreds. Penn State football, a longtime powerhouse that was once one of the cleanest, most admired programs...
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July 23, 2012 11:35 AM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Penn State football was all but dismantled Monday by an NCAA ruling that wiped away 14 years of coach Joe Paterno's victories and imposed a mountain of fines and penalties, crippling a program whose pedophile assistant coach spent years molesting children, sometimes on school property. The sanctions by...
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July 23, 2012 8:19 AM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The NCAA has slammed Penn State with an unprecedented series of penalties, including a $60 million fine and the loss of all coach Joe Paterno's victories from 1998-2011, in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Other sanctions include a four-year ban on bowl games,...
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July 23, 2012 2:49 AM
Now the NCAA gets its say on Penn State. College sports' governing body was expected to deal a series of heavy blows to the Nittany Lions football program on Monday, less than two weeks after a devastating report accused coach Joe Paterno and other top university officials of concealing child...
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July 22, 2012 2:35 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) The NCAA announced Sunday that it will issue sanctions against Penn State in the wake of a scathing report that found that top university officials buried child sex abuse allegations against a now-convicted retired assistant and led to the tearing down of the famed statue of...
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July 18, 2012 2:00 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) As the NCAA considers whether Penn State should face penalties following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal including a possible shutdown of its celebrated football program the university says it will respond within days to the governing body's demand for information. The head of the...
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July 17, 2012 8:21 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State said Tuesday it will respond within days to the NCAA's demand for information as the governing body decides whether the university should face penalties including a possible shutdown of its storied football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal....
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July 17, 2012 5:00 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State says it will respond within days to the NCAA's demand for information as the governing body decides whether the university should face penalties after the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Penn State President Rodney Erickson said Tuesday he doesn't want to "jump to...
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July 17, 2012 11:53 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Joe Paterno's name is losing his luster, whether it's the tent city outside Beaver Stadium where students camp out for prime football tickets or the name associated with his alma mater's football coach job. "Paternoville" is out, swapped for "Nittanyville" on Monday. So respected was Paterno...
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July 16, 2012 7:08 PM
Joe Paterno's family on Monday vowed its own investigation of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, rejecting the findings of a special investigator who concluded the late football coach and other top Penn State administrators concealed Sandusky's abuse to shield the university from bad publicity. "Our interest has been...
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July 16, 2012 4:19 PM
Joe Paterno's family on Monday vowed their own investigation of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, rejecting the findings of a special investigator who concluded the late football coach and other top Penn State administrators concealed Sandusky's sexual abuse of children in order to shield the school from bad publicity. "Our interest...
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July 16, 2012 12:15 PM
Joe Paterno's family on Monday vowed their own investigation of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, rejecting the findings of a special investigator who concluded the late football coach and other top Penn State administrators concealed Sandusky's sexual abuse of children in order to shield the school from bad publicity. "Our interest...
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July 16, 2012 10:57 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Joe Paterno's family on Monday strongly denied the findings of a special investigator who concluded the late football coach and other top Penn State administrators concealed Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse of children in order to shield the school from bad publicity. In a statement, the family...
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July 16, 2012 8:44 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Joe Paterno's family strongly denies the findings of a special investigator who described the late coach as one of four high-ranking university officials who covered up child sex abuse allegations against former assistant Jerry Sandusky. In a statement Monday, the family says they "vehemently disagree" with...
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July 14, 2012 2:04 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Legal experts say emails and other evidence from the Penn State sex abuse case suggest that Joe Paterno and other university officials put boys in danger with their failure to report sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago. The allegations are similar to...
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July 13, 2012 4:14 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) If he were alive today, Joe Paterno the coach who stood for so long for character and integrity both on and off the football field could be looking at charges such as child endangerment, perjury and conspiracy. Legal experts said emails and other evidence in the Penn...
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July 12, 2012 5:34 PM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials buried child sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago to avoid bad publicity, according to a scathing report Thursday that exposed a powerful "culture of reverence" for the football program and portrayed the Hall of Fame...
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July 12, 2012 2:57 PM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The chairwoman of Penn State's board of trustees says the panel believes Joe Paterno's "61 years of excellent service to the university is now marred" by the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. Karen Peetz also says the board "accepts full responsibility for the failures that occurred." A board-sanctioned...
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July 12, 2012 2:43 PM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The chairwoman of Penn State's board of trustees says the panel "accepts full responsibility for the failures that occurred" in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. Karen Peetz and other board members pledged to make changes to ensure similar abuse can't go on unchecked in the future. They...
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July 12, 2012 8:54 AM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Penn State report into Jerry Sandusky's molestation says sexual abuse might have been prevented if university officials had banned him from bringing children onto campus after a 1998 inquiry. The report released Thursday said that despite their knowledge of the police probe into Sandusky showering with a...
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July 12, 2012 8:19 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State's investigation into the Jerry Sandusky scandal concludes that Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other senior officials "concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse" because they were worried about bad publicity. A 267-page report is the result of an eight-month inquiry by...
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July 12, 2012 2:04 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) The results of Penn State's internal investigation into the Jerry Sandusky scandal are due to be released in the form of a report that could answer many of the troubling questions swirling around one of the darkest scandals in sports history. A team led by former...
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July 11, 2012 4:38 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Joe Paterno defended his football program's integrity in a 7-month-old letter released Wednesday, a day ahead of a report that could forever mar his legacy. In the letter, written shortly before his death and confirmed as legitimate by his family, Paterno rejected the notion that Jerry...
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July 11, 2012 11:49 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State trustees expect the independent investigation into the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal to examine issues ranging from university governance to the authority of longtime coach Joe Paterno. A person with knowledge of recent discussions among some trustees says the report from former FBI...
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July 11, 2012 8:38 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) A spokesman for Penn State's board of trustees says members held an informational conference call as they prepare for the results of an investigation into the university's handling of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky. David La Torre declined further comment on Tuesday night's call. The call...
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July 11, 2012 2:00 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) The team brought in by Penn State to investigate "the facts and circumstances of the actions" at the university surrounding molestation of boys by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky will release its highly anticipated report this week, with the school's reputation and future direction hanging in...
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July 11, 2012 1:48 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Many people will be reading closely when the Penn State-commissioned report into the facts and circumstances surrounding molestation of boys by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is released this week. The highly anticipated report will be posted on the Internet on Thursday, with the school's...
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July 10, 2012 6:50 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) A potentially explosive report into whether football coach Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials took steps to conceal that former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was a child molester will be released Thursday online for all to see, officials said Tuesday. Attorneys for the university's...
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July 10, 2012 5:23 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) A potentially explosive report into whether football coach Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials took steps to conceal that former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was a child molester will be released Thursday online for all to see, officials said Tuesday. Attorneys for the university's...
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July 10, 2012 11:39 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Lawyers for Graham Spanier say the former Penn State president told investigators hired by the university that he was not told of an incident involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky that described child abuse, sexual misconduct or "criminality of any kind." Attorneys Peter Vaira and...
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July 6, 2012 1:35 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State's internal investigation into the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse case is drawing to a close and the findings are expected within weeks, which would enable the university to confront the next difficult chapter in the scandal well ahead of the new academic year. Following...
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July 3, 2012 12:40 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Details from a decade-old email are raising new questions about Joe Paterno's response to a sex abuse complaint regarding former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, but a Paterno family spokesman says he's not worried about the impact on the late coach's legacy. Family spokesman Dan McGinn said Tuesday...
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July 2, 2012 4:47 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Joe Paterno's family is calling on the Pennsylvania attorney general and former FBI Director Louis Freeh to release all emails and records related to their investigations into the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. Family lawyer Wick Sollers' statement Monday comes after reports of leaked emails...
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June 30, 2012 8:31 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Emails show Penn State's former president Graham Spanier agreed not to take allegations of sex abuse against ex-assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky to authorities but worried university officials would be "vulnerable" for failing to report it, a news organization has reported. The emails followed a graduate...
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June 30, 2012 5:22 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Emails show Penn State's former president Graham Spanier agreed not to take allegations of sex abuse against ex-assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky to authorities but worried university officials would be "vulnerable" for failing to report it, a news organization has reported. CNN says the emails, first...
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June 30, 2012 12:59 PM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Emails show Penn State's former president Graham Spanier agreed not to take allegations of sex abuse against ex-assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky to authorities but worried university officials would be "vulnerable" for failing to report it, a news organization has reported. CNN says the emails, first...
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