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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — 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 by the NCAA. Bloomington, Ill.-based State Farm said it had been reviewing its connection to Penn State since the arrest of retired assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky last November. The i...
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — The credibility of the accusers who testified at the trial of Jerry Sandusky solidified the case against him, a juror said Saturday, a day after the retired Penn State coach once viewed as the successor to Joe Paterno was found guilty on 45 counts of child sex abuse. "It's hard to judge character on the stand because you don't know these kids," Joshua Harper told NBC's "Today." ''But most were very credible — I would say all." AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jer...
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky's lawyer said Friday that he would be shocked and "die of a heart attack" if the ex-Penn State assistant football coach were acquitted on all counts. The candid remarks by Joe Amendola lasted about 15 minutes inside the courtroom where Sandusky's trial began on June 11, but opened a wide window into the Sandusky's world as they waited for a verdict. AP Photo/Aggie Kenny In this courtroom sketch, Karl Rominger, left, attorney for Jerry Sandusky, right, listen as the testimony of Penn State assi...
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Lawyers for one of Jerry Sandusky's adopted sons said the man has told authorities the former Penn State assistant football coach abused him. The lawyers issued a statement Thursday naming Matt Sandusky, one of Jerry Sandusky's six adopted children, and saying that the 33-year-old had been prepared to testify on behalf of prosecutors at his father's sex abuse trial. AP Photo/Centre Daily Times, Nabil K. Mark Prosecutor Joseph E. McGettigan III, arrives at the courthouse with the rest of his prosecution t...
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Defense attorneys in Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial suggested in their questioning Tuesday that investigators shared details among accusers, planting the seeds of the alleged victims' evolving accounts of abuse. The defense also called more witnesses who lauded the former Penn State assistant football coach's reputation as an upstanding citizen. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., T...
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky's wife testified Tuesday that she remembers most of the men who told a jury that her husband sexually abused them, but she said he never had inappropriate contact with them as boys. AP Photo/Centre Daily Times, Nabil K. Mark Dottie Sandusky, the wife of Jerry Sandusky, arrives the at the Centre County Courthouse, in Bellefonte, Pa. Tuesdayfor Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse trial. Sandusky is charged with 51 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys over 15 years. She also said that the b...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State's investigation into the Jerry Sandusky scandal concludes that the administrators who fielded a 2001 complaint about him created a dangerous situation for future victims by not reporting the matter. AP Photo/Jim Prisching, File In this Oct. 22, 2011 file photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno stands on the field before an NCAA college football game against Northwestern, in Evanston, Ill. The Freeh Group's report issued Thursday said that in order to avoid bad publicity, president Graham S... Full story
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other senior officials "concealed critical facts" about Jerry Sandusky's child abuse because they were worried about bad publicity, according to an internal investigation into the scandal concluded. The 267-page report released Thursday is the result of an eight-month inquiry by former FBI director Louis Freeh, hired by university trustees weeks after Sandusky was arrested in November to look into what has become one of sports' biggest scandals. The report concluded t...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other youngsters, according to a scathing internal report issued Thursday on the scandal. "Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State," said former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who was hired by university t... Full story
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 have been filed against a university shamed by scandal, with more likely to come. AP Photo/Matt Rourke Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, is taken from the Centre County Courthouse by Centre C... Full story
Pa. gov. fires workers in abortion scandal wake MARK SCOLFORO,Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some state employees have been fired and two Pennsylvania agencies have overhauled their regulations in the wake of allegations that a Philadelphia doctor performed illegal abortions that killed a patient and viable infants, Gov. Tom Corbett announced Tuesday. "It happened because people weren't doing their jobs, plain and simple," Corbett said. Corbett said four attorneys and two supervisors at the departments of Health a...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Just hours after stepping down, two high-ranking Penn State administrators face arraignment Monday on charges they lied to a grand jury investigating former defense coordinator Jerry Sandusky and failed to properly report suspected child abuse, a case that has left fans reeling. Late Sunday, after an emergency meeting of the Board of Trustees, university President Graham Spanier announced that Athletic Director Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, the school's senior vice president for business and finance, would b...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A former defensive coach who was integral for decades to Penn State's football success was accused Saturday of molesting eight boys, and two school administrators were charged with failing to tell police when a witness told them he saw a boy being sexually assaulted in the shower. Former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, 67, was arrested Saturday and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts, according to the office of the state attorney general, Linda Kelly. She called S...
