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Watch live: PA governor announces lawsuit against NCAA over Penn State sex abuse
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) holds a news conference to announce plans to sue the NCAA over sanctions imposed against Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Jan. 2. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and…
Penn State ex-president faces charges over sex scandal
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Former Penn State University president Graham Spanier faces charges in connection with the Jerry Sandusky child molesting scandal, Pennsylvania’s attorney general announced on Thursday. Linda Kelly said Spanier has been charged with perjury, criminal conspiracy, obstruction of justice, endangering the welfare of children and failing to report…
Sandusky lashes out at accusers as judge sentences him to 30-60 years
Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in jail Tuesday, hours after issuing a statement from jail accusing prosecutors and his accusers of setting up a conspiracy against him,” WNBC-TV reports. Sandusky was found guilty in June of 45 counts of…
Penn State aims to settle child sexual abuse lawsuits ‘as quickly as possible’
Penn State intends to settle lawsuits stemming from the sexual abuse of children by its former assistant football coach “as quickly as possible” and is “adequately covered” to compensate victims, the university’s president has said. In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation, Rodney Erickson expressed a desire to avoid…
Santorum defends Penn State on radio show
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum called the recent NCAA sanctions against Penn State University a reaction “to public” opinion during a radio appearance Friday, according to Think Progress. “I’ve been talking to a lot of folks at Penn State and they say, ‘you’re just gonna have to wait for…
Penn State fined $60 million for Sandusky’s crimes
The football program at Penn State University will pay $60 million to child abuse-prevention programs as part of a series of penalties for the sexual assaults committed by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, the NCAA announced Monday. As SI.com reports, NCAA President Mark Emmert announced Monday morning that the program…
WATCH LIVE: NCAA hands down Penn State sanctions
The National Collegiate Athletic Association handed down what it billed as “unprecedented” sanctions to Penn State on Monday after a pedophilia scandal rocked the college. Jerry Sandusky, a longtime assistant coach with the college, was convicted last month on 45 of 48 counts of sexual abuse of young boys who…
Report: NCAA to hand down ‘unprecedented’ penalties on Penn St.
In the wake of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked football powerhouse Penn State and led to the firing of storied coach Joe Paterno, the NCAA is preparing to level “unprecedented” sanctions against the university, according to CBS News. Citing a “high-ranking association source,” CBS reported Sunday that the NCAA would announce…
Anti-LGBT radio host links Penn State pedophilia to ‘homosexual recruitment’
A radio host from the American Family Association, a group opposing LGBT rights, recently connected the Penn State child abuse scandal to “homosexual recruitment,” claiming that it was similar to pedophilia within the Catholic church. “I think that the point I want to make with this is this sounds stunning,…
Joe Paterno loses his halo
A famous mural on the campus of Penn State University is making several alterations reflecting the results of the report detailing its’ leaders’ failure to prevent Jerry Sandusky’s crimes, NBC News reports. Among the university luminaries seen on the mural on the university bookstore are former university president Graham Spanier…
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