Jerry Sandusky
Highlights from the tenure of NCAA President Mark Emmert, who announced Tuesday that he will step down no later than June 2023
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The former president of Penn State was released Wednesday after serving nearly two months in jail for endangering the welfare of children by his response to a report that Jerry Sandusky had been seen physically abusing a boy on campus.
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A judge dashed the hopes of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky for a shorter prison term Friday, resentencing him to the same 30 to 60 years imposed against him in 2012 for sexually abusing children.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s success this week in getting his child-endangerment conviction overturned capped a seven-year fight to save his reputation and stay out of jail, a period during which he has been richly compensated by the university he once ran.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge threw out former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s misdemeanor child-endangerment conviction on Tuesday, less than a day before he was due to turn himself in to begin serving a jail sentence.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State president Graham Spanier lost an appeal Tuesday of his misdemeanor conviction for child endangerment over his handling of a 2001 complaint about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in the football team locker room.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University agreed to pay $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar in the worst sex-abuse case in sports history, officials announced Wednesday.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Sports doctor Larry Nassar is on his way to prison for the rest of his life for molesting scores of young female athletes, but the scandal is far from over at Michigan State University as victims, lawmakers and a judge demand to know why he wasn’t stopped years ago.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Sports doctor Larry Nassar is on his way to prison for the rest of his life for molesting scores of young female athletes, but the scandal is far from over at Michigan State University as victims, lawmakers and a judge demand to know why he wasn’t stopped years ago.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State disclosed Friday it recently paid out an additional $16 million to people with claims they were sexually abused by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, raising the total over several years to more than $100 million.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new communications director is getting sacked on social media for quoting Joe Paterno while making a point about honor and dignity.
NEW YORK (AP) — Al Pacino will star as late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming HBO biopic directed by Barry Levinson.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State’s former president and two other ex-administrators were sentenced Friday to at least two months in jail for failing to report a child sexual abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky a decade before his arrest engulfed the university in scandal and brought down footba
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A day after Al Lord said he would not seek re-election to Penn State’s board of trustees in the wake of his comments about Jerry Sandusky’s victims, the board leadership indicated that’s not good enough.
A day after Al Lord said he would not seek re-election to Penn State’s board of trustees in the wake of his comments about Jerry Sandusky’s victims, the board leadership indicated that’s not good enough.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In some versions of a March 24 story about the criminal conviction of former Penn State University president Graham Spanier, The Associated Press erroneously reported the length of retired assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s sentence.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State is trying to turn the corner on the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, but the former FBI director who authored a scathing report on it more than four years ago says more changes are needed, even after the conviction of the university’s former president.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The Penn State University campus was quiet Friday afternoon despite the stunning conviction of ex-university president Graham B.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The Penn State University campus was quiet Friday afternoon despite the stunning conviction of ex-university president Graham B.
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HARRISBURG -- Graham B. Spanier, the former Pennsylvania State University president once considered one of the nation’s most prominent college leaders, was convicted Thursday of endangering children by failing to report signs that Jerry Sandusky was a serial sex predator.
HARRISBURG -- Graham B. Spanier, the former Pennsylvania State University president once considered one of the nation’s most prominent college leaders, was convicted Thursday of endangering children by failing to report signs that Jerry Sandusky was a serial sex predator.
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HARRISBURG -- The former athletic director at Pennsylvania State University testified Wednesday that he and two other ranking school administrators took what they thought was “appropriate” action in 2001 to curtail Jerry Sandusky’s conduct but he has since come to regret his decisi
HARRISBURG -- The former athletic director at Pennsylvania State University testified Wednesday that he and two other ranking school administrators took what they thought was “appropriate” action in 2001 to curtail Jerry Sandusky’s conduct but he has since come to regret his decisi
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The failure of Penn State’s former president to report child molestation accusations against Jerry Sandusky allowed evil “to run wild,” prosecutors said Tuesday at the start of Graham Spanier’s trial.
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HARRISBURG -- Former Pennsylvania State University President Graham B. Spanier and two key administrators failed to stop the “Jerry Sandusky problem” and for that Spanier should be found guilty of child endangerment and conspiracy, a state prosecutor told jurors Tuesday morning.
HARRISBURG -- Former Pennsylvania State University President Graham B. Spanier and two key administrators failed to stop the “Jerry Sandusky problem” and for that Spanier should be found guilty of child endangerment and conspiracy, a state prosecutor told jurors Tuesday morning.
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In the nearly six years since Jerry Sandusky’s arrest, former Pennsylvania State University President Graham B.
In the nearly six years since Jerry Sandusky’s arrest, former Pennsylvania State University President Graham B.
Sandusky’s son arrested on child sex charges
One of Jerry Sandusky’s sons was charged Monday with sex crimes involving two girls, more than five years after the former Penn State assistant coach was himself first arrested on child molestation charges.
One of Jerry Sandusky’s sons was charged Monday with sex crimes involving two girls, more than five years after the former Penn State assistant coach was himself first arrested on child molestation charges.
One of Jerry Sandusky’s sons was arrested Monday on multiple sexual offense charges involving children, more than five years after the former Penn State assistant coach was himself first arrested.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State said Friday it won’t fight a $2.4 million fine stemming from a five-year federal investigation that found the university repeatedly violated campus crime reporting requirements, including in the case of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who is now s
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A Penn State lawyer on Monday turned claims in a civil lawsuit against a former coach who offered key testimony against Jerry Sandusky, saying it’s not the school’s fault he can’t find a coaching position but rather a response to the man’s own failure to stop the child sexual
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge has given the NCAA the ability to get more information about efforts by a son of Penn State’s legendary football coach Joe Paterno to find employment in years past and about his short-lived 2014 campaign for lieutenant governor.
STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (AP) — Penn State’s football team is regaining 112 wins wiped out during a child molestation scandal and the late Joe Paterno has been restored as the winningest coach in major U.S. college football history.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A divided Penn State board voted Wednesday to endorse a potential legal settlement that would keep its $60 million fine over the Jerry Sandusky scandal within Pennsylvania, signaling their support for a deal to end a dispute between state officials and the NCAA over the sancti
NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of a former Penn State assistant football coach says she “definitely” believes her husband is innocent despite being convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys and that the victims’ financial gain was at play.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Longtime Penn State head coach Joe Paterno said that the university mishandled its response to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, a former assistant coach testified Monday during a hearing for three top school officials accused of a cover-up.