The Jerry Sandusky scandal appears headed for another court battle that’s sure to prolong the media spotlight and the relive the testimony of how the former Penn State football icon molested boys, sometimes in the school’s facilities. …read more
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By Associated Press Three former Penn State administrators have been ordered to stand trial in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. …read more
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Three former Penn State administrators have been ordered to stand trial in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. …read more
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A second day of testimony has begun in a hearing to determine if three former Penn State officials will face trial on accusations they covered up molestation accusations against Jerry Sandusky. …read more
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Day two of a hearing on whether three former Penn State officials covered up an allegation in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal is expected to feature two more witnesses, a day after legendary coach Joe Paterno was said to be quietly critical of how university officials had handled it. …read more
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — 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.
Mike McQueary was called as a witness in a hearing for three former Penn State officials accused in a cover-up of the scandal. He told the judge that the late Hall of Fame coach had told him over the years that “Old Main screwed up” – referring to university administrators – in response to the allegation against Sandusky.
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A former Penn State president and two former top administrators are set to appear in court on charges they failed to tell police about a sexual abuse allegation involving assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and then tried to cover up what they knew.
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Ultrasonic waves can find bubbles and cracks in adhesive bonds holding airplane composite parts together, and now aerospace engineers can select the best frequencies to detect adhesive failures in hard-to-reach places more quickly, thanks to Penn State researchers. …read more
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By ESPN.com news services Penn State’s board of trustees has authorized roughly $60 million in payments to about two dozen men who say they were sexually abused by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal …read more
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A son of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is seeking to have his name changed more than a year after his adoptive father was convicted of child sexual abuse.
Matt Sandusky filed papers Tuesday in Centre County Court seeking to have the names of him and his family changed. Though the documents are sealed, they show he filed for a name change, along with his wife and four children.
Matt Sandusky had been expected to be a defense witness until the trial, when he told investigators that he also had been abused by Jerry Sandusky.
Jerry Sandusky was convicted on 45 counts of sexual abuse. He is serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence and maintains he was wrongfully convicted. He is pursuing appeals.
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By Josh Moyer It’s finally official: Penn State is heading to Ireland. …read more
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Penn State will open its 2014 football season against the University of Central Florida in Ireland, the first international game for either team.
Officials from both schools along with the Gaelic Athletic Association announced in Dublin on Sunday that the game will be played at Croke Park on Aug. 30 and will air on ESPN-2.
Penn State coach Bill O’Brien said players and coaches were excited by the prospect of the trip.
Penn State athletic director Dave Joyner and Central Florida coach George O’Leary announced details of the game at the venue in Dublin.
Penn State will be the first Big Ten team to play internationally since Michigan State and Wisconsin met in Tokyo in the 1993 regular season finale.
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By Josh Moyer It’s finally official: Penn State is heading to Ireland. …read more
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Penn State University has reached tentative settlements with several men who claim to have been sexually abused by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the school’s Board of Trustees announced Friday.
The school won’t be commenting on specifics until the deals have been made final, which could happen in the coming weeks. University president Rodney Erickson called approving the settlement offers “another important step toward the resolution of claims from Sandusky’s victims.”
“As we have previously said, the university intends to deal with these individuals in a fair and expeditious manner, with due regard to their privacy,” Erickson said in a statement issued after the settlement resolution was approved.
Sandusky, 69, was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, including violent attacks on boys inside school facilities, after a three-week trial last summer in which eight victims testified against him. He is serving a 30- to 60-year prison term and maintains he was wrongfully convicted. He is pursuing appeals.
The school said it won’t comment until settlements have been finalized, executed and delivered. More than 30 claimants have come forward with sexual abuse allegations involving the longtime assistant to late coach Joe Paterno.
The deals will be limited to a range of dollar values and subject to final approval by a committee empowered by the board to handle the claims.
Legal experts say the “value” of a child sexual abuse claims depends on several factors, including the victim’s age and the nature and frequency of the abuse. Many details about the Sandusky abuse claims have not been made public, but other cases suggest Penn State may have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, up to several million, to get settlements.
Ira Lubert, the trustee who chairs the board’s Committee on Legal and Compliance, told the board that “tentative settlements have been reached on a number of existing claims” without detailing how many have settled, how many remain and how much money — individually or in the aggregate — might be involved.
Lubert said his committee was empowered to authorize the settlements itself, but though it was important that the trustees approved the move in a public meeting. The trustees voted unanimously to make the settlement offers with no discussion after a brief explanation by Lubert.
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Massachusetts lawyer Kenneth Feinberg has been near the heart of some of the worst catastrophes, dealing with people who’ve faced profound loss after 9/1l, the BP oil spill, the Virginia Tech shootings, and the Colorado movie theater ambush.
Now, he’s adding the Boston Marathon bombings to his workload, managing a victims’ compensation fund as he did after the previous tragedies.
The 67-year-old Feinberg said his work takes an emotional toll but is about wanting to help, in the same spirit as those who donate.
The One Fund — now nearing $26 million — was established to help victims of the April 15 explosions that killed three people and injured more than 260.
Feinberg has established an aggressive timeline in Boston. He hopes to meet with families by June 15 and get checks out by June 30.
Currently, he is advising a panel distributing money after the December school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and mediating settlement discussions between Penn State and alleged sex abuse victims of former football coach Jerry Sandusky.
The experiences are wrenching, he said. And recipients invariably resent him, thinking he’s trying to put a price on the priceless things they’ve lost.
“Don’t expect thanks or appreciation or gratitude, none of that,” Feinberg said. “We have very emotional victims and you’re offering them money instead of a limb, instead of the return of a family member. This is a no-win situation.”
But he keeps saying yes to the work because he wants to help.
“Look at the amount of money that pours in from private people, private citizens?” he said. “How do you say no if the governor calls, the mayor?”
In 1984, the Brockton native was appointed to distribute money from a $180 million settlement for military veterans exposed to Agent Orange. His work was stellar enough to prompt a call when President George W. Bush was looking for someone to manage the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Since then, the calls have come regularly.
Most of the work is pro bono, including the Boston Marathon job, though Feinberg was paid for his work with the 9/11 fund and the BP oil
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A Pennsylvania judge is allowing a whistleblower and defamation lawsuit against Penn State to go forward.
The suit was filed in October by former assistant football coach Mike McQueary, who testified in the Jerry Sandusky trial.
McQueary claims that statements made in 2011 by then-university president Graham Spanier after charges were filed in the case made McQueary look untruthful.
The university had requested the lawsuit be thrown out, but Judge Thomas Gavin says the claims of “outrageous conduct” on the part of the school are sufficient to keep it alive.
Gavin’s decision Tuesday gives the school 20 days to respond.
Penn State spokesman Dave La Torre is declining to comment, and a message seeking comment from McQueary’s lawyer wasn’t returned.
Spanier faces charges including perjury and obstruction, allegations he denies.
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By Associated Press The widow of longtime Penn State coach Joe Paterno says she and her husband were ignorant about sexual predators like Jerry Sandusky.
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The widow of longtime Penn State coach Joe Paterno says she and her husband were ignorant about sexual predators like Jerry Sandusky.
Speaking at a child-abuse prevention program, Sue Paterno says she and her husband sometimes unknowingly helped Sandusky “groom” the boys he abused, believing he was helping them find a better life.
Paterno says she was horrified to learn Sandusky sexually abused several young boys.
A probe completed last summer accused Joe Paterno, who died in January 2012, and three former Penn State administrators of covering up an abuse allegation about Sandusky more than a decade ago in an attempt to shield the university from bad publicity.
The Paterno family has vehemently died the late coach had knowledge of Sandusky’s crimes.
Sandusky is serving 30 to 60 years in prison.
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(Phys.org) —Renovating public parks enhances visitor behaviors and experiences, according to researchers at Penn State, who surveyed park visitors in Allentown, Pa., about their use of a neighborhood park after it was renovated. …read more
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For months, the criminal case against three former Penn State administrators accused of covering up abuse complaints about Jerry Sandusky has been in limbo while a judge considered their request to have the case thrown out.
Judge Barry Feudale‘s ruling Tuesday against Graham Spanier, Gary Schultz and Tim Curley could clear the way for a district judge to finally conduct the preliminary hearing that had once been scheduled for last December.
But Feudale’s 16-page opinion and order anticipates that the defendants might want to take up the same issues he rejected before a county judge or a state appeals court.
Feudale ruled he did not have jurisdiction and turned down their motions to throw out the grand jury report backing up the accusations and ruled against two other defense requests.
Feudale said he would not have granted the defendants’ request that the charges be thrown out and emphasized that the case was out of his hands once the grand jury issued its report. But the judge did provide an analysis of the defense arguments that, he said, let him to conclude their motions lacked merit.
The three are charged with perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children, failure to properly report suspected abuse and conspiracy.
The defendants had sought to exclude the testimony of Penn State‘s former general counsel Cynthia Baldwin, based on her actions as she accompanied the men to grand jury appearances in Harrisburg in early 2011. The defendants argued that Baldwin’s actions violated their right to legal counsel, but Feudale said it “strains credulity to infer that they were somehow deluded or misrepresented by attorney Baldwin.”
“In hindsight, perhaps I erred in not asking follow up questions about the role of corporate counsel Baldwin,” Feudale wrote. “I regret and perhaps committed error in not asking any follow-up questions, but while I am unaware what the response would have been, I fail to discern how such would persuade me at this stage why presentments should be dismissed.”
The attorney general’s office and a spokeswoman for Curley’s legal team offered no immediate comment. Lawyers for Spanier and Schultz did not immediately return phone messages.
Sandusky, a retired Penn State assistant football coach, was convicted in June of 45 sexual abuse counts. Sandusky, 69, is serving a 30- to 60-year state prison sentence, …read more
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