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In the year since eight young men took the stand to testify they were sexually abused by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the scandal has played out in the courts, in the halls of the university and in continuing debate about how it was handled and what it meant.Two Penn State trustees made a case this month that the university has already made substantial improvements in child safety and its internal governance, with more changes on the way, including a search for a new president.Board chairman Keith Masser said the school can already claim to be more efficient, more transparent and more accountable, a national model for university governance. He sees Penn State turning a corner."There's a lot of inaccurate information and negative information that's out there, and ... I want to make sure that we promote and discuss all the good things that have been done and we're doing," he said in an interview in New York with The Associated Press.The fallout from the reve...
A former teacher in central Pennsylvania is facing charges after police say she allowed a student to perform body piercings in class.Police in Carroll Township alleg...
Police are searching for a Pennsylvania bank robber who fatally shot a supermarket customer who tried to stop the man near his getaway car.South Strabane Township po...
Pennsylvania's highest court is turning down a pair of appeals by two of the three former Penn State administrators facing criminal charges alleging they covered up ...
By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at...
The state's highest court on Friday turned down appeals by two of the three former Penn State administrators facing criminal charges alleging they covered up child a...
The CFL (that's Canadian Football League to you and me) generally doesn't get much press down here in the United States, but over the weekend it managed to wake up m...
University of Pennsylvania Museum: Philadelphia, PA http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/travel/40winks_kids.jpgThe Penn Museum’s 40 Winks with the Sph...
State officials say they are looking for someone who shot and killed a 550-pound black bear that was found dead near a northeastern Pennsylvania road.The Times Tribu...
Members of Penn State's board of trustees on Wednesday outlined the changes the school has implemented as result of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, ref...
Penn State's trustees are on a mission to promote the reforms they have enacted as a result of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, hoping their record migh...
Penn State's trustees are on a mission to promote the reforms they have enacted as a result of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, hoping their record migh...
A federal judge on Thursday threw out the governor's lawsuit against the NCAA over sanctions against Penn State related to Jerry Sandusky, calling his argument "a Ha...
A Pennsylvania teenager with a metal detector has stumbled across a 1962 high school class ring and returned it to its owner.The Centre Daily Times reports 19-year-o...
A Pennsylvania bank robbery suspect fatally shot a supermarket customer who ran after him and tried to stop his getaway car, police said.South Strabane Township poli...
Across the U.S., parents, educators, doctors and other experts have rallied to protect children from bullies. However, bullying by brothers and sisters is often chal...
About 325 former Penn State players have signed a statement supporting the lawsuit filed by the family of former coach Joe Paterno and other former players seeking t...
Prized incoming freshman Christian Hackenberg is officially in the Penn State quarterback derby before ever taking a snap.The post-spring depth chart released Thursd...
PGA TOUR - TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut - With the second major of the season in the books, the PGA Tour heads to TPC River Hig...
Amid the debate over government surveillance, there's been an assumption: Young people don't care about privacy.Turns out, the generation that puts much of the "soci...