In a stunning and very public about-face, Governor Tom Corbett announced that he will file a lawsuit asking federal courts to throw out the NCAA sanction given to Penn State University as punishment for the scandal.
Graham Spanier, the president of Penn State University during the Jerry Sandusky scandal, will reportedly be charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, possibly as soon as today.
Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky has been given a sentence of not less than 30 years, but not more than 60 years in prison, essentially guarantee that 68-year-old convicted child abuser will stay in jail for the rest of his life.
Hours before he is to be sentenced for his child sexual abuse conviction, former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky has released a bizarre jailhouse audio tape where he professes his innocence and blames his victims for orchestrating a conspiracy against him.
In a mini-PR campaign to clear his name, former Penn State President Graham Spanier gave his first interviews since the release of the Freeh Report and continues to denounce the accusations that he covered up the child abuse of Jerry Sandusky.
There was shock! and outrage! after an Onward State editor tweeted a photo from a bookstore at Penn State that showed a T-shirt with the C in NCAA logo replaced with a hammer and sickle, but the truth behind the T-shirt is a lot less scandalous than you'd imagine.
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier is fighting back against the allegations made against him in the Freeh Report, but his defense isn't much of a defense at all.
The NCAA has given an unprecedented and harsh punishment to Penn State football, handing down a four-year postseason ban and a $60 million fine for covering up the sexual abuse crimes of former coach Jerry Sandsuky
Penn State officials finally bent to public pressure on Sunday and removed the Joe Paterno statue from outside their football stadium. While that was happening, the NCAA announced a press conference for Monday morning where they're expected to level the school with "unprecedented" penalties.
There have been numerous calls in recent to severely punish or outright end the Penn State football program for covering up Jerry Sandusky's crimes, but we shouldn't be too quick to punish others for the sins of an handful of corrupt old men.
As the Jerry Sandusky trial began to play out, Joe Paterno started to renegotiate his contract and was able to score a huge single year payout from Penn State in exchange for shortening his existing contract by a year.
Former FBI director Louis Freeh has announced the findings of his investigation into the Penn State sex abuse scandal and Penn State's senior leaders all stand accused of covering up allegations about Jerry Sanduky's abuse of children.
A new batch of emails from the Penn State archives shed new light on former football coach Joe Paterno's approach to discipline and also contradict earlier claims from his family that he never used email.
CNN has reportedly been informed of the contents of emails between top Penn State officials that allege a cover-up of a 2001 incident involving Jerry Sandusky, and the messages seem to implicate that it was Joe Paterno's idea to not report Sandusky.
Lawyers for Jerry Sandusky plan to appeal his conviction on the grounds that an NBC interview with the former coach, which was played for jurors, contained an editing error. Sound familiar?
New documents uncovered from the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office indicate that a top Penn State official kept a file about sexual assault allegations against former football coach Jerry Sandusky, and that he and the University president agreed that it would be "humane" to not report Sandusky to authorities.
Of the 12 jurors and 4 alternates selected to hear the sexual abuse trial of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, fully half have some connection to the university where some of the alleged crimes took place.
Mike McQueary, famed for observing Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting a child, is now filing a whistleblower lawsuit against his university, and while details are still thin, any case with McQueary will eventually make big news, we imagine
One day after Joe Paterno's emotionally charged memorial at Penn State, Jerry Sandusky asks a Pennsylvania court to allow him access to his grandchildren.
The legendary Penn State football coach, his legacy forever stained by the Jerry Sandusky sexual assault scandal, opens up for an interview with The Washington Post, even as he struggles through chemo.
Accused child molester Jerry Sandusky's lawyer suggested this week that his client showered with young boys because may have been teaching them hygiene.
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was just arrested at his home in Pennsylvania after two new accusers came forward to claim he sexually abused them as well.
The former Penn State football coach charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse of children is talking to the media again.
One of the two new alleged victims in the Jerry Sandusky case is a relative of the former Penn State assistant football coach, reports Patriot-News.
One of Jerry Sandusky's alleged molestation victims, now 17 years old, has left his high school after bullies blamed him for the firing of Penn State's football coach Joe Paterno.
CNN goes deep into the disgraced former football coach's memoir to try to chart the origins of his alleged abuse of young boys.
Cartoonist Tony Auth isn't filing away the Penn State scandal just yet.
Bernie Fine, a long-time assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University, has been accused by two former ball boys of sexual molestation, but Fine's boss says the accusers are lying.
State College Police Chief Tom King says that Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary's "discussions with police" about witnessing and stopping Jerry Sandusky's locker room child rape never happened.
Mike McQueary, the coaching assistant who witnessed Jerry Sandusky raping a child in the Penn State locker room in 2002, told CBS's Armen Keteyian that the case has left him, "all over the place -- just kind of shaken ... like a snow globe."
Penn State's wounds are still fresh--a loss to Nebraska this weekend, the threats against and the administrative leave of coach Mike McQueary, and the embarrassing riots--but that hasn't stopped more news from Sandusky's Second Mile charity from unraveling or a new embarrassment for long-time coach Joe Paterno to shoulder.
At Penn State University's football game since its head coach and president were fired for failing to stop a child predator, the usual drama felt "beside the point."
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