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Mark Scolforo

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, right, leaves the office of Centre County District Justice Daniel A. Hoffman under escort by Pennsylvania State Police and Attorney General's Office officials in Bellefonte, Pa., on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2011. Sandusky was arrested and jailed Wednesday on new child sex abuse charges brought by two new accusers, including one who claims Sandusky molested him numerous times in a basement bedroom, according to authorities. (AP Photo/The Patriot-News, Andy Colwell)

Sandusky posts bail in latest sex abuse charges

Genaro C. Armas, Mark Scolforo The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 11:19am

BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky posted bail Thursday after spending a night in jail following a new round of sex-abuse charges filed against him.

Sandusky secured his release using $200,000 in real estate holdings and a $50,000 certified check provided by his wife, Dorothy, according to online court records. Sandusky remained at the facility as of midmorning and the warden said he was quiet and cooperative during his overnight stay.

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FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2011 file photo, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky sits in a car as he leaves the office of Centre County Magisterial District Judge Leslie A. Dutchcot in State College, Pa. Sandusky, who is charged with sexually abusing eight boys in a scandal that has rocked the university, said in an telephone interview with Bob Costas Monday night on NBC News' "Rock Center" that there was no abuse and that any activities in a campus shower with a boy were just horseplay, not molestation. (AP Photo/The Patriot-News, Andy Colwell, File)

Penn State abuse scandal likely to spawn lawsuits

Genaro C. Armas, Mark Scolforo The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 18, 2011 - 10:39am

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The full story about what happened in the Penn State child-sex abuse scandal will only come out through the civil lawsuits that now appear inevitable, and the matter raises novel and challenging legal issues, according to lawyers with experience in similar litigation.

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Police: Penn State asst. didn't tell us of abuse

Mark Scolforo The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 10:58am

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State police and their counterparts in State College said they had no record of a former graduate assistant reporting a sexual assault by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on a 10-year-old boy in a campus shower, a detail that runs counter to claims made in an email to former teammates.

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Email outlines reaction to alleged Sandusky attack

Genaro C. Armas, Mark Scolforo, Maryclaire Dale The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 11:27am

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A day after the former Penn State assistant football coach who is charged with sexual abuse of boys declared his innocence in a television interview, an email surfaced from a key witness against him, saying he stopped an alleged attack in the team's showers.

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Penn State scandal may doom charity

Kevin Begos, Mark Scolforo The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 12, 2011 - 10:13am

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Over the past 30 years, politicians, sports stars and community leaders heaped praise on Jerry Sandusky and the charity he founded for troubled youngsters, The Second Mile. It was a model program, and the acclaimed football coach was its driving force.

Now, prosecutors say that very success enabled Sandusky to find boys and sexually assault them.

Sandusky, 67, was charged last weekend with molesting eight boys over a 15-year period in a scandal that rocked the Penn State campus and brought down the university's beloved football coach, Joe Paterno.

In the aftermath, some are wondering if The Second Mile can survive amid questions about its role in the alleged cover-up.

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FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2002 file photo, Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley answers questions during a news conference in State College, Pa. Penn state announced Sunday Nov. 6, 2011 that Curley has been placed on Administrative leave to devote time to his defense to charges of lying to a grand jury investigating Jerry Sandusky. (AP Photo/Pat Little, File)

Penn St officials head to court on perjury charges

Mark Scolforo The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, November 7, 2011 - 12:03pm

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Just hours after stepping down, two high-ranking Penn State administrators face arraignment Monday on charges they lied to a grand jury investigating former defense coordinator Jerry Sandusky and failed to properly report suspected child abuse, a case that has left fans reeling.

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Penn St ex-coach, others charged in child sex case

Genard C. Armas, Mark Scolforo The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 3:00pm

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A former defensive coordinator who was integral for decades to Penn State's success in football was accused Saturday of sexually abusing eight boys, and the school's athletic director and an administrator were charged with perjury and failing to report what they knew about the allegations in a case that prosecutors said uncovered a years-long trail of a predator and those who protected him.

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Toni Crabbe, owner of The Crabbe Depot restaurant, places a menu board into the back of a pickup truck as she empties her business in Port Deposit, Md., Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in advance of possible flooding from rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee. Authorities have ordered more than 100,000 people in communities along the Susquehanna River to get out by 4 p.m. Thursday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee continue to dump rain across the Northeast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

More than 100,000 told to flee Northeast flooding

Mark Scolforo The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 11:36am

HERSHEY, Pa. -- More than 100,000 residents were ordered to flee the rising Susquehanna River on Thursday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped more rain across the Northeast, socking areas still recovering from Hurricane Irene and closing major highways at the morning rush.

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Foreign workers for Hershey protest Pa. conditions

Mark Scolforo The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 5:19pm

HERSHEY, Pa. -- Foreign students working at a candy warehouse protested conditions and pay Thursday, chanting on Chocolate Avenue under streetlights shaped like Hershey's Kisses, arguing that they were employed under the guise of a cultural exchange but toil away in what amounts to a sweets sweatshop. The State Department said it was investigating.

More than 100 students gathered in touristy downtown Hershey, home to the nation's second-largest candy maker, complaining of hard physical labor, steep pay deductions for rent that often left them with little spending money, and no cultural enrichment. They said their concerns were met with threats of deportation.

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Game officer investigating night hunting is killed

Mark Scolforo, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 12, 2010 - 11:57am

FAIRFIELD, Pa. -- Police have detained a man sought for questioning in the fatal shooting of a Pennsylvania Game Commission officer.

Troopers detained 27-year-old Christopher Lynn Johnson around 9:30 a.m. Friday, about 11 hours after 31-year-old Wildlife Conservation Officer David Grove was shot and killed in Freedom Township, near Gettysburg.

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