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Family of Penn State's Paterno sues over abuse penalties

HARRISBURG, Penn. (Reuters) - The family of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, along with a group of faculty and former college athletes, sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday over its response to the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. Full story

Special prosecutor to investigate Penn State grand jury secrecy

(Reuters) - A special prosecutor has been named to probe whether secrecy rules were breached in the grand jury that indicted former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky and other university officials in the school's child sex abuse scandal. Full story

Paterno family report slams finding of child sex abuse cover-up

HARRISBURG, Penn. (Reuters) - Family members of the late Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno on Sunday released a report they commissioned that said that a former FBI director's finding that Paterno helped cover up a child sex abuse scandal was flawed and unfair. Full story

Pennsylvania names special prosecutor to review Sandusky scandal

(Reuters) - A former federal prosecutor has been named to lead an investigation of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Full story

Sandusky begins appeal of sex abuse conviction

BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is due in court on Thursday as his lawyers make their first pitch to have his child sex abuse conviction overturned and to obtain a new trial. Full story

Pennsylvania suit against NCAA a long shot, experts say

(Reuters) - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett faces serious obstacles to winning his antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA over the harsh sanctions it imposed on Penn State in the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal, legal experts said on Wednesday. Full story

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  Author: Paterno ‘wished he had done more’

Sportswriter Joe Posnanski was inside the Paterno home chronicling the revered football coach’s life when the Penn State sex abuse scandal erupted. He talks about Paterno’s last interview before he died, which is also part of Posnanski’s new biography, “Paterno.”

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