Paterno's Son: 'Dad, You Won. You Can Go Home Now'
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Jay Paterno leaned over his dying father, gave him a kiss, and whispered in his ear. "Dad, you won," he said. "You did all...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Jay Paterno leaned over his dying father, gave him a kiss, and whispered in his ear. "Dad, you won," he said. "You did all...
AP | Posted 03.27.2012
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Support for the decision by Penn State trustees to fire the late Joe Paterno is falling, according to a national poll released...
AP | By GENARO C. ARMAS | Posted 01.24.2012
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Joe Paterno was upbeat and confident in his final days and didn't die broken-hearted over his firing in November as Penn State's...
AP | MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 03.23.2012
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno's death from lung cancer Sunday just two months after his firing left many Penn State students, alumni and comm...
AP | RALPH D. RUSSO | Posted 03.23.2012
Former Penn State star Lydell Mitchell visited Joe Paterno about a week and a half ago, hoping to get just a moment with his ailing coach. After an e...
AP | RACHEL COHEN | Posted 03.14.2012
NEW YORK — Penn State President Rodney Erickson wrapped up three cities in three days of often tense meetings with alumni assuring this: "We're ...
AP | GENARO C. ARMAS | Posted 03.07.2012
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State has hired New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien as its head coach, the first change in leaders...
The Huffington Post | Michael Klopman & Chris Greenberg | Posted 01.06.2012
A few notable former Penn State football players aren't thrilled with reports that their alma mater is hiring New England Patriots offensive coordinat...
Posted 01.06.2012
Penn State has found a new head football coach. According to Chris Mortensen of ESPN, New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien has agre...
AP | GENARO C. ARMAS | Posted 02.20.2012
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — About two dozen fans gathered briefly outside Joe Paterno's home Wednesday night to wish the former Penn State coach a happ...
AP | GENARO C. ARMAS | Posted 02.10.2012
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno fractured his pelvis again following a fall at his home but will not need surgery, a person close to the family...
AP | BY GENARO C. ARMAS | Posted 12.07.2011
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A person close to Joe Paterno's family has told The Associated Press the former Penn State football coach is undergoing treatmen...
AP | Posted 11.18.2011
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Scott Paterno says his 84-year-old father has a treatable form of lung cancer in a statement provided to The Associated Press by...
Posted 11.16.2011
In the wake of the shocking child sex abuse scandal surrounding Penn State, in which former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexu...
Posted 11.16.2011
Less than a month ago, former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno became the winningest coach in Division I history after the Nittany Lions came bac...
AP | BY RALPH D. RUSSO | Posted 11.15.2011
BY RALPH D. RUSSO, Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Mike McQueary told a friend from Penn State that he stopped an alleged assault by Jerry S...
AP | MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 01.15.2012
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's long service at the university theoretically puts him in line for a pension of ...
Beverly Macy | Posted 01.15.2012
As we continue to study the complex phenomenon that is social media, it is becoming evident that for every positive there is a negative; that for ever...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.15.2011
Among the key witnesses in the sexual abuse case against former Penn State defensive coach Jerry Sandusky is Mike McQueary. While a graduate assis...
AP | Posted 01.14.2012
NEW YORK — A former Penn State football assistant coach charged with sexually abusing eight boys in a scandal that has rocked the university sai...
The Huffington Post | Michael Klopman | Posted 11.15.2011
When the Penn State football team returned to the field on Saturday afternoon to face Nebraska, they did so without longtime coach Joe Paterno. It was...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.15.2011
During the week since the sordid accusations of sexual abuse -- and a potential cover-up -- at Penn State became public, there has been a constant flo...
AP | Posted 11.14.2011
KAPOLEI, Hawaii -- President Barack Obama says the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State has an important message for institutions far beyond college spo...
Posted 01.11.2012
The list of former Penn State players to reach the NFL is extensive, and the school's list of All-Americans even more so. As we all know, a successf...
AP | By JOE MANDAK | Posted 01.11.2012
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The man investigating the 2005 disappearance of a central Pennsylvania prosecutor doesn't believe it is linked to the prosecutor...
AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM and GENARO C. ARMAS | Posted 03.28.2012