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Penn State's costs for Sandusky scandal top $44M
Penn State's costs for legal fees, consultants and other services connected to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal have topped $44.4 million, the university's latest bill shows. That total was through the end of February, according to a university website this week. It's up about $1.5 million from the ...
PSU student Horn wins Flamminio scholarship
Penn State University student Brittany Horn was awarded the 2013 Ralph Flamminio Memorial Scholarship at the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors' annual meeting Friday. The award honoring the former editor of The Morning Call of Allentown and Coatesville Record salutes an exemplary Pennsylvania college student who best displays the ideals ...
Moody's says recent PSU actions are positive
Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service says recent changes to the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees are a "credit positive." In a credit outlook report released late Thursday Moody's says "significant changes" were recently made to Penn State's governance structure and oversight practices, and those should strengthen oversight and management. ...
Penn State defends medical changes after report
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien is fervently disputing suggestions raised in a report that player medical care has been compromised after the team doctor was replaced. Speaking often in an angry tone that might be otherwise reserved for an argument with an official, O'Brien told reporters in a conference call ...
Superintendent tapped as Pa. as education chief
The superintendent of a large suburban Harrisburg school district will be Gov. Tom Corbett's nominee for education secretary and replace Ron Tomalis, who after a busy and rocky two-year tenure will move into an advisory role in the administration, Corbett said Wednesday. William Harner of the Cumberland Valley School District ...
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House oversight chief plans to seek depositions of veteran diplomat, former Joint Chiefs chair WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House oversight panel is asking a veteran diplomat and a former chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff for sworn testimony about their investigation into the deaths of ...
Ex-Penn St head was top paid among public colleges
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier became the highest paid public college president of 2011-12 when he was forced out over his handling of the sex abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to a survey released Sunday. The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual ranking of public ...
NBC cancels Williams' newsmagazine 'Rock Center'
NBC pulled the plug Friday on Brian Williams' newsmagazine "Rock Center" after a short, troubled life in which it failed to find a consistent home on the network's prime-time schedule. The show's final broadcast will be on June 21, NBC Universal News Group Chairwoman Pat Fili-Krushel said in a memo ...
O'Brien, PSU staff optimistic on recruiting trail
Penn State is hitting the football recruiting trail hard with coaches visiting close to 200 schools in the first two weeks of the May recruiting period. Coach Bill O'Brien gave the update Thursday at Penn State's branch campus in DuBois. It was the first stop of the last day of ...
PSU coach O'Brien not expecting more transfers
Penn State has 67 scholarship players on its football roster and coach Bill O'Brien sees no reason why that will change significantly by the time the season starts Aug. 31. O'Brien said Wednesday he doesn't expect a second wave of departures from the Nittany Lions, even though NCAA sanctions still ...
New PSU trustees hope to influence board tone
Penn State's three new alumni trustees will likely need more allies on the board to get the school's governing body to re-visit former FBI director Louis Freeh's scathing report into the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal. But one of the newly-elected trustees, Barbara Doran, said the turnover does add to ...
Penn St trustees OK changes; incumbents rejected
Penn State trustees approved reforms to university governance on Friday and learned that two incumbents on the university's governing board were voted out by alumni in a contentious election. Incumbent Paul Suhey finished fourth, one spot out of returning to the board. Board vice chair Stephanie Deviney also was rejected ...
Penn State trustees face possible changes
Penn State's Board of Trustees could welcome new members and vote on new rules when the school officials convene this week for two days of meetings. Trustees gathered in committees Thursday before assembling as a full board Friday. They're likely to discuss proposed revisions to university governance rules, including making ...
Back on road, confident O'Brien barnstorms for PSU
Bill O'Brien got to the point. There's no time to waste for a major college football program, even in the offseason — and especially for a Penn State team facing roster restrictions because of NCAA sanctions. Whether he was rallying the fan base Monday at a luncheon or explaining to ...
Judge postpones hearing over Penn State lawsuit
A judge has postponed a hearing on the NCAA's request to dismiss Gov. Tom Corbett's antitrust lawsuit over sanctions college sports' governing body imposed on Penn State over the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. Oral arguments had been scheduled for Wednesday. But the Centre Daily Times reports (http://bit.ly/10R3kRZ ) U.S. ...
Overseer of US victim funds says work wrenching
His work has immersed him in events that read like a roster of recent catastrophes, from 9/11 to the Gulf oil spill. Now, Kenneth Feinberg is adding the Boston Marathon bombings to that list. The Massachusetts native and attorney is managing the payouts from The One Fund, which was established ...
Penn State applications down 9 percent this year
Penn State says the number of applications for undergraduate enrollment is down about 9 percent this year. There were nearly 54,000 applications for all Penn State campuses from potential first-year undergraduates applying to start this fall, according to figures provided to The Associated Press. That was down from the more ...
TIMELINE: Chronological look at the case against Jerry Sandusky
1969 – Jerry Sandusky starts his coaching career at Penn State University as a defensive line coach. 1977 – Jerry Sandusky founds The Second Mile. It begins as a group foster home dedicated to helping troubled boys and grows into a charity dedicated to helping children with absent or dysfunctional ...
UNEDITED: July 12, 2012 Statements from Penn State University leadership and the Board of Trustees
Statement from University leadership and the Board of Trustees: Freeh report released to public Thursday morning, July 12, 2012 Today with the report released by Judge Louis Freeh, the Penn State Board of Trustees delivered on the commitment we made last November when we engaged Judge Freeh to conduct an ...
UNEDITED: Penn State statement on Sandusky verdict
Today Penn State learned that a verdict was reached in the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Gerald Sandusky. Mr. Sandusky was found guilty of 45 of the 48 charges filed against him. The legal process has spoken and we have tremendous respect for the men who came forward ...
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