MARK SCOLFORO
FILE - In this March 24, 2017, file photo, former Penn State president Graham Spanier walks from the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, reinstated Spanier's conviction for child endangerment over his handling of a report that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused a boy in a football team shower. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Ex-Penn St. president's Sandusky-related conviction restored

By Mark Scolforo Dec. 01, 2020 02:24 PM EST
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated former

File-This July 13, 2020, shows the statue of former Penn State University head football coach Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium. Though the statue has been taken down, Penn State and the family of Paterno announced Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, they had resolved “the outstanding issues” that divided them, eight years after he was fired after Jerry Sandusky's child molestation arrest. The university and Paterno's widow, Sue Paterno, both issued statements that Penn State had agreed to pay “certain of the Paterno family's expenses” and wished to move forward. The amount was not disclosed. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Penn State settles 'outstanding issues' with Paterno family

Mark Scolforo Feb. 21, 2020 05:33 PM EST
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State and the family of the late head football

FILE - This file photo from Oct. 26, 2019 shows Penn State coach James Franklin as he watches the team warm before an NCAA college football game against Michigan State, in East Lansing, Mich. A football player who transferred from Penn State claims in a lawsuit filed Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, against the university, and head coach James Franklin, that other Nittany Lions players hazed him and other younger teammates, including allegations they imitated sexual acts in the shower and invoked Jerry Sandusky's name. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)
Ex-player sues Penn State over football hazing allegations

By Mark Scolforo Jan. 14, 2020 04:47 PM EST
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Penn State football player claims in a lawsuit

The wife of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, Dottie Sandusky, leaves the Centre County Courthouse after attending a resentencing hearing on his 45-count child sexual abuse conviction Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Jerry Sandusky resentenced to 30 to 60 years, same as before

By Mark Scolforo Nov. 22, 2019 06:22 AM EST
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A judge dashed the hopes of former Penn State assistant

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2015, file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., for a hearing about his appeal. Judge John Foradora, handling the pending re-sentencing of Sandusky, is recusing himself, citing an unspecified recent action by the attorney general's office. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Judge takes himself off Jerry Sandusky resentencing case

By Mark Scolforo Sep. 18, 2019 11:03 AM EDT
The judge handling the pending resentencing of former Penn State assistant football

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2015 file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, arrives at the Centre County Courthouse for a hearing about his appeal on his child sex-abuse conviction, in Bellefonte, Pa. Judge John Foradora ordered Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2019, Sandusky be taken to a central Pennsylvania courtroom in September for resentencing on his 45-count child sexual abuse conviction, six months after an appeals court ruled mandatory minimums had been improperly applied. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Sandusky to be resentenced next month in molestation case

By Mark Scolforo Aug. 08, 2019 12:40 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A state judge has ordered Jerry Sandusky be taken to a central

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2016 file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Sandusky isn't getting a fresh chance to argue in state court he should get a new trial, seven years after he was convicted of molesting 10 boys. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 turned down the 75-year-old's request it review a Superior Court decision earlier this year that rejected most of Sandusky's arguments. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Pennsylvania high court declines to review Sandusky decision

By Mark Scolforo Jul. 24, 2019 03:43 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky won't get a fresh chance to argue in state

Pennsylvania's attorney general, Josh Shapiro, listens to a question at a news conference in his office's headquarters, Wednesday, May 1, 2019 in Harrisburg, Pa. Shapiro announced that his office will appeal a federal judge's decision to vacate the child-endangerment conviction of former Penn State President Graham Spanier. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)
Former Penn State president richly paid as he fought charges

By Mark Scolforo May. 01, 2019 05:38 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State President Graham Spanier's success this week

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo a sign for The Second Mile charity is seen outside the organization's headquarters in State College, Pa. Penn State stands to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from the defunct charity for children founded by Jerry Sandusky to settle claims that were never fleshed out in a civil lawsuit. (AP Photo/Genaro C. Armas)
Penn State to collect $733K from Sandusky's defunct charity

By Mark Scolforo Mar. 20, 2019 01:39 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State will collect hundreds of thousands of dollars left

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2015, file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives for an appeal hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Sandusky lost a bid for a new trial Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, but a Pennsylvania appeals court ordered him to be re-sentenced for a 45-count child molestation conviction. Superior Court on Tuesday said Sandusky was improperly sentenced using mandatory minimums. The 75-year-old former Penn State assistant football coach was sentenced in 2012 to 30 to 60 years in state prison for sexual abuse of 10 boys. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Ex-Penn State assistant coach Sandusky gets new sentencing

By Mark Scolforo Feb. 05, 2019 03:25 PM EST
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Seven years after Jerry Sandusky was convicted of child