President Barack Obama has offered his condolences to the family of legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who died Sunday of lung cancer ... For decades they cheered him, now it's time for Penn State students and alumni to mourn Joe Paterno ... Connecticut lawmakers are holding a public hearing to discuss whether state law needs to be changed in the wake of the child abuse scandal at Penn State University ... STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Penn State students and supporters laid flowers and lit candles on Monday as they mourned the death of Joe Paterno, who won more games than any other U.S. major college football coach but saw his legacy tarnished by a child sexual abuse scandal at the school ... HARRISBURG, Penn (Reuters) - The corruption trial of Pennsylvania's longest-serving state lawmaker, H. William DeWeese, opened on Monday with prosecutors describing him as "a common thief with uncommon access to other people's money." ... TALLAHASSEE, Fla (Reuters) - Four members of the Florida A&M University marching band were expelled on Monday for hazing, the latest in a series of actions following the death of drum major Robert Champion in November ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - 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 longtime football coach, his son said Monday.
Scott Paterno said his Dad was "serenely calm," before his death from lung cancer on Sunday, antsy ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - For decades they cheered him, now it's time for Penn State students and alumni to mourn Joe Paterno.
Three days of public events were set to begin Tuesday as Penn Staters from State College and far beyond say goodbye to the man who led the Nittany ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - For decades they cheered him, now it's time for Penn State students and alumni to mourn Joe Paterno.
Three days of public events will begin Tuesday as Penn Staters from State College and beyond say goodbye to the man who led the Nittany Lions to 409 ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - The Penn State football team is paying its respects to the late Joe Paterno.
Members of the team arrived at a university spiritual center shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday, a few hours before the public viewing began for the Hall of Fame coach.
The players filed out ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Current and former Penn State football players are paying their respects to the late coach Joe Paterno.
Former players including Franco Harris are attending a private viewing at a university spiritual center. Those men began arriving shortly after members of Paterno's last team filed in from ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Mourners are lining up at Penn State for a viewing honoring the late football coach Joe Paterno.
Current and former players including Franco Harris are attending a private viewing at a spiritual center. Members of Paterno's last team filed in from the same buses that carried ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Penn State officials say no more tickets are available for a Thursday memorial service for the late football coach Joe Paterno.
The service will be held at Penn State's 16,000-seat basketball arena. The school says there was "overwhelming demand" for tickets.
The tickets were distributed free of ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Penn State football players past and present made a somber pilgrimage to the campus spiritual center Tuesday for Joe Paterno, attending a viewing for the coach who helped shape the university for more than a half century.
The players wore dark suits and filed out of ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - A former assistant coach who says he witnessed a boy being molested in a locker room shower is among those paying his respects to the late Joe Paterno.
Mike McQueary and more than a hundred invited guests are attending a private viewing Tuesday at a campus ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Penn State football players past and present filed past the closed casket of Joe Paterno at the campus spiritual center Tuesday, mourning the coach who helped shape the university for more than a half century. Among those paying their respects was Mike McQueary, a key ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Hundreds of mourners are in a line more than a quarter of a mile long to pay their respects to the late Joe Paterno.
They will pass the legendary football coach's closed casket at a campus spiritual center. One current and one former player are standing ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Decked out in Penn State hats and jackets, students and townspeople stood in a line more than a quarter-mile long Tuesday to pay their respects to Joe Paterno, the coach who for nearly a half century was the face of their university.
Mourners stood in a ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Penn State officials say no more free tickets are available for a memorial service for the late Joe Paterno after the public claimed more than 10,000 in about seven minutes.
The service will be held Thursday at Penn State's 16,000-seat basketball arena.
The tickets were distributed free ... STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Football fans, former players and mourners who thought of Penn State coach Joe Paterno as family paid their respects on Tuesday to the late, legendary Hall of Famer, whose casket was set out for public viewing ... | 
