PENNSYLVANIA

What has America gotten itself in to? Just about every state and every city is cutting back funding to services needed by those who need it most.

Penn State is considering removing a statue of Joe Paterno from in front of its stadium, according to a report.

A victim of sexual abuse by a Penn State education professor tried unsuccessfully to alert the administration from 2001 to 2002, but Penn State officials refused to act, rather than investigate the victim's account, revealed the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC).

Study reveals new implantable array made up of silicon nanomembrane transistors could bring across new understanding of brain diseases like epilepsy, as well as usher in a new generation of implantable neuroprosthetic and diagnostic devices.

Mike McQueary, the graduate assistant football coach who allegedly saw Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in 2002 and is the one of the key witnesses in the Penn State scandal case, reportedly told a friend in an e-mail that he stopped the act and then went to the police.

A friend of Mike McQueary at Penn State released an email Tuesday that describes McQueary's reaction and actions taken after he witnesses the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy by former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky in the university's locker room showers. The email sent by McQueary to his friend in 2002 makes it clear that the graduate assistant stopped the assault and also contacted police. He says, however, he was hammered for the way he handled the situation.

Jerry Sandusky's lawyer Joe Amendola has claimed that one of his client's victims has denied that he was sexually assaulted. Sandusky, 67, has been accused of sexually abusing eight young boys. He has been charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse, which a grand jury has said occurred over a period of nearly 15 years.

Joe Amendola, the lawyer for accused child molester and former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, impregnated an underage teenage girl and later married her, according to a new report.

Experts detailed New York's economic, social and environmental challenges on Tuesday in Zoning the City, an urban planning conference held in midtown.

The Penn State Career Services department is concerned that Penn State students will be at a disadvantage when it comes to securing employment due to the Sandusky child-sex abuse scandal. So, PSU is now offering its students some tips on how to handle the issue when questioned on a job interview.

In March 2010, Elliott Vanskike and his wife bought a 2,000 square-foot home in Madison, Wisconsin for $375,000, pondering the quality of life for their kids as well as the quirks that come with thousands of college kids literally on your doorstep.

In the wake of the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University, the president of The Citadel military college in Charleston, S.C., revealed Monmday that a similar accusation was made against a camp counselor in 2007 and apologized for not taking any legal action.

Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach whose molestation scandal has shocked the nation, admitted in an interview Monday that he had showered with pre-teen boys, but he insisted he was not a pedophile.

Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State University assistant football coach charged with child sex abuse, said on Monday he is not a pedophile, but admitted he showered with young boys.

The funeral for former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Frazier, who died of liver cancer on Nov. 7, took place Monday with many -- family, friends, celebs and those in the boxing community -- paying their condolences in what turned out to be a service that lasted over two hours.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has signed into law a statewide ban on texting while behind the wheel, making the Northeastern state the 35th U.S. state to prohibit texting while driving.

The recent revelations about Jerry Sandusky, the former PSU assistant coach charged with 40 counts of sexually abusing children, have cast a recently unearthed NBC interview in a horrific new light. Watch the 1987 interview here, as Sandusky reflects on his work for The Second Mile, and reactions to the news. I enjoy being around children, Sandusky told reporters.

In the aftermath of a sex abuse scandal involving former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky and its fallout - including the firing of legendary head coach Joe Paterno - ticket prices for the team's football game Saturday vs. Nebraska fluctuated drastically.

The Penn State scandal's fallout deepened Sunday as the head of The Second Mile -- a youth charity founded by Jerry Sandusky, the school's disgraced former assistant football coach -- resigned from his post.

The longtime head of a children's charity, which was founded by a former assistant coach at Penn State accused of child sex abuse, has resigned, the group said on Monday.

Centre County District Judge Leslie Dutchcot, who has been a member of Sandusky's charity, the Second Mile, ordered that Sandusky be freed on $100,000 unsecured bail instead, also ordering that he be freed and pay nothing unless he failed to show up for a court hearing.