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Many Penn State fans showed up to voice their displeasure with Paterno's firing.

Public relations executives employed by the energy industry encouraged their colleagues to study counterinsurgency techniques and noted the effectiveness of veterans trained in psychological operations in the push to win public approval for natural gas drilling.

Following news that head football coach Joe Paterno was fired in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal at the school, more than 1,000 Penn State University students took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the decision, flipping a media van in the process, leaving authorities no choice but to bring in heavy equipment to right the vehicle.

Famed U.S. college football coach Joe Paterno and the president of Penn State University were fired on Wednesday in fallout from a child-abuse scandal and cover-up involving a former assistant coach and school officials.

Board of Trustees acts, firing Paterno; students react, gathering across campus.

The mother of one of the alleged victims in Penn State Scandal said that Penn State University officials betrayed those boys who were sexually abused by former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

Joe Paterno has been fired as Penn State's head football coach Wednesday by the University's board of trustees. While Paterno had hoped to finish the season with his team, the board of trustees made it clear Wednesday that they want the 84-year-old football coach out now. Paterno will be relieved of his coaching duties immediately.

Penn. State University football coach Joe Paterno may setp down after being caught up in the sex-abuse scandal involving his former assistant and one-time heir apparent - former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky.

Alabama's Jefferson County filed for bankruptcy court protection on Wednesday in the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Penn State will likely hire a young assistant.

Nearly half of neurosurgeons surveyed admitted to performing at least one wrong-site surgery in their career, according to study.

The Republican members of the Congressional budget deficit super committee offered a mixed bag of reduced deductions and tax cuts in an effort to jumpstart discussions to close at least a $1.2 trillion hole in the national deficit. But the plan was dismissed by Democrats as minimal in concessions.

The shocking allegations against Jerry Sandusky and Penn State University amount to one of the worst scandals in college sports history.

Jet Airways Ltd, India's top private carrier, said on Wednesday that it has no plans to cut jobs in drive to save costs and instead look to non-payroll areas to streamline operations.

While institutional support for Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has appeared to be wavering amid the Jerry Sandusky scandal, fans showed up outside his home Tuesday evening, prompting Paterno to walk outside to make a statement. Afterwards, the chant of Let Joe stay! rang high.

Franklin Ziegler performs an impressive dance routine to Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal

Penn State called off the Joe Paterno press conference scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday amid a sexual abuse scandal.

College students in the Northeast and the Midwest graduated with the most debt in the nation in 2010, according to a report released this week by The Project on Student Debt. The top spot went to New Hampshire.

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a billionaire who had considered running as an independent presidential candidate, called on Democrats and Republicans in Washington to create a deficit reduction plan that includes tax increases, spending cuts, and entitlement reform.

It's virtually not possible that Paterno had never before heard the allegations. So when Paterno was approached iin 2002 by an assistant coach in alleging that he saw Sandusky, the former Penn State coach who still had access to the athletic department including workout and locker Anrooms, engaged in a sex act with a child, he should have done more than simply pass a report to the school's athletic director, Tim Curley.

Joseph William Frazier, the heavyweight boxing champion whose string of wins culminated in the Fight of the Century with Muhammad Ali in 1971, died late Monday. He was 67.