BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors in Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial rested their case Monday after calling the mother of one of his alleged victims, who told the jury she thought it was unusual her son's underwear was frequently missing from the laundry. The woman also said the former Penn State assistant football coach […]
Sybil Wilkes discusses the today's headlines including the Rodney King death, the Sandusky Trial, President Obama, and more.
D.L. Hughley does his weekly commentary about the NBA finals; jokes about Stephan A. Smith's hairline saying "I don't know if hes going bald or growing more forehead;" the Sandusky trial, Creflo Dollar, and more.
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky won a court ruling Friday that will let him have an expert testify about a psychiatric condition that his lawyer says helps explain letters he wrote to his accusers and other actions being construed as him grooming victims. Judge John Cleland granted a motion that sought to put evidence […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A man testified Thursday that Jerry Sandusky called himself the "tickle monster" and embraced the then-11-year-old boy in a Penn State shower in 1998, an encounter that prompted an investigation but ultimately ended without any charges being filed. The then-district attorney's decision not to bring charges against the Penn State assistant […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A day after hearing graphic details of alleged sexual encounters between former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and a then-teenage boy, the jury in his high-profile child sex-abuse case is expected to hear from another accuser. Testimony was resuming Tuesday morning, and the accuser identified in a scathing grand […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A former Penn State assistant coach whose account led to Joe Paterno's downfall testified Tuesday that he heard a "skin-on-skin smacking sound" in a campus locker room one night in 2001 and saw something that was "more than my brain could handle." There was Jerry Sandusky standing naked in the showers […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The first witness in Jerry Sandusky's trial said the former Penn State assistant football coach sexually abused him as a young teenager on campus and in hotel saunas and later sent him "creepy love letters." The witness, dubbed Victim No. 4 by prosecutors, said what began as "soap battles" in the […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A jury was selected Wednesday in the child molestation scandal that brought down Joe Paterno, and the makeup of the panel left no doubt this is Penn State country. The seven women and five men who will hear opening statements on Monday in the case against former Penn State assistant football […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Despite his repeated efforts to delay it, Jerry Sandusky's child molestation trial was set to begin with the start of jury selection, as prosecutors and his defense lawyers choose 12 people from the area around Penn State to decide his guilt or innocence. Sandusky's lawyer said the 68-year-old, who gained fame […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Alleged victims of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will have to testify using their real names, and tweets or other electronic communications by reporters will not be permitted during the trial, the judge ruled Monday. Meanwhile, Sandusky's hopes for a last-minute delay in his trial on charges he […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Four of the young men alleged to be child sexual abuse victims of former Penn state assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky are asking the judge in his case to prevent their real names from being made public. Lawyers for so-called Victims 3, 5 and 7 filed motions Tuesday asking Judge John […]
