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Keeping a campaign promise, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane on Monday named a special deputy to direct an internal inquiry into the handling of the child sexual abuse scandal involving former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Federal authorities have dropped their investigation into one of the sexual abuse claims that cost a Syracuse University assistant basketball coach his job, threw a top-ranked team into turmoil and threatened the career of Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim.

Penn State president Rodney Erickson says actions taken by the university in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case will make Penn State a leader in dealing with campus crime.

Anton and Rio Ferdinand have released a joint statement to explain their disappointment with the Football Association and PFA over their response to the John Terry racial abuse case.

England left-back Ashley Cole was fined GBP;90,000 ($145,000) Thursday for his Twitter attack on the Football Association.

The English Football Association on Monday charged Ashley Cole with misconduct for a tweet he sent Friday criticizing the FA's judgement on the John Terry racial abuse case.

A former cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals apparently has reached a plea deal in the sex abuse case against her.

U.S. Speedskating promised a thorough investigation Monday into allegations of abuse against the head coach of the national short track team, even while promoting an assistant also accused of wrongdoing. An attorney for athletes who made the charges vowed

There's little doubt that Jerry Sandusky faces a long prison sentence. In a few weeks, he'll find out how just how long.

Former Penn State president Graham Spanier wrote a letter to the Board of Trustees excoriating the Freeh report and imploring board members to believe that he did all he could as the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case unfolded.

Veteran Penn State football coach Joe Paterno began talks that resulted in a sweetened retirement contract in the same month that he testified before a grand jury in the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse case, and all members of the board of trustees weren't infor

PHILADELPHIA -- Judge Louis Freeh on Thursday handed down a stinging report on Penn State's actions surrounding the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case, and it's time to look at some of the key points he addressed. Speaking before a packed room of...

Jerry Sandusky's lawyers said Saturday they asked to resign from his child sex abuse case on the eve of trial but the judge turned them down.

Jurors in Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial have gone back behind closed doors for deliberations after rehearing testimony from two witnesses.

Jurors in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case began deliberations after prosecutors described him as a child molester while a defense attorney said the former Penn State coach was being victimized by an overzealous prosecution and greedy accusers.

The judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case on Friday denied the defense's request to have the charges dismissed, leaving all 52 counts intact with opening statements three days away.