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JAYMES SONG
01/28/12 7:39 PM
Despite making his first trip to Hawaii, it's been a bittersweet and exhausting week for Seattle Seahawks fullback Michael Robinson.
Robinson arrived in the islands Tuesday only to fly out after the next day's Pro Bowl practice to speak at the memorial services of his college coach, Joe Paterno. He then returned to Honolulu on Friday night on Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight's jet.
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The Associated Press
01/27/12 5:53 PM
The former Penn State assistant football coach charged with child molestation asked for court permission Friday to see his grandchildren, visits currently prohibited under his bail conditions.
A motion filed in Centre County court seeks to allow Jerry Sandusky to contact his 11 grandchildren by email, phone, text and Skype, and to let them visit his central Pennsylvania home if accompanied by a parent.
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The Associated Press
01/27/12 2:53 PM
An assistant U.S. Army chaplain who pleaded guilty to producing child pornography in Puerto Rico has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.
Nicolas Gonzalez Figueroa was accused in a case involving his daughter-in-law's 7-year-old girl. Gonzalez's stepson is married to the girl's mother, but it is unclear if he is her biological father.
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GENARO C. ARMAS
01/27/12 1:27 AM
Jay Paterno leaned over his dying father, gave him a kiss, and whispered in his ear.
"Dad, you won," he said. "You did all you could do. You've done enough. We all love you. We won. You can go home now."
Joe Paterno died Sunday of lung cancer at age 85.
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By:
CARRIE ANTLFINGER
01/26/12 9:19 AM
Two women who were on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's staff when he was the Milwaukee County executive were charged Thursday with engaging in political fundraising while at work, becoming the fourth and fifth people with ties to Walker charged as part of a corruption investigation.
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The Associated Press
01/26/12 5:21 AM
A German court has convicted a Roman Catholic priest of some 250 counts of sexually abusing children over a several-year period and sentenced him to six years in prison.
German news agency dapd reported that the state court in Braunschweig on Thursday convicted the priest, who was found guilty of abusing three boys aged 9 to 15 between 2004 and 2011.
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GENARO C. ARMAS
01/26/12 1:21 AM
The near-capacity crowd of 12,000 seemed to be just waiting for somebody to bring up the subject. Finally, when someone rose in Joe Paterno's defense to argue that he had been made a scapegoat, the audience was instantly on its feet, applauding thunderously.
Anger and resentment came spilling out at a campus memorial service Thursday for the football coach, two months after he was summarily fired by the trustees.
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The Associated Press
01/25/12 10:19 PM
A San Francisco man was sentenced to 205 years to life in prison for stabbing his girlfriend to death and sexually assaulting her two daughters.
A jury found 35-year-old Umar Hudson guilty in November of first-degree murder and four counts of sexual assault of a minor. The San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/wjPGTp) reports San Francisco Superior Court Judge Jerome Benson handed down the sentence Wednesday.
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The Associated Press
01/25/12 9:41 PM
Prosecutors in Mexico say they have seized an 11th child in the case of an apparent child-trafficking ring in the western city of Guadalajara that aimed to supply babies to Irish couples.
The Jalisco state prosecutor's office says the 4-month-old girl was taken from her mother's home.
The office's statement Wednesday also says federal prosecutors are analyzing whether to take over the case.
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By:
CHRIS JENKINS
01/25/12 2:39 PM
The Penn State scandal certainly caught the attention of officials at Wisconsin, compelling them to review and reinforce protocols for reporting sexual assaults and think about how they might handle a scandal of their own.
It didn't take long.
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