Jerry Sandusky

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania State University alleges in a new lawsuit that its insurance carrier has not been honoring its obligation to cover claims related to sexual misconduct by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The university says in the 18-page complaint filed in Bellefonte on Tuesday that it had been sued or contacted by 29 claimants, but that Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Co. has not provided coverage. The lawsuit alleges breach of contract and bad faith, and seeks damages and costs.

STATE COLLEGE - Pennsylvania State University's bill for legal fees, consultants, and other costs associated with the Jerry Sandusky scandal stands at more than $27.6 million. An updated figure as of November 2012 was provided this week on a university website. It includes a $13 million price tag for board of trustees communications and the internal investigation into the scandal by former FBI Director Louis Freeh. Sandusky, a former assistant football coach under Joe Paterno, is serving a prison term for 45 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys.

Assault over baby's name nets him jail term An Olney man who assaulted his girlfriend in the maternity ward of a Lower Merion hospital amid an argument about what to name their newborn has been sentenced to eight to 23 months in county jail and ordered to complete a domestic-violence counseling program. Richard Lavon Davis Jr., 23, of Fern Street near Front, pleaded guilty to simple assault in connection with the January 2012 incident at Lankenau Hospital. And that's how she pleaded for attention?

STATE COLLEGE - A Penn State trustee is calling on the university governing board to re-examine the findings of former FBI director Louis Freeh's investigation for the school into the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal. Trustee Alvin Clemens said Monday in a statement that the critique released this weekend by Joe Paterno's family raised serious and troubling questions about Freeh's findings. Clemens, a trustee since 1995, said that while it was a difficult decision, trustees should look at the Freeh report again for the long-term benefit of Sandusky's victims, the school and the community.

HERE'S WHAT we learned Monday from watching Sue Paterno on "Katie. " Sue Paterno loved her husband dearly. Here's what we learned after the show's host, Katie Couric, interviewed three of Paterno's five children. His kids loved him dearly, too. There will be no happy ending to this story. If ever there is an ending. No matter who argues what, there will be no clarity as to what Joe Paterno knew, what he didn't want to know, or whether he hindered investigations of Jerry Sandusky's atrocious conduct that might have spared some victims.

Those who choose to see Joe Paterno as a blameless scapegoat now have their own thick report to wave in the air and cite as proof. Those who believe that Paterno and other Penn State officials failed to act properly in 2001, allowing Jerry Sandusky to continue to prey on children, have the Freeh report and the grand jury presentment. As of Sunday, when the results of an investigation commissioned by the Paterno family were released, Paterno loyalists have their own gospel from which to preach.

THE PATERNO FAMILY has offered its rebuttal, all legal-looking and footnoted and serious. It identifies some flaws in the investigation commissioned by Penn State and carried out by Louis Freeh, and it attempts to invent some others. There are no new facts here, only new arguments. The result is uneven and unpersuasive. The circumstances have always been complicated, but the defining issue has been relatively simple. We can argue about what Paterno and the rest did in 2001 when confronted with the allegation that former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky showered with a boy in a university locker room.

THE JoePa truther movement is picking up steam. A report released Sunday by Joe Paterno's family lambasted a report released in July by former FBI director Louis Freeh, calling it factually wrong, speculative and "fundamentally flawed. " The Freeh report, commissioned by the Penn State University Board of Trustees, criticized the late former Penn State football coach and other high-ranking administrators - suspended athletic director Tim Curley, former senior vice president Gary Schultz and former university president Graham Spanier - for engaging in a cover-up of pedophile Jerry Sandusky to protect the university's reputation.

The family of Joe Paterno has said it will release on Sunday morning its own analysis of the controversial Louis Freeh report, which alleged the late Pennsylvania State University football coach and three top school officials covered up allegations of child-sexual abuse by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. The family's critique, to be posted 9 a.m. at www.Paterno.com , will respond to the former FBI director's findings, which were endorsed by the university and served as the basis for the NCAA's extraordinary sanctions against the university's football program.

  HARRISBURG - Though his job will be to work as quietly as possible behind the scenes, former Philadelphia federal prosecutor H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr. could become the most closely watched person in Harrisburg this year. And those who know him say Moulton is well-suited to the tricky task at hand. Last week, the state's new attorney general, Democrat Kathleen Kane, tapped him to reexamine, step by step, how investigators for a previous attorney general - Republican Tom Corbett - went after child molester Jerry Sandusky.