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Tuesday, January 22, 2013  The confidential records filed in a lawsuit against the archdiocese disclose how the church handled abuse allegations for decades and also reveal dissent.

Monday, January 07, 2013  Update: Judge orders files released with church hierarchy names made public.

Wednesday, January 02, 2013  Gov. Tim Corbett is expected to announce an antitrust action against stiff sanctions imposed by the NCAA against Pen State University

Tuesday, October 09, 2012  Sandusky professes innocence in statement broadcast by student radio station, vows to fight

Tuesday, July 24, 2012  Penn State's hometown, a passenger in football team's success, may face its own tough time

Monday, July 23, 2012  The Citadel plans an independant investigation into how it handled a sex abuse complaint against a former summer camp counselor who is accused of molesting several children in the Lowcountry.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012  A disturbing case of child sex abuse is under investigation in Kershaw County.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012  Sandusky jurors hear of 2 more alleged victims, including incident with still unidentified boy

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  Sandusky waives hearing where accusers were expected to testify, moves case toward trial

Sunday, December 11, 2011  Duty is a word cadets live by at The Citadel, the historic military college in Charleston, S.C. Now the school is doing some public soul searching over whether it did its duty by nine youngsters who say they were abused by a man who once was a counselor at the college's summer camp.

Saturday, November 26, 2011  Pope insists all institutions, not just church, be held to standards against child sex abuse

Thursday, November 24, 2011  Police in Summerville are now investigating whether a Charleston area youth coach accused of child molestation may have abused boys in that town.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011  The attorney general's office says it will wait until police investigations are completed before it steps into the case of a sex abuse case at The Citadel.

Sunday, November 20, 2011  Two state agencies have been asked to investigate The Citadel amid charges the school did not give police information about a complaint against a former camp counselor at the school now charged with five counts of molesting young boys.

Monday, November 14, 2011  Citadel president John Rosa says the Charleston military college has lost public trust because of the way it handled reports of sex abuse four years ago. And he says the school is bringing in an outside company to review the procedures in handling such situations with an eye toward making improvements.