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Penn State's board of trustees will meet this weekend to consider whether to ratify a consent decree with the NCAA that imposed penalties for how the university handled the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.

Penn State University will remove the famed statue of Joe Paterno outside its football stadium, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant.

A senior House Republican says he doubts that a Secret Service scandal involving prostitutes in Colombia was a one-time incident.

Congregants at the Newark church where Whitney Houston got her start came together Sunday to mourn her sudden death.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid about $3 million in federal income taxes in 2010.

The latest college sex scandal has another storied coaching career hanging in the balance. This time, it's long- time Syracuse University men's basketball head coach Jim Boeheim. His 30 year right-hand man, Bernie Fine has been accused of sexual molestation of a former ball boy  years ago.

Three Camden men charged in a fatal Atlantic City casino parking garage carjacking will continue to be held on bail ranging from $1 million to $2.5 million.

They emerge from the woods to roam in groups, or to wander alone, but one thing is for certain -- they are coming. They are southern New Jersey's deer, which are common along local roads at dusk and sunset this time of year.