The death of Joe Paterno could weaken the state’s prosecution of two former university officials who have been charged in connection with the child sexual abuse case involving Jerry Sandusky.

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Paterno’s Testimony No Longer Admissible

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The Nebraska and Penn State players gathered at midfield before the game, kneeling together for a long moment in a quiet stadium. Sometimes, the most powerful statements are the simplest. Saturday’s game was a combination of pep rally, cleansing and tribute for a Penn State community rocked by the child sex-abuse scandal involving former assistant Jerry Sandusky that cost Joe Paterno his job. Read full article > >

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Pride, poignancy give way to revelry as game restores normalcy, however briefly, to Penn State

Lawyers for a Greater Manchester mother trying to find her daughter, who was abducted by the child’s father in 2009, issue an appeal to trace her.

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Bid to trace girl abducted by dad

The jury in the Jennifer Cardy murder trial hears that the child’s watch was stopped four hours after her mother had set it on the day she went missing.

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Trial hears child watch evidence

The father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has told a German newspaper that his son’s wife, Carla Bruni, is pregnant. “I’m glad to be having a grandchild,” he said, adding that neither his son nor Bruni “want to know the sex of the child, but I’m…

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So it wasn’t the empty nest: Maria Shriver left Arnold Schwarzenegger after learning he had fathered a child with a member of their household staff 10 years ago, before he took office. The mother of the child, whose name the Los Angeles Times did not…

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Schwarzenegger Fathered Child Outside Marriage

More than eight months after claiming that her 3-month-old baby mysteriously died overnight, a West Virginia mother now stands accused of drunkenly falling on the child and smothering her to death.

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W.V. mother accused in baby’s smothering death

A woman who has been accused of stealing a baby from a New York hospital in 1987 and then raising the child as her own was indicted on federal kidnapping charges Thursday. Ann Pettway has admitted to taking Carlina Renae White, now 23, from a Harlem…

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Woman Indicted for ’87 Kidnapping

A man accused of murdering his ex-partner’s baby claims the child’s mother played a game in which the baby was shaken.

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Accused makes baby shaking claim

This is sad: A 10-year-olds girl has given birth to a child in Southern Spain. The father of the child is also a minor; consequently, his and the mother’s names are not released. The mother is of Romanian origin; Spanish authorities are deciding…

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10-Year-Old Gives Birth

When a 7-year-old boy brought a toy gun to his Florida school last year, its zero tolerance policy kicked in, resulting in an expulsion that has put the child’s life on hold.

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Toy gun keeps Florida boy out of school for nearly a year

Drinking one or two units of alcohol a week during pregnancy does not raise the risk of developmental problems in the child, suggests research.

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Light drinking ‘no risk to baby’

Baby Peter’s mother and her boyfriend are denied public funding to be represented at any resumed inquest into the child’s death.

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Baby P mother denied inquest fund