STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in major college football history who was fired in November over a child sexual abuse scandal involving an assistant that rocked America, died on Sunday of lung cancer. He was 85.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Students brought flowers, even shaved initials in their hair, while flags flew at half-staff and lawmakers called for a moment of silence.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Penn State students and supporters laid flowers and lit candles on Monday as they mourned the death of Joe Paterno, who won more games than any other U.S. major college football coach but saw his legacy tarnished by a child sexual abuse scandal at the school.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Football fans, former players and mourners who thought of Penn State coach Joe Paterno as family lined up on Tuesday to pay their respects to the late, legendary Hall of Famer, whose casket was set out for public viewing.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Football fans, former players and mourners who thought of Penn State coach Joe Paterno as family paid their respects on Tuesday to the late, legendary Hall of Famer, whose casket was set out for public viewing.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Football fans, former players and mourners who thought of Penn State coach Joe Paterno as family paid their respects on Tuesday to the late, legendary Hall of Famer, whose casket was set out for public viewing.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa (Reuters) - Thousands lined the frigid streets while family and friends of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno gathered inside a private funeral hall on Wednesday to mourn a man whose towering image was shaken by his inaction in a child sex abuse scandal.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Thousands kept vigil in frigid weather outside a funeral home on Wednesday where family and friends of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno gathered to mourn a man whose towering image was shaken by a child sex abuse scandal at the school.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was buried in a private ceremony on Wednesday after tens of thousands of mourners sent him off as a hero rather than a man whose inaction got him fired in a child sexual abuse scandal.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was buried in a private ceremony on Wednesday after tens of thousands of mourners paid vigil in frigid weather as his hearse was carried from a closed funeral.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was buried in a private ceremony on Wednesday after tens of thousands of mourners paid vigil in frigid weather as his hearse was carried from a closed funeral.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Some 10,000 ticket holders headed to a campus memorial service on Thursday for one final goodbye to late Penn State coach Joe Paterno, concluding five days of public mourning for the college football legend.

Penn State's iconic American football coach Joe Paterno, who was fired in the wake of child sex abuse charges against an assistant, was in serious condition due to recent complications from lung cancer.

Joe Paterno, Penn State's iconic collegiate gridiron coach whose legacy was tarnished by a child sex scandal involving a former assistant, was reported to be seriously ill with complications from lung cancer on Saturday.

(Reuters) - The health of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who was fired last November in the wake of a sex abuse scandal involving an assistant coach, has deteriorated and his status is serious, a family spokesman said on Saturday.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The two top officers of Penn State's Board of Trustees, enmeshed in the school's child sex abuse scandal, announced on Friday they would not seek re-election to their leadership posts.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The two top officers of Penn State's Board of Trustees, enmeshed in the school's child sex abuse scandal, announced on Friday they would not seek re-election to their leadership posts.

NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - Memphis police have ended their investigation of Robert "Bobby" Dodd, who lost his job as president of the Amateur Athletic Union after two former players claimed he sexually abused them in the 1980s, his attorney said Thursday.

HARRISBURG, Pa (Reuters) - Two Penn State University officials waived a chance to face a judge on Thursday and instead entered pleas of not guilty on paper to charges they lied to a grand jury about a child sex abuse scandal involving former coach Jerry Sandusky.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Kotz, the tough internal watchdog at the Securities and Exchange Commission, is leaving the agency at the end of January to join a private investigative service.