By Alex Dobuzinskis

(Reuters) – The artist who painted a post-mortem halo over Joe Paterno’s head on a mural featuring the late Penn State football coach erased it on Saturday following a report that found Paterno helped cover up child sex abuse by a former assistant coach.

Michael Pilato said he removed the halo on the outdoor mural in State College, Pennsylvania, home of the main Pennsylvania State University campus, and also painted a blue ribbon for child abuse awareness on Paterno’s suit.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Philippine immigrant filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking a legal right to stay in the United States based on her same-sex marriage to an American.

The suit seeks to win for gays and lesbians the same immigration rights as heterosexual couples. The group that helped file the suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security called it the first proposed class action of its kind.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles County voters will decide in November whether to require porn actors to use condoms during film shoots, in a ballot measure that marks a new front for an AIDS group that has long targeted the adult entertainment industry.

The ballot initiative is the latest salvo against the industry, after the city of Los Angeles passed a similar requirement in January that has yet to be enforced.

By Alex Dobuzinskis

(Reuters) – A Washington state voter initiative that sought to restrict marriage to a partnership between a man and a woman has failed to gain enough signatures to get on the ballot, eliminating any risk of confusion with another competing measure.

Opponents of gay marriage in Washington state had pursued two separate signature-gathering drives after Governor Chris Gregoire, a Democrat, signed into law in February a measure to allow same-sex marriage.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Mark Spitz’s advice to Michael Phelps ahead of the London Olympics would be that, when you have already won more gold medals at a single Games than any swimmer in history, less could turn out to be more.

Phelps, 27 this month, beat Spitz’s 1972 record of seven gold medals four years ago at the Beijing Games and will compete in the U.S. Olympic trials beginning on Monday in Omaha, Nebraska.

LOS ANGELES, June 24 (Reuters) – Mark Spitz’s advice to
Michael Phelps ahead of the London Olympics would be that, when
you have already won more gold medals at a single Games than any
swimmer in history, less could turn out to be more.

Phelps, 27 this month, beat Spitz’s 1972 record of seven
gold medals four years ago at the Beijing Games and will compete
in the U.S. Olympic trials beginning on Monday in Omaha,
Nebraska.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Olympian Bruce Jenner, without a hint of hurt pride, swears he is happy his stepdaughters the Kardashians are outshining him, and that young viewers of their reality TV show have no clue he won the decathlon gold medal in 1976.

At the London Games, Jenner’s life as a secondary player on “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” will come head-to-head with his youthful past as an Olympian who became the poster boy for breakfast cereal Wheaties.

LOS ANGELES, June 21 (Reuters) – Olympian Bruce Jenner,
without a hint of hurt pride, swears he is happy his
stepdaughters the Kardashians are outshining him, and that young
viewers of their reality TV show have no clue he won the
decathlon gold medal in 1976.

At the London Games, Jenner’s life as a secondary player on
“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” will come head-to-head with
his youthful past as an Olympian who became the poster boy for
breakfast cereal Wheaties.

By Alex Dobuzinskis

(Reuters) – Pregnancy rates for U.S. women in their early 20s fell nearly 18 percent from 1990 to 2008 and their abortion rate dropped by 32 percent, as those women delayed the decision to have a baby and used more effective birth control, said a government report released on Wednesday.

The findings for women in their prime child bearing years mirror similar studies showing declines in pregnancies and abortions among teenagers.

MALIBU, California (Reuters) – Greg Louganis is plunging into a new role as a mentor to U.S. Olympic divers in a sport dominated by China, and to do the job the four-time gold medalist is relying on tricks he learned from handling show dogs.

Louganis is one of the last U.S. divers to triumph at the Olympics, and many call him the best diver ever. At the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea, he hit his head on the springboard in a preliminary round and had stitches, but went on to win.