WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Millions of people across the eastern United States baked in record heat on Saturday after deadly thunderstorms downed powerlines from Indiana to Maryland, killing at least 12 people and leaving over 3 million homes and businesses without power.

Emergencies were declared in Washington D.C., Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia because of damage from overnight storms, which unleashed hurricane-force winds across a 500-mile (800-km) stretch of the mid-Atlantic region.

WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) – Nearly 4 million homes and
businesses were without power on Saturday amid a record heat
wave in the eastern United States after deadly thunderstorms
downed power lines from Indiana to New Jersey. At least 11
people were killed.

Statewide emergencies were declared in Washington D.C.,
Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia because of damage from
overnight storms, which brought hurricane-force winds along a
500-mile (800-km) stretch.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 2 million people were without power in the mid-Atlantic region on Saturday from hurricane-force winds that ripped through the area overnight.

Restoring power in storm-damaged parts of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia is expected to take as long as five days even as the region grapples with a record-breaking heat wave.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Virginia woman who claims a priest sexually abused her while performing an exorcism is suing a Catholic diocese and an anti-abortion group for $5.3 million in damages.

The woman claims the Rev. Thomas Euteneuer abused her between April 2008 and September 2010, according to the suit filed in Virginia’s Arlington County Circuit Court.

BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – A jury found former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky guilty on 45 of 48 child sex abuse charges on Friday, ending a trial that rocked U.S. college football and renewed attention on pedophilia in America.

Sandusky, 68, faces potentially hundreds of years in prison for molesting 10 boys over 15 years. He was escorted immediately out of the courthouse in handcuffs and taken into an awaiting sheriff’s cruiser.

, June 23 (Reuters) – With former Penn State
coach Jerry Sandusky now behind bars for child sexual abuse, the
university has given an unusual signal that it wants to wrap up
civil suits as fast as possible, legal observers said on
Saturday.

Shortly after Sandusky, 68, was convicted late on Friday on
45 counts of sexual abuse, Pennsylvania State University invited
victims to try to resolve claims against the school.

BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – With former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky now behind bars for child sexual abuse, the university has given an unusual signal that it wants to wrap up civil suits as fast as possible, legal observers said on Saturday.

Shortly after Sandusky, 68, was convicted late on Friday on 45 counts of sexual abuse, Pennsylvania State University invited victims to try to resolve claims against the school.

By Ian Simpson

BELLEFONTE, Penn. (Reuters) – One of the jurors who convicted Jerry Sandusky on 45 charges of child sex abuse said on Saturday that the former Penn State assistant football coach seemed to accept the verdict as a confirmation of the accusations.

“I looked at him during the reading of the verdict, and the look on his face, no real emotion, just kind of accepting, you know, because he knew it was true,” juror Joshua Harper told the NBC Today Show.

BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – A jury found former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky guilty on 45 out of 48 counts in his child sex abuse trial on Friday.

Sandusky was seen escorted out of the courthouse in handcuffs. He could be sentenced to hundreds of years in prison.

BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Jurors in the child sex abuse trial of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky have reached a verdict after two days of deliberations, a court official said Friday.

The jury, which began deliberations on Thursday afternoon, will report its verdict to the court imminently. No communication from the courtroom will be allowed until all 48 counts are read and the trial is adjourned, according to rules set by Judge John Cleland.