CHICAGO (Reuters) – The push to identify the eight unnamed victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy using DNA techniques not available in the 1970s scored its first success, authorities said on Tuesday.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said cold-case investigators had identified the young man, known for decades only as Victim 19, as William “Bill” George Bundy.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (Reuters) – The Green Bay Packers have a lot to be proud of this season, including a perfect 10-0 record as they go into Thursday’s Thanksgiving Day game against the 7-3 Detroit Lions.

But a recent game-day visit to the team’s hometown in northeastern Wisconsin, where tens of thousands of fans of all political persuasions peacefully tailgated outside Lambeau Field, suggests one of the Packers’ most impressive feats this year may never show up in the NFL record books.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Emergency room visits linked to energy drink consumption have surged in recent years, according to a report released on Tuesday, as more people combine the popular beverages with alcohol and drugs.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said hospitalizations in the United States tied to energy drinks have jumped tenfold to 13,114 in 2009 from 1,128 visits in 2005. The most recent year for which data is available is 2009.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa (Reuters) – Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, fired last week in fallout from a sex abuse scandal at the university, has a treatable form of lung cancer, one of his sons said Friday.

The news came on a day when the National Collegiate Athletic Association said it will investigate Penn State’s athletic programs in the wake of charges of sexual abuse of children by Jerry Sandusky, a long-time Paterno deputy.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Several more people have told a private attorney they were abused as children by former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Sandusky, 67, was charged earlier this month with molesting eight young boys over a 15-year period. Several more alleged victims came forward after hearing Sandusky interviewed on an NBC news program that aired on Tuesday night, according to the Patriot-News newspaper, citing attorneys in State College.

, Nov 16 (Reuters) – A senior district
judge with no known ties to Penn State University has been
named to preside over a hearing for accused child molester and
former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, authorities
said on Wednesday.

Earlier, the university named a member of its board of
trustees, and a former standout football player, as athletic
director.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa (Reuters) – Penn State on Wednesday named as acting head of its shattered athletic department a member of the university board that forced out the previous athletic director after he was charged with covering up a child sex abuse scandal.

David M. Joyner, a graduate of the school and a member of its board of trustees, would assume responsibility for the athletic department, which has been rocked by the allegations against a former assistant football coach, the school said.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa (Reuters) – Penn State on Wednesday named as acting head of its shattered athletic department a member of the university board that forced out the previous Athletic Director after he was charged with covering up a child sex abuse scandal.

The school said David M. Joyner, a graduate of the school and a member of its board of trustees, would assume responsibility for the university’s athletic department, which has been rocked by the allegations against a former assistant football coach.

STATE COLLEGE (Reuters) – The lawyer for former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said on Tuesday one of his alleged child rape victims will tell “a very different story” from grand jury testimony.

Joe Amendola said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” program he thinks he has located the man, now in his mid-20s, who was allegedly raped by Sandusky in 2002 as a young boy.

STATE COLLEGE, Nov 15 (Reuters) – The lawyer for former
Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky
said on Tuesday one of his alleged child rape victims will tell
“a very different story” from grand jury testimony.

Joe Amendola said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” program
he thinks he has located the man, now in his mid-20s, who was
allegedly raped by Sandusky in 2002 as a young boy.