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Paterno wins restored

 (Associated Press)

The NCAA restored 112 football wins it stripped from Penn State and Joe Paterno in the Jerry Sandusky child-molestation scandal and reinstated the late coach as the winningest in major college football history. The agreement, approved by the boards of the NCAA and the university, lifts the last of the sanctions imposed in 2012 and wipes away the black marks that hung over one of the nation’s most celebrated college athletics programs. After more than two years of criticism that the NCAA had overstepped its authority, officials with college sports’ governing body did not back down. Instead, they said they were focused on ending litigation that held up distribution of the university’s $60 million fine to fund child abuse-prevention programs. – AP