Law & Society

On Wednesday, Penn State University announced that it would hosting a conference on child-sex abuse this fall, in an attempt to improve what seems to be irreparable damages caused to the institution's reputation by the former football coach Jerry Sandusky child-molestation case and the consequential cover-up by university officials.

On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) said that the fortune 500 company, Wells Fargo, would have to pay $6.5 million as penalty for failing to disclose risks on investments sold to non-profit organizations, municipalities and other customers.

On Tuesday, Betty Smithey walked out of the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, a free woman after serving 49-years in prison for a murder in 1963.Smithey, now 69, was charged and convicted of the murder of 15-month-old, Sandy Gerberick, whom she was baby-sitting. Smithey was 20 at the time. The murder came to be called as The New Year's Day Murder.