Front pages feature verdict: Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky found guilty of sex abuse

Booking photo released Saturday by Centre County Correctional Facility in Bellefonte, Pa. (AP)

A Pennsylvania jury found former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky guilty Friday night on 45 counts of child sexual abuse. Newspapers in Pennsylvania and across the country devoted their front pages to announcing the verdict. Below is a selection of those pages, courtesy of the Newseum, including the hometown paper of Penn State and the Patriot-News, which won the Pulitzer Prize for its Sandusky coverage. Question: Why was the Sandusky verdict on the front pages of papers from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser to the Anchorage Daily News, and West Coast papers like the Bakersfield Californian, the Oregonian, and the Seattle Times, but not on the L.A. Times? (Some pages have been cropped).

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The Centre Daily Times is the hometown paper for Penn State. (Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum)

The Patriot-News and reporter Sara Ganim won a Pulitzer Prize this year for reporting on the Sandusky scandal. (Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.)

Journalists photograph Sandusky’s arrival Friday on the front page of the Williamsburg, Penn., paper. (Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.)

Many papers, including the Inquirer, featured a photo of Sandusky being led away in handcuffs. (Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.)

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The Seattle Times front page was one of only a few that included the booking photo taken when Sandusky was processed at the Centre County Correctional Facility in Bellefonte, Pa. (Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.)

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The L.A. Times was one of the only major papers in the U.S. without news of the Sandusky verdict on the front page provided to the Newseum and posted on LATimes.com. (Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.)