20 PSU Students Face Trial for Paterno Riots

Twenty Penn State students face trial on charges stemming from the riot that broke out after the ouster of football coach Joe Paterno amid a child sex-abuse scandal involving a former Paterno assistant.

The Centre Daily Times reports all but one student waived preliminary hearings Wednesday before a Centre County district judge but that student was also bound over for trial.

Two of the students who waived hearings face felony rioting charges in connection with the overturning of a television news van in the hours after university officials fired Paterno and forced the resignation of school President Graham Spanier following the arrest of former football assistant Jerry Sandusky.