BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A jury awarded a former Penn State assistant football coach $7.3 million in damages Thursday, finding the school defamed him after it became public that his testimony helped prosecutors charge Jerry Sandusky with child molestation.

Judge Thomas Gavin still must decide Mike McQueary's whistleblower claim that he was treated unfairly as the school suspended him from coaching duties, barred him from team facilities and then did not renew his contract shortly after he testified at Sandusky's 2012 trial.

— Staff and news reports