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Monsignor William Lynn Case, Temple Hit and Run Car Found, Nerd Night at Frankford Hall

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/30/15 9:36 am | updated: 04/30/15 9:36 am

The Philadelphia District Attorney's office will ask a judge today to send Monsignor William Lynn back to prison, now that the State Supreme Court has reinstated his 2012 child endangerment conviction. The DA's office wants Common Pleas Judge Teresa Sarmina, the presiding judge who sentenced Lynn to three-to-six years in prison, to revoke his bail. He spent about 18 months in prison, but has been on house arrest since early 2014, living in a Northeast Philadelphia rectory after Superior Court reversed his conviction. Lynn served in his capacity as secretary for clergy from 1992 to 2004, yet defense attorney Thomas Bergstrom says he was prosecuted on an amended child endangerment statute passed in 2007. In reversing Superior Court, the State Supreme Court ruled that Lynn could be held responsible for the welfare of children in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and the State Supreme Court remanded the appeal on legal and factual issues to Superior Court.

Philadelphia Police say they recovered the car that fled the scene after striking a Temple University student who was riding a bike Wednesday night. The incident happened around 7 p.m. at North Park Avenue and Diamond Street. Police say they found the victim, identified by her family as 22-year-old Rachel Hall, unconscious on the highway, suffering from severe head and leg injuries. She was taken to Temple Hospital and is now in extremely critical condition. Police say the car involved was found early Thursday morning and is now at the impound lot. They say they are looking for a person of interest, however no suspects are in custody at this time. Police say witnesses have reported there were three young man in the striking car, and that one of them in the back seat possibly told the driver to leave the scene. Hallâ€™s family says she was the goalie for the Temple Lacrosse team and was set to graduate later this week. They say she was riding her bike home from dinner, studying for finals when she was hit.

Dozens of people packed into Frankford Hall Wednesday night for the Philadelphia Science Festival's Nerd Nite. The event held panels that gave experts a chance to examine popular scientific questions and ideas like "the myths behind gluten intolerance, so what is fact and whatâ€™s fiction?" says Gina Lavery with Nerd Nite Philadelphia Lavery says a lot of people like the informal atmosphere of coming to a bar and getting some sort of education :

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