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DQ Free Cone Day, Girard Cane Beating, PA Franciscan Leaders Guilty

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 03/15/16 5:29 pm | updated: 03/15/16 5:29 pm

It's Free Cone Day at Dairy Queen today. Participating Dairy Queen outlets will give away a small vanilla soft-serve cone. In return, the company is asking for donations for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. All donations collected on "Free Cone Day" will stay in the community. The company reportedly raised $140,000 last year. At participating non-mall U.S. locations only. All day, limit one per person. For more information, visit: http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/

A man had to be hospitalized after police say he was struck several times with his own cane by a suspect who then lit a plastic bag on fire and threw it at him. Authorities say around 5:09 a.m. on March 13, the victim and a witness were in front of the Philadelphia Brotherhood Mission on the 400 block of East Girard Avenue when two males exited a vehicle. Police say the first suspect, who was armed with a baseball bat, broke the glass door and then chased the witness into the street, striking him in the leg with the baseball bat. The second suspect, police say, took the victimâ€™s cane and struck him in the left shoulder multiple times and then lit a plastic bag on fire and threw it at him. The suspect then entered the vehicle with the first suspect and fled. Authorities say the suspects were last seen east on Girard Avenue towards I-95. The victim suffered injuries to his shoulder and was treated at Episcopal Hospital. Police describe the first suspect as a white male, 20-25 years old, 5â€™7â€, 160 pounds, wearing a plaid shirt and orange baseball cap with what appeared to be a little league baseball bat on the front. The second suspect is described as a white male, 50-years-old, 280 pounds, with gray hair, wearing a gray shirt and jeans. Police say they were driving in a light-colored Kia.

A Pennsylvania grand jury has concluded that three former Franciscan leaders allowed a friar who was a known sexual predator to take jobs, including as a high school athletic trainer, that enabled him to molest more than 100 children. Charges against the three, including child endangerment, were announced Tuesday by the state attorney general following a nearly two-year grand jury investigation. The three were the successive leaders of a Franciscan order near Hollidaysburg from 1986 to 2010. All now live outside Pennsylvania. They supervised Brother Stephen Baker, who was accused of molesting children at Bishop McCort High School in Johnstown and schools in Ohio. Baker killed himself in 2013. Attorney General Kathleen Kane says the Franciscan leaders knew Baker was a sexual predator but put him in positions that enabled him to molest children.

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