Category: baseball bat

Van Nuys Church Vandalized by Masked Suspect With Baseball Bat

Eight windows of the St. Peter Armenian Apostolic Church in Van Nuys, California, were smashed by a masked suspect with a baseball bat in the early morning hours on Sept. 23. Fr. Shnork Demirjian, the church’s parish priest, said the vandalism induced fear and a sense of insecurity in people of faith and should be…


Principal Joe Clark, Who Inspired Film ‘Lean on Me,’ Dies

GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida home on Tuesday after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said. He was 82. At crime- and drug-ridden Eastside High School…