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WORCESTER — Three years ago Monday, the lawyer who handles appeals for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. reached out to a colleague in Boston to ask about that office’s long-running conviction integrity unit.  “We have to get something going here,” the Worcester prosecutor, Jane A. Sullivan, wrote in an email just before 1 p.m. on April 19, 2018.  Pineiro alleged that police in those units routinely use excessive force, lie in reports, exhibit racial animus and fabricate evidence, and that Early was violating defendants’ rights by failing to inform them of officers w...

WORCESTER — A former Barre man was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in state prison Tuesday in Worcester Superior Court after admitting to raping two teenage girls.  “I wanted to tell you what my life was like before I met you,” one of the girls told 49-year-old William R. Ahearn before his sentence was imposed. “I was happy.”  Ahearn, formerly of Wauwinet Road, pleaded guilty to five charges of child rape aggravated by 10-year age difference Tuesday, along with several other charges.  In a statement of facts Ahearn did not contest Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Lambrini Pashou...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison for raping two teenagers who lived near him. One of the teenagers spoke at William R. Ahearn's...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison for raping two teenagers who lived near him.