Brad Petrishen, Telegram & Gazette

Brad Petrishen

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  • The Patriot Ledger
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Past articles by Brad:

From 'lost and broken' to Woman of Consequence

Worcester honors two with the 2023 Women of Consequence Awards. → Read More

Worcester will appeal $8 million judgment in police evidence fabrication case

A federal jury awarded Natale Cosenza the money in September after finding he had been wrongfully convicted; he served 16 years in prison. → Read More

Inspired by Worcester woman, national firefighters union takes action against PFAS in gear

The International Association of Firefighters, which at one time dismissed Diane Cotter's advocacy, is now holding her up as a hero. → Read More

Killer of Worcester educator Sandra Hehir pleads guilty, sentenced to 17-19 years

Hehir, 49, was found dead of strangulation on Feb. 5, 2017, in her apartment at 8 Congress St. → Read More

Appeals court orders judge to reconsider fee award in T&G police records lawsuit

A court has ordered a reconsideration of the amount of legal fees to be awarded the T&G after the city’s three-year withholding of police records. → Read More

Rollins, McGovern speak at annual MLK Worcester community breakfast

Worcester held its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast in person Monday for the first time since 2020. → Read More

Beaten by a mile: Hardwick voters soundly reject proposed horse breeding/racing facility

The referendum vote failed 830 votes to 312 votes, according to an unofficial tally released shortly after polls closed. → Read More

Five escape two-alarm Westborough fire; smoke detectors credited

Faulty fireplace a possible cause. → Read More

Donations sought as Plumley Village residents await word on building repairs

Donations to be collected for Plumley Village as displaced residents await fix. → Read More

Timeline of events preceding DOJ scrutiny of police

Among the largest questions remaining about the Department of Justice's civil probe into the city's police department is the reason it began. → Read More

In case involving daughter of judge, state Ethics Commission clears DA Joseph Early

The ruling comes six months after the commission heard a nine-day civil trial in Boston over allegations that Early, his top prosecutor, the former head of the state police and another ex-top state police official broke civil ethics laws in their handling of the report. → Read More

Stephanie Fernandes gets 8 to 10 years in stabbing death of fiancé

Fernandes argued at trial that she was a battered woman who had acted in self-defense. Prosecutors alleged Fernandes was the prime aggressor. → Read More

Spirit of the law: Worcester Central District Court staff rose to pandemic's challenges

While the world seemed to grind to a halt in early March 2020 with sports called off and businesses everywhere closed, the courts still worked. → Read More

Worcester man held after indictment in case of WRTA bus driver stabbed in face

Authorities have alleged that Dashaun Stokes-Sims launched a targeted attack against the driver, whose bus was parked in front of a restaurant. → Read More

Worcester PD lawyer says man who claims he was wrongfully arrested lacks evidence

Cosenza’s conviction was vacated and he was granted a new trial 16 years into his sentence after a judge agreed he had been improperly barred from making an argument about the reliability of eyewitness identifications at trial. → Read More

Former Shrewsbury man gets 18 to 20 in death of woman pulled from Lake Quinsigamond

Marlene Bleau’s lifeless body was pulled from the shoreline of Lake Quinsigamond on July 28, 2018, with police initially suspecting she drowned. → Read More

Worcester man charged in overdose death out on $20,000 bail after Superior Court arraignment

Delacruz, 31, is facing charges of manslaughter and distribution of a class A substance after a city woman died in March after ingesting a substance prosecutors said she believed to be cocaine. → Read More

Pride Worcester Festival brings the proud — and persecuted — together downtown

Saturday’s event marked nearly a half-century of celebrations of pride events held in the city. → Read More

Sutton financial adviser facing 8 years after admitting to stealing millions, witness tampering

James K. Couture, 42, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston to four counts of wire fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft, one count of investment adviser fraud and one count of witness tampering, court records show. → Read More

1 person dead, another injured in Oxford single-car crash

According to a police statement, officers responded to the area of 25 Conlin Road at about 9:38 p.m. for a reported crash. → Read More