Teenager sought in killing outside bar

Police are asking for the public's help in the search for a Boston teenager wanted in the March 19 killing of Corey Davis, 19, of Boston. An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for Ahmad ``Apples" Jeffrey Bright, 17, who police believe aided in the death of Davis, who was fatally shot in his black Infiniti sedan outside a Central Square bar. Bright is African American, 5 feet, 10 inches tall, and described as slender. He is known to have connections in the Brockton, Fall River, and Waltham areas and has relatives in Rhode Island. The alleged shooter, Remel Ahart, 21, of Quincy, was arrested without incident early Friday in his home and pleaded not guilty in Cambridge District Court. Cambridge police ask that anyone with information on Bright's whereabouts call them at 617-349-3370 or State Police at 617-679-6600.

A Catholic priest was convicted yesterday of sexually assaulting a child in the 1980 s and will be sentenced July 27, authorities said. The Rev. Paul William Hurley , 62 , of Sandwich, was found guilty of raping a 15-year-old boy in the rectory of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Cambridge in 1987 and 1988, said Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley's office. Coakley told reporters after Hurley's 2002 arraignment that he had paid the boy $80 to $100 for sex, knowing the boy would use the money to buy drugs. Hurley, who is on administrave leave and is no longer assigned to a parish, began serving a provisional three-year sentence yesterday at MCI-Cedar Junction and faces a maximum sentence of life in jail.

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City officials and a group of Boston clergy are proposing a plan to find and rehabilitate Boston's most violent youth offenders as they seek $3 million in state grants to curb violence this summer. The plan, called Ground Game , a program of the Ella J. Baker House , would train 30 outreach workers to become role models to violence-prone youth. It was one of several crime-fighting measures proposed in an application for state grants submitted yesterday after an offer by Governor Mitt Romney to help Boston as it heads into a summer expected to be unusually violent. The proposals also included a plan to offer alternative activities for girls involved in gangs.

A Suffolk jury yesterday convicted a 27-year-old Boston man of shooting a Boston police special operations officer in 2004 while police attempted to search his home for drugs, guns, and ammunition, authorities said yesterday. The jury convicted James Nolan of one count of assault with intent to kill, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and assault and battery against a police officer, officials in the attorney general's office said in a statement. The bullet lodged in Officer Kevin Ford's bullet-proof vest. Nolan is to be sentenced at 2 p.m. today in Suffolk Superior Court.

The state's Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that the state can compel DNA samples from someone who is not a suspect in a criminal investigation. The court issued its ruling in the case of Nina Draheim, 25, a married woman charged in the rapes of two boys, ages 14 and 15. Plymouth prosecutors have alleged that Draheim became pregnant and had a child by each of the alleged victims. Prosecutors had sought a court order to obtain saliva samples from the two children, the two alleged victims, and Draheim, to conduct paternity testing that could show that the alleged rapes occurred. A Superior Court judge rejected the state's request, but the SJC reversed that order yesterday and sent the case back to Brockton Superior Court. (AP)

The MBTA yesterday identified the man killed Monday when he was struck by an Orange Line train as William Mufkodauz, 33, of Quincy. T officials say that he was walking along the tracks south of the Green Street station in Jamaica Plain when he was struck by a northbound train, shutting down service for more than two hours. It was not known why Mufkodauz was walking along the tracks, which are powered by a high-voltage third rail, said T spokesman Joe Pesaturo. He said the man's injuries were consistent with being struck by the train and coming into contact with the third rail.