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A Bridgewater woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing $350,000 from Bridgewater State College. Clare Werner, 63, a former bookkeeper at the school, was sentenced yesterday by Plymouth Superior Court Judge Wendie Gershengorn. As part of the sentence, Werner was ordered to pay $350,000 in restitution. On Tuesday, a jury convicted Werner of 12 counts of larceny over $250. According to investigators, Werner stole cash payments from students while she worked in the college's Student Accounts Office. (AP)

A Dartmouth man targeted in Bristol County's first wiretap investigation since 1990 has pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine. Prosecutors say Stanley Lemos, 40, is to be sentenced April 24 in New Bedford Superior Court. He'll get three years in prison as part of his plea agreement. Lemos was arrested in September 2007 in Operation Curveball, an eight-month wiretap investigation. It uncovered a suburban drug ring that led to 25 arrests in Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and New Bedford. Police seized 711 grams of cocaine, 15 pounds of marijuana, a handgun, cellphones, laptop computers, and numerous prescription pills after raiding five residences. (AP)

A former Harvard researcher falsified data and fabricated results in a 2003 sleep study, two news outlets reported. Dr. Robert B. Fogel, who taught at Harvard Medical School and practiced at Brigham and Women's Hospital until 2004, said he altered numbers and invented anatomic details in an article about obesity and sleep apnea, according to The Scientist magazine and The Harvard Crimson. The journal Sleep retracted the article in February and the federal Office of Research Integrity concluded its investigation last month. "What I did was obviously horrendously wrong," Fogel told The Scientist. The problem paper came to light when Fogel confessed to Dr. David White, his former supervisor, The Scientist and Harvard Crimson reported.

A New York City man suspected of participating in a string of thefts from Wal-Marts across the Northeast, including one in Leicester, has been held on $10,000 bail. Martin Washington was arraigned Wednesday in Western Worcester District Court on charges of larceny of more than $250 and conspiracy. Authorities say Washington, 33, went into the Leicester store on March 30 and removed a baby's high chair from its box. He allegedly filled the box with expensive items, including teeth whiteners and hair regrowth treatments, then went to the checkout and paid for a high chair. Leicester Police Chief James Hurley called the scheme a "very well-organized crime." (AP)

The owner of ChrisPy's Liquors in Beverly is worried that the economy might keep customers away, so he began home delivery last month. For $5 ($2.50 for senior citizens), owner Chris Palazola will take your order and deliver it to your house in his car. Palazola also brings along a handheld device to scan driver's licenses to verify age. Frank Anzalotti, executive director of the Massachusetts Package Stores Association, said home delivery is a rarity among liquor stores. (AP)