Editing Wayne Worcester (section)

==Biography==
Worcester was a news reporter for the ''[[Providence Journal]]'' in [[Providence, Rhode Island]] for over a decade before he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut as a journalism professor in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|title=Journalism Professor Turns Writing Skills to Sherlock Holmes Mystery|url=http://advance.uconn.edu/2000/000124/00012410.htm|work=Advance - University of Connecticut|accessdate=21 April 2013}}</ref> He reported on the theft of more than $30 million worth of valuables from safe deposit boxes in 1975; most of the valuables belonged to the [[Patriarca crime family]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Thirty-five Years Later, a Mafia Heist Still Intrigues|url=http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2011/03/thirty-five-years-later-a-mafia-heist-still-intrigues/|work=UConn Today|accessdate=21 April 2013}}</ref> He began working as a journalism professor in 1987 at the University of Connecticut in [[Storrs, Connecticut]].

Worcester has been diagnosed with [[narcolepsy]] and has been featured in national media coverage of the illness, including [[NBC News]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sleeping my life away|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7793283/ns/health-mental_health/t/sleeping-my-life-away/#.UXQuLLVwqoM|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150303181552/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7793283/ns/health-mental_health/t/sleeping-my-life-away#.UXQuLLVwqoM|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 3, 2015|work=NBC News}}</ref>