Sheriff Steven Tompkins is accused of using his position to extort a cannabis company for discounted shares of its stock ...

The governor should act immediately to remove the indicted Sheriff of Suffolk County from his position atop the board of ...

Boston police arrested Kelly Smoak in Mattapan for illegal possession of an AK-47 rifle and other firearm charges.

A Massachusetts sheriff was indicted Friday for allegedly extorting $50,000 from a cannabis company seeking to open a ...

Cory Nickerson, 50, was arrested for forcing entry into a sheriff's office, assaulting dispatchers, and leading police on a ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins has been indicted on federal charges accusing him of extorting an executive from a Boston-based marijuana company in connection with its efforts to operate a ...

A 24-year-old Dorchester man was arrested on multiple firearm charges Saturday evening during a basketball tournament at ...

WRONG SIDE OF THE LAW — Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins’s indictment Friday sent shock waves through Boston-area ...

The FBI joined Nantucket Police in their investigation of four false bomb threats, received across three nights, at the same ...

Kelly Brown, 40, of Havertown, Pennsylvania, was arrested by State Police early Sunday morning and charged with manslaughter ...

The Maine State Police are investigating a homicide in Waldoboro after a 53-year-old woman was found dead in her home.

The person, who was “unconscious but breathing,” was flown to a Boston hospital, State Police said in an email.