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

The Boston Police Department, alongside the assistance from the FBI, arrested and charged a man with numerous firearm-related ...

The Boston Police officer involved in a high-speed chase that killed three teenagers driving a suspected stolen car has ...

Steven Tompkins’s indictment, and subsequent arrest Friday in Florida, quickly sent reverberations through Boston and ...

The device was described “as an electric pressure cooker with what appeared to be glow sticks attached to it,” police said. It was not dangerous.

A Boston-area sheriff could soon face 20 years in prison after being indicted on federal charges that alleged he extorted an area cannabis dispensary.

OLD SAYBROOK — Four people were taken to the hospital after a head-on crash on Boston Post Road Tuesday afternoon, according ...

A trip to the Bahamas and another to a resort in Florida, stops at high end restaurants and time at Top Golf – these are ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested on federal extortion charges after allegedly pressuring a cannabis company executive into a $50,000 stock deal.

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

A sheriff in one of Massachusetts' largest counties has been charged with allegedly pressuring a Boston-based cannabis firm ...

The United States attorney for Massachusetts calls the sheriff’s alleged actions an ‘affront to the voters and taxpayers who ...