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

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins has been charged with extortion for his alleged dealings with a Boston-based cannabis ...

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Prosecutors allege Tompkins, who's served as Suffolk County sheriff since 2013, used his official position to threaten a ...