Who exactly can remove Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins or place him on suspension while he faces federal corruption ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins is scheduled to appear in court next week for an arraignment after he was arrested ...

A federal judge rescheduled an initial appearance and arraignment for Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins from Wednesday to Thursday, or nearly two weeks after he was arrested in Florida on ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested in Florida after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of extorting $50,000 from a cannabis company seeking to open in Massachusetts. He was ...

Tompkins' image took a big hit last week when FBI agents arrested him in Florida and federal prosecutors charged him with ...

Prosecutors allege that the sheriff used his position to elbow his way into the marijuana executive's nascent pot firm.

One possible explanation for this silence is that the big names in Massachusetts politics firmly believe in the presumption ...

Tompkins, who has held the sheriff’s seat for more than a decade, was arrested in Florida last week with federal prosecutors ...

In Massachusetts, the perp walk only occurs outside the federal courthouse, because another tradition in the Commonwealth is that the local prosecutors will never, ever, under any circumstances arrest ...

To tag a sand tiger shark, researchers from the New England Aquarium must first catch it. They do that off Quincy’s Squantum ...

CALL AND RESPONSE — The White House is giving Boston Mayor Michelle Wu a well-timed campaign boost. Cities and states that ...

Crime has fallen in the nation’s capital, but Trump has cited two recent cases involving people with ties to the state to ...