Boston Police shut down a street in Hyde Park Wednesday morning after two people were shot. One was critically wounded.

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

Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn is trying to declare the area around Mass and Cass a public health and humanitarian crisis.

Thirteen people were arrested in connection with a human trafficking bust carried out by Boston, state and federal ...

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

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

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

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.

According to federal court documents, Tompkins had used his position as sheriff to force his way into buying pre-IPO (initial ...

Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins is facing an extortion charge after he allegedly demanded a refund from an executive of a cannabis ...

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.