A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by Suffolk Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins to dismiss extortion charges against him, ...

The ruling is a setback for the longtime Democrat, who pleaded not guilty last year to allegations that he pressured an executive for stock in a cannabis company before a public offering and then ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins lost his bid to toss his federal pot extortion indictment. A Massachusetts judge on Tuesday rejected Tompkins’ motion to dismiss the indictment, which accuses the ...

A surge of suspected drone activity above Long Island skies beginning in late 2024 fueled a range of conspiracy theories. Foreign governments spying on the United States? Otherworldly visitors? On the ...

When the state inspector general declared, as he did last week, that budgeting for the state’s 14 elected sheriffs was “opaque, chaotic, and deeply flawed,” he should have added and, yes, everyone on ...

The Suffolk County Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services provided the drone detection equipment to the sheriff's office following a surge of suspected drone activity around the county ...

Inspector General Jeffrey S. Shapiro called on state lawmakers to revamp the process, which he says is unlike how budgets in ...

Suffolk's High Sheriff Gulshan Kayembe organised a Power of Prevention 'hackathon' in Kesgrave, Suffolk, on Thursday as a ...

Two Massachusetts men were arrested separately on drug distribution charges in Winthrop, police said Wednesday. Tyrone ...

Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro said the sheriffs’ budgeting problems start with the state budget. The commonwealth “routinely” underfunds sheriffs, he wrote, with the understanding that departments ...