Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins is scheduled to appear in court next week for an arraignment after he was arrested earlier this month in Florida on charges that he extorted an executive at a ...

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

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

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 ...

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