Boston experienced a record-low number of homicides and a high arrest and prosecution rate in 2023, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden. There were 37 recorded homicides in the ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - A new first-of-its-kind task force will aim to coordinate law enforcement efforts to combat animal cruelty amid a spike in cruelty cases in and around Boston, Suffolk District Attorney ...

LEAGUE IN BOSTON TO TELL US HOW IT WILL ALL WORK. EMILY. WELL, ED, THE TASK FORCE IS DESIGNED TO GET EVERYONE ON THE SAME PAGE WHEN IT COMES TO INVESTIGATING, PROSECUTING, AND CREATING NEW LAWS TO ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Suffolk County House of Correction inmate who was found unresponsive at the Boston detention center Sunday night, according to the Suffolk County District ...

It can mean falling further behind on schoolwork, missing therapy appointments, or losing a part-time job. The consequences for youths who are detained after being arrested — rather than being ...

BOSTON – Police are investigating after an inmate died early Wednesday morning at the Suffolk County House of Corrections. The Suffolk County Sheriff's Department identified the inmate as 45-year-old ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins has stepped down from his role as chairman of the Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees. Tompkins, 67, of Boston, was taken into custody in ...

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 ...

A coalition of municipal, county, state, and federal agencies has come together with private partners to form the Suffolk County Fraud Fighters, a new initiative announced Sunday by the Suffolk ...

Federally indicted Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins is trying to get evidence tossed from his pot extortion case. Tompkins, 67, who was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of ...