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School budget battles spill into ballot box

CASH COURSE — After bruising school budget fights, some local officials may soon face another challenge: an uptick in outside ...

Pete Alonso breaks Darryl Strawberry's Mets franchise home run record

New York Mets slugger Pete Alonso hit his 253rd career homer on Tuesday night, breaking the franchise record held by Darryl ...

US Rep. Barry Moore, an Alabama Republican, launches bid for the Senate

Republican U.S. Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama announced Tuesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate, seeking the position ...

Indicted Suffolk sheriff needs to go — and soon

The office that has been held by Sheriff Steven Tompkins for the past dozen years may be low profile, but it is not ...

‘Need to get more information’: Healey declines to call for Sheriff Tompkins’s resignation

Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested in Florida after a federal grand jury indicted him on two counts of extortion.

Suffolk Sheriff Tompkins’s office dropped tens of thousands on trips over last year

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department spent tens of thousands of public dollars on hotel, travel, and food expenses during ...
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Boston Sheriff accused of extorting $50K from cannabis company by using his position

Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins, the Sheriff for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, is facing an extortion charge after he allegedly forced an executive of a Boston-based cannabis company to refund a ...

Indicted sheriff’s state spending account used for Bahamas hotels, expensive meals

A trip to the Bahamas and another to a resort in Florida, stops at high end restaurants and time at Top Golf – these are among the purchases made using the procurement card assigned to the Suffolk ...