Suffolk County, MA

BOSTON (WHDH) - Boston Police Superintendent-in-Chief Gregory Long issued a statement Tuesday expressing his “extreme disappointment” in a split verdict for a man who was sentenced to 8 to 10 years in prison on weapons charges stemming from the shooting of a police officer in 2016. Grant Headley, 32, of...

BOSTON — Every sheriff's department in Massachusetts has agreed to provide people incarcerated at county jails and houses of correction with at least 10 minutes of free phone calls each week and to reduce the cost of subsequent calls, the Massachusetts Sheriffs' Association announced. Currently, each county sheriff's department can...

WASHINGTON — Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards, along with Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, State Reps. Nika Elugardo, Brandy Fluker Oakley, Russell Holmes, Liz Miranda, and Boston City Councilors At-Large Annissa Essaibi-George, Michelle Wu, and Julia Mejia, and Boston City Councilors Ricardo Arroyo and Andrea Campbell, sent a letter to Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan requesting a thorough, transparent, and independent investigation into the recent death of Mikayla Miller, a 16-year-old Hopkinton resident who was found dead in the woods not far from her home on April 18.

A Marine has been convicted of killing Emerson College student Daniel Hollis nearly two years after the 19-year-old Mendon native was struck in the head as he tried to stop a fight on an Allston street. A military court late last week found that Lance Cpl. Samuel London was guilty...

A 32-year-old Dorchester man who prosecutors say opened fire at a Boston police officer in January of 2016 was found guilty of a series of gun charges on June 14 — but acquitted of the armed assault on the officer, as well as drug charges, Suffolk County prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday.

EVERY SHERIFF’S department in Massachusetts has agreed to provide people incarcerated at county jails and houses of correction with at least 10 minutes of free phone calls each week and to reduce the cost of subsequent calls, the Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association announced. Currently, each county sheriff’s department can set its...

(WHDH) — A Marine charged with killing an Emerson College student has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter, officials announced Monday. A judge in Quantico, Virginia, sentenced Lance Corporal Samuel London to 65 months in prison for his role in a fight in Boston that left 19-year-old Daniel Hollis dead, according to a Marines spokesman.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury last week acquitted a Dorchester man of shooting a Boston police officer in the leg, but convicted him on gun charges related to the same incident, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Peter Krupp today sentenced Grant Headley, 32, to...

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins, in an interview that aired Sunday, criticized former Boston mayor and current US Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh, calling the debacle of his appointment of now-fired police commissioner Dennis White “a bad situation overall.”. White, appointed by Walsh in the waning days of his mayoralty,...

You can say this much for Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins: She’s not afraid to challenge power, even with a nomination on the line to become the next US attorney for Massachusetts. To make that happen, she needs President Biden’s backing. But that didn’t stop her from offering up a...

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins is calling out former Mayor Martin Walsh about his last-minute decision to hire now ex-Police Commissioner Dennis White, saying Walsh either knew about the domestic violence allegations against him “and he’s lying, or he didn’t know about it,” and was a terrible manager. The...

IF ANYONE THOUGHT Rachael Rollins might trim her sails while waiting for word on whether she gets the nod as President Biden’s choice for US attorney for Massachusetts, they clearly haven’t followed the trajectory of her rise into public life and her style once there. Rollins, elected Suffolk County district...

Top law enforcers Rachael Rollins and Bill Bratton are clashing over how to keep the peace as progressive leaders across the country look to rip up the policing playbook. Bratton said in Saturday’s Herald that Rollins, the Suffolk district attorney, is “well-intended” but has “lost sight of the fact that very bad, very vicious people deserve to be in jail.”