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A 17-year-old was arrested and charged with the armed carjacking of an FBI agent in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 29, police said.

Most schools these days have security features, from cameras to intercoms, where staff can speak to visitors without even opening the door. “When I try to go to the school they don’t let me in,” said John Fraher, the parent of a student in Lowell, Massachusetts. That level of caution helped prevent three unidentified people from entering two school...

The FBI is issuing a warning to local school districts about strangers attempting to gain access to schools.

The FBI is reportedly investigating after suspicious men allegedly tried to get into Massachusetts schools without authorization.

FBI Director Christopher Wray’s unusually sharp criticism came in an internal email to agency employees.

The decision follows years of discussions over the fate of the dilapidated J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown D.C.

It was one of the largest drug busts in the history of New England.

One of New England’s biggest drug busts, in Lynn, Massachusetts, on Nov. 1, turned up pills with fentanyl in the shape of heart-shaped Valentine’s Day candy.

More than 220 lbs. of suspected drugs were recently seized by a gang task force in Massachusetts in what’s believed to be among the biggest-ever drug busts in a single location in New England, federal authorities said Monday. The drugs, including fentanyl, methamphetamine and fake Adderall were allegedly seized last week from a house on Western Avenue in Lynn where…

Violent crime increased in the last year in Massachusetts, but the rate remains below the national average and has trended downward in the last three decades.

Violent crime across the U.S. decreased last year, but it went up in Massachusetts, according to data in the FBI’s annual crime report released Monday. For every 100,000 people in the Bay State, the data shows 322 were victims of violent crime in 2022. The previous year, that number was 301.1. Nationally, the rate went down from 387 in 2021…

New eyewitness accounts are raising questions about the FBI’s secretive 2018 dig for a legendary cache of Civil War-era gold. Two men who were near the excavation site in rural Pennsylvania have told The Associated Press they heard loud noises early in the morning and later saw an armored truck that appeared to be weighed down with something. A treasure...

A Massachusetts woman pled guilty Thursday to calling in a hoax bomb threat against Boston Children’s Hospital last year. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said 37-year-old Catherine Leavy of Westfield, Massachusetts, pled guilty to one count of making a false bomb threat and one count of intentionally conveying false or misleading information. The charges stem from a threat phoned on...

She thought she was finding love, but a woman from Massachusetts ended up losing her life savings in an apparent online dating scam. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous and will be referred to in this story as Alice, met her online partner back in October on Facebook’s dating feature. She was under the impression that she was...

A local woman lost her life savings in an apparent online dating scam.

The former officer transit officer has been accused of filing false reports about a Red Line assault.

A former MBTA Transit Police sergeant was arrested by FBI agents Thursday for allegedly filing false reports over an officer’s assault of a man at a Red Line station in Boston in 2018, federal prosecutors said. The arrest renews the prosecution of David Finnerty, 47, who was previously charged in state court for allegedly making a false report as a…

U.S. officials say the FBI and its partners in Europe infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks.

For the first time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has chosen a woman as the leader of its Boston field office. Jodi Cohen, who previously headed the field office in Louisville, Kentucky, was named special agent in charge in Boston, the FBI said Monday. Director Christopher Wray selected Cohen to succeed Joe Bonavolonta, who retired in June. The bureau says…

A CIA officer trainee has been convicted in Virginia of attacking a female colleague with a scarf and kissing her inside a stairwell at the agency’s headquarters in Langley.