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Police department reform is coming to Springfield, Massachusetts. The City of Springfield has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to make changes to its policies and training procedures after an investigation into “unconstitutional practices” surrounding use of force at the Springfield Police Department’s Narcotics Bureau. In 2020, the Department of Justice announced findings...

U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said Monday that, if instructed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, she would attempt to reinstate the death penalty against convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The Supreme Court is weighing whether the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston in 2020 mistakenly threw out Tsarnaev’s death sentence for his role in the bombing that killed three people near...

Former Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins held a roundtable with reporters to discuss her goals after being sworn in as U.S. attorney for Massachusetts.

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins will serve as Massachusetts’ U.S. Attorney after her Senate confirmation.

By the narrowest of margins, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday afternoon confirmed Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins as the next U.S. attorney for Massachusetts. The Senate was deadlocked 50-50 along party lines, requiring Vice President Kamala Harris to break the tie and declare Rollins confirmed as the top federal prosecutor for the Bay State. Nominated by President Joe...

President Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. attorney for Massachusetts is fighting back against Republican claims that she’s not tough enough on criminals. Rachael Rollins is currently the top prosecutor for the city of Boston and several suburbs. She said on GBH News on Monday that her progressive approach to crime is working. The Senate Judiciary Committee split last week...

Democrats rallied to the defense of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins on Thursday, but the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked on her nomination to become the next U.S. attorney for Massachusetts after Republicans challenged her approach to prosecuting some non-violent crimes. The 11-11 vote in the Judiciary Committee means Senate Democrats will have to take an extra procedural vote...

The report published by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General found that while the agency had justified reasoning to flag journalists, their tracking was not fully within CBP policy.

Republicans on Thursday postponed for a week a Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the nomination of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to become the next U.S. attorney for Massachusetts. President Joe Biden nominated Rollins in July to fill the top federal prosecutor’s role in Massachusetts, which would bring her back to an office she worked in as an...

Eight people were indicted in a nationwide, $2 million fraud scheme Wednesday out of San Diego in which scammers targeted grandparents by feeding them fake stories that their grandkids were in terrible trouble and needed money fast.

President Joe Biden has nominated Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to be U.S. attorney; she would be the first Black woman to serve in that capacity in Massachusetts.

Rachael Rollins, who has pushed for progressive criminal justice reforms as the first woman of color to serve as a district attorney in Massachusetts, is being nominated by President Joe Biden to become the state’s top federal prosecutor. Rollins, who has led the Suffolk County district attorney’s office since 2019, would become the first Black woman to serve as...

Former Boston police captain Richard Evans has been arrested on charges that he collected more than $12,000 in an overtime pay fraud scheme at the department’s evidence warehouse, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

A former Boston police captain has been arrested on charges that he collected more than $12,000 in an overtime pay fraud scheme at the department’s evidence warehouse, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Richard Evans, 62, of Hanover, faces charges including conspiracy to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and embezzlement from an agency receiving federal funds. He is scheduled to…

A senior Justice Department official told NBC News Monday the Biden administration would begin removing most Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys appointed during the Trump administration

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is facing federal charges for allegedly failing to disclose his ties to the Chinese government to the U.S. Department of Energy.

A professor and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is facing federal charges for allegedly failing to disclose his ties to the Chinese government to the U.S. Department of Energy. Gang Chen, 56, of Cambridge, was arrested Thursday morning on charges that he abused his position as a professor at MIT to commit wire fraud, failed to file a…

A New Hampshire man is facing federal charges for allegedly threatening to kill six members of Congress last month if they did not “get behind Donald Trump.” Ryder Winegar, 33, of Amherst, was arrested on Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire. He was scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate judge on...

Two former Massachusetts State Police troopers are being charged in connection to an overtime scheme dating back to 2015.

Two former Massachusetts State Police troopers were arrested Friay by federal authorites for allegedly collecting thousands of dollars in overtime pay for hours not worked and destroying evidence in a scheme dating back to 2015.