Laura Crimaldi

Former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell Stoughton Police Department Matthew Farwell seemed destined to become a Stoughton police officer.

Sandra Birchmore died in 2021 while expecting in her first child. Former Stoughton police detective Matthew G. Farwell is accused of killing her. He has pleaded not guilty.

For more than three years, they remained skeptical that Sandra Birchmore killed herself.

Sixty years ago next month, a grand jury indicted the Stoughton police chief, five subordinate officers, and a former member of the Board of Selectmen

Scott Hayes traveled across eastern Massachusetts in recent months and documented his interactions with pro-Palestinian demonstrators on social

State Police internal affairs investigators found in July that allegations that a lieutenant failed to properly supervise a trooper who sent crude and misogynistic text messages about Karen Read to coworkers was “not sustained,” records show.

Former Stoughton police officer William Farwell. Stoughton Police Department

Former Stoughton police officer William Farwell Stoughton Police Department

A spoof website for entering work hours has “compromised” a number of Massachusetts state employees' payroll data, though there's no evidence the legitimate online portal has been breached, officials said Wednesday.

A recent court ruling describes a corrections system “currently dealing with a large number of inmate medical emergencies, overdoses, and assaults on staff and inmates due to the drug distribution networks infiltrating the prison system.”