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Stoughton Police Officer William Farwell, the twin brother of the former police officer accused of killing a young pregnant woman, has been decertified.

A police officer accused of having an inappropriate relationship with Sandra Birchmore was the subject of a Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission status conference Tuesday, where his attorney fought to keep her name out of the proceedings. Former Stoughton Police officer William Farwell is one of three officers accused of having an inappropriate relationship with Birchmore, one…

A 63-year-old driver who was experiencing a medical emergency  while behind the wheel was saved during a daring rescue in Detroit, Michigan, this week.

Federal prosecutors say Matthew Farwell, a former detective with the Stoughton Police Department, strangled Sandra Birchmore and staged her apartment to make it appear she killed herself.

The federal indictment of a former Massachusetts police detective in the 2021 death of Sandra Birchmore — previously ruled a suicide — is an emotional development for family members and advocates. Matthew Farwell, who was a detective with the Stoughton Police Department, is accused of killing Birchmore and staging her apartment to make it appear she had died by suicide….

Authorities allege that Matthew Farwell strangled Sandra Birchmore in 2021 and staged her apartment to make it appear that she took her own life.

Critical new information helped lead to a new federal charge alleging that Stoughton Police Officer Matthew Farwell killed Sandra Birchmore, whom he’d had a sexual relationship with as a child, and whose death in Canton in 2021 was initially ruled a suicide....

“Sandra Birchmore survived years of grooming, statutory rape and then sexual violence, all at the hands of Matthew Farwell,...

A former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police detective has been federally indicted in the death of Sandra Birchmore, accused of killing her and then staging her apartment to make it appear she had committed suicide.

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Federal investigators have made explosive new allegations in the death Sandra Birchmore, a woman whose death in Canton, Massachusetts, in 2021 was initially ruled a suicide. In an indictment filed this week in Boston’s federal court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts alleges that Matthew Farwell, who was at the time a detective in Stoughton, killed Birchmore, a 23-year-old...

A former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police detective has been federally indicted in the death of Sandra Birchmore, accused of killing her and then staging her apartment to make it appear she had committed suicide.

Authorities say a U.S. border patrol agent in New York has been arrested for ordering women to show him their breasts and claiming that it was part of his officials duties. Border agent Shane Millan was arrested Thursday on charges that he deprived four women of their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches. Prosecutors say the 53-year-old Millan...

In the 10 years since Michael Brown Jr. was killed in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking nationwide protests against police brutality, documented police killings in the United States have continued at virtually the same rate, an NBC News analysis of the Mapping Police Violence database found.  

A police officer accused of having an inappropriate relationship with Sandra Birchmore was the subject of a Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission status conference Tuesday, where his attorney fought to keep her name out of the proceedings. Former Stoughton Police officer William Farwell is one of three officers accused of having an inappropriate relationship with Birchmore, one…

A POST Commission meeting Tuesday will address one of the officers in the Sandra Birchmore case. Here’s what we know.

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The U.S. Marshals Service found 200 critically missing children across the nation over a six-week effort called “Operation We Will Find You 2.”

Four years ago, protests erupted across the country after millions of Americans watched the chilling video of the murder of George Floyd — a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. In the aftermath, Chauvin was convicted of murder and calls for a nationwide reckoning on issues related to racism and police…

An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm.

Four police officers serving a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and four other officers were wounded in a shootout Monday at a North Carolina home, police said.

U.S. police departments have reported a year-over-year increase in sworn officers for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the police killing of George Floyd.

Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death — as happened with George Floyd in 2020. An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police...