FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A three-term northern Virginia mayor was arrested on drug charges after he tried to trade two grams of methamphetamine for sex acts in what turned out to be an undercover sting operation, police said Friday. City of Fairfax Mayor R. Scott Silverthorne was arrested Thursday night after meeting at a Tysons […]

BOSTON (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI agent was sentenced Friday to two years of probation for lying on the witness stand during Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger’s racketeering trial. Robert Fitzpatrick, 76, was the assistant special agent in charge of the Boston FBI office from 1981 to 1986, during a time when Bulger led […]

LONDON (AP) — British police have charged a 19-year-old Somali-Norwegian man with carrying out a stabbing rampage in London’s Russell Square that killed an American woman. London’s Metropolitan Police says Zakaria Bulhan of London was charged Friday with the murder of 64-year-old Darlene Horton and the attempted murder of five people who were injured in […]

OGUNQUIT — Town Manager Thomas  A. Fortier,  charged  by police with theft and official oppression,  has been placed on paid administrative leave by the Ogunquit Select Board. “Our responsibility now is to cooperate fully with law enforcement and to conduct our own inquiry,” said Select Board chairman Barbara Dailey in a statement issued to the […]

SACO — A man whom police say threatened to kill himself with a gun with a child inside the home surrendered peacefully to police after 1 1/2 hours Saturday afternoon.  No one was injured, and the child was not threatened,  said Saco Deputy Police Chief Corey Huntress. The man was taken to hospital.  “It ended […]