Sheriff Tompkins pleads not guilty to extortion charges
After being arrested on extortion charges earlier this month, Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins pleaded not guilty in court on Thursday.
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Kristina Rex is a reporter for WBZ-TV News.
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In Maine, Kristina reported on a wide variety of topics, including Maine's opioid epidemic, an electric company billing crisis, and the corrupt international business dealings of a local ski mountain. Her reporting on Portland's Unsolved Homicides earned her a Maine Association of Broadcasters award for Enterprise Journalism. She was also honored to travel to Houston in 2017 to cover Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath for KHOU.
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