Police found Patriot Front signs tacked to poles on various roads downtown Sunday morning. The group is one of the most visible white supremacist groups in the U.S., according to the Anti-Defamation League.

A Secret Service employee stationed on Martha’s Vineyard has been suspended from his post after he was charged with criminal harassment and witness intimidation in Edgartown District Court Thursday.

Oak Bluffs police chief Jonathan Searle was sworn in Tuesday afternoon before a standing room-only crowd of family, friends and fellow police chiefs.

Newly appointed Oak Bluffs police chief Jonathan Searle began his career in law enforcement on the Island in 1986, working part time for the Edgartown police department.

A long-serving Edgartown police sergeant is slated to become the next police chief in Oak Bluffs after the town select board voted Monday afternoon to offer the job to Jonathan Searle.

A series of police reports released this week in connection with the alleged incident involving health agent Meegan Lancaster detail a confusing and at times garbled timeline of events.

Sgt. Nicholas Curelli of the Oak Bluffs police department was appointed acting lieutenant by the select board.

Ending a 35-year career in law enforcement with the town, Oak Bluffs police chief Erik Blake will retire at the end of June, the select board announced Tuesday night.

A veteran Oak Bluffs police sergeant has resigned following a tangled internal investigation into a police department-issued rifle that went missing for more than two years and was later found beneath piles of equipment in the basement.