BOSTON β Massachusetts is among a minority of states where you can lose your driverβs license for unpaid parking tickets, tolls and other minor violations.
But advocates want to change that. A proposal on Beacon Hill would effectively end debt-based driving restrictions by prohibiting the state Registry of Motor Vehicles from suspending driversβ licenses over unpaid fines for non-criminal infractions.
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SALEM, N.H.Β β Police arrestedΒ a Lawrence, Massachusetts, man following a high-speed pursuit on Interstate 93.
Rafy Villa, 25, faces multiple charges after state police said he was speeding inΒ aΒ BMW X2 onΒ Saturday shortly beforeΒ 11:30 p.m.Β on I-93 north in Windham. Villa then allegedlyΒ sped up whenΒ Trooper Alex GuilbeaultΒ attempted to conduct a traffic stop.Β
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PEABODY β A former police officerβs law enforcement certification has been permanently revoked following an investigation by the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission.
The commission, in a decision dated Dec. 18, found that Peabody police officer Gerald Fitzgerald Jr. included false information in a police report that led to a woman being arrested and wrongly charged with serious crimes in November 2023. Fitzgerald resigned from the department about a year later.
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METHUEN β Five years ago, Anthony Nunez-Romano faced five weapons charges in Lawrence District Court, four of which were felonies.
But for the 26-year-old Methuen resident now charged with murdering his mother, all five counts were dismissed in 2020, roughly a year after they were filed, court records reveal.
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SALEM β A Lynn man was arrested on three counts of distributing cocaine following a joint operation by Salem and Lynn police.
The Criminal Investigation Divisions of the Salem and Lynn police departments completed a lengthy joint investigation on Thursday with the arrest of Derrick Poe of 46 Mall St., Apartment 4, in Lynn on three counts of distributing a Class B substance.
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SALEM β A Lynn man was arrested on three counts of distributing cocaine following a joint operation by Salem and Lynn police last Thursday.
On Dec. 18, the Criminal Investigation Divisions (CID) of the Salem and Lynn police departments completed a lengthy joint investigation with the arrest of Derrick Poe of 46 Mall St., Apartment 4, in Lynn, on three counts of distributing a Class B substance.
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SALEM β A Lynn man was arrested on three counts of distributing cocaine following a joint operation by Salem and Lynn police last Thursday.
On Dec. 18, the Criminal Investigation Divisions (CID) of the Salem and Lynn police departments completed a lengthy joint investigation with the arrest of Derrick Poe of 46 Mall St., Apartment 4, in Lynn, on three counts of distributing a Class B substance.
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BOSTON β Sen. Ed Markey is renewing criticism of federal authorities for βinhumaneβ conditions at a Burlington ICE facility where people detained on immigration violations are held before being transferred to other locations.
In a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementβs Boston acting Field Office Director David Wesling, Markey said after a meeting with him and other officials Dec. 11 he βcontinues to be alarmed by the allegations of overcrowding and inadequate conditionsβ at the Burlington facility, βas well as by ICEβs arrest dragnet.β
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BOSTON β Immigrants would be allowed to sue federal authorities for βmisconductβ under a proposal filed Monday by U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, which the Democrat named ostensibly after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
The National Oversight and Enforcement of Misconduct Act, or NOEM Act, as filed Monday would update federal law to allow people βunder federal immigration enforcement authorityβ to file lawsuits if they believe their βconstitutional rightsβ have been violated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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SALEM β Now that a wounded North Andover police officer has a 2026 trial date, her defense team is turning its attention to the culture of the North Andover Police Department and what transpired before the shooting nearly five months ago.
A jury trial has been set for Feb. 9 in Essex County Superior Court following a trial assignment conference on Tuesday for Kelsey Fitzsimmons, 29, who was shot by a responding officer and colleague in her North Andover home after being served with an abuse prevention order filed by her then-fiance, North Andover firefighter Justin Aylaian.
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The New Hampshire Department of Justice is reviewing Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald and the personnel moves that netted his former assistant a $50,000 payout.
NHPRβs Todd Bookman broke the story last month that Dianne Martin was laid off from her job as the administrative director at the judicial branch in April, and then hired two days later by the Supreme Court as the general counsel to the Office of Bar Admissions. During her brief unemployment, Martin cashed out her accrued employment benefits, including unused vacation and sick time, valued at more than $50,000.
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BOSTON β The state Legislature has been hit with another lawsuit over its refusal to open up the books to allow a voter-approved audit of its inner workings.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Middlesex County Superior Court by Republican candidate for lieutenant governor Anne Brensley, who asked a judge to declare a voter-approved law giving State Auditor Diana DiZoglio the power to audit the Legislature constitutional and invalidate an internal state House of Representatives rule on audits.
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BOSTON β Gov. Maura Healey is citing progress with the stateβs efforts to crack down on street βtakeoversβ fueled on social media by drag racing enthusiasts.
On Thursday, Healey announced that state and local enforcement officials have thwarted attempted car βmeet upsβ in the state over the past week through online investigations that resulted in arrests and hundreds of traffic citations.
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SALEM β The trial of a wounded North Andover police officer could get underway as early as January, after an Essex County Superior Court judge pushes for the case to be tried sooner rather than later.
Kelsey Fitzsimmonsβ lawyer, Timothy Bradl, and state prosecutor James Gubitose agreed to a pretrial assignment conference Nov. 25 to set a trial date after a pretrial conference Tuesday with her lawyer absent from the courtroom.
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If a Superior Court judge has a conflict of interest that potentially benefits Gov. Kelly Ayotte, the New Hampshire Attorney Generalβs Office doesnβt want anyone to know about it, according to a notice filed this week in a lawsuit brought by survivors of sexual abuse committed by state employees.
At issue is Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Daniel St. Hilaireβs recent ruling against 1,500 survivors of the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly called YDC, sex abuse scandal, a ruling that favors Ayotte who is a named defendant.
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BOSTON β The Trump administration canβt block federal disaster relief funding for Massachusetts and other states for refusing to cooperate with immigration crackdowns, a federal judge has ruled.
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith in Rhode Island sided with Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and 22 other Democrats who sued to block a Homeland Security policy tying Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster funding to a stateβs willingness to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
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