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A once-in-a-generation infrastructure project in Allston appears to be in line for a big boost of federal cash. U.S. Sen. Ed Markey announced Monday that the “multimodal” project to replace the aging viaduct that carries Interstate 90 past Boston University and to reorganize the riverside area around it will get more than $300 million from Washington, D.C. “I am proud…

A truck crashed as it was exiting the Massachusetts Turnpike on Wednesday, closing the ramp to I-495 by spilling trash on the side of the road, state police said. The driver had a minor injury in the crash in Hopkinton, which took place about 9:15 a.m., police said. Police estimated it would take about two hours for the ramp, from…

Audelina Ordonez Barrios introduces her son, a healthy baby boy she’s nicknamed “Baby Pike,” after he was born on I-90 in Westborough.

Numerous calls of an erratic driver in Charlton prompted a pursuit by police. Police say the erratic driver caused several crashes, and was arrested in a swamp after fleeing his car on foot.

Police were looking for a man who fled a crash on the Mass. Pike Friday near Boston University, according to an alert released by the school. State and local police were looking for a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard and black sweater near Commonwealth Avenue and Buick Street, the alert said, but have since left the area. The man…

Three separate crashes on the same stretch of the Massachusetts Turnpike eastbound made for a brutal commute for many drivers on Tuesday morning. The first crash was reported around 5 a.m. on the Mass. Pike east in Weston, about 15 miles outside of Boston. That crash was cleared about an hour later, but a short time afterward, another crash was…

A West Springfield woman was killed in a crash on the Mass Pike in Charlton Wednesday, according to Massachusetts State Police. Police said the woman was driving a 2010 Honda Civic on the westbound side of the highway around 5:15 p.m. when she was involved in a crash with a tractor-trailer. She died of her injuries. The truck driver was…

A BMW hit the back of a truck overnight along the Massachusetts Turnpike in Framingham, according to state police. The crash happened along Interstate 90 Westbound at Framingham Plaza around 1:30 a.m., according to state troopers. The BMW driver was seriously hurt and taken to a nearby hospital by medflight. The entire highway had to be closed down for a…