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More than a year after a scandal revealed a stunning backlog at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, the agency said it’s finished processing boxes of out-of-state notifications it had ignored for years.  That development was included in a letter Registrar Jamey Tesler sent to Sen. Eric Lesser this month. In October, the state lawmaker had sent a letter...

More than a year after a scandal revealed a stunning back at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, the agency said it’s finished processing boxes of out-of-state notifications it had ignored for years. That development was included in a letter Registrar Jamey Tesler sent to Sen. Eric Lesser this month.

A state lawmaker is demanding answers from the leader of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, asking how the agency plans to fix the problem of drivers dealing with mistaken license suspensions for minor out-of-state violations they settled years ago.  Sen. Eric Lesser, who is vice-chair of the Joint Committee on Transportation, sent a letter on Wednesday to Registrar...

A Massachusetts lawmaker is demanding answers from the RMV after a series of stories from the NBC10 Investigators finding hundreds of drivers have been sidelined by mistaken license suspensions amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bogdan Stefanescu can get behind the wheel of his car and drive again. After trying for weeks to convince the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to reverse a mistaken suspension, he doesn’t take it for granted. Stefanescu got a letter from the RMV in May saying his license was suspended for failing to carry insurance. The violation was dated...

New records obtained by the NBC10 Investigators provide the most complete picture to date of the scale of the backlog at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.

Orlando Vazquez figured it had to be a mistake. The letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles warned his license was about to be suspended for failing to pay a $365 speeding ticket. According to the documents, a state trooper issued the citation for driving 91 in a 55 mile-per-hour zone along Route 495 near Lawrence on May 22….

David J. Bowering, the Quincy man charged with killing a pedestrian Saturday while driving drunk, had a slew of past violations on the South Shore, including OUI arrests, speeding tickets, at-fault collisions and a reckless driving charge, according to Massachusetts RMV records. Bowering, 78, was sanctioned repeatedly for driving infractions earlier in his life, the records show, getting his license…

Coronavirus is compounding the pain for drivers hit with invalid license suspensions by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday. Responding to an NBC10 Boston investigation that found hundreds of drivers were sidelined by the RMV, only to have their suspensions modified or reversed, Baker cited COVID-19 as the “biggest challenge” in getting them back on…

A Cape Cod driver can get back behind the wheel after a license suspension was erased from his record.

A Massachusetts lawmaker is reacting to an NBC10 Boston investigation, which found the Registry of Motor Vehicles is issuing hundreds of invalid license suspensions to drivers for minor out-of-state violations like speeding tickets settled years ago.  Records show many suspensions handed down by the RMV for reckless driving were later thrown out or modified — but only after drivers endured a lengthy appeals process. “It...

For weeks, Mike Murphy’s new Honda Civic has been parked inside his parents’ barn, gathering dust. The 21-year-old logged about 1,000 miles behind the wheel after he bought the car in April. But it’s been stowed since then at his family’s home in Sandwich, Massachusetts, because it’s now illegal for Murphy to drive. “It’s been a mess,” Murphy said....

Like so many other entrepreneurs around the country, Paul McCarthy had to abruptly close his gymnastics school because of the coronavirus.   With classes canceled at the gymnastics school he runs in Leicester, McCarthy decided to touch up the paint and tackle other projects. But while traveling to and from the business, he had to rely on getting a ride from...

What would you do if your driver’s license were suspended during a pandemic? It happened to a man from Leicester.

Seven Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles customer service locations across Massachusetts reopened Wednesday, drawing long lines of customers at a time when state officials are urging social distancing due to the coronavirus outbreak. Aerial video from NBC10 Boston’s Sky Ranger helicopter showed dozens of people waiting in line at the Boston/Haymarket RMV office — somewhere between 50 and 100 in…

The Registry of Motor Vehicles reopened on Wednesday which drew large crowds of people standing in line, despite Gov. Baker and Mayor Walsh’s call for social distancing in Massachusetts.

Despite state officials urging people to social distance amid the coronavirus outbreak, long lines of customers formed outside seven Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles locations on Wednesday as they reopened.

An NBC10 Boston investigation detailed how the RMV had suspended a Lexington driver’s license from an out-of-state speeding ticket he settled in 2015.

A Lexington driver is back behind the wheel with a clean record after the NBC10 Boston Investigators looked into a Virginia speeding ticket that he looked into five years ago.

Come Oct. 1, you’re going to need a REAL ID or a passport when flying within the United States, even to get inside some federal buildings. A REAL ID is a new version of your driver’s license or state identification that meets increased security standards. The change is because of a federal law passed after the 9/11 attacks. When Elizabeth…