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The bodies of 16 of the 39 Vietnamese who died when human traffickers carried them by truck to England last month were repatriated to their homeland on Wednesday and have been taken to their families. The bodies arrived on a flight that landed in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, the news website VNExpress reported. The website published photos of ambulances that transported...

The defense is trying to paint a picture of the crash that killed a Massachusetts State Police trooper.

Frightening surveillance footage shows a truck barrel through a crosswalk in Maine, nearly missing two middle school students. Police are looking for the driver.

Officials have identified the driver killed after a truck carrying methane rolled over in Orange, Massachusetts, Friday night. Lois Ann Johnson, 62, of Woodstock, New Hampshire, was killed in the crash Friday, Massachusetts State Police confirmed Sunday.

A truck carrying methane rolled over in Orange, Massachusetts, Friday night, killing the driver and causing authorities to evacuate homes in the area as crews worked to clear the mess. The methane gas started leaking, causing an enormous response from officials to get the dangerous situation under control. Officials are now trying to offload remaining gas into another tanker trailer....

Police say a 74-year-old man has been struck and killed by a tractor-trailer in Massachusetts.

Following a fatal motorcycle crash in New Hampshire last month, a Massachusetts lawmaker is calling for a manager at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to step down one day after the Joint Committee on Transportation held an oversight hearing into the agency. State Sen. Eric Lesser (D-Longmeadow), the vice-chair of the Joint Committee on Transportation, released a statement Wednesday...

Officials at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles were warned months ago that notifications about drunk driving and other charges facing Bay State drivers in other states were going ignored, a state auditor testified Tuesday. Brie-Anne Dwyer, an internal auditor at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, told state lawmakers at an oversight hearing Tuesday that she flagged the growing backlog...

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is demanding answers from the state’s Registry of Motor Vehicles, which ignored Connecticut’s warnings about the record of the truck driver allegedly at fault in the crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire this June. Tranportation department officials met with their counterparts at the RMV Wednesday to discuss improving state-to-state records amid several...

A Rhode Island woman has died after getting struck by a pickup truck while crossing a city street on foot. East Providence police say 38-year-old Jennifer Cabral was struck at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Warren Avenue and Broadway. She was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.

More than 1,600 Massachusetts drivers have had their licenses suspended following a Registry of Motor Vehicles review prompted by a deadly crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire. The unprocessed out-of-state violations were discovered in bins at registry headquarters and during a search of the agency’s archives dating back to 2011.

More than 1,600 Massachusetts drivers have had their licenses suspended following a Registry of Motor Vehicles review prompted by a deadly crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire. The unprocessed out-of-state violations were discovered in bins at registry headquarters and during a search of the agency’s archives dating back to 2011.

Registry of Motor Vehicles officials say they have suspended more than 1,600 drivers’ licenses over out-of-state violations in a probe sparked by a deadly motorcycle crash in New Hampshire.

A motorcycle ride is being planned to commemorate the lives of the seven bikers killed last month in a collision with a pickup truck. The memorial is being called the Ride for the Fallen 7, and its organizers are set to appear with state and local safety officials at 1 p.m. Friday to announce its final route.

The Ride for the Fallen 7 is expected to be the largest organized motorcycle ride in the history of the state — and it’s organizers said they’d only expected 25-50 people to show up.

The owner of a company that employed a truck driver charged in a horrific motorcycle crash was questioned by police.

The truck driver involved in the crash that killed seven motorcyclists will face homicide charges.

A body believed to be a missing 5-year-old Utah girl was found Wednesday less than a block from her home, bringing a wide-ranging search to a grim close five days after the child was taken from her home and killed by her uncle, police said. The body believed to be Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley was found hidden under trees and brush...

A New York man is facing drug trafficking charges after authorities seized more than 3 kilograms of fentanyl from a truck he was driving in the parking lot of a Market Basket in Woburn, Massachusetts. Truck driver Kelvin Jimenez, 28, of the Bronx, New York, was taken into custody Thursday by Woburn detectives and members of the Southern Middlesex Regional...

Four people died after a semi-truck hauling lumber plowed into vehicles on a crowded section of Interstate 70 near Denver, causing a fire so intense that it melted the roadway and metal off of cars, authorities said Friday. Authorities had to wait until daylight to confirm the death toll from Thursday afternoon’s 28-vehicle pileup because of the devastation caused by...