Investigations

Calling the current system of public oversight broken, Boston city councilors filed an ordinance Tuesday to create an independent board to investigate police misconduct allegations. The measure, introduced by councilors Andrea Campbell, Ricardo Arroyo and Julia Mejia, would establish an 11-member panel with broad authority to investigate citizen co...

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 “...

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

A Massachusetts lawyer who resigned from the bar last year after he was accused of stealing money from his clients faces new federal charges. Prosecutors say Kevin M. Brill embezzled a combined $589,896 from trust funds he oversaw, beginning in at least October 2012 and continuing through July 2017. In a charging document filed Tuesday in U.S. Dist...

In late March, Ron Marlowe was still commuting to work on public transportation, and like most others, he wasn’t wearing a mask. Then one day, Marlowe came down with an incredible headache. He tested positive for COVID-19 and spent five days in the hospital. “They put me in a wheelchair and they whisked me away,” he remembered. Ma...

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...

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. “I...

Two New England senators are pressing the federal government to explain its plan to supply nursing homes with personal protective gear after reports surfaced that some equipment supplied by FEMA was inadequate or defective. In a letter sent last week to the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Sens. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire a...

Maria Smith sat on her front porch in Holbrook and recalled her terrifying experience last December while driving home from college. A Massachusetts State Police trooper had just stopped the 21-year-old at about 10 p.m. on Route 24 in West Bridgewater. As the trooper approached her driver’s side window, Smith reached for her vehicle registrat...

Even as Massachusetts reopens, doctors say many parents are still too worried about COVID-19 to bring their kids in for routine care. But that could leave them vulnerable, particularly if children skip routine vaccinations that protect them from a host of serious diseases. At Boston Medical Center, Dr. Eileen Costello says her team usually sees abo...

In the spring of 2018, Pierce Martin was leaving a party in Roxbury when he was stopped by Boston police. According to their report, officers were responding to a call of shots fired, and they thought Martin looked like he might be armed. “I agreed to a pat down because I had no weapon on me,” he recalled. But his…

Advocates for nursing homes are calling on the federal government to investigate its own program to distribute critically needed personal protective equipment to facilities across the country. They say shipments have fallen short of what was promised during a White House press briefing at the end of April. Some local nursing homes got shipments of ...

Protests across the country are putting a spotlight on the military-style equipment some local law enforcement agencies carry. From Boston to Worcester to Brockton, people demonstrating against racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death were met by officers in tactical gear. So where does it come from? In some cases, the ...