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The Massachusetts Department of Correction confirmed that David Njuguna of Webster was released from custody on Wednesday.

The driver in a crash that left a Massachusetts State Police trooper dead in 2016 has been released from prison. The Massachusetts Department of Correction confirmed that David Njuguna of Webster was released from custody on Wednesday. Njuguna was convicted in 2019 of involuntary manslaughter, motor vehicle homicide, driving an uninsured vehicle and driving to endanger in the crash that…

A crash on the eastbound side of the Massachusetts Turnpike in Charlton involving a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck left one man dead shortly before 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. Massachusetts State Police identified the driver of the pickup truck as 35-year-old James Lucas, of Tyngsborough. Lucas was pronounced dead at the scene. According to State Police, the tractor trailer was…

A crash on the eastbound side of the Massachusetts Turnpike in Charlton involving a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck left one man dead shortly before 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. The driver of the pickup truck, later identified as a 35-year-old Tyngsborough man, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say the tractor trailer operator, a 54-year-old Nevada man, was not…

A driver is dead after she was ejected from an SUV in a crash Friday afternoon on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Charlton. The vehicle flipped shortly before 4:15 p.m. near a rest stop on Interstate 90 eastbound, state police said. The driver, a 34-year-old Worcester woman, was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. A juvenile…

Multiple lanes were shut down on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Charlton after debris from an overpass fell onto the highway on Saturday.

A 33-year-old Hartford man was fatally struck by a tractor-tralier on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Charlton late Tuesday after he apparently exited his vehicle on the side of the highway, authorities said. According the Massachusetts State Police, the man exited his Toyota Camry after it became disabled in the breakdown lane on the eastbound side of the Mass. Pike around…

State police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that took place at a Charlton, Massachusetts home Saturday night, Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said. Police responded to a 911 call at 7:15 p.m. to a home on Southbridge Road. When they arrived, a man was found dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A woman was…

A 14-year-old ATV driver was seriously injured when he missed a turn and rolled the machine down a steep bank, New Hampshire authorities said. The driver, from Charlton, Massachusetts, was riding with a group on Saturday in Woodstock, the state Fish and Game Department said in a news release. He was taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon for his…

Massachusetts officials have urged residents for months to continue to wear masks outside when unable to practice social distancing. But with the state seeing an uptick in cases, they’re taking their guidance a step further, urging people in hard-hit communities to wear masks at home if they are living with someone with underlying health conditions. “Residents of these higher...

Massachusetts released a map showing coronavirus hot spots across the state.

With a recent uptick in coronavirus cases, Gov. Charlie Baker is implementing new regulations starting Tuesday.

Amid rising coronavirus cases in Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker identifies four communities as “high risk” that will be the focus of increased enforcement of the mask mandate and crowd control.

Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday identified four high risk Massachusetts cities and towns that will be the focus of his new COVID Enforcement and Intervention Team. Chelsea, Everett, Lynn and Revere are included in the high risk category, meaning they have over eight cases per 100,000 residents. Twenty-nine other communities, including Auburn, Belchertown, Boston, Brockton, Charlton, Chicopee, Fall River, Framingham,…

Three people were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries in a truck rollover on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Charlton Saturday morning. The crash took place before dawn, when an 18-wheeler truck rolled over, according to the Charlton Fire Department. A red vehicle and another truck appeared to be involved in the crash as well. Glass from the smaller…

A former state trooper who pleaded guilty in connection with the ongoing investigation of overtime abuse at the Massachusetts State Police Department said in a letter to a judge this week that his superior officers were aware of the scandal. “When I first learned that I was going to face federal criminal charges, I felt it was unfair,” Heath McAuliffe...

The roof of an American Legion post in Auburn, Massachusetts, partially collapsed after a fire broke out Friday, fire officials said. Auburn Fire Rescue said around 8:15 p.m. that all companies had been ordered out of the building when conditions inside deteriorated during a 3-alarm fire at the Chester P. Tuttle post. All of those companies were accounted for.

Monday morning’s disorienting snow created a nightmare of a commute for early drivers and caused about thousands of power outages across Massachusetts. More than 15,000 Massachusetts residents were without power during the peak of the storm Monday morning, according to MEMA. As of 9:45 a.m., that number was brought down to 4,760.

Drivers are being warned about traffic delays as authorities respond to a six-vehicle car crash involving three tractor-trailers Thursday on the Mass. Turnpike. State police say the multi-car crash involved three tractor-trailers and three cars near the 85 mile marker of the eastbound lanes in Auburn. The incident was reported sometime around 8 a.m.

Authorities are warning drivers to take extra caution on the roads Wednesday following snow showers in the region.