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​While New Hampshire has released the names of police officers with potential credibility issues, Massachusetts officials say they’re not maintaining a similar statewide list. New Hampshire’s attorney general released a statewide list in December. The Telegram & Gazette asked Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey for a similar list of Massachusetts officers with proven histories of lying or misconduct and...

Massachusetts State Police announced Thursday that all of its troopers have been assigned body cameras, a reform that was ordered in 2018 after the agency was rocked by an overtime scandal. All 2,200 of the agency’s sworn personnel now have body cameras and are training on how to use them, police officials said. The agency has also installed cameras in…

An 82-year-old man was viciously beaten and attacked by a pack of dirt-bike and ATV riders last week in Boston. State police say the victim was chased down on Storrow Drive and are asking anyone who witnessed the attack to call detectives.

A person is dead after a truck drove off Interstate 95 in Sharon, Massachusetts and crashed into a tree, police said Thursday. The crash happened around 6:10 a.m. on the northbound side of the highway between exits 9 and 10, according to the Massachusetts State Police. Police said the male victim was the only occupant of the vehicle, and that…

A hearing will be held for the man who is currently on trial for allegedly killing a Massachusetts State Trooper in a car crash.

Massachusetts State Police said a person was arrested Wednesday night after allegedly striking a state trooper’s cruiser while driving under the influence. Authorities said the crash happened at about 11:30 p.m. on the Massachusetts Turnpike westbound in Newton. The alleged OUI driver struck the trooper’s cruiser from behind, Massachusetts State Police said.

Massachusetts State Police in Plymouth responded to a report of two people shooting at an apartment complex.

A stockpile of weapons, including five AR-15–style rifles and homemade explosives, was confiscated Friday at a home in Wrentham, Massachusetts, whose occupant faces dozens of charges, including two counts of possessing machine guns, police said. The weapons didn’t have serial numbers, and investigators believe the man living at the home was buying component parts and assembling them there.

Four Massachusetts State Police Troopers were hospitalized overnight following a multi-car crash allegedly caused by a suspected drunken driver. Authorities say the driver slammed into a police cruiser that stopped a 2011 Subaru Forester during a motor vehicle stop on Route 27 in Brockton. The incident happened just before 1 a.m., according to authorities.

A car crash near the Prudential Tunnel is already causing significant traffic ahead of the morning commute.

A suspended state police trooper was sentenced Monday in federal court in Boston with the ongoing investigation of overtime abuse at the Massachusetts State Police Department. Eric Chin, 46, of Hanover, was sentenced to one day in prison, deemed served, and one year of supervised release with three months to be served in home detention. Chin was also ordered to...

A man was found dead in a fully engulfed vehicle in Wareham, Massachusetts, according to state police. State troopers received calls around 3 a.m. Thursday regarding a car on fire on Route 25. The vehicle was discovered on the eastbound side of the highway on the median strip against a tree, just before Exit 2.

A Massachusetts State Police trooper was hospitalized after their cruiser was struck by an alleged OUI driver in Springfield on Tuesday night. Around 10 p.m., officials received a call of a car traveling in the wrong direction on Interstate 91.

Police say a driver called a ride-hailing service to escape after a 35-mile high-speed chase in Massachusetts that included a collision between two police cruisers. At approximately 12:50 a.m., Brockton police broadcast that they were in pursuit of a driver for motor vehicle violations in Randolph. Police say the driver sped through multiple towns and onto Interstate 95, at which...

A Springfield, Massachusetts man died Thursday morning in a crash on Interstate 90 in Charlton, according to state police.

Internal affairs investigators with the Massachusetts State Police saw warning signs of the overtime pay scandal currently rocking the department as early as 2014, yet the agency failed to act, according to a new report.

A Massachusetts State Police trooper was hospitalized Wednesday after being involved in a car crash on Route 115 in Norfolk.

Massachusetts State Police are searching for the hit-and-run driver who collided with a bicyclist in Jamaica Plain.

A fifth Massachusetts State Trooper was arrested and charged Wednesday in connection to an overtime abuse scandal that federal authorities have been investigating. Daren DeJong, a state police trooper assigned to Troop E who has since retired, was charged with embezzlement, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. He is accused of receiving overtime pay for hours he did not work,...

Two men were arrested Friday by state troopers for an armed home invasion in Northborough, Massachusetts.