National Guard

A gang has rammed vehicles into a prison in central Mexico and escaped with nine inmates

The Massachusetts National Guard is no longer driving students to school to help ease the commonwealth’s school bus driver shortage. For nearly two months, nearly 200 members of the National Guard picked up and dropped off students in 13 school districts, Baker administration announced Monday. The last day was Friday. Gov. Charlie Baker had activated the Guard to help ease…

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Gov. Charlie Baker activated the National Guard to assist with COVID-19 testing in schools.

Gov. Charlie Baker has activated up to 450 members of the National Guard to assist with COVID-19 testing in Massachusetts schools and help offset potential staffing shortages within the state prison system. The Baker Administration said up to 200 National Guard members will assist with testing in K-12 public schools. The extra testing capacity is needed due to staffing shortages…

The National Guard will now help students get to school in 13 school districts across Massachusetts, after state public safety officials on Thursday announced an expansion of the program to also cover four more communities. They are Haverhill, Revere, Worcester and the Wachusett Regional School District, according to according to the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security Amid a…

The Massachusetts National Guard will begin driving students to school in five more communities. Brockton, Framingham, Holyoke, Quincy and Woburn asked and will receive the help, the Baker administration said Friday. The National Guard was already approved to help out in Chelsea, Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn as Massachusetts school struggle to get kids into class on time amid a national…

Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker activated 250 members of the National Guard to drive school busses amid a shortage of drivers.

In some Massachusetts communities, you could see bus drivers wearing fatigues on Thursday. That’s because members of the National Guard are already practicing bus routes in several cities and towns across the state. The guard started learning routes and bus stops in Chelsea, Lowell and Lynn on Thursday. Guard members went through training on Wednesday. They underwent medical exams,...

School is in session in Massachusetts, but getting there and home is a challenge being met by the National Guard. Troops are in training at Camp Curtis in Reading. It’s a one-day, nine-hour course to teach about 150 troops how to drive 7D buses, which are vans that carry up to eight passengers. “It starts off with fingerprinting in the…

Members of the Massachusetts National Guard will be getting behind the wheel to help with the school bus driver shortage.

Gov. Charlie Baker has asked members of the National Guard to drive kids to school amid a bus driver shortage. The TEN takes a look at how we got here and what this new school transporation system will look like.

Gov. Charlie Baker made up to 250 members of the state’s national guard available to help with a nationwide driver shortage. The service was offered to Boston, but local officials didn’t want it right away. Mayor Kim Janey said that the vast majority of buses arrived within 15 minutes of the start of school Monday morning.

At least four Massachusetts cities will get help bringing students to and from school from the National Guard amid a national school bus driver shortage.

The Vermont National Guard said Thursday it knew of no injuries to its personnel now serving in Afghanistan — at the same airport where 13 U.S. service members were killed in suicide bomb attacks. A pair of blasts at the airport and a nearby hotel also claimed the lives of dozens of Afghan civilians and injured other U.S. military personnel….

Oregon’s governor says she will deploy up to 1,500 National Guard troops to hospitals around the state to support healthcare workers as COVID-19 surges amid the rapid spread of the Delta variant.

National Guard troops are set to leave the U.S. Capitol and turn over security of the area to Capitol Police

When Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker called up 1,000 members of the state’s National Guard in August, state Rep. Mindy Domb, like many others in the state, wanted more information. The administration at first offered little explanation as to why Baker activated members of the National Guard, and the order did not offer a detailed reasoning. At a press conference a few...

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An Arizona man is accused of forcing off the road a National Guard convoy that was transporting COVID-19 vaccines in West Texas and then holding 11 guard members at gunpoint