STATE POLICE

New Hampshire State Police are searching for a driver who led them on a 14-mile chase while driving the wrong way on Interstate 93 Sunday night. The vehicle in question is believed to be a late 2000s Ford SUV, dark in color, police said. State police said they received multiple calls around 10:22 p.m. that a driver was traveling the…

A Massachusetts State Police pursuit that started in Framingham ended with an arrest on Interstate 93 southbound near Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood around 2 a.m. Wednesday.

Massachusetts State Police troopers with medical exemptions to the coronavirus vaccine mandate are being punished and “punitively pushed out,” their union representatives said.

A New Hampshire state trooper was killed on I-95 in Portsmouth when a truck hit his cruiser.

Officials have given an update on details surrounding a Thursday morning crash that left a state trooper dead in New Hampshire.

A New Hampshire State Police trooper died early Thursday when a tractor trailer collided with his cruiser on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth. Staff Sgt. Jesse Sherrill, 44, was working an overnight New Hampshire Department of Transportation paving detail on I-95 north near Exit 3 around 12:30 a.m. when the crash happened, officials said. Sherill was on duty as Brox Industries installed…

State workers who don’t comply with Massachusetts’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate could now face suspension or termination.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s coronavirus vaccine mandate took effect Monday. The rule doesn’t apply to everyone in the state, but employees of its Executive Department must be fully immunized or have applied for an exemption. Here’s what could happen this week as a result of the mandate going into effect: There could be staffing shortages in the state prison...

The union was challenging the governor’s mandate.

A Superior Court judge late Thursday denied the request of the union representing 1,800 members of the State Police to block the implementation of Gov. Charlie Baker’s vaccine mandate until the details can be collectively bargained, a move the union says has prompted dozens of resignations. The decision leaves unvaccinated troopers with just days to get their first dose of…

The Massachusetts State Police union is suing the state to stop Gov. Charlie Baker’s vaccine mandate, saying representatives didn’t get the chance to negotiate alternatives.

Union members representing the Massachusetts State Police will be in Suffolk Superior Court for a hearing Wednesday after filing a lawsuit over the governor’s vaccine mandate for state workers.

Union members representing the Massachusetts State Police are in Suffolk Superior Court for a hearing Wednesday after filing a lawsuit over the governor’s vaccine mandate for state workers. Gov. Charlie Baker issued an executive order last month to require everyone who works for Massachusetts’ Executive Department, which includes state police, provide proof that they’ve been vaccinated by mid-October. Anyone who...

Several lanes of I-93 south had to be closed following the incident.

A New Hampshire man was flown to a Massachusetts hospital for serious injuries he sustained in a car crash shortly after midnight Monday in Merrimack. Adrian Vintila, 28 of Laconia, lost control of his 2021 Toyota Camry while driving on the F.E. Everett Turnpike North around 12:25 a.m. Monday. Vintila went off the right side of the road, hit a…

A Nashua driver who lost control of his vehicle and went off the highway in Sutton, New Hampshire, was seriously injured, and a passenger killed late Friday afternoon, state police said. The two men were riding in a 2015 GMC pickup truck along Interstate 89 Southbound before 5 p.m. Friday when the vehicle left the road. It crossed the highway…

Friends are remembering a mother of three from Massachusetts who police say was brutally murdered Friday afternoon on a beach in Maine by her domestic partner. Rhonda Pattelena, 35, of Bedford, Massachusetts, was found dead on Short Sands Beach in York, Maine, after state and local police received multiple 911 calls about a man assaulting a woman behind a large…

Rhonda Pattelena, 35, of Bedford, Massachusetts, was found dead on Short Sands Beach after police received multiple 911 calls about a man assaulting a woman there.

The death of a woman allegedly beaten by her boyfriend at a beach in Maine was ruled a homicide, according to state authorities. The state medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy on Saturday and ruled Pattelena’s death a homicide caused by blunt force injury to the head. Maine State Police said the York Police Department received multiple 911 calls...