A group seeking to end turnpike tolls couldn't collect enough signatures to get a toll ban on the ballot, Associated Press reports.

One lane in each direction will be shut between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the Mass. Department of Transportation says.

An accident involving four tractor trailers and a car left slabs of beef lay strewn across the turnpike early this morning by the Weston tolls, the Herald reports. No word if anybody was cited for mooving violations.

A woman driving down the turnpike this morning ended up at St. Elizabeth's when a piece of an overpass came crashing down on her car, Channel 4 reports.

I probably missed an earlier story or something, but this Herald piece kinda rates a fail because it says the feds are investigating possible safety issues at new RMV offices at the Charlton and Natick rest stops without ever saying what those safety issues are. Anybody know?

Channel 4 reports a guy speeding westbound on the turnpike early this morning lost control of his car, which sailed through the air into an empty toll booth at the Weston plaza and then burst into flames.

With photo of the newly impaled car.

Rejects lawsuit by disgruntled drivers, the Herald reports.

Warns it will shut down tunnels, highways it controls inside 128 if anti-toll people get a restraining order in court today. You know, like the entire Big Dig complex.

Turnpike board scheduled to rescind planned increases today, the Globe reports.

The Globe reports a car hit and killed a deer on the turnpike near the eastbound entrance to the Prudential Center tunnel this afternoon.

Yes, you read that right.