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By adamg - 1/31/24 - 2:21 pm

A Dorchester driving instructor was formally charged today - and immediately agreed to plead guilty - to bribery to obtain driver's licenses for three of his students even though they hadn't taken the required driving test first. Read more.

By adamg - 9/7/23 - 1:29 pm
Miller's high life in Los Angeles

Miller high life on government money in LA, via Homeland Security.

A Manhattanite turned Miami glamazon who chronicled her pricey lifestyle on Instagram was sentenced to five years in federal prison today for a scheme in which she used other people's IDs to fraudulently obtain enough Covid-19 small-business and unemployment benefits - many via a scheme involving the Massachusetts RMV Web site - to support a lifestyle that included private-jet trips to Las Vegas and Los Angeles and a luxury apartment, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.

By adamg - 12/5/22 - 1:45 pm

The Department of Homeland Security announced today it's extending its deadline to have a "Real ID" to fly from May 7 next year to May 7, 2025.

By adamg - 5/8/22 - 2:13 pm
Mass. licensing plate reading: THXRMV

Our own eeka quickly donned her roving UHub photographer cap when she spotted somebody driving around advertising their gratitude for the Registry of Motor Vehicles.

By adamg - 1/2/22 - 11:44 am

The Registry says that rather than requiring license applicants to bring their own cars for road tests, it will continue to use its own fleet of cars, "which are cleaned and sanitized on a regular basis," through April 30 because of Covid-19. Read more

By adamg - 5/11/21 - 1:58 pm
Miller in California

Miller's high life at LA-area hotels. Source.

Update: Pleads guilty, gets five years.

A Miami woman faces a charge of wire fraud after she allegedly used the Massachusetts MyRMV site to help create IDs in other people's names that let her apply for federal loans that she'd deposit in bogus bank accounts as she traveled by private jet and posed at fancy hotels with fancy cars that she showed off on her Instagram account. Read more.

By adamg - 4/16/21 - 9:58 pm

WBZ reports the vendor that got hacked and took down the statewide inspection system seems to have unhacked itself enough to let most inspection stations start up again on Saturday.

Gov. Baker said he's expecting the company, Aplus, to make good on any losses garages incurred because they couldn't do inspections.

By adamg - 3/17/20 - 9:02 pm

The Registry of Motor Vehicles said tonight it will re-open several of its offices tomorrow, including Haymarket, but not Watertown (or Roslindale, which was already shut due to a burst pipe), but says people who can should continue to conduct their RMV business online. Read more.

By adamg - 2/20/20 - 8:33 am

Updated, 5 p.m.: The Roslindale Community Center School Council reports the building will be shut "indefinitely." The RMV urges people to make their way to other registry branches, such as the Haymarket and Watertown ones.

A pipe burst sometime overnight on the top floor of the Roslindale Community Center in Roslindale Square, flooding parts of the building, so both the community center and the Registry office in it are shut.

By adamg - 7/19/19 - 4:16 pm
Hot RMV customers in Roslindale

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the inhumane conditions on the verge of a deadly heat wave at the Roslindale branch of the RMV: Read more.

By adamg - 7/11/19 - 1:17 pm
RMV title

Welcome to Dot reports his partner is not Five Car Flaherty, so was mystified to receive five car titles - four belonging to random other people.

By adamg - 7/2/19 - 9:33 am

CommonWealth reports RMV workers ignored thousands of pages of documents pouring in from other states about Mass. residents charged with major motor-vehicle offenses - at least until officials decided to figure out how that guy from West Springfield who killed seven motorcyclists was still driving.

"There are whole rooms at the Quincy headquarters that are full of documents. We were not aware until last week that some of those documents were unprocessed out-of-state notifications," Pollack said.

By adamg - 11/9/18 - 3:17 pm

The Registry of Motor Vehicles is warning of counterfeit Web sites that seek to slurp some money out of your bank account by pretending to offer the sort of services - for a fee - that only a legitimate state agency should offer motorists, for free. Read more.

By adamg - 4/14/18 - 9:34 am

It's not that Registry workers don't love the public, it's just that people seem to use vacation week as a time to do their Registry business and, well, with memories of last month's long lines still fresh in mind, the RMV would just rather you do your business the following week if you can. Read more.

By adamg - 3/30/18 - 1:06 pm
Registry line in Watertown

Wasn't it great when they installed that new computer system and everything just sped up? Wait, what? Oh. Around 12:50 p.m. Tommy Von got in line to get a ticket to get in line to get to a counter at the Watertown RMV.

By adamg - 3/26/18 - 7:32 pm

Beetlejuice - Shrunken Head Guy

First day back at the RMV after a major system change and it was all: Hey, there goes Elvis! Yo, King!

By adamg - 3/23/18 - 9:09 am

WBUR explains why the Registry is shutting down through Monday (if everything goes well); has to do with new federal requirements for state IDs used to get into federal facilities or to get on an airplane.

By adamg - 10/2/17 - 3:57 pm

Four former employees at the Haymarket RMV branch and an accomplice are agreeing to plead guilty to charges they worked with two other people to issue licenses to people they knew were using fake papers, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 10/2/17 - 11:12 am

Some people who went to get their cars inspected today report they couldn't because of problems with a new state inspection system.

MassDOT says it's no biggie, that there were only scattered problems due to the service stations' lack of training, but one increasingly frustrated motorist begs to differ. Read more.

By adamg - 8/3/17 - 10:38 am

WBUR reports on the alleged ID sales at the Haymarket Registry office.

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