BOSTON — Massachusetts lawmakers will again attempt to hold a hearing into lapses at the state motor vehicle department exposed by a New Hampshire crash that killed seven motorcyclists.
The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Transportation will reconvene its hearing into the Registry of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday. The committee opened and then abruptly suspended the inquiry last week after Gov. Charlie Baker didn’t make certain officials available for testimony.
The hearing stems from a June 21 crash that killed members of a New England motorcycle club.
Connecticut officials twice alerted Massachusetts about a drunken driving arrest against the driver in the crash. Massachusetts officials later determined the registry hadn’t been acting on out-of-state notifications about serious driving violations for years.
An ongoing review has led to 1,600 drivers having their licenses suspended.
CONCORD — Authorities said a man wanted in connection with a stabbing death in Concord has been arrested in Massachusetts.
Methuen police said on Twitter that 29-year-old Joseph Hanright was arrested around 1:30 a.m. Sunday. New Hampshire authorities are calling him a person of interest in the death of 64-year-old Marshall Villeneuve, who was found stabbed to death in his home on Friday.
Metheun police said they took Hanright into custody after he ran from a stolen vehicle.
They charged him with failing to stop for police, possession of a stolen vehicle, resisting arrest and other charges.
The New Hampshire attorney general’s office said Hanright also is being held on a fugitive from justice charge unrelated to the death investigation.
It was unknown Sunday whether Hanright has a lawyer to speak for him.
— Wire reports