Tow companies last month sued the Registry of Motor Vehicles for slowing down and even stopping the processing of documentation they need to sell off cars they say they towed at the request of local police but which are now just taking up space in their garages because the cars' owners are not coming forward to reclaim them. Read more.

The RMV reported this morning its statewide car-inspection system remains down because of that stupid computer-security company's massive screwup last week. Good news for motorcycle owners, though: You can get your wheels inspected now. The Registry says it's working as hard as it can with its vendor, Opus, (presumably not a penguin) to get things fixed.

MassDOT reports the outage continues. Thanks, CrowdStrike.

An Illinois lender yesterday sued the city of Boston, a Charlestown towing company and the Registry of Motor Vehicles over the way Boston lets tow companies not just seize cars on the order of Boston Police but sell them off without giving lenders the chance to get the car back first, which it charges is a violation of several of its constitutional rights. Read more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.