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Illegal street takeover shuts down busy intersection with dangerous stunts, fireworks: police
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Police are investigating what they say was an illegal street takeover that blocked a busy intersection over the weekend with dangerous stunts and multiple fireworks in Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania.
Multiple cars were caught on video “spinning uncontrollably throughout the intersection” as some passengers hung outside the vehicles before fleeing from the police on Sunday evening.
“At approximately 8:03 p.m., the Plymouth Township Police Department received numerous calls regarding street racing in the middle of the intersection,” the police said in a press release on Tuesday.
Several vehicles recklessly drove donuts in the middle of the road as a large crowd of spectators approached the intersection, police added.
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A large crowd surrounds a busy intersection during an illegal street takeover on Sunday in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. (Plymouth Township Police Department)
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“Surveillance in the area revealed numerous pedestrians circling the intersection, participant vehicles blocking the motoring public, fireworks being ignited in the intersection, and several vehicles spinning uncontrollably throughout the intersection: some with passengers hanging out of the vehicle.” the department added.
Several fireworks were launched during an illegal street takeover in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, on Sunday. (Plymouth Township Police Department)
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Approximately 50 to 100 people, including the passengers involved, witnessed the event but fled before law enforcement arrived, according to the police.
“None of the operators of the vehicles, nor any of the civilian spectators were contacted by the police,” the department said, adding that they are seeking help from the public in identifying those involved in the car meet-up.
Two cars drive donuts during an illegal street takeover in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, on June 15, 2025. (Plymouth Township Police Department)
Detectives are reviewing surveillance images from the surrounding area and are working with regional law enforcement partners in the investigation.
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Just one day after Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced a new state council tasked with studying the impacts of AI data centers in Maine, a new poll suggests a majority of Mainers oppose their construction.
A new poll from UMass Lowell found that 72% of Mainers are against AI data centers being built in their communities.
That includes 51% who strongly oppose the projects, while only 28% support them.
In April, Mills vetoed a bill that would have paused all large-scale AI data center projects in the state, citing a planned facility in Jay.
Since then, several Maine communities have adopted moratoriums of their own. The latest is Scarborough, which enacted its moratorium earlier this week.
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One in three Massachusetts residents use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, according to Microsoft data.
Generative AI can create words, music, pictures, or videos, based on user prompts. For example, if you type a prompt asking for a fictional story, the AI tool will generate a passage with a setting, characters, and plot.
About 33.4% of working-age residents in Massachusetts use these tools, placing the state 11th in the U.S., according to Q1 2026 data. Hampshire County, home to the Five College Consortium, has the highest AI usage rate, at 45.1%.
Microsoft found that counties with more employment in professional and technical services, corporate management, healthcare, information and media, and finance tend to have higher AI usage. Additionally, counties with larger shares of residents ages 18 to 24 tend to have higher levels of AI usage.
Counties with larger shares of workers in manufacturing, agriculture, mining, oil and gas, and construction tend to have lower AI usage, according to Microsoft.
The figures are based on anonymized Microsoft usage data and adjusted for differences in devices, operating systems, internet access, and population size.
Top Massachusetts counties by generative AI usage
Here are Massachusetts’ 14 counties ranked by generative AI usage in Quarter 1 of 2026, and how they rank nationally, according to Microsoft:
- Hampshire County – 45.1% of residents (#28 nationally)
- Middlesex County – 37.9% of residents (#118 nationally)
- Suffolk County – 35.6% of residents (#191 nationally)
- Norfolk County – 34.3% of residents (#233 nationally)
- Worcester County – 33.5% of residents (#265 nationally)
- Plymouth County – 32.9% of residents (#283 nationally)
- Essex County – 30.8% of residents (#385 nationally)
- Bristol County – 28.2% of residents (#553 nationally)
- Hampden County – 27.1% of residents (#645 nationally)
- Barnstable County – 25.5% of residents (#790 nationally)
- Berkshire County – 24.7% of residents (#878 nationally)
- Nantucket County – 24.1% of residents (#937 nationally)
- Franklin County – 23.8% of residents (#961 nationally)
- Dukes County – 15.4% of residents (#2,450 nationally)
Top states by generative AI usage
Here are the 50 states ranked by generative AI usage in Quarter 1 of 2026, according to Microsoft:
- Maryland (24 counties) – 36.3% of residents
- Utah (29 counties) – 35.7% of residents
- Texas (254 counties) – 35.3% of residents
- Virginia (133 counties) – 34.7% of residents
- New Jersey (21 counties) – 34.5% of residents
- Nevada (17 counties) – 34.2% of residents
- California (58 counties) – 34.0% of residents
- Connecticut (9 counties) – 34.0% of residents
- Georgia (159 counties) – 33.7% of residents
- Florida (67 counties) – 33.6% of residents
- Massachusetts (14 counties) – 33.4% of residents
- Illinois (102 counties) – 33.3% of residents
- New York (62 counties) – 32.7% of residents
- Rhode Island (5 counties) – 32.5% of residents
- Colorado (64 counties) – 32.3% of residents
- Washington (39 counties) – 32.2% of residents
- Arizona (15 counties) – 31.4% of residents
- Hawaii (5 counties) – 30.6% of residents
- Delaware (3 counties) – 30.6% of residents
- New Hampshire (10 counties) – 30.2% of residents
- North Carolina (100 counties) – 30.1% of residents
- South Carolina (46 counties) – 29.1% of residents
- Oklahoma (77 counties) – 28.9% of residents
- Idaho (44 counties) – 28.8% of residents
- Kansas (105 counties) – 28.6% of residents
- Tennessee (95 counties) – 28.5% of residents
- Oregon (36 counties) – 28.4% of residents
- Ohio (88 counties) – 28.3% of residents
- Wisconsin (72 counties) – 28.2% of residents
- North Dakota (53 counties) – 28.2% of residents
- Michigan (83 counties) – 27.4% of residents
- South Dakota (66 counties) – 27.4% of residents
- Alabama (67 counties) – 27.3% of residents
- Pennsylvania (67 counties) – 27.2% of residents
- Indiana (92 counties) – 26.8% of residents
- Missouri (114 counties, 1 independent city) – 26.8% of residents
- Nebraska (93 counties) – 26.4% of residents
- Minnesota (87 counties) – 26.3% of residents
- Louisiana (64 parishes) – 26.1% of residents
- Arkansas (75 counties) – 26.0% of residents
- Wyoming (23 counties) – 25.5% of residents
- Kentucky (120 counties) – 25.1% of residents
- Iowa (99 counties) – 24.4% of residents
- New Mexico (33 counties) – 23.9% of residents
- Alaska (19 organized boroughs, 1 unorganized borough) – 23.6% of residents
- Vermont (14 counties) – 23.3% of residents
- Mississippi (82 counties) – 22.9% of residents
- Montana (56 counties) – 22.7% of residents
- Maine (16 counties) – 21.4% of residents
- West Virginia (55 counties) – 20.8% of residents
Clare Mulroy of USA TODAY contributed to this report.
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