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The Massachusetts Turnpike is in uncharted water as EZ Pass has replaced cash along the state’s turnpike system and many toll collectors have been laid off. In a world where many systems have gone electronic from payment for movies to parking, it was only a matter of time before the personless, electronic system eventually took over toll roads, as well. Along the Massachusetts Turnpike, it happened this weekend with toll collectors working their last shifts and the state moving quickly to tear down the booths where collections happened for decades. According to the Boston Globe, the new cashless collections system...

CHICAGO -- Unit 5 Investigation: An investigative report by Dave Savini uncovered 118 criminals working as toll collectors, lane walkers and drivers. Savini reported that thieves, burglars and drug dealers were among the workers handling millions of dollars in cash a week. "Millions of dollars have turned up missing at the tollway during the past decade," Savini said. "Some of it was allegedly miscounted, and some of it was simply ripped off." Despite the missing money, Savini said, the tollway agency has continued to employ workers with criminal backgrounds. "With that kind of history of theft (at the tollway agency),...