Norwood

This year’s Valentine’s Day isn’t like ones past, but one thing hasn’t changed: people’s love for chocolate. In fact, chocolate sales are soaring. At Furlong’s Candies in Norwood, Massachusetts, it was an extremely busy day this Valentine’s Day with people coming in for last minute gifts.  Co-owner Nancy Thrasher says it’s been so busy that sales this year are...

Furlong Candies co-owner Nancy Thrasher says it’s been so busy that sales this year are up 25 to 30 percent. On Saturday, about 700 people came into the store.

Norwood got more than a foot of snow, causing schools to cancel class and making a mess for many commuters.

Police in Massachusetts are investigating after a woman drove her SUV through a gate at Norwood Memorial Airport on Monday afternoon. “We heard a loud noise,” said Tony Winter, NBC10 Boston SkyRanger’s photographer. “It was a big boom.” SkyRanger is based at Norwood Memorial, and Winter, and SkyRanger’s pilot were just arriving to work when the woman crashed through...

Norwood police detained the woman and she was taken to a local hospital to be evaluated.

A man was shot multiple times on New Year’s Day at an apartment complex in Norwood, Massachusetts, police say. Investigators were still searching the crime scene Friday evening inside an apartment at the Commons at Windsor Gardens complex hours after the shooting took place in the middle of the day. “Heard a couple shots,” said Ashley Oberg, who lives...

The victim does not live at the complex where the shooting occurred, according to police, and investigators believe the people involved in the crime likely know each other. No arrests have been made yet.

The 24-year-old victim is expected to survive. A suspect has not been arrested, police said.

The Norwood Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred Friday at the Commons at Windsor Gardens apartment complex.

In years past, a storm like Thursday’s Nor’easter meant an automatic snow day for students across Massachusetts. But with many students already remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, that precious childhood moment has been stolen away. Hundreds of Massachusetts schools opted to go remote Thursday due to the storm, according to the NBC10 Boston and NECN school closing...

Even snow days are feeling the impact of the coronavirus as some communities opt to have their students continue remote learning on what would be a fun day outside.

Police are investigating after a man was hit by at least one vehicle in Norwood, Massachusetts.

A person was flown to a hospital in Boston Friday afternoon after they were hit by a vehicle on Massachusetts Route 1 in Norwood, police said. The crash in front of the Norwood Jake N Joe’s bar and grill was reported just before 4 p.m., according to the local police department. The victim, critically injured, was taken to Norwood Airport,…

A speeding car being pursued by a Massachusetts state trooper on Interstate 95 crashed in Norwood early Saturday morning, leaving one person inside dead and another with life-threatening injuries, police said. The officer attempted to stop the vehicle for speeding on I-95 northbound in Sharon just after 2:30 a.m., according to Massachusetts State Police. The vehicle refused to stop and…

A man suspected of dragging a Massachusetts State Trooper down Interstate 95 Thursday morning as he fled from police is now in custody. After being pulled over for speeding shortly after midnight, the man allegedly sped off in a Jeep before he crashed it and ran away on foot in Walpole. Police found him in Sharon Thursday morning, according to…

A man suspected of dragging a Massachusetts State Trooper down Interstate 95 Thursday morning in Walpole, then fleeing the scene, has been taken into custody.

A State Trooper was dragged down the highway in Canton after he pulled over a driver, who sped off in a Jeep then crashed and ran on foot.

Four Massachusetts communities have received a total of more than $500,000 in state grants to improve city streets to make them safer and more business friendly, authorities say. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation grants for the Shared Streets & Spaces Program help cities conceive, design, and implement changes to curbs, streets, on-street parking spaces and off-street parking lots in support…

David Hayes calls the deluge that swept through Norwood last month a “1,000-year storm.” On June 28, the skies opened up, dropping 4 inches of rain in 90 minutes. Water gushed like rapids through the streets. It swallowed up cars in the hospital’s parking lot and rushed into the basement, knocking out key infrastructure, including the backup generator. Hayes, the…

Heavy rain flooded Norwood Hospital in late June, closing it indefinitely. Weeks later, that means longer ambulance rides and an increase in patients at surrounding hospitals.