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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.

After a video of John Capron playing the piano at Remarkable Cleanouts in Norwood went viral, the owner tracked him down and gave him a piano of his own.

The First Street Foundation shared its flood risk projection data with NBC10 Boston and NECN, and, with a few exceptions, it shows much greater flood risk across the state than has been assessed by FEMA — in some places dramatically so.

Four inches of rain fell on Norwood, Massachusetts, in 90 minutes, prompting flooding that closed a local hospital. Other towns and cities across Massachusetts may be at greater risk than they thought, as data provided to NBC10 Boston and NECN show.

The emergency room at Norwood Hospital could be closed for several weeks after flooding Sunday forced the entire facility to temporarily shutdown. The town’s General Manager Tony Mazzucco said that it could be four to six weeks before they can reopen under the best case scenario, and likely even longer for the rest of the hospital. The hospital temporarily...

Norwood Hospital remains closed after water poured into the basement Sunday, damaging the building’s mechanical room and cutting off power.

The town of Norwood, Massachusetts, declared a state of emergency Tuesday evening over heavy rain and flash flooding that caused the closure of a local hospital. A hotline has been set up for anyone looking for information on a patient of Norwood Hospital after it was evacuated and closed in a storm Sunday night. It is 781-769-4000, according to...

Norwood has declared a state of emergency after the heavy rain and flash flooding that occurred over the weekend.

The flooding that closed Norwood Hospital caused significant damage across the Massachusetts town Sunday night. New video shows the moments after the flooding began. A worker for a private electric company walks through the hospital to survey damage, and the mess is substantial. Other photos show chairs all moved from the floodwaters, and what appears to be a cafeteria destroyed….

A hospital remains closed after severe flooding in Norwood.

A hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts has been temporarily closed after a violent storm Sunday evening caused flash floods that sent water into the facility. Calling the flooding a “significant event,” Norwood Hospital president Dr. Salvatore Perla said the hospital was closed for the time being as dozens of remaining patiets were being evacutated from the premisis Monday morning. Perla said…

One neighborhood of Norwood, Massachusetts, looked more like Class IV rapids Sunday afternoon when a powerful storm moved through and flooded the area. It was the first Flash Flood Emergency issued by the National Weather Service in Boston since 2014 when Fall River saw significant flooding due to Tropical Storm Arthur. Before Arthur, the only other emergency issued was in…

Major flooding forced Norwood Hospital to close temporarily Monday.

Norwood Hospital in Massachusetts remained closed Monday afternoon after a storm on Sunday caused severe flooding at the facility.

Sunday’s thunderstorms and downpours created dangerous conditions, causing flooding in Norwood that forced a hospital to evacuate dozens of patients.

There is a flash flood emergency in effect until 7 p.m. for Norwood, Massachusetts, and surrounding towns.

Exclusive video shows a man pulling a baby girl from of an overturned car on Interstate 95 north in Sharon, Massachusetts around 3:30 Wednesday afternoon after the car crashed with a Massachusetts State Police SUV. The man pulls the girl from her car seat, then runs around to the other side of the Honda Civic, where a woman also hung…