Massachusetts seeing heavy rain, damaging winds during Royal visit on Wednesday

NEEDHAM, Mass. — There was 27.1” of snow in Boston. And 27.6” of snow in Providence. Hurricane-force wind gusts producing drifts over 15 feet high! Approximately 3500 vehicles stuck along route 128. Fourteen of the many people trapped in those vehicles died, presumably from carbon monoxide poisoning, as they left their motors running to try to stay warm as snow piled up above the level of their exhaust systems. A total of 99 deaths were attributed to the storm in MA.. & R.I. There were massive power outages and record high tides with huge waves on top, crumbling sea walls and devastating coastal communities, leaving many homeless. The National Guard was called in to rescue folks and to help with the massive job of snow removal. Southern New England was shut down for a full week!

BOSTON — A Boston woman apparently froze to death while she was walking from the Financial District to her home in the North End while the city was experiencing brutally cold conditions early Saturday morning. Brian DiVasta said he was in Boston with his sister, Melanie DiVasta, at a...

This is a pretty interesting phenomenon that happens below our feet in the soils of the earth. As temperatures rapidly fall this allows for underground water to freeze. That ice needs to expand and as it does so it adds pressure to the soil and rocks around it. As the...

The emergency room at Boston Medical Center reopened on Monday after a pipe froze and burst Saturday night following record-breaking cold in the city. "Boston Medical Center’s Emergency Department is no longer on ambulance diversion as of 7 a.m. Monday morning following a rapid, around the clock cleanup from a burst pipe and flooding on Saturday night," the medical center said in a statement.

BOSTON — The city of Boston experienced record-low temperatures Saturday morning and that extreme cold led to dozens of flight delays and cancellations out of Logan International Airport. A spokesperson for JetBlue Airways said the airline was among the carriers impacted by fueling issues created by subzero temperatures at...

DUXBURY, Mass. — The community of Duxbury is still recovering from the deaths of three young children nearly two weeks after the tragic incident happened in the Massachusetts town. Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz said Duxbury first responders discovered 5-year-old Cora Clancy, 3-year-old Dawson Clancy and 7-month-old Callan...

NEEDHAM, Mass. — A new generation is leading a long-time New England family business. Francesca, Lewis, and Joseph Bianco III have taken the reins ofBianco & Sons Sausage. The growing company relocated from its original location in Revere to Medford in 2017. Bianco says the staff needed to make to move to keep up with growing demand. At the Medford location, the team has an in-house market where customers can shop for all of the company’s offerings.

BROOKLINE, Mass. — A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and neighboring Syria on Monday,killing more than 3,400 people and injuring thousands more as it toppled thousands of buildings and trapped residents under mounds of rubble. Boston resident Tugce Kasikci grew up in Turkey and said...

A box truck wedged under an overpass, forcing lanes closures on Storrow Drive in Boston early Monday afternoon. Sky 5 was over Storrow Drive at around noon Monday where the truck was stuck under an overpass after Clarendon Street in the eastbound lanes. While the truck was stuck, just one...

QUINCY, Mass. — Firefighters in Massachusetts experienced brutally cold conditions when they were called into action Saturday, including in Quincy, where crews had to deal with frozen hydrants. Quincy Deputy Fire Chief Gary Smyth said he heard two explosions when he arrived at Quincy Collision & Frame Center on...

MEDFORD, Mass. — A man is dead after the Medford commercial building where he works caught fire, according to authorities. Medford police said the Massachusetts city's emergency communications center was first notified about the fire at approximately 4:20 a.m. Sunday. Police officers and firefighters discovered a commercial building at...

A 5-year-old boy who fell from a third-story New Hampshire apartment window last week has died, police said. Firefighters were called to 1436 Elm St. in Manchester just before 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 31 for a call about a child that had fallen from a window. Responders found an unconscious child with head trauma at the scene.

NEEDHAM, Mass. — A favorite highway sight in Providence, Rhode Island, was nearly a simple billboard. However, the owners of New England Pest Control (now known asBig Blue Bug Solutions) chose a giant termite, instead. "Nibbles Woodaway" started off purple because that’s the color of eastern subterranean termites when they’re under a microscope. However, the paint faded in the sun and the blue color stuck.

BOSTON — A play about the capture and murder of notorious Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger will be at the historic Wilbur Theatre for one night only. Massachusetts native Neal McDonough will star as Bulger in the stage adaptation of the true-crime bestseller "Hunting Whitey: The Untold Story of the Capture and Killing of America's Most Wanted Crime Boss."

Soldiers from the Massachusetts National Guard were feted Sunday at a send-off ceremony before being deployed to various locations across the Middle East to support the United States' ongoing military actions against ISIS. The guardsmen, stationed at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod and in Westfield, are part of the 3rd...

BOSTON — A Boston man is in custody in connection with the shooting death of a Massachusetts boy in Mattapan last week, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said Monday. Tyler Lawrence, of Norwood, was shot and killed just before noon on Jan. 29 near the intersection of Fremont...

NEEDHAM, Mass. — Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch says he’s not quite done tinkering with the recipe forSamuel Adams Boston Lager. Now, the company is rolling out Boston Lager Remastered. Koch says he doesn’t think most customers will notice a difference, but he thinks this version is brighter, smoother, and closer to the perfect brew he imagines. Boston Lager Remastered is being in a splashy new ad that will run during Super Bowl LVII.

DUXBURY, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused in connection with the deaths of her three children, is set to face charges Tuesday. Clancy is scheduled to be arraigned virtually from her hospital bed, where she remains hospitalized as she is treated for injuries suffered when she jumped from a window of her Duxbury home last month. A funeral was held for the three children on Friday.

WOBURN, Mass. — Woburn teachers and officials in the Massachusetts city say they have made significant progress toward ending the teachers' strike, but there is no confirmation that school will resume Monday after classes were canceled all of last week. The strike started Jan. 30 and Woburn's schools have...

NEEDHAM, Mass. — Stories come to life inJan Brett’s Norwell home studio. Brett has written and illustrated more than 40 books over her decades-long literary career. The author and illustrator takes young readers around the world through her books. Now she’s off to Alaska with “Cozy In Love,” her second story featuring a friendly musk ox.