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UPDATE Norwood: Water Main Burst Causes Major Flooding on Webster Avenue

By DAVID GREENE
An apparent burst to a water mains pipe caused major flooding and havoc to both residents and local businesses in the vicinity of Webster Avenue, East 201st Street, Mosholu Parkway South, and Bedford Park Boulevard in Norwood / Bedford Park on Monday night, Dec. 16, according to eyewitness accounts. Several cars in the area were seen semi-submerged in water amid the flooding. 

Op-Ed: What Went Wrong? Everything

By SILVIA BLUMENFELD
Americans have voted for Donald Trump again. Forty-five will become forty-seven come January and Donald Trump will again have the most powerful job on the planet. It’s a sobering, heartbreaking, but undeniable fact. The billionaires who enabled and engineered his campaign are celebrating.

“Coach D” Remembered

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Family, friends, colleagues, and players, young and old, who were trained by 60-year-old volunteer football coach, Dwight Downer, gathered in the Williamsbridge Oval Park in Norwood on Friday, Dec. 5, for a moving, candlelit vigil to pay tribute to their relative, friend, and mentor who died tragically following a multiple-vehicle road collision on Saturday morning, Nov. 30, a few minutes after midnight.

Tremont: Group Sought for Robbery

By DAVID GREENE
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying the vehicle and perpetrators seen in the attached video and photos in connection to a robbery that occurred in Tremont. 

Allerton: Three Charged in Fentanyl/Heroin Packaging Operation in The Bronx

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY
Federal prosecutors announced on Dec. 4, that three people were charged in a fentanyl/heroin packaging operation in the Allerton section of The Bronx. They said the bust was part of an ongoing investigation into fentanyl/heroin trafficking in New York City, and that federal, state, and local law enforcement officers recovered over 13 pounds of drug mixtures, including fentanyl, heroin, xylazine, methamphetamine, and cocaine, from inside the packaging mill.