A winter storm inflicted fresh misery on the Northeast on Monday, causing the cancellation of flights, classes and major court cases across a region still digging out from last week's blizzard. Officials said a Massachusetts woman was killed when she was struck by a snowplow.
The same system dumped more than a foot-and-a-half of snow on the Chicago area and blanketed much of the Plains and Midwest. Here's how it's playing out:
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DEATHS, INJURIES
In Weymouth, Massachusetts, south of Boston, officials said a woman in her 50s was struck by a snowplow and killed Monday. A spokesman for the Norfolk district attorney's office said she was hit just before 10 a.m. Monday at the condo complex where she lived and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ohio officials said a Toledo police officer died while shoveling snow in his driveway Sunday and the city's 70-year-old mayor was hospitalized after an accident while he was out checking road conditions.
The officer, who was not named, died of an apparent heart attack. City and medical officials say Mayor D. Michael Collins was hospitalized after he had a heart attack and his SUV crashed into a pole.
In Nebraska, a truck driver and a 62-year-old woman were killed in separate traffic accidents on snowy roads. In Wisconsin, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office said a 64-year-old man with a history of cardiac problems was found dead Sunday in his garage after shoveling snow.
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SNOWFALL AND WARNINGS
The snowstorm, which dumped more than 19 inches of snow to Chicago, deepened off the southern New England coast, bringing accumulations of 9 to 16 inches to Boston and a slushy wintry mix to Hartford, Connecticut, Providence, Rhode Island, southern New Hampshire and Vermont — places still reeling from the up to 3 feet they got last week.
"For New Englanders, we're used to this during the winter," said Matt Doody of the National Weather Service. But he cautioned that both the morning and evening commutes would be messy.
More than 20 counties in New York state were under a winter storm warning, with up to 16 inches forecast for the eastern Catskill Mountains, and northern and central Taconics. Many Long Island schools delayed opening or closed due to a forecast of snow and freezing rain. By early afternoon, central Massachusetts had more than a foot.
The Philadelphia area received about an inch of snow before the precipitation changed to rain. Forecasters expected 3 to 5 inches to fall in the Lehigh Valley, and 5 to 11 inches in northern Pennsylvania. Parts of northern Ohio got at least a foot.
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COMMUTING PROBLEMS
Rush-hour commuters in New York City were stranded on a packed subway train that lost power for 2½ half hours Monday before it could be towed to a station. Five other trains were stuck behind it.
Police on Long Island say a tractor-trailer flipped on its side around 11:30 a.m. Monday on the westbound Long Island Expressway near Dix Hills. Several other accidents were reported in the same area.
In Henniker, New Hampshire, crews on Monday were cleaning up snow using plows loaned by the state and surrounding towns. A fire destroyed the town's plow fleet three days earlier.
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PLANES AND TRAINS
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