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On today's CapeCast: We investigate a mysterious outbuilding deep in the forgotten woods that chilled our soul. Scaredy-cats should avoid this video.

Voters at Monday’s special town meeting will be asked to consider $2.2 million in capital improvements, to be paid by property tax increases under the state’s Proposition 2 1/2 statute.

Union workers at the NRG Energy Canal Generating Plant could vote as early as today to authorize a strike at the plant, Dan Hurley, president of the Local 369 Utility Workers Union of America, said.

A young couple were arrested early Wednesday on charges of trafficking heroin after a long investigation that led police officers to a Wilson Road home in West Yarmouth where they say they found more than 18 grams of the drug.

A larceny charge against a West Yarmouth man was dismissed in Barnstable District Court on Wednesday after the alleged victim, an elderly woman, did not cooperate with the prosecution.

A 31-year-old New Bedford man was arraigned in Barnstable District Court on Wednesday on charges he assaulted, kidnapped and threatened to kill a 19-year-old woman.

Three Afghan soldiers detained since abandoning a training exercise at Joint Base Cape Cod to avoid returning to Afghanistan are hoping financial help from supporters will allow them to go free as they challenge deportation and pursue asylum.

A fire at the Cape Cod Family Resort closed a section of Route 28 late Wednesday afternoon.

A former caretaker at a group home for disabled adults in Bourne is facing a criminal charge stemming from a May incident in which she allegedly assaulted a resident while trying to get him to take his medicine.

Rear Adm. Richard Gurnon, president of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, announced Wednesday that he will retire next summer, capping a 10-year tenure at the helm that saw enrollment and the campus' once-poor reputation reach new heights.