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Two inmates at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility in Bourne are facing new criminal charges that they hid drugs in their body cavities while inside the jail.

A 35-year-old East Falmouth man was ordered held in lieu of $10,000 bail Tuesday after pleading not guilty to beating a man unconscious in August and stealing nearly $1,000, according to Falmouth District Court records.

Portions of Buck Island and Higgins Crowell roads were temporarily closed to traffic after a three-car crash Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Three candidates for state Senate and two for state representative of the 1st Barnstable District faced a stack of questions on issues near and dear to Cape Codders at a debate Wednesday night at Cape Cod Community College.

Cape and Islands towns could lose a combined $1 million in local aid per year if three casinos and a slot parlor attract customers away from the state lottery at the rate projected by a state legislator, an analysis by a group looking to repeal the...

When Eric Betzig needed to put a hand-built, super-high-resolution microscope through its paces, he brought it to a place where he could find the brightest biologists in the nation for the test drive: the Marine Biological Laboratory.

Senate President Therese Murray may not want to stump in her own backyard for the former legislator running to keep her district in Democratic hands, but on Wednesday, she campaigned in New Hampshire against her former state Senate colleague Scott Brown,...

A meeting between Yarmouth officials and the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School Committee's financial subcommittee regarding the possibility of charging the district a payment in lieu of taxes for shared school facilities in its town put the proposal on the...

The newly selected town manager rejected the job offer this week, citing costly housing and the lack of jobs available for his husband.

Barnstable High School was evacuated for nearly an hour on both Monday and Wednesday after two bomb threats were called into the school, officials said.