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If you read Chris McDougal’s best-selling book, "Born to Run," it would be difficult not to conclude that running is the most natural activity in which we can participate.

JOINT BASE CAPE COD — Four men were rescued from their sinking lobster boat early Thursday morning by a crew on a U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod helicopter.

FALMOUTH — A 25-year-old Assonet man was ordered held on $20,000 cash bail after he allegedly threatened to slit the throats of three people and burn a house down with children inside, court records show.

HARWICH — A 25-year-old Brewster man is facing several charges after driving drunk and hitting two vehicles on Route 6 Thursday night, according to state police.

BARNSTABLE — The Cape Cod Drug Task Force arrested two men Wednesday on charges they possessed $3,000 worth of MDMA, commonly known as the club drug Molly. The arrests were made after a two-month undercover investigation.

Early on Wednesday morning, Oct. 8, the bright full moon will undergo a total lunar eclipse. It should be well worth rising before dawn and taking a look in the western sky.

Scores of young people on the Cape and Islands trying to live on their own are either homeless or in danger of losing the roof over their heads, according to results from the state's first comprehensive survey of homeless youth.

WELLFLEET — The 12th annual "State of the Wellfleet Harbor" conference will be held 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 8 at Wellfleet Elementary School at 100 Lawrence Road.

Because of incorrect information provided to the Times, a story on Page A3 of Thursday's edition identified the wrong car that police say ran a red light at the intersection of Higgins Crowell Road and Route 28, causing a three-car crash.

BARNSTABLE — Lawyers for three defendants in the July 11, 2012, slaying of a Hyannis man argued in Barnstable Superior Court on Thursday that evidence from cellphone records obtained using an emergency request should be thrown out.