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Joe's Lobster Mart in Sandwich has less than two weeks to sell off the lobster, fish and other stock before closing its doors.

Don't expect an Ebola epidemic here, the state's top health officials told a meeting of municipal health agents Wednesday.

It's not safe to live on Cape Cod, according to an internationally known expert on the medical and environmental dangers of nuclear power.

Of the 15 articles on the special town meeting warrant Monday, a request for voters to buy a small parcel of waterfront property for $1.7 million may generate the most controversy.

Union workers at the NRG Energy Canal Generating Plant voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize a strike at the plant, Dan Hurley, president of the Local 369 Utility Workers Union of America, said.

On today's CapeCast: We visit the ruins of the long-gone West Barnstable Brick Company--deep in ridiculously-dense woods--and find out how the business went kaput in the 1930s!

About 85 percent of fresh mussels consumed in the United States are imported from Canada. And while mussel farms exist in the United States, there are none beyond the 3-mile limit of state waters.

SOUTH YARMOUTH — Guests at the Riverview Resort assumed William Butler was a mannequin when they spotted his lifeless body under several feet of water in the indoor pool Sunday.

HYANNIS — A Provincetown man was arrested Friday morning in Hyannis on breaking-and-entering in the nighttime after he left a cellphone at the scene of a crime, according to the police.

FALMOUTH — Supporters of a $2.8 million all-purpose athletic field at Falmouth High School are dropping their pursuit of the project, saying their plans don't fit into the town's priorities right now.