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HYANNIS — A 32-year-old woman who allegedly robbed TD Bank on Main Street of nearly $500 Thursday evening has been ordered held on $25,000 cash bail, according to Barnstable District Court records.

BOSTON — Two brothers from Cape Cod have been convicted in federal court on charges stemming from a three-year oxycodone distribution scheme involving hundreds of thousands of pills that generated more than $5 million in proceeds, according to the...

Due to a reporter's error, the last name of Georgia Dash, director of infection control for Cape Cod Healthcare, was misspelled on second reference in a story Oct. 8 about Cape Cod Healthcare's new flu policy.

State Sen. Richard Ross, R-Wrentham, said this week that then-state Sen. Scott Brown called him unelectable after Ross voted to keep a proposed anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment off the ballot, according to The Sun Chronicle newspaper.

Because of an editing error, the Monday's Lucky for Life lottery numbers on Page A2 of Tuesday's Times were incorrect. The winning numbers were 3-10-12-14-15, Lucky ball 5.

BOURNE — A MedFlight helicopter flew a man who fell of a roof to Tufts Medical Center in Boston early Friday afternoon, according to the Bourne Fire Department.

BOSTON — Ending a six-year legal saga, a federal judge has ruled in favor of Yarmouth police Officer Christopher Van Ness, finding that the officer did not use excessive force when he shot and killed Andre Luiz de Castro Martins in 2008.

FALMOUTH — Two men accused of misleading police about the Sept. 4 death of a man outside a Falmouth restaurant are free after posting bail this week.

The delightful weather that characterizes the fall season on the Cape and Islands is idyllic for birders.

U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass, has had no shortage of opportunities to hold out homeland security as a priority of his past term.