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After hard-fought nomination contests, the winners and losers of local races in Tuesday's primary election sought to bury the hatchet Wednesday, in one case under a plate of scrambled eggs.

Mashpee police officials testified Wednesday that they waited until completing an investigation into a Nov. 30 crash before issuing a drunken-driving citation against off-duty Sandwich police Officer Daniel Perkins.

Last-minute, nationwide audience voting Wednesday night pushed Sons of Serendip — a music quartet led by a former singer from Hyannis Sound — to the final competition on NBC's million-dollar "America's Got Talent."

A section of Park Street will be closed for most of the day Saturday so new equipment can be delivered to Cape Cod Hospital.

A seasoned fisherman was rescued after his 40-foot vessel ran aground in rough seas off Chatham during low tide Wednesday morning.

On today's CapeCast: It was a rough morning for a Chatham fisherman, when his 40-foot boat called Never Enough ran aground at low tide on the treacherous Chatham bar.

CENTERVILLE — The southeast corner of the intersection of Old Stage Road and Route 28 is well-known to motorists passing through the area.

BOSTON – Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley and Republican Charles Baker are moving on to November after winning the nominations of their respective parties for governor on Tuesday.

CHATHAM — Chatham attorney John Chapman narrowly claimed the Republican Party's nomination to take on U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass.

WEST DENNIS — Voters in the 1st Barnstable District chose Democratic candidate Elisa Zawadzkas to run against retired state police and Republican Sgt. Tim Whelan in the race to succeed retiring state Rep. Cleon Turner, D-Dennis.