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When Angela Cincis, 28, a first lieutenant with the Army National Guard, attends leadership meetings, she often is the only woman among a group of 20 people.

Turnout appeared sluggish in most parts of the state on primary day as campaigns did their best to pull sympathetic voters to the polls.

Today on CapeCast: Do you know the name of this cool French game? It's similar to the Italian bowling game called 'bocce' and very popular at two courts in Harwich.

BREWSTER — A sailing instructor charged with keeping marijuana in the cabin where he spent the winter at Cape Cod Sea Camps admitted sufficient facts in Orleans District Court on Friday to a possession charge.

TEATICKET — A woman was taken to Falmouth Hospital on Sunday afternoon after being pulled from a swimming pool on Falmouth Landing Road.

EAST HARWICH — A 28-year-old arborist from Chatham was flown to a Boston hospital Monday after a tree fell on him, causing serious injuries, Harwich police and fire officials said.

EASTHAM — A Wellfleet man who allegedly broke a man's nose and badly cut his face with a beer bottle was arraigned Monday in Orleans District Court on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

No one was injured but four people were displaced in an apartment building fire at 135 Main St. Monday night, said Hyannis fire Capt. Eric Farrenkopf.

BARNSTABLE — A Brewster man was indicted Friday by a Barnstable County grand jury on a charge of rape of a child by force.

FALMOUTH — The death of a 46-year-old man last week outside a downtown restaurant is being investigated as a homicide, officials from the Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office said Monday.