ORLEANS — Police said yesterday they have identified and charged the man they believe was caught on surveillance video robbing a local farm stand's honor box and stealing produce several months ago.
A Centerville man accused of trying to sell tools stolen from construction sites was ordered out of a program yesterday aimed at helping convicted drug and alcohol abusers get treatment rather than jail time.
PROVINCETOWN — Police have charged a Provincetown volunteer firefighter with speeding and operating a firetruck dangerously following an investigation into a Nov. 9 crash that totaled the town's only ladder truck.
BARNSTABLE — "I feel like Cinderella," said Cassandra Zona as two young men knelt and slid a floppy yellow boot over the white Tyvek suit that ballooned around her.
CHATHAM — An Orleans man remains in critical condition at Brigham & Women's Hospital after he and his wife were struck by a sport utility vehicle in town Monday night.
The retrial of a man convicted of the 2006 shooting deaths of two pit bulls in the woods near the Barnstable firing range was postponed yesterday for the fourth time.
SANDWICH — The police are investigating a report of gunshots fired at an automobile service center on Route 6A late Wednesday night, Police Chief Michael Miller said.
BARNSTABLE — Charges against two Hyannis men accused of stabbing two brothers during a brawl outside the Cape Cod Mall this summer were dropped Friday after a hearing in Barnstable District Court.
HYANNIS — Four people, including a 1-year-old child, were taken to Cape Cod Hospital yesterday morning after a four-car accident at West Main Street and Strawberry Hill Road, police said.
HYANNIS — A 62-year-old man was charged with assault and battery on a handicapped person following an alleged attack on another man in a shopping center parking lot Tuesday, police said.
An Orleans man is fighting for his life in a Boston hospital, and his wife is recovering at Cape Cod Hospital after they were hit by a sport utility vehicle in Chatham Monday evening.
SOUTH YARMOUTH — A 14-year-old boy was flown to a Boston hospital last night for treatment of a serious leg injury after he was struck by a car on a crosswalk at Old Town House Road, the police said.
WELLFLEET — A mistake at a county phone communications facility yesterday resulted in about 300 residents receiving an erroneous test call from a new emergency announcement system, Wellfleet police Lt. Ronald Fisette said.
WEST YARMOUTH — A local police K9 unit tracked down a Marstons Mills man Tuesday night following a car crash, and the man was arrested on his third drunken driving charge, police said.
A Coast Guard crew from Woods Hole towed a New Bedford-based fishing vessel to safety after the boat lost propulsion about 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod at 7:30 yesterday morning, the Coast Guard reported.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed more charges against a Harwich Port man accused of embezzling $14 million from the Natick company where he worked.
The walking trails around Dennis Pond are closed because of reports to police of "illicit sexual activity and related public health and environmental concerns," according to Yarmouth police Lt. Steven Xiarhos.
Traffic on the Bourne Bridge will be reduced to a single lane while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers makes pavement repairs next week, an official at the federal agency said.
Because of a reporting error, a story on Page A2 of yesterday's Times contained incorrect information on drug trafficking charges against Ronald J. Kenworthy Jr. of Marstons Mills and Henry Golay of Roxbury. The pair face opiate trafficking charges.
Rescue workers took a Barnstable police officer to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis Thursday night for treatment of minor injuries after a car hit his cruiser at a utility construction site, fire and police officials said.
A male suspect arrested Thursday night after he allegedly shot at another man on Fresh Holes Road was ordered held yesterday at a bail hearing in Barnstable District Court.
WEST DENNIS — A 25-year-old woman was taken to Cape Cod Hospital after two cars collided at a Route 28 intersection last night, a fire department official said.
MARSTONS MILLS — Two men described as mid-level drug dealers were arrested Wednesday night after a two-month investigation by undercover officers, police said.
CENTERVILLE — Rain and wind knocked out primary wires on Main Street at 8:30 last night, cutting electrical power to 628 NStar customers, according to an NStar spokesman. As of 10:15 last night, 352 customers still had no power.
HARWICH — A local man was taken to Cape Cod Hospital early yesterday morning when he was found walking down Route 39 about an hour after his car was found blocking a roadway, police said.
ORLEANS — A Florida man was arrested for allegedly assaulting his former girlfriend near the Hearth 'n Kettle restaurant in the Skaket Corners shopping center yesterday morning, police said.
DENNIS — Police have been busy in the past month, making dozens of arrests including a pair early Tuesday morning after two men allegedly tried to make off with a gas station safe.
DENNISPORT — The Improper Bostonian on Route 28 was damaged by fire last night and police were looking for a suspicious white, box-style, work van that may have been associated with the blaze, police and fire officials said.