Barnstable County News

Police arrested seven people in three separate drug incidents last week, Public Information Officer William Fihlman said.

A three-month investigation of alleged illegal drug dealing at a local apartment resulted in the arrest of a 60-year-old man yesterday, the police said.

HAGGERTY, Angeline M., 31, Woonsocket, R.I.; admitted sufficient facts to negligent driving, July 9 in Yarmouth, continued without a finding for one year, $600 costs and $300 fees; operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and OUI/drugs, dismissed.

The winged skull carved into the slate above John Paine's final resting place is much more than a morbid curio for Robert Carlson, who stoops to inspect the cracked and crumbling headstone in Orleans Cemetery.

Who can forget the Dec. 9 storm of 2005? Winds of 100 mph struck without warning, ripping holes in the skyline where tall, seemingly immovable trees once stood.

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Police Friday made their third arrest in the past week as part of an investigation into the sale of cocaine on the island.

A 19-year-old was shot in the back early this morning in what police believe to be a non-random act.

The city will be greening and cleaning up over the next few years as a local organization that focuses on clean water in the state creates gardens to protect Lower Monoosnoc Brook.

An elderly local woman with Alzheimer's disease, reported missing at about 9 a.m. Monday, was found about five hours later by a neighbor and appeared to be in good health, the police said.

Just when you need a good road sign--as you approach the tricky Route 6A/Sandwich Road split in Sagamore, where final decisions are made about attempting to cross the construction-addled Sagamore Bridge--you encounter this indecipherable placard.

LUSTER, Michael, 21, 47 Truro Center Road, Truro; assault and battery and malicious destruction of property of a value less than $250, Oct.

Saint Patrick may have driven the snakes out of Ireland, but only you can drive the Greek Mafia out of Barnstable town hall on Tuesday.... An American, a Japanese and a Greek were sitting naked in the sauna.

The county retirement board will allow former Truro fire chief E. Thomas Prada, 66, to keep his pension although he pleaded guilty June 24 to grabbing a female police dispatcher's breasts while she worked.

BETHUNE, Ricky L., 42, Worcester County House of Correction; guilty plea to two counts violating a protective order, June 1 and Sept.

The Cape & Islands Youth Congress, an initiative of the Barnstable County Council for Children, Youth and Families, is currently seeking high-school-aged youth for the 2009-2010 Congress.

Eric Clapton has pulled out of this week's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York after undergoing gallstone surgery.

A decade ago the Massachusetts General Court abolished county government, everywhere in the state, except in Barnstable.

Even as real estate sales volume rose statewide, the number of single-family homes sold on Cape Cod fell by 3.2 percent last month, according to numbers released yesterday by The Warren Group.

For most people, getting around Cape Cod is relatively straightforward if not always quick.