Barnstable County News

Fireworks, dusk, Friday, Rock Harbor, Orleans. Rain date: Sunday. Wellfleet Fourth of July Parade, gathers at 9 a.m. Saturday at town pier; classic car parade precedes parade of homemade floats and marchers in costume through downtown.

From Provincetown to Bourne, from Harwich to Falmouth, Cape Cod will be "Celebrating Our Immigrant Communities; The Many Faces of Cape Cod" in a variety of ways from July 7-15. The Barnstable County Human Rights Commission is hard at work making plans for this second annual celebration, hoping all interested persons will gather to honor Barnstable ...

BULLOCK, Clarence A., 49, 228 Crowell Road, Chatham; guilty of three counts larceny of a value more than $250, two counts larceny of a credit card, credit card fraud of a value more than $250, and three counts breaking and entering a boat or vehicle in the nighttime to commit a felony, Dec.

In December 2005, when strong winds brought trees down and wiped power out across the Cape, local shelters were left without enough cots to house those looking for a place to stay.

A county retirement board will likely review the pension application of former Truro Fire Chief E. Thomas Prada now that he has been convicted of assault and battery.

A 10-year veteran of the Sandwich Police Department is being charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after an alleged off-duty beating that left another man needing 37 stitches to his face, police said.

Former Truro Fire Chief E. Thomas Prada will write two letters of apology - one to the victim and another to selectmen - for grabbing a female police dispatcher's breasts without her consent in February 2008 as part of a plea deal finalized yesterday in Orleans District Court.

The police arrested a man yesterday on suspicion of raping and assaulting a child.

A 27-year-old Centerville woman pleaded not guilty yesterday morning in Orleans District Court to charges she repeatedly raped a 2-year-old girl she was baby-sitting in Dennis.

Momentum is building on Beacon Hill to do away with Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day, two little-known holidays for state employees celebrated only in Suffolk County, including the Statehouse.

OUTH DENNIS Police have accused a Centerville woman of repeatedly raping a child within the past two weeks while the child was under her care, reports the Cape Cod Times .

Cape Cod law enforcement agencies have launched a nutritious way to get unwanted guns off the streets.

Some Barnstable town planners see $56 million for sewer system expansion projects as a deal they can't pass up.

A $30-million plan to improve the water quality of Cape Cod wetlands that had been set aside for eight years is back on the table.

A Barnstable County grand jury on Friday indicted a former Mashpee teaching assistant and soccer coach for allegedly raping a child.

As light as a salt crystal, and only slightly bigger, the nymph deer tick crawled slowly across Dave Simser's fingertip, on legs so small, they were barely visible.

Monday night at 6:16 p.m., Yarmouth Police Officers were dispatched to a reported stabbing on MidTech Drive in West Yarmouth.

In the days before the Revolutionary War, Barnstable residents picked their drinking places according to their political preferences.

Today Judge Brian Merrick sentenced Rose to 2½ years in the Barnstable County Jail, but suspended the final six months of the term giving Rose credit for another three months he has already spent behind bars.

South Yarmouth resident William Rose pleaded guilty this morning to driving under the influence of alcohol last August.