FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The ferry service that connects Cape Cod to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard approved the use of grant funds to purchase electric shuttle buses.

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities are searching for the person or people who shot and injured a Massachusetts state trooper during a traffic stop on Cape Cod Friday night.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — One person is dead after two men on a squid fishing boat went overboard near Hyannis.

The men went overboard around 7:45 p.m. Saturday off Point Gammon, WBZ-TV...

FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A hospital on Cape Cod is closing its maternity and inpatient pediatric units and making the space available for a potential surge of coronavirus patients, a hospital...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities continue to investigate a shooting on Cape Cod that left one man dead.

Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe and Barnstable Police Chief...

FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has expanded her search for her father, who has been missing for two months.

Sixty-one-year-old Floyd Black was last seen Aug. 8, when he left a...

BOSTON (AP) — Police say a 72-year-old man forced several people out of a sport utility vehicle and drove off before crashing into several vehicles in Boston.

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts public health officials have confirmed the state's first case of the measles this year and say people who have not been immunized who visited the same locations as the...

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — A Mandarin paper written by Barnstable High School junior Maddie Sawyer looks impossibly complex, filled with Chinese characters that are a world away from the "big three"...

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts woman will spend 21 months in prison for cheating a dozen elderly people out of more than $300,000 in a lottery scam.

AQUINNAH, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts tribe says construction is expected to begin next month for a gambling hall on the resort island of Martha's Vineyard.

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man who attacked a woman with a shovel, breaking her jaw, has been sentenced to up to six years in prison.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Frigid temperatures persisted into the early evening Monday, icing up roads and in some cases freezing people out of their own homes, including a woman who was taken to the hospital with hypothermia.

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (AP) — The ongoing federal government shutdown is affecting the planning for a proposed wind farm project off New England's coast.

Two federal meetings have been postponed indefinitely, one in New Bedford, Massachusetts on Tuesday and another in Narragansett, Rhode Island on Wednesday.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — A study by outside consultants has found that a beleaguered Massachusetts steamship agency is cheap and plagued by in-fighting.

The Seattle-based firm HMS Consulting and Technical's 140-page report released Monday cites "penny pinching" at the authority that provides ferry service between Cape Cod and its islands.

HMS Consulting says the authority's lack of a unified vision "has led to competing factions within the organization."

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — A Cape Cod man has been convicted of murder for fatally stabbing another man outside a Hyannis house party in 2016.

Kelly Ridley was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday after a seven-day trial and about four hours of jury deliberations. The 20-year-old Hyannis man received a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Kristine Lilly gathered the group of about 60 youth clinic attendees together on the soccer field located in the outfield of Barnstable High School's baseball field.

She yelled out "Barnstable!", and the group of kids aged 6-12, responded by clapping back twice. Their collective eyes then fixated on Lilly, a two-time Women's World Cup and Olympic champion whose 354 international appearances are the most in U.S. Soccer history.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Fire officials say a Massachusetts man has been bitten by a boa constrictor he tried to pick up in the woods of Cape Cod.

Hyannis firefighter Andrew Kleamenakis tells the Cape Cod Times the 20-year-old man was on his way home in Barnstable on Monday when spotted a 6- to 8-foot long snake feeding on a dead animal, possibly a rat.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — A team of marine animal rescuers freed a humpback whale from an anchor line off the coast of Cape Cod, but officials say they are worried the whale's injuries are life-threatening.

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — A 19-year-old Cape Cod man charged with fatally stabbing another man at a party has been scheduled for trial this fall.

The Cape Cod Times reports that opening arguments in the murder trial of Kelly Ridley Jr. are scheduled to begin Oct. 24 in Barnstable Superior Court.

Ridley has pleaded not guilty in the 2016 death of 26-year-old Thomas Russell Jr.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts State Police say a woman and the driver of a tow truck sent to pick up her vehicle are both arrested on drunken driving charges.

Fifty-one-year-old Patricia O' Donnell of Marstons Mills had been stopped by a trooper on Saturday night and arrested for driving under the influence.

Then 25-year-old Brandon Fenton had been dispatched by a towing company to pick up her vehicle, but he was also arrested for drunken driving.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — A marine transportation authority in Massachusetts enduring mechanical problems has been cleared by the U.S. Coast Guard to continue service.

The Cape Cod Times reports the Steamship Authority's ferry Woods Hole has been cleared by the Coast Guard to return to service from Hyannis after its trips were cancelled Tuesday due to a mechanical problem.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Expect to see more white and red bags on Cape Cod.

The retail giant Target has announced plans on Tuesday to open a store in Hyannis' Cape Cod Mall in 2019.

The company has signed a lease with Simon Property Group for an 80,000-square-foot store.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — A woman involved in a three-vehicle crash has been brought to a hospital in Massachusetts.

Fire officials say a car rolled onto its roof in the multi-vehicle crash on Monday morning in Hyannis.

The woman, who has not been identified, was brought to Cape Cod Hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has been charged with stealing items meant for an auction honoring a fallen police sergeant.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — The Steamship Authority has selected a Seattle-based consulting firm to review its operations following a rash of cancellations.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Police say a Massachusetts woman was woken up by a strange man covering her nose and mouth with his hand.

Authorities say the 52-year-old woman found 29-year-old Christian Lema in her room at a group home in Hyannis Sunday morning.

Barnstable Police say Lema entered the woman's bedroom on the third floor of the home around 2:25 a.m., and the woman told police she screamed when she woke up.

WEST YARMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts felon has been arrested on counts of assault and battery on a police officer.

Police say 35-year-old Jarred Adkins of Hyannis was arrested when he repeatedly walked into oncoming traffic on Route 28, and then struck two officers as they tried to subdue him.

The arrest happened at around 6:30 p.m. Sunday when police found Adkins near Timmy's Roast Beef of West Yarmouth with cuts on his body, and identified him as the man who had been on the road.

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man is being held on bail for allegedly assaulting a pregnant woman.

The Cape Cod Times reports 47-year-old Reggie Winbush of Hyannis was arraigned Tuesday on charges of assault and battery and vandalism.

Officers responded to a call Sunday about a "domestic incident possible involving a knife."

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An elderly man has been hit by a car in Massachusetts and flown to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.

The Providence Journal reports an 88-year-old unidentified man was hit by a car Saturday morning in Hyannis and was transported to Cape Cod Hospital in stable but critical condition.

BOSTON (AP) — The CapeFlyer is returning for another summer.

Keolis, the MBTA's commuter rail operator, says the train will operate round-trip service between South Station and Hyannis on weekends through Labor Day. The CapeFlyer makes stops in Braintree, Brockton, Middleboro, Wareham and Buzzards Bay.

The first trip of the season is scheduled for Friday.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — The number of homeless people on Cape Cod and the Islands has jumped in the past year.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — St. John Paul II High School junior John Greer has achieved that rarest of distinctions on the ACT test — the highest possible composite score of 36.

While not every college-bound student can ace the test — only one out of every thousand students who take the ACT earn a top score — Greer said he is happy to share test-taking tips as testing season gets underway in earnest this spring.

BOSTON (AP) — Federal and state officials are planning public hearings on a proposed offshore wind project to be located 14 miles south of Martha's Vineyard.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Management and Massachusetts' Energy Facilities Siting Board are reviewing the Vineyard Wind project.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — A stinging racial slur, along with a crude phallic symbol, was spray-painted on the African Meeting House on Nantucket last month, generating global news coverage.

Nancy and Paul Thompson, of Hyannis, say they were having lunch at a local restaurant this past winter and were told by another patron, "Black jerks, I hate you."

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Nina Coleman has been manager of Sandy Neck Beach Park for 15 years, witnessing many a storm pummel its fragile shoreline during that time.

But 2018 has been particularly brutal year so far for the popular nearly 5,000-acre barrier beach that juts into Cape Cod Bay from Barnstable's north side.

"The worst by far," Coleman said of the damage a steady procession of ferocious storms has inflicted upon Sandy Neck.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts family is trying to repay a homeless man who helped save a father suffering from a heart attack.

WFXT-TV reports George Dakin was walking in Hyannis on Aug. 7 when he collapsed in front of Champ Homes. The organization provides transitional housing for the homeless.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Authorities have identified the body found along a Cape Cod road over the weekend.

Officials say 41-year-old Jermaine Taylor, of East Falmouth, was found lying alongside a road in Hyannis early Saturday. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police are investigating the death as a homicide. Taylor's cause of death has not been released.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Ferry-goers travelling between Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard will soon be entering a politics-free zone.

The Steamship Authority has voted to prohibit televisions on their vessels from showing national cable news channels from across the political spectrum.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — It's been a year since the Fall River Catholic Diocese took over the homeless shelter in Hyannis, but shelter coordinator Karen Ready can't get over the number of older people who are ending up on the mattresses at St. Joseph's House.

"I'm a little bit alarmed at how many elders are coming to shelter and what we can do," Ready said. "It's a very bitter pill for me to swallow."

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Ann Bodio of Dennis knows she's lucky to be alive after repeatedly going into cardiac arrest at Cape Cod Hospital.

But it was only after she woke up with a new aortic valve that the 71-year-old retired nurse learned of the remarkable chain of events that led to her survival, which involved a rare emergency catheterization — performed during chest compressions in the middle of the night — and technical advice offered over a phone, via FaceTime.

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Intense longing for her daughter led Nancy Bradford, of Harwich, to a medium.

Lauren Bradford was 18 when she died of a heroin overdose in 2010.

"I was so embarrassed and confused," Bradford said. "And I was overwhelmed. I didn't know what to believe. But when I went home, I kept thinking 'How could she know that?'"

Since then, Bradford has found comfort and a connection with her daughter by visiting several mediums.