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A push to get rid of nurses trained to examine patients after sexual assaults in favor of virtual examination is drawing heavy criticism.

Treating sexual assault victims is delicate work handled at Cape Cod Hospital by specially trained nurses. But for many victims, that is about to change — despite the objections of nurses, politicians and law enforcement. State Rep. Tim Whelan got a letter from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health saying they are going to replace sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE),…

A state police cruiser was hit by a drunk driver in the early hours Sunday in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The crash happened around 2 a.m. on Route 6 east, state police said. The trooper was in the breakdown lane on the highway when another driver hit his car from behind. Police said ambulances arrived and took the state trooper and the…

A woman and her pet dog have died as the result of a single-house fire in Centerville, Massachusetts, fire officials said Sunday. Fire officials from numerous Cape villages responded to a blaze at a single-story, wood-framed home in Centerville, where smoke was visible from the windows, eaves and flue. The woman, whose name has not been released, was removed from…

Hundreds of workers at two hospitals on Cape Cod will go without pay for a month. Furloughs of 600 staffers at Cape Cod Hospital and Falmouth Hospital, including nurses, nurses’ aides, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, will begin Sunday. “Did not see it coming,” said Shannon Sherman, a registered nurse at Cape Cod Hospital. “Utterly disgusted.” She worries patients could…

Six-hundred workers at two Cape Cod hospitals have been told they will go without pay for at least a month.

Authorities have determined that Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old granddaughter of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, died of an accidental drug overdose. The Chief Medical Examiner’s office concluded in its report that her cause of death was “acute methadone and ethanol toxicity in combination with other prescription medications,” Michael O’Keefe, district attorney for the Cape and Islands, said in...

A new playground in New Bedford, Massachusetts has been opened to honor the life of slain Yarmouth Police Sgt. Sean Gannon, who was killed in the line of duty last year. An official ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Thursday at Sgt. Sean M. Gannon Memorial Playground at Elwyn G. Campbell Elementary School. Gannon grew up across the street from the school.

Two people are in the hospital after they were shocked by a pier on Cape Cod. An 11-year-old boy was shocked when he stepped onto a metal plate on MacMillan Pier in Provincetown Sunday afternoon. The shock sent him into the water, fire officials said.

Five people were hospitalized overnight following a multi-car crash on Cape Cod, according to emergency responders. Seven people were involved in the three-car crash, which happened at about 10 p.m. Tuesday in Osterville, according to the town’s Department of Fire-Rescue and Emergency Services. The crash happened on Route 28 near Old East Osterville Road, authorities said.

Mourners said their final goodbyes Monday to Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy who died last week on Cape Cod at the age of 22. The mass for Kennedy Hill was held at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville Monday morning, four days after she was found unresponsive at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

An early morning fire burned through a home in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts on Sunday.

Funeral arrangements have been announced for Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy.

The death of 22-year-old Saoirse Kennedy Hill from an apparent drug overdose has shocked and saddened the Kennedy family.

A fisherman was rescued off Nantucket early Saturday. The U.S. Coast Guard received a call about a 55-year-old fisherman who was having heart attack-like symptoms around 3 a.m. Saturday.

A woman who drowned in a Wellfleet, Massachusetts pond Sunday has been identified by the Barnstable County District Attorney’s office. Eva Travers, 77, was found unresponsive in Long Pond on Saturday and rushed to a local hospital. She was a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A 77-year-old Cambridge woman who was rushed to the hospital Saturday evening has died, according to the Wellfleet police. Police were called Saturday at 5:12 p.m. about a possible body floating in Long Pond. She had been spotted by two local swimmers, police said.

Police say a teenager has been arrested after stabbing a cab driver Monday on Cape Cod. Police in Barnstable, Massachusetts, responded to Camp Street in Hyannis around 7:30 p.m. A taxi driver called to report that he had been stabbed.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday that it has completed its investigation into a 2017 Cape Cod ferry crash that sent 15 people to the hospital.

A Massachusetts man is being held without bail on charges he fatally stabbed a man Sunday night in Hyannis, according to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office. Nicholas Galanto, 32, was charged with murder during his arraignment Monday in Barnstable District Court. Police said they responded to the Village Green at 10:36 p.m. after receiving a 911 call for...