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U.S. Navy bomb technicians were flown into Cape Cod this weekend to help dispose of nine live military-grade explosives that a homeowner discovered in his yard, fire officials said. The Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad was earlier called to the home in Wellfleet Saturday afternoon but their X-ray device wasn’t able to scan the unexploded ordnance, Wellfleet fire officials...

Officials in a Cape Cod town have approved the installation of a memorial bench to honor a man killed in a shark attack two years ago. The Wellfleet Select Board recently voted unanimously to install the bench in memory of Arthur Medici, 26, at Newcomb Hollow Beach, the Cape Cod Times reports. Medici, who lived in Revere, was attacked by…

The Wellfleet Select Board recently voted unanimously to install the bench in memory of Arthur Medici at Newcomb Hollow Beach, the Cape Cod Times reported.

Police on Cape Cod are investigating after two “Black Lives Matter” signs were vandalized. Signs were spray-painted last week on West Road and Old Truro Road in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, police announced Monday. Both signs were set up at the edge of the road. The vandalism in each case was discovered the day after it happened, police said. “The Wellfleet Police…

Swimmers were ordered out of the water at several Cape Cod beaches on Thursday morning due to shark sightings. According to the Sharktivity app, Nauset Public Beach in Orleans, Lecount Hollow Beach and Maguire Landing Beach in Wellfleet, Coast Guard Beach in Truro and Eastham and Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro were closed to swimming for an hour…

The Reigels, vacationing on Cape Cod from Pennsylvania, spotted several sharks Saturday about a quarter mile off the coast of Nauset Beach in Eastham.

There were at least two confirmed shark sightings Saturday at the beach in Wellfleet.

A total of five great white sharks were spotted off Massachusetts beaches Sunday.

For the first time ever, Cape Cod beaches are receiving real-time alerts when sharks approach. The new buoy is located off of Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, where a man was killed by a white shark last year. Any time a tagged shark swims by the buoy, beach managers get an alert, triggering a swimming ban for one hour.

A total of five shark sightings occurred in Cape Cod Sunday.

A Cape Cod beach was closed Wednesday for the second day in a row after a shark was spotted near shore. Newcomb Hollow beach in Wellfleet was temporarily closed to swimming on Wednesday afternoon after a shark was spotted just yards off shore.

Two Massachusetts beaches were temporarily closed Tuesday after shark sightings, authorities said. Newcomb Hollow Beach at the Wellfleet-Truro line was closed in the afternoon after Massachusetts State Police said in a tweet that a white shark was spotted by a helicopter “near the swimmers.”

Shark warnings are the new normal around Cape Cod, so local surfers are turning to new technology to safely share the waters with the marine beasts. “They’re everywhere,” surfer Shawn Vecchione said. “One day I counted 20 (sharks) right after I got out of the water.” It’s been getting easier for long-time surfers on the Cape to spot the...

A man boogie boarding off a Cape Cod beach was attacked by a shark on Saturday and died later at a hospital, becoming the state’s first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years. Arthur Medici, 26, of Revere, succumbed to his injuries following the attack in the waters off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet just after noon, Wellfleet Police...

Two people were found dead in a Cape Cod house fire hours after fire officials previously said they believed the home was unoccupied at the time of the fire. Wellfleet fire crews received a call of a possible brush fire in town early Monday, according to Dan Keane, deputy chief of the Eastham Fire Department. A responding firetruck experienced a...

A 2-story home was destroyed following a fire in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Firefighters used a tanker to combat a difficult to reach 3-alarm fire on the Cape on Sunday night, according to officials. The garage fire was reported at approximately 11:30 p.m. at an excavation company on Route 6 in Wellfleet, the town’s fire department said. Firefighters were concerned about the blaze since oil was being contained nearby.

Firefighters battling a garage fire in Wellfleet, Massachusetts required additional sources to combat the blaze.

One firefighter was injured while battling a two-alarm house fire on Cape Cod.