WASHINGTON - US Rep. Patrick Kennedy is blasting the news media as "despicable," accusing it of ignoring the war in Afghanistan even as troops continue to die there.

HONOLULU - Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to...

A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden boards.

FALMOUTH — The U.S. Secret Service will be in town to help the local police with a counterfeit money investigation, a Falmouth police official said yesterday.

In January, Mashpee police scoured their town in search of a 29-year-old man accused of stabbing a 20-year-old woman.

BARNSTABLE — Harbor Master Dan Horn is scheduled to hold a meeting at 5 tonight with slip-holders and others affected by the upcoming construction scheduled at Barnstable Harbor.

HARWICH — Two Cape women were taken to Cape Cod Hospital yesterday afternoon after their vehicles collided head-on, a police spokesman said.

Because of a reporting error, an article on Page A2 of yesterday's Times contained incomplete information regarding a $1 million state loan to boost affordable housing in Falmouth.

A state trooper who lives in Sandwich won't have to sweat a second prosecution on a charge that he improperly stored his department-issued gun.

SOUTH DENNIS — A local woman accidentally dragged through a Route 134 car wash Tuesday remained in stable condition at Cape Cod Hospital yesterday, a hospital spokesman said.

There are pieces of Nomar Garciaparra that we will always remember. The tapping toes. Tugging at the batting gloves. Adjusting the helmet ... nearly all the traits that make up the chapters of the obsessive-compulsive handbook.

FALMOUTH — A Sandwich man is accused of driving drunk for the ninth time.

WEST YARMOUTH — Police investigators yesterday said they plan to look deeper into whether a faulty vehicle or driver error caused a 70-year-old Harwich woman to crash into the side of a West Yarmouth medical building Tuesday afternoon.

FALMOUTH — A selectman is calling for an outside attorney to investigate his fellow board members to determine whether the state's open meeting law was violated.

PROVINCETOWN — The police have identified a man found dead Monday in marshlands on the west side of town, Police Chief Jeff Jaran said yesterday.

CHATHAM — The selectmen are struggling with how to curtail what they say is a concerted effort by a group of citizens to circumvent the public process by broadcasting their messages to voters via television cameras at board meetings.

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DENNIS — The Dennis Democratic Town Committee will host Suzanne Bump, a candidate for state auditor, at 7 p.m. Monday at the Dennis Police Station, 90 Bob Crowell Road.

HYANNIS — The Barnstable Democratic Town Committee is set to hold its annual St. Patrick's Day breakfast Saturday at Tommy Doyle's Irish Pub.