They're itchy, they're scratchy and they're definitely on Cape Cod: Bed bugs have been unwelcome guests at homes, hotels and cottages this summer.

Hurricane Earl didn't deter most tourists from enjoying the Cape's unofficial last weekend of summer, it just delayed them a bit.

A laughing little girl playing with a dog who is biting her ponytail is the Judge's Choice Award winner of the Cape Cod Times CapeCodonline.com Just Beachy Photo Contest.

MASHPEE — The skeleton of a ship lies in Sage Lot Pond, its weathered boards visible only at very low tide.

Future pols beware: In case you missed it, five candidates in the county Assembly of Delegates race will not be on the November ballot.

You may never have heard of the Dorothy Palmer or her 13 sister ships, known collectively as "The Unlucky Fleet."

NEW YORK — Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his ambush of Taylor Swift last year — and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter.

NEW YORK — Sometimes there's no going back.

Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship.

MAKHACHKALA, Russia — A suicide car-bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia's violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.

Cape and Islands residents woke yesterday morning and wondered what didn't hit them.

HARWICH — Police arrested a local man and charged him with drug possession and theft after he allegedly robbed his neighbor early Thursday morning.

WEST BARNSTABLE — A rollover crash on Route 6 last night sent four people to the hospital, including an infant, a fire department official said.

FALMOUTH — Town meeting voters cut educational incentives for police officers in April and now one officer is suing the town to get them back.

HYANNIS — Someone robbed the food pantry run by the Nam Vets Association of the Cape & Islands Thursday night, a pantry official said.

HYANNIS — A man forgot to wear more than his waders when he went out clamming Friday afternoon off Harbor Bluff Road, the police said.

WEST BARNSTABLE – A rollover crash on Route 6 Saturday night sent four people to the hospital, including an infant, a fire department official said.

OUTER CAPE – After being closed for several weeks to protect nesting shorebirds, off-road vehicle trails on Nauset Spit and south of Nauset Beach reopened Saturday.

BOSTON — Boston police have arrested two teens and a 20-year-old man in the slaying of a pizza delivery driver.