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Richard Barry, a Democratic candidate for Cape and Islands district attorney who has made drug addiction a top campaign issue, was charged with marijuana possession in 1997, but the charge was dismissed.

Six hospitals are designated to handle any cases statewide, while local health workers continue training to prepare for possible Ebola cases.

Faced with a decline in the population of spawning-age striped bass, an interstate fishery commission that regulates fishing along the East Coast has cut landings for next year by 25 percent from this year.

CENTERVILLE — Kevin Howard, credited with transforming the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod during his tenure as president and CEO, is stepping down Nov. 14, the foundation announced Friday.

SOUTH YARMOUTH — Two men who police allege broke into at least two homes Friday were arrested several hours later outside a liquor store on Route 28.

This is the fourth and final installment in a series looking at key issues in the 9th Congressional District race.

SANDWICH — Employees of the NRG Energy Canal Generating Plant have averted a strike by reaching a six-year contract, Dan Hurley, president of Local 369 Utility Workers Union of America, said Friday.

On today's CapeCast: We go deep into the woods of North Truro and locate the extremely hard-to-find solitary grave of Thomas Ridley, believed to have died of smallpox in 1776.

NANTUCKET — A man's body was discovered Thursday morning inside a burning van on Low Beach Road, according to Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe.

NORTH TRURO — An early morning motel fire sent flames shooting skyward and terrified neighbors in a densely packed Beach Point neighborhood Thursday.