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‘Disgusting': Ice Cream Shop Owner Says Customers Harassed Teen Employee
A popular Cape Cod ice cream shop that reopened just in time for Mother’s Day weekend was forced to scale back to appointment-only, the owner says, after some customers refused to practice social distancing and harassed a teenage girl working at the company. Polar Cave Ice Cream in Mashpee, Massachusetts, is a Cape Cod classic, but it had been...
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Mourners Bid Farewell to Saoirse Kennedy Hill at Funeral
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.
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VIDEO: Shark Leaps From Water Feet From Group's Boat
A group of adults and kids that was fishing off Orleans Saturday got a big surprise when a great white shark jumped from the water feet from their boat.
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Shark Jumps From Water in Front of Boat Off Cape Cod
A family was fishing off the coast of Cape Cod when a massive great white shark jumped from the water just feet from their boat.
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Revere Man Killed in Cape Cod Shark Attack
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.
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Fake Bloody Legs Found Near Memorial for Fatal Shark Attack Victim
Police in a Cape Cod town are investigating after three fake legs were placed near a memorial for the victim of a fatal shark attack last summer. Wellfleet police told the Cape Cod Times that the fake legs were placed near a memorial stone at the town-owned Newcomb Hollow Beach for Arthur Medici, who died last September when he was...
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Here's Where Great White Sharks Are Being Spotted on Cape Cod This Summer
Already this summer, more than 100 sharks have been spotted off Cape Cod, including 33 in the past week alone. On at least five occasions in the past week, beaches on the Cape have been closed to swimming temporarily due to shark sightings near shore.
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Kevin Spacey Accuser Drops Civil Lawsuit Over Groping Claim
The man accusing Kevin Spacey of groping him at a Nantucket, Massachusetts bar has voluntarily dismissed his civil lawsuit against the “House of Cards” actor. The lawsuit was filed last week and sought damages for alleged emotional injuries and mental distress. The civil complaint voluntarily dismissed “all counts thereof, with prejudice and without costs to any party.”
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Man Sues Kevin Spacey Over Alleged Groping at Nantucket Bar
The man who accused Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting him in a Nantucket bar has filed a civil lawsuit to demand a jury trial in the case.
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Great White Up Close: GoPro Captures Shark Off Cape Cod
A great white shark got up close and personal with a GoPro camera off Cape Cod.
The video camera caught the inquisitive shark swimming off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts.
Footage released by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy during a research trip on June 30 shows the shark circling the GoPro, at one point swimming toward and bumping the camera. -
Man Dies After Shark Attack in Mass.; First for State in 80 Years
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...
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Chatham, Mass., Rejects Spending Money On a Shark Barrier
Voters in a Massachusetts town have narrowly rejected a proposal to spend $100,000 on a shark barrier at a beach where children take swimming lessons. The Cape Cod Times reports that Chatham town meeting voters on Tuesday rejected the article 113-112.
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190 Sea Turtles Found Frozen to Death in Cape Cod Cold Snap
Animal rescue volunteers say close to 190 sea turtles have died of exposure after washing ashore in frigid conditions on Cape Cod. The Cape Cod Times reports that low temperatures and high winds combined to kill most of the 50 turtles that washed up Thursday in Brewster, Orleans and Eastham on the lower part of the peninsula.
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Family of Man Killed in Cape Cod Shark Attack in Mourning, Working to Return Body to Brazil
A mourning father in Brazil took to Facebook to express his grief over the death of his 26-year-old son, who was killed during a shark attack in Cape Cod.
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With Power Restored, Stranded Cruise Ship Takes Off
The U.S. Coast Guard says it is at the scene of a disabled cruise ship in Buzzards Bay on Cape Cod on Friday afternoon.
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Cape Cod Shark Attack Victim Says He Punched Shark in Gills to Escape
The man bitten by a shark off Cape Cod this month said Tuesday he escaped by punching the powerful predator in the gills after it clamped down on his leg.
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Great White Washes Up on Beach Near Where SUNY Professor Was Attacked by Shark
The 61-year-old SUNY professor bitten by a shark while standing in the water just 30 yards off a Cape Cod beach earlier this month has been released from the hospital, a spokesman said Monday, days after a great white shark washed up on the beach near where he had been swimming when he was attacked.
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Woman Walking Dog Killed in Alligator Attack at Hilton Head Resort
An alligator attacked a woman who was walking her dog, pulling her underwater in a lagoon and killing her, authorities in South Carolina said.
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Man Bitten by Shark Off Cape Cod, Suffers ‘Deep Puncture Wounds'
A man suffered “deep puncture wounds” when he was bitten by a shark while standing in the water just 30 yards off shore of a Cape Cod beach on Wednesday afternoon.
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Drone Captures Man's Close Encounter With Great White Shark
A man survived a close encounter with a Great White Shark on Cape Cod over the weekend, without having realized he was in danger until after the fact.