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Two former New Hampshire college student-athletes were the victims of a murder-suicide in Miami, with the suspect shooting the women before turning the gun on himself. Meghan Moore, 25, of Centerville, Mass. and her roommate, 23-year-old Sidney Capolino of New York, were both found dead in their Miami apartment on Saturday night. Miami-Dade police say they were both shot by…

The man accused of shooting at officers during a SWAT standoff on Cape Cod appeared in court Thursday, and police say he’s a violent criminal who they’ve dealt with before. Justin Moreira, 30, is facing two dozen charges, including nine counts of attempted murder. Barnstable police said they received a call just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, saying Moreira was allegedly...

A man who was barricaded in a home in the Hyannis section of Barnstable, Massachusetts, has a history of alleged threatening behavior. Justin Moreira, 30, was arrested after an hourslong standoff at a home on St. Francis Circle Wednesday morning, which led to evacuations and a shelter-in-place order for Barnstable schools, authorities say. Back in 2022, Moreira was arrested after…

An 80-year-old Cape Cod school bus driver is accused of sexually assaulting one of his student riders. Jeffrey Hyland is charged with aggravated indecent assault and assault and reckless endangerment of a child after an incident in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, according to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors allege that Hyland, a West Yarmouth resident, assaulted...

It’s Labor Day weekend, and the unofficial end of a summer that was atypical with all the rainfall. On Cape Cod, where businesses rely on tourist dollars, the weather has not been ideal. Friday got the holiday weekend off to a sunny start. “Unfortunately, this year has been a little slow,” said Sherwayne Sharpe, a cook at Fresh Ketch...

The unresponsive driver, a 39-year-old Centerville man, was pronounced dead, police said. His name has not been released.

A man was killed in a crash on Tuesday in the Centerville village of Barnstable, Massachusetts, which involved three vehicles, including a public transit bus, according to police. The Barnstable Police Department said that its officers were called to Old Stage Road near Carleton Lane shortly before 5 p.m. for the crash. One of the drivers was not breathing, and…

A teenager has been arrested in a shooting this weekend on Cape Cod, and authorities say he was also responsible for firing shots at people in a parked car earlier this year. Police say a male victim was shot in the leg around 4:30 p.m. Sunday in Barnstable, Massachusetts, near the intersection of Main Street and High School Road. The…

The video shows a man use racial slurs against a Black man, threaten to kill him and others and step on his foot; Millyan Phillips said, “And then after that he told me he was going to shoot me in the back of the head with shotgun”

The owner of a popular Cape Cod bar and restaurant is being investigated after video of a disturbing confrontation surfaced. Barnstable police and the Cape & Islands District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday confirmed the investigation into the owner of Trader Ed’s over what they described in a news release as “a matter widely reported by media outlets and on...

Authorities arrested two men after they allegedly fired BB guns at a police cruiser in Barnstable, Massachusetts on Saturday night. Police say the men surrounded an unmarked police vehicle with their cars and fired at the driver’s side door and window of the car on Main Street in Hyannis. The vehicle sustained damage but the officer did not sustain...