Yarmouth

A second person has died following a crash in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, in August, and the 81-year-old driver said to be involved is now facing a second vehicular homicide charge, police announced on Monday. The crash — which happened on Aug. 30 on North Main Street — left 14-year-old John Hughan dead, and his uncle, identified as Cornelius Allen Bottomley, 54,…

A man has now been criminally charged in connection with a crash that killed a teenager in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, last month. 

The teenager killed when an SUV hit a boat trailer he was fixing on a Cape Cod road at the start of Labor Day weekend was identified Monday, and police say the driver who caused the crash has been charged. John Hughan, a 14-year-old from Norwell, was helping his uncle fix the trailer on the side of North Main Street…

A 14-year-old was killed and two other people were hurt when an SUV hit a boat trailer on the side of a road in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Friday, police said. The crash, which took place about 1 p.m. on North Main Street near the intersection with Great Western Road, left a person pinned between the boat and the pickup truck that…

Three Yarmouth, Massachusetts, middle school students were taken to the hospital after they became ill due to something they ate while on the school bus Thursday morning. Michael Bovino, principal of Dennis-Yarmouth Middle School, confirmed that three students were hospitalized “after ingesting something that they ate on the bus.” He said the students have all been connected with their families…

A man charged with killing his parents and two of their friends days after being released from prison in Maine no longer intends to use an insanity defense. Through his lawyer, Joseph Eaton withdrew a plea of “not criminally responsible” because of mental illness but maintained a plea of not guilty in a court filing earlier this month in Sagadahoc…

A truck crashed into a TD Bank in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, causing a chaotic scene.

Local officials are pushing back on the state after a group of migrant families arrived on short notice over the weekend in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. In a letter to Gov. Maura Healey Tuesday, the Select Board urged the state not to place migrants at another possible housing site in town, the Yarmouth Resort motel. Officials wrote that the location has “become…

A Massachusetts man is facing a breaking and entering charge after a woman driving her vehicle on Cape Cod early Monday morning found him hiding in the back seat. Yarmouth police said one of their officers was patrolling near the Route 6 exit ramp just before 1 a.m. Monday when he came across a vehicle he thought was disabled. As…

A man suffered severe injuries in an incident involving fireworks in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, on the Fourth of July. Yarmouth Fire said they responded to a call from 18 Cocheset Path around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and found a 40-year-old man with traumatic injuries to his hand and leg. The fire department said he was transported to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis…

A high school in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts went on lockdown after a report of a student flashing a gun in the cafeteria on Friday morning. The lockdown at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School was put into place immediately after the report. The student was located within minutes and detained during the investigation according to officials. Authorities determined that the student had…

The father of two of the victims of a deadly shooting rampage in Maine said Friday he and his children are recovering from their injuries and grateful for the support they’ve received from the community. The family is also still baffled why such violence befell them while they were driving down the highway. A 34-year-old man confessed last week...

Joseph Eaton is accused of shooting and killing his parents and their friends before shooting three other people on the highway, who he believed were police following him.

Police believe the scenes in the towns of Bowdoin and Yarmouth are connected.