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NEWS ABOUT: Cape Cod

Cape Cod stories: 21 news summaries

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 Great White Sightings 
 Prompt Cape Cod Swim Ban 

For first time, officials tag Atlantic great white sharks

Sep 6, 09 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Several Cape Cod beaches have banned swimming this weekend after four great white sharks were spotted prowling the waters, the Cape Cod Times reports. Shark expert Gregory Skomal and his crew tagged two of them—described as 8 and 10 feet long—with high-tech trackers. It was a rare instance... More »

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Atlantic Ocean • shark • Massachusetts • swimming • Cape Cod • great white shark

(Newser) - Thousands of constituents and admirers turned out this afternoon to honor Ted Kennedy as a motorcade bearing the senator's body from his Cape Cod home to his brother's presidential library wound through the streets of Boston. Some wept, some applauded as both locals and out-of-towners flooded to say goodbye. "... More »

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cancer • Boston • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • death • Cape Cod • senator • brain cancer • US Senate • Hyannis Port

(AP) - Ted Kennedy's body is en route to Boston, where he will lie in repose at his slain brother's presidential library for 2 days of public visitation. The motorcade carrying the senator's body and members of his family departed the family compound on Cape Cod for the 70-mile trip to the... More »

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Congress • Boston • Senate • John F. Kennedy • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • Arlington National Cemetery • funeral • Cape Cod • presidential library • Hyannis Port • Edward Kennedy

 'Trailblazer' 
 Shriver Laid to Rest 

Special Olympian: she was 'Queen of humanity'

Aug 14, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - At today's funeral Mass for Eunice Kennedy Shriver, daughter Maria called her a “trailblazer” who “was scary smart and not afraid to show it,” the Cape Cod Times reports. Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder, Joe Biden, and Arnold Schwarzenegger attended the private service for the Special Olympics founder... More »

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Joe Biden • Arnold Schwarzenegger • obituary • Massachusetts • Oprah Winfrey • mass • Stevie Wonder • Cape Cod • Kennedy family • memorial service • Maria Shriver • Special Olympics • Eunice Shriver

 Mourners Honor 
 Eunice Kennedy Shriver 

Hundreds honor founder of Special Olympics

Aug 13, 09 4:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Several hundred people mourned Eunice Kennedy Shriver at a wake today in Massachusetts, the Cape Cod Times reports. Husband Sargent Shriver, daughter Maria, and son-in-law Arnold Schwarzenegger were joined by family, friends, and others appreciative of Shriver’s advocacy for the disabled through the Special Olympics. "Eunice's life was... More »

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Arnold Schwarzenegger • funeral • Cape Cod • Maria Shriver • wake • Special Olympics • Eunice Shriver

(Newser) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the 88-year-old sister of John F. Kennedy and the founder of the Special Olympics, died at Cape Cod Hospital early today, the Wall Street Journal reports. Shriver had been in critical condition for a week. Inspired by the struggles of her mentally disabled sister Rosemary, Shriver spent... More »

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John F. Kennedy • Ted Kennedy • death • Cape Cod • Special Olympics • women's issues • Eunice Shriver

(Newser) - Eunice Shriver, the 88-year-old sister of Sen. Ted Kennedy, is in intensive care in a Massachusetts hospital, the Cape Cod Times reports. The Special Olympics founder has been in the hospital for a week and is in critical but stable condition. Her family, including daughter Maria Shriver and son-in-law... More »

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Arnold Schwarzenegger • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • Cape Cod • Maria Shriver • hospitalization • Special Olympics • intensive care unit • Eunice Shriver • Sargent Shriver

Seal Feasts at Fish Hatchery After 2-Mile Hike

Cape Cod installation now missing an unspecified amount of trout

Jan 7, 09 12:09 PM CST
(Newser) - A daring young harbor seal found herself in a gastronomic paradise yesterday after breaking into a fish hatchery in Cape Cod, the Boston Globe reports. The team called in to remove the seal estimated it had waddled almost 2 miles over dry land to get to the hatchery, where it... More »

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fish • Cape Cod • seal pups • fishery

 Kennedy Returns to DC Today 

Embattled senator plans to stay until Thanksgiving

Oct 28, 08 11:32 AM CDT
(AP) - Ted Kennedy, who has been recovering from brain cancer and chemotherapy on Cape Cod, will return to his Washington home today. The 76-year-old senator is expected to stay until Thanksgiving before returning to his family's Hyannis Port compound. Kennedy has steadily increased his public activity since his seizure in May,... More »

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Congress • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • Cape Cod • brain cancer • US Senate

 Lost Manatee 
 Dies on 
 Trip Home 

Rescue goes awry an hour from Sea World

Oct 13, 08 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A one-eyed stranded manatee who had been rescued from the cold waters off Cape Cod died just an hour before reaching what was to be his new home in Sea World, Florida. The manatee, dubbed Dennis after turning up in the Massachusetts harbor of East Dennis, died while he was... More »

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Cape Cod • Manatees • Sea World • International Fund for Animal Welfare

Wrong-Way Manatee Heads Home to Fla.

Saved from icy Cape Cod waters, 'Dennis' sets off on truck trip

Oct 12, 08 1:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Animal experts staged a dramatic rescue in Cape Cod yesterday, pulling ashore a juvenile 1,000-pound manatee and hauling it into a moving van bound for Florida, the Cape Cod Times reports. “Things went as well as we could have hoped for,” a rescuer told the Boston Globe,... More »

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Florida • Massachusetts • SeaWorld • Cape Cod • animal rescue groups • Manatees • animal

 Help's on Way for 
 Cape Cod Manatee 

One-eyed giant stranded in chilly waters for four days

Oct 10, 08 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 1,000-pound manatee, with one eye and an injured flipper, has been stranded for four days off the sleepy Cape Cod harbor town of Dennis, and its chances of returning to warmer waters without help appear slim, reports the Cape Cod Times. The US Fish and Wildlife Service will... More »

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US Fish and Wildlife Service • rescue • Cape Cod • Manatees • Sea World • International Fund for Animal Welfare

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 Kennedy 
 Suffers 'Mild 
 Seizure' 

Hospital sends him home after 3 hours to watch prez debate

Sep 26, 08 6:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Edward Kennedy was rushed to a hospital yesterday with a "mild seizure," his office said. But he returned to his Hyannis Port compound to watch the presidential debate after about 3 hours of treatment. A change in medication prompted the seizure, doctors said. The senator was diagnosed... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Cape Cod • brain cancer • ambulance

Cape Cod Shop Hides Extract From Boozers

Thieves target baking product for alcohol content up to 35%

Sep 12, 08 6:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Devious drinkers have compelled at least one Massachusetts shop to put vanilla extract behind the counter, the Cape Cod Times reports. Owners of Stop & Shop in the town of Sandwich recently discovered empty bottles of the baking product stashed around the store. The extract can contain up to... More »

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Massachusetts • alcohol abuse • supermarket • Cape Cod • baking • vanilla extract

Cape Cod Baseball Brawl Ends in Court

Tourist with NY license plates allegedly beaten for being a Yankee fan

Jul 7, 08 5:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Cape Cod man is in police custody after allegedly beating another man with a baseball bat because he believed—mistakenly, it turns out—that the other man was a New York Yankees fan. Robert Correia and his friends noticed New York license plates on a car leaving a fireworks... More »

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New York • assault • Cape Cod • baseball bat • Falmouth, Mass.

Kennedy Back Home in Mass. After Surgery

Dem's focus now on healthcare bill, Obama campaign, son says

Jun 9, 08 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Ted Kennedy returned to his Massachusetts home today, a week after undergoing a chancy surgery to remove part of a malignant brain tumor, WBZ-TV reports. The Democrat's plane landed at a Cape Cod airport around 11:30 this morning, the Boston Globe adds; Kennedy, 76, told reporters it was... More »

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Barack Obama • Senate • United States • Ted Kennedy • Cape Cod • Duke University Medical Center. • brain cancer • Patrick Kennedy

 Lost Lighthouse
 Discovered
 a Coast Away 

Enthusiast tracks down first beacon to employ a female lightkeeper

Jun 4, 08 7:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - A lighthouse that once stood on a Cape Cod beach but was long thought destroyed has been found on a California cliff 3,000 miles away, the Cape Cod Times reports. The cast-iron lighthouse overlooked Wellfleet Harbor until 1925 when it was taken down and, locals thought, dismantled. Instead, an... More »

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Massachusetts • Coast Guard • Cape Cod • lighthouse • Wellfleet Harbor

 'On-Form' Kennedy
 Grabs 2nd Place in Regatta 

Wind back in Kennedy's sails

May 27, 08 4:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ted Kennedy didn't miss the start of the sailing season, despite his recent diagnosis of brain cancer, reports the Boston Herald. The senator made a surprise decision to compete in the last leg of the Figawi regatta off Cape Cod, and guided his schooner into second place. Family and friends... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • sailing • Cape Cod • brain cancer

 Feisty Kennedy Goes Sailing 

From hospital bed to schooner

May 22, 08 6:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just a few hours after leaving the hospital where he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, Ted Kennedy set sail off Cape Cod with his wife and their dogs, the Boston Globe reports. The senator-turned-skipper took his 50-foot schooner for a two-hour voyage on the Nantucket Sound. “It... More »

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cancer • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • sailing • tumor • Cape Cod

New Keller Photo Surfaces

It may be the first image of her with teacher Anne Sullivan

Mar 5, 08 8:20 PM CST
(Newser) - A rare photo of a young Helen Keller accompanied by teacher Anne Sullivan in 1888 has surfaced among a family collection donated to the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The photo, which was tucked away in an album, may be the first taken of the two and the only to... More »

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discoveries • photography • New England • blindness • archive • Cape Cod • deaf people • Helen Keller

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