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Cape Cod Healthcare's financial worries are in danger of affecting its credit rating, which has been given a "negative outlook" by Standard & Poor's, a debt-rating agency.

Mark Raymond won't turn 18 until December, and that's a bit of a frustration for him.

HARWICH — Though late this year, Brent Hemeon can savor his favorite breakfast every morning: a fresh tomato, sliced, with a teeny bit of salt.

SOUTH YARMOUTH — Some ranted. Others urged calm and positivity. A couple became tearful. Many were angry or confused.

The Nantucket man convicted of child pornography after he was caught with video of him raping young girls overseas died this week in federal prison.

WELLFLEET — Private property owners along the Herring River were the most outspoken at a public meeting yesterday about government plans to allow tidal flows to the 1,100-acre estuary to return to levels dating from the early 1900s.

WEST DENNIS — The 34th Cape Cod Lifesaving Competition began yesterday with the loud echo of a bullhorn and eager cheers from the crowd at West Dennis Beach.

MARSTONS MILLS — Barnstable and Yarmouth residents can dispose of old batteries, thermometers and other hazardous household products Aug. 23 at the Barnstable Transfer Station on Flint Street.

MASHPEE — Richard H. Tucker, 70, of Mashpee and formerly of Maynard, died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008, at Falmouth Hospital.

MASHPEE — Steven J. Gavin, of Mashpee, formerly of Boston, died Aug. 11, 2008, after a long and courageous battle with Huntington's disease. He was 46.

HYANNIS — Ruth Johnson Bitzer, 91, of Hyannis, died peacefully on Aug. 12, 2008, at the Essex Pavilion in Hyannis.

ORLEANS — Citing a lack of customer interest, Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank has begun phasing out its credit card product.

NEW BEDFORD — A Gloucester man is facing a homicide by vessel charge in the July 18 collision between his 63-foot motorboat and a man's 35-foot sailboat in Buzzards Bay.

BARNSTABLE — A woman has been cited for causing a rollover crash on Route 6 last night.

BREWSTER — A New York woman was taken to Cape Cod Hospital with minor injuries after a two-car collision on Lower Road near Route 6A late yesterday morning.

BREWSTER — A car struck a 19-year-old jogger at the intersection of Tubman Road and Route 137 last night, a fire department official said.

FALMOUTH — Mashpee police arrested a 20-year-old local man Wednesday who was sought on two counts of statutory rape.