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A Hyannis man accused of trying to steal the collection basket from a church Sunday night will have a lot of time to consider his sins.

A teenage girl was able to talk a masked assailant into letting her go early yesterday after he forced her out of bed and sexually assaulted her only yards from her Dennis home as her parents slept, the police said.

Dennis police are investigating a break-in at the home of an elderly woman on Cedar Hill Road in East Dennis Sunday night.

Dennis police are investigating 13 car break-ins that occurred late Saturday night into early Sunday morning in the areas of Chadwick Lane and Pheasant Lane.

A 19-year-old Georgia man will be arraigned today in Barnstable District Court on charges of stealing money from a friend yesterday, the police said.

A 45-year-old Hyannis man was held down by parishioners until police arrived after he allegedly brandished a fake handgun to steal the collection basket at a Main Street church last night, police officials said.

The Hyannis Fire Department closed a small stretch of Lewis Road yesterday morning after a cleaning chemical caused a smoke reaction near a laundry service.

Paramedics took a man in his 40s to Cape Cod Hospital after he cut his fingers using a power saw yesterday afternoon, officials said.

An 18-year-old Marstons Mills woman was taken to Cape Cod Hospital with injuries that were not considered life threatening yesterday after her car hit a telephone pole, a fire official said.

Two young people who went down to the sea in a dinghy to retrieve a ball had to be rescued by the fire department and the harbor master yesterday afternoon, public safety officials said.