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BARNSTABLE — A town employee pleaded not guilty yesterday to allegations he had a large collection of stolen, foreign coins — loot linked to one of notorious crime ringleader George Upton's burglary sprees, according to the police.

FALMOUTH — Local and state officials believe a fire that damaged the parsonage of the Falmouth Baptist Church could be arson.

CENTERVILLE — A faulty connection near Route 6 caused a power failure yesterday morning that left at least 100 families and businesses without electricity from about 6 to 8:40 a.m., NStar spokesman Michael Duran said.

CENTERVILLE — A home at 100 Five Corners Road was heavily damaged by a fire yesterday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire Department said.

Local officials will open fewer emergency shelters during the next big storm if a plan to be unveiled today goes into effect.

NANTUCKET — A 21-year-old island woman faces multiple charges including drunken driving after her vehicle crashed into a house Monday night, police said.

WEST TISBURY — A wayward herd of cows tied up traffic yesterday morning after they got loose from their pasture and began a leisurely stroll down Middle Road, police said. Police were called to the scene to help round up the animals.

EAST DENNIS — Two people were injured in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Route 134 and Hokum Rock Road Monday night, police said.

PROVINCETOWN — A local 24-year-old man has been arrested on a charge of defacing property linked to a rash of graffiti in town, police said.

DENNISPORT — Two people were taken to Cape Cod Hospital with minor injuries after a single-car crash at Sea Street Beach last night, police said.

BUZZARDS BAY — A fire department vehicle went up in flames yesterday morning as it sat parked outside Bourne High School, according to fire officials.

OTIS AIR BASE — An experimental plane made an emergency landing at Otis Air National Guard Base around 4:30 p.m. yesterday, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

Barnstable will alter its hiring practices after controversy flared this week over a building inspector, whose alleged links to a notorious Cape criminal became clearer yesterday.

EAST FALMOUTH — The US Postal Service is offering a reward up to $10,000 for anyone who can help police find those responsible for a break-in at the Waquoit Branch Post Office sometime last weekend.

A Harwich Port man accused of embezzling $5 million from the Natick company where he worked has been sued by a boat building business where he bought a 46-foot yacht with some of the money he allegedly pilfered.

HYANNIS — Two cars collided head-on in heavy rain last night at the intersection of Walton Avenue and Route 28.

A Harwich Port man has been accused of embezzling millions of dollars from the Natick company where he worked for the past four years and is under suspicion of stealing money from the South Dennis church where he volunteered.

HYANNIS — As police leveled another new felony charge against assistant building inspector John "Jackie" LeBoeuf yesterday, questions swirled about how the convicted felon got the job in the first place.

FALMOUTH — Two local men were arrested on drug-dealing charges Wednesday, according to police and court records.

SOUTH YARMOUTH — Residents of a home on Antlers Road were awakened early yesterday morning when someone apparently broke into their home through a bathroom window, police said.

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.

BREWSTER — A potentially explosive device was found in the basement of a Colonial Way residence last night, prompting the evacuation of several residents on the street, police said.

FALMOUTH — The cause of a fire that damaged the exterior of an unoccupied home at 19 Amvets Road early yesterday morning is under investigation, fire officials said.

BOURNE — Several federal, state and local agencies will stage a training exercise today at Otis Air National Guard Base for the Cape Cod Emergency Traffic Plan, which is intended to move a high volume of traffic off the Cape in case of a hurricane...

BOURNE - A nonprofit driving safety group is hosting a series of half-day courses for Cape drivers on Otis Air Base Friday through Sunday.

SOUTH DENNIS — Police investigators are looking into "every possible angle" after the kidnapping and sexual assault of a teenage girl who was taken from her second-floor bedroom early Monday morning as her parents slept nearby.

EDGARTOWN — An East Falmouth man was arraigned yesterday in district court for allegedly driving on a suspended license that had been stripped while he awaited trial next month on a motor vehicle homicide charge, according to police.

John LeBoeuf, the Barnstable assistant building inspector accused of receiving stolen property, and George Upton, a notorious Cape criminal, have known each other at least 20 years.

Jeffrey Windle is not the first person accused of stealing money from a church on Cape Cod, but the case casts light on a national problem of lax accounting and misplaced trust.

A section of Route 6 will be closed - and traffic detoured between Exit 10 and Exit 12 - from 9 p.m. tonight to 5 a.m. tomorrow morning for bridge inspections.

ORLEANS — A roof leak sent water and cleaning solvent into the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School shortly after noon yesterday, causing the middle school to be evacuated for the rest of the school day.

FORESTDALE — Three people were arrested on drug-related charges Wednesday after police raided a home on Artisan Way.

MASHPEE — A 14-year-old boy allegedly pointed an antique rifle at his elementary-school-aged brother as he was exiting a school bus Wednesday afternoon, the police said.

BUZZARDS BAY — A car hit and injured a 78-year-old man yesterday afternoon as he crossed the road at the Belmont Circle Rotary, police and fire officials said.

CAMP EDWARDS — The weather during yesterday's hurricane was beautiful.

ORLEANS — A jury decided yesterday that a former Provincetown Department of Public Works employee was not guilty of criminally harassing the town's public works director, David Guertin.

NORTH FALMOUTH – Falmouth police are still not releasing the name of a construction worker who died yesterday following a house fire in North Falmouth.

HARWICH – Firefighters responded to a basement fire this morning on Queen Anne Road. No one was injured in the blaze, first reported at 6:45 a.m.

A van burst into flames on Race Lane early yesterday morning and injured the driver, according to Barnstable police.

The state ethics commission has dismissed a conflict-of-interest case against a former high-ranking sheriff's official.

A rollover crash on Route 6 Thursday night sent a Marstons Mills woman to the hospital, state police said.