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Cape lifeguards told people to get out of the water for the second straight day Sunday, as great white shark sightings start to pick up along the shore just in time for the official start of summer. Cape Cod National Seashore lifeguards at Truro’s Head of the Meadow Beach blew their whistles late Sunday morning with the appearance of a shark offshore. “A temporary no-swimming order has been issued by CCNS Lifeguards at Head of the Meadow beach,” the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app alert reads. “Beach-only activities permitted,” the shark alert continues. “This order will expire after one...

Businessman charged with secret taping By EMILY C. DOOLEY STAFF WRITER SANDWICH - Police arrested the owner of a massage parlor Sunday on wiretapping charges after they discovered he had installed video cameras to spy on a woman living next door to the business. Patrick M. Dwyer, 40, of 3 Fuller Drive in Plymouth, was being held at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility. Dwyer is scheduled for arraignment in Barnstable District Court today on six counts of wiretapping, three felony counts of breaking and entering a building in the daytime and one count of possession of marijuana. The alleged victim...