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Recently, after a Cape Cod Times investigation, over two dozen employees of the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office were discovered to "have used taxpayer funded e-mail accounts and computers to send and receive pornographic photographs and videos". Barnstable County Sheriff James Cummings told the Cape Cod Times that workers involved in the e-mail scandal would be disciplined. He suggested the punishment could be as simple as putting a letter in their file, an action that would prevent each affected employee from getting the annual $1,000 bonus for good behavior. The existence of a $1,000 bonus for good behavior is apparently not considered an extraordinary perk if you work outside of the private sector.

--The 89-yar old woman who hit a 4-year old and killed her in Stoughton on Saturday charged with motor vehicle homicide and had her license revoked by the Registry. [Globe]

Glenn Marshall, Mashpee Wampanoag tribe leader and major force behind bringing casinos to Massachusetts, is leaving his position as chairman of the tribe council. He was caught lying about his military past and of hiding the fact that he was convicted of rape and cocaine possession. Peter Kenney at Cape Cod Today first smelled something funny about Marshall's military service. The Cape Cod Times reported that Marshall did not participate in the battle of Khe...

Gordon Brown, who is taking over for Tony Blair as British prime minister, has apparently visited Cape Cod a few times, which means Senators Kennedy and Kerry are eager to lay claim to the PM's time. He doesn't have a place there, but they're already assuming that Brown will come back. Ted Kennedy really wants Gordon Brown to sit next to him in the Cape Cod cafeteria. He released a statement calling Brown one of...

Mark Flomenbaum might be breathing a little easier tonight. State police figured out what happened to the body of Thomas Brissette.

The body of an MIT student who went missing washed up on Scusset Beach and was discovered on Friday.

--Newton brought out the bomb squad when someone spotted some suspicious backpacks on a fence at Newton North High School. The backpacks were stuffed with newspaper and $1 dollar bills, and they promoted some website called b4class.com. townonline.com has pictures of their bomb-testing robot, which reminds us of Number Five from Short Circuit. Of course, people are thinking "Aqua Teen!" and having Berdvosky/Stevens flashbacks, but at least the Aqua Teen campaign was somewhat creative. Dumping...