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Anti-Trump Protesters Sprayed With Snow and Ice By Plow Driver, Police Say

Matthew McDonald

Falmouth police are charging a plow driver with intentionally spraying snow and ice on anti-Trump protesters.

The 31-year-old man gunned his pickup truck and crossed over the center line of the road while dropping the pickup truck's blade to spray snow, water, and ice on the protesters on Falmouth Village Green, according to the Cape Cod Times. He did it again about 10 minutes later from the right side of the road, the newspaper reports.

Cape Town Doesn’t Have To Pay Waterfront Property Owner for Denying House, Court Says
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Cape Town Doesn’t Have To Pay Waterfront Property Owner for Denying House, Court Says

Matthew McDonald

A Cape Cod property owner who can't build a house on a lot she owns because of local wetlands regulations has not suffered a regulatory taking of her property and the town government doesn't have to pay her, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled.

The court overturned a jury verdict awarding property owner Janice Smyth $640,000 – the difference between what an appraiser says the property is worth if it's unbuildable ($60,000) and how much it would be worth if she could build a house on it ($700,000).

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