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CHATHAM, Mass. - A weakening but still dangerous Hurricane Earl steamed toward the gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages of Cape Cod on Friday, disrupting people's vacations on the unofficial final weekend of the short New England summer.

BUXTON, N.C. - Hurricane Earl sideswiped North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday, flooding the vacation islands but causing no injuries and only modest damage, then took aim at New England as a weaker but still dangerous storm.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. - A man canoeing in the ocean waters off Massachusetts has died after the vessel came in contact with one or more whales and capsized.