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“There’s a lot of people in the [State House] building that don’t like to arrest and incarcerate people,” Burditt said. “There’s a lot of people in the building who would just as soon close prisons, because they don’t look at them as being compassionate.”
The bill, among dozens introduced this week, create the Vermont Airspace Safety and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force to evaluate reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena.
North made quite a splash when he wore a green sequined coat into the Vermont State House today.
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The fire could have turned deadly if not for the alarms.
The House Committee on Health Care is set to review immunization recommendations (H.545).
“She’s not going home to live her life because our government murdered her,” Pieciak told a large crowd in front of the federal building on Elwood Avenue.
Police said the threats involved serious harm to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents.
Notable among the many proscribed organizations is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
A second vehicle was unable to stop before striking the downed pole and power lines knocked down by the first vehicle.
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Who investigates the state cops? Internal investigators and the State Police Advisory Commission.
It’s not all good news. Depression is up and excessive drinking remains prevalent.
Alexander’s felony warrant for aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, and criminal threatening stems from taking over a Washington County home in 2025 and threatening residents, authorities said.
Scott’s speech was long on the need for change at the school district level, but did not dwell significantly on potential areas to reduce in-school staffing and curricular costs.
“Any money I don’t spend on myself helps the budget, even if it’s a small piece. We should all do our part in some way.”
Deputies searched for Etheze for several months before he surrendered to authorities on Wednesday
Most of the recent wrong-way driving episodes reported by police occurred at night. Online sources say that the combination of darkness and impairment often are contributing factors.
Brian Pearl, a Grand Isle County resident and father, has been concerned about inadequate public and private school security ever since last August, when a Minnesota person shot through school windows from outside, killing two school children and injuring 18. His solution: install bullet-proof glass, or window shutters that can be deployed at a moment’s notice.
Police say the road rager pointed a gun at another driver.
As reported yesterday by VDC, Galfetti has proposed equal cuts across every state agency in order to give voters zero increase in property taxes while the State of Vermont implements systemic education funding reform.
New bills of interest include transferring federal Medicaid funding from the Agency of Education to the Agency of Human Services.
Organizers need to finalize details about speakers.
Two former prosecutors in the tough federal criminal justice system have been nominated to sit on the Vermont Supreme Court.
Under the terms of the plea deal, Abdihkadir pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and two counts of obstruction of justice.
Galfetti said those costs would be spread evenly across all General Fund budget items, rather than targeting specific programs.
Newport City was awarded nearly $30,000 to explore thermal energy networks that could lower housing and energy costs using existing sewer infrastructure and Lake Memphremagog’s ambient temperatures.
Investigators said Aviles admitted possessing the stolen firearms, which were recovered earlier in December from a local church.
Instead of a school club, the group has formed what it calls a Turning Point USA “activism hub,” which operates independently of Spaulding High School.
“This brazen violation of international law gives a green light to any nation on earth that may wish to attack another country to seize their resources or change their governments.”
If you met everyday Americans in Burlington, St. Johnsbury, or Rutland, and asked about the purpose of military power in making them safer and more secure, you may receive a different and less self-aggrandizing answer than some of their elected representatives.
Venezuela is not among Vermont’s top 10 export nations. Mexico and Canada are the two leading export nations in North America, accounting for 38% of all exports. As for imports, almost certainly Venezuela’s large export to Vermont is illegal drugs, notably cocaine.
Lopez pulled lunged at the chief, police say, then dropped a knife after being shot.
You know, all of us have heard how “Zoram Mamdani’s opponents have called the agenda he campaigned on radical — communistic — and absolutely unachievable. Really? That’s not what we believe.”
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Both suspected burglars were jailed for lack of bail.
Ludlow police shot man at Fox Run Inn.
Wellington joined The Caledonian-Record in 1996 and covered municipal government, courts and public safety, earning a reputation for persistence and fairness.
The lowest price for gasoline in Vermont is $2.59 in Wilmington – at a they-even-wash-your-windows full service station.
About 40% of CVEDC’s annual budget comes from state funding.
Lucas was arrested after troopers found he had an active $100,000 extraditable warrant from Florida for multiple charges including obscene communication using a computer to solicit a child.
The National Weather Service is predicting up to 0.6 inches of ice to accumulate across portions of Vermont, with the highest totals ranging from the Northeast Kingdom to Springfield, in central Vermont, and along the spine of the Green Mountains.
Only when serious injury, death, or some other drastic event occurs does a DUI typically merit news coverage.
One afternoon coming home from work, I had to lay on the horn to back into my own driveway as some chick was tweaking, blocking access to my driveway.
The car was traveling north when it swerved to avoid a tractor-trailer that was changing lanes
High speed. No seatbelts. A young life gone.
The Ryegate resident lived alone.
The new law excludes the private Christian school in Quechee and all religious approved independent schools in Vermont from town tuition funding and other public benefits.
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‘Small time’ crime harming people and their property happened over the holidays.
“As it stands today, Vermont has created a loophole that allows violent offenders to sit in legal limbo for years,” Rodgers said in a statement ahead of the event. “That is not justice for victims, and it’s not public safety.”
Federal Judge Christina Reiss ordered Washington, also known as Marcpose Payne, to be on three years of supervised release conditions once he was discharged from prison to ensure a smooth re-entry into society.
Their nominations have been submitted to the academies, which will make final admissions decisions.
Investigators concluded that while under the influence of narcotics, Arnold left her infant unattended in a bathtub that was filling with water.
Check out the label on your Market 32 shrimp.
Following Way’s arrest, authorities said he managed to escape custody and drive off in a sheriff’s patrol vehicle,
Florida authorities allege Browne faces multiple felony charges, including sexual battery, lewd and lascivious molestation, video voyeurism and possession of child sexual abuse material.
enforcement options have been limited because only individual license holders — not the massage establishments themselves — are currently regulated.
Never think your vote doesn’t matter…the original tally was 87-86, but one ballot – a Yes – was spoiled because it was signed by the voter.
FBI Director Kash Patel said this was an important roundup of dangerous individuals.
Charged with Grand Larceny from Green Mountain Craft Cannabis.
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Our tax dollars were going straight to drug dealers.
The shooting stemmed from a domestic situation involving individuals who all knew one another.
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The incidents occurred at several residences off Greenbush Road, where suspects allegedly searched vehicles for valuables and took items from cars that were left unlocked.
He will lug them one by one to the window, wishing for her early approval, but it will take many trips back and forth and frozen fingers before she relents and reluctantly settles for a Fraser fir.
“The City has determined that supervised consumption isn’t part of the first phase of this project,” BBF wrote.
Police say Botala inappropriately touched a minor female, someone he knew, under the age of 16 in August.
The call about a shooting at an apartment house came in at 1:20 AM.
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Prosecutors allege the funds were diverted to cover personal expenses, including alimony and rent, to finance the purchase of the Eagle Times, and to pay political consultants.
He is forced to break ice and carry heavy buckets along an icy driveway to flush toilets and meet basic needs, all while managing on a fixed income. I reside in his home and have witnessed his unwavering resolve, but this situation is unsustainable and life-threatening in freezing conditions.
Police say a young Northfield woman died Wednesday in an I-89 collision between Richmond and Bolton.
Suspect charged with attempted murder, not murder as originally published.
When officers arrived, they found a 55-year-old male victim who had been struck multiple times in the head with a pick-axe hatchet.
What the Attorney General does not explain is why federal officials might be less than enthusiastic about writing those checks. A few possibilities come to mind.
Pushing back in federal court against Vermont gun control laws.
Ella Cook was also the vice-president of the Brown University College Republicans. So why did this young man – described anyway as a young man by police – shoot and kill Ella Cook? Why did he kill at least one other person, and wound eight others?
You will believe that a car can fly.
Federal court records indicate Lane “engaged in an extended and highly sexualized conversation” with a 13-year-old girl.
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Restaurant owners in Burlington and Barre worry about downtown economic conditions.
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According to Pennsylvania State Police, Robbie John Morgan, 33, a convicted felon and fugitive from South Carolina, had threatened a neighbor with a semi-automatic 40cal pistol.
Burlington has been fighting the escalating drug pipeline with Philadelphia for a number of years.
The Rutland man died after the trailer section disconnected from the truck and struck his oncoming SUV.
Families in the Plainfield–Marshfield region are voicing alarm over repeated sightings of a registered sex offender on local school property, a situation that has prompted residents to launch a petition aimed at state lawmakers.
The event in the Opera House will feature vendors, demonstrations, and a full lineup of speakers and films Friday and Saturday.
A State’s Attorney with an on-duty DUI history and an alleged insensitivity problem should resign, Scott and Democrats agree. But who would take her place?
Kane H. Smart, 44, of South Burlington is the husband to Sally Adams, chief deputy state’s attorney in Chittenden County and works fulltime as an enforcement and litigation attorney with the Agency of Natural Resources in Montpelier.
Dinner, speakers at Dec. 15 event in Colchester.
No students were aboard. The crash was one of 44 accidents reported statewide today.
A Barre transient was found dead in the cold behind a North Main St. business.
Smart is accused of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and luring a child while serving in his coaching role.
What would work? Creating a frequent-flyer-unfriendly cash bail system, similar to the much tougher federal system’s. “Based on the political winds in Vermont, I don’t see that happening,” Illuzzi said.
The letter from the former Director of Intelligence make startling claims about Tren de Aragua and Smartmatic voting machines.
Employees discovered the larceny when they arrived at the store Tuesday morning, December 9, around 8:41 a.m.
The final vote was 75-480 against the petition, thereby opting to keep 81-studentDanville High School open.
