A two-year old driving while intoxicated court case against besieged Addison County State’s Attorney Eva P. Vekos appeared to come to a close Tuesday when she pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge.

Matthew Strong, who owned and operated East Coast Van Builds in Bradford between 2021 and the end of 2024, also has agreed to forfeit at least $477,502 from his fraud, court records show.

Retired Judge Martin A. Maley will be the primary person presiding to help resolve many of the nuisance cases.  He is coming out of semi-retirement to help lead the 90-day pilot project.

Embattled Addison County State’s Attorney Eva P. Vekos reached a tentative agreement Wednesday to end her 20-month legal battle over a driving while intoxicated arrest when she responded to a homicide to help police.

The ruling to deny the government’s request for an ‘en banc’ (full court) review of earlier judicial motions means the legal fight over their arrests will move forward immediately to a standard three-judge panel for a final decision on the core issues.

Teresa C. Youngblut, 21, of Seattle denied the four charges, including gunning down veteran Border Patrol Agent David “Chris” Maland during a traffic stop in the Northeast Kingdom community of Coventry on Jan. 20.

John Chinnici, 39, of Bennington had initially filed the civil rights lawsuit against the town, Police Chief Paul Doucette, and former Detectives Lawrence Cole and Anthony Silvestro for their actions concerning an armed robbery investigation of two convenience store employees as they attempted to make a night deposit in January 2016.

While awaiting the outcome of his court case fighting deportation, Mahdawi is free to travel and speak.

The landmark decision came in a case involving challenges to President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order No. 14160, which sought to redefine American citizenship based on parents’ immigration status. 

Gu, who owned homes in Dorset and Winhall, maintains that all her defense lawyers before, during and after trial, including on appeals were lacking in some way, court records show.  She wants her three criminal convictions overturned and to strike a $107,117 restitution order to the Bank of Bennington, one of the five financial institutions she and a co-defendant targeted in the case.

Unclear if $500 donation was sent to Vergennes charity after no felony charge pursued in bogus claim about ICE agent

The lawsuit claims “The State of Vermont believes it can seize control over the makeup of America’s energy industry,” as if that’s not a good thing.

Woodstock Trustees and manager among defendants

Alissa Butkovich of Colchester was among about 80 people across 8 northern Vermont counties directed to report March 14 for possible jury selection in a criminal case.

It is possible, even likely these officials are unaware of SJP’s alleged participation with Hamas of spreading pro-Hamas propaganda immediately following the attack, according to a March, 2025 lawsuit filed by victims of the attack that killed more than 1,000 Israelis and an estimated 45 Americans.

Nikolas “Kolo” Kerest, the U.S. Attorney for Vermont for the past three years, submitted his resignation Monday effective Jan. 20.

“Had you been across the river in New Hampshire, if you keep committing crime, allegedly, after you’re out on conditions of release, they can just revoke bail, even on misdemeanors,” Kainen reportedly said. “Here, we don’t have the ability to do that, and so we keep letting you go.”

A U.S. law governing vaccination in a public emergency protected the school district, even though the parents explicitly prohibited the vaccination, and even after the student himself said, ‘Dad said no.’

In an effort to calm Jay Wilson, his mother offered him $50,000. The two of them went to the People’s United Bank, where “Jay behaved in a way that was threatening and frightening.”

Lanthier, 53, of Orwell is hitting the ground running. She will undergo some judicial training and is hiring her staff, which includes law clerks and a judicial assistant.

The roll call vote was 55-42 and ended shortly after 6  Wednesday evening.

After its opinion earlier this summer that shielded schools and vaccines from all state law claims for administering an experimental vaccine to a 6-year-old boy against his parents’ express directives, the Vermont Supreme Court Friday rejected plaintiffs’ motion to re-present their constitutional claims to the Court for reconsideration.

The court case stems from a ski accident on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. Richard Grajeda, then 21, was heading down a beginner’s trail at Okemo about 10 a.m. when he fell.

The Vermont Supreme Court has cleared a father of allegations of child abuse regarding his attempt to move his children to CA during 2022 COVID-19 shutdowns.

The decision deals with the expiration of the repose period, which is similar in concept to the limit to how long a person can claim injury from a past event.

Lanthier, a public defender for more than 20 years, oversees a handful of lawyers who represent indigent defendants in Rutland County.

The ongoing legal battle has generated considerable interest because the Foundation and Holdings play a major role in the economy of the Woodstock region.

Five months after the brain matter of a Middlebury highway flagger splattered her clothing, the plaintiff was diagnosed with PTSD.

A leading public defender, a law school professor and a longtime federal prosecutor are in the running to become the next U.S. District Court Judge in Vermont.

“This is beyond bewildering, and beyond frustrating for the men and women of patrol who responded to a bar-closing shooting in the heart of our downtown, for the detectives who spent their weekend investigating and assembling a case for arraignment, and, most of all, for the victim who had a firearm pointed at his chest at close range and was shot in the arm,” BPD Chief Murad said.

Lawyers of Richard Grajeda III, 24, of Westbury, N.Y. attempted to have judge force payment despite jurors denying the claim in court.

Vermont’s diversity chief, the president of VPIRG, and a Planned Parenthood lawyer are on the selection team for the next U.S. federal judge.