Last Page: prosecutor, side judge retires after four decades
Joel Page, the former Lamoille County state’s attorney and assistant judge hung up his robe Feb. 1, marking 41 years of working day in and day out at the county courthouse in Hyde Park village. Photo...
View ArticlePolice departments in southern Vermont hope to expand their ranks
A state police trooper directs traffic around Valley Street in Springfield on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Photo by Ethan Weinstein/VTDigger. Across the state, dual reports of rising crime and police...
View Article1 dead, 1 injured in second fatal ice-fishing accident this week
An 88-year-old man from East Montpelier died Saturday morning after a side-by-side utility task vehicle plunged through the ice of Lake Champlain near Grand Isle, according to Vermont State Police. A...
View ArticleIce fisherman drowns in Lake Champlain
Grand Isle resident Wayne Alexander, 62, died after falling through the ice in Lake Champlain on Thursday night. Alexander was ice fishing on the lake on Thursday afternoon, and a relative went...
View Article3 Vermont minors have died from fentanyl-related overdoses since 2021
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, has been driving opioid deaths in Vermont for close to a decade. Studies have also shown that, nationwide, the number of child deaths linked to fentanyl is growing...
View ArticleTrooper resigns while under investigation for missing Rolex watch, other...
Giancarlo DiGenova. Photo courtesy of Vermont State Police A state trooper being investigated for allegations that he stole a Rolex watch from evidence storage resigned this week, Vermont State Police...
View ArticleAfter receiving report of off-duty racism and misogyny by Vermont troopers,...
Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Jennifer Morrison. Courtesy of the Department of Public Safety. Following a complaint that a group of state troopers had used racial slurs, misogynistic rhetoric and...
View ArticleIn Slate Ridge case, judge tells Daniel Banyai to remove structures on...
Daniel Banyai, owner of the Slate Ridge paramilitary training facility in West Pawlet, appears for his contempt hearing in Environmental Court in Rutland on Friday, November 4, 2022. Photo by Glenn...
View ArticlePolice agencies respond to apparent hoax threats at Vermont schools
Law enforcement agencies respond to Montpelier High School on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Barre Deputy Police Chief Larry Eastman, who was on scene, said there was a “report of some kind of shooting”...
View ArticleRutland Town looks to hotels to support stretched police force
The Quality Inn motel in Rutland. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger The town of Rutland has come to a financial agreement with the Days Inn, a hotel that provides rooms to unhoused Vermonters during...
View ArticleSuspect in Burlington shooting pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Officers from Burlington and Essex police use a police dog to track a shooting suspect on Riverside Avenue in Burlington. Photo by Patrick Crowley/VTDigger Tovi Mesick, 40, of Jeffersonville, as seen...
View ArticleDespite state support, Vermonters struggle to find housing after prison
Veronica Chicoine outside the building in which she has an apartment in Barre on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger After leaving Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in...
View ArticleCompetency questions delay sentencing for Aita Gurung in meat cleaver murder...
Judge John Pacht said during a hearing Monday that he would order a competency evaluation for Aita Gurung after his defense attorney raised the issue of whether her client understood the court...
View Article1 person hospitalized, 1 arrested in Burlington shooting
Officers from Burlington and Essex police use a police dog to track a shooting suspect on Riverside Avenue in Burlington. Photo by Patrick Crowley/VTDigger Updated Monday, Feb. 6, at 8:51 a.m. A...
View ArticleContractor sues Burlington School District over high school demolition bid
Attorneys for a contractor that lost its bid to demolish Burlington High School argued in court on Friday that the winning bidder is not qualified based on the district’s own criteria. The judge heard...
View ArticleAn ‘unknowing pawn?’: From prison, Bill Stenger claims state ‘covered up’ Jay...
Former Jay Peak CEO Bill Stenger arrives at his sentencing hearing for his role in the EB-5 fraud case in U.S. District Court in Burlington on April 14, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The...
View ArticleVermont is shutting down some prison work programs
The wood shop at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport sits nearly empty on Thursday, Jan. 26. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger For years, incarcerated Vermonters have made furniture,...
View ArticleCourt sides with town of Marshfield in dispute over a political activism camp
Uprise Camp members gather to protest the use of fossil fuels and provoke climate change action. Photo courtesy of Henry Harris Henry Harris says he has operated a youth activism camp on his...
View ArticleManchester man arrested for allegedly assaulting police at the Jan. 6 Capitol...
William Arthur Nichols Jr., circled, was captured on body camera footage on Jan. 6. Photo via federal court records A Manchester man was arrested Wednesday on charges related to his alleged violence...
View ArticleDefense attorney blasts Bennington County state’s attorney as rift goes public
Richard P. Burgoon Jr. accused Bennington County State’s Attorney Erica Marthage, seen here, of “bullying tactics” in a letter sent Monday to Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark. Marthage has...
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