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Anti-Black Lives Matter graffiti spurs Windham County protests
Some 250 Putney area residents protest anti-Black Lives Matter graffiti found Wednesday on Route 5. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Anti-Black Lives Matter graffiti found this week on major roads in...
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Police searching for inmate who escaped St. Johnsbury prison by scaling a fence
Shannon Edwards, who police say escaped from the Northeast Correctional Complex in St. Johnsbury. Police photo Authorities are looking for a Vermont inmate who they say escaped the Northeast...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Defendant argues Facebook messages are inadmissible evidence
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Ember S. Tilton. State v. Allcock, 2020 VT 60 Christina Marie Allcock appealed her convictions for aggravated assault on a police officer, simple...
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Scott won’t say yet if state is responsible for Black inmate’s death
Kenneth Johnson died at a prison in Newport after complaining that he could not breath. The Vermont Department of Corrections blames a health care contractor for his death. Vermont State Police photo...
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Investigation: St. J police acted appropriately in BLM protest, except for...
A screenshot from a video of a protest against the killing of George Floyd in St. Johnsbury on June 3. ST. JOHNSBURY — Officers acted within policy during last month’s Black Lives Matter protest,...
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As Vermonters speak out against racism, a ‘spate of hate’ has also emerged
A Black Lives Matter painting on the pavement of Browns Trace in Jericho Center was marked over with tire tracks and paint, photographed on July 9, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A missing flag...
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Demonstrators clash at Montpelier pro-police rally
A Black Lives Matter supporter, left, goes nose-to-nose with a person who attended a rally to support law enforcement on the lawn of the Statehouse in Montpelier on Saturday, July 25, 2020. The rally...
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Captured escapee found near prison, injured from fall from fence
Shannon Edwards. This article was updated at 5:23 p.m. Authorities say it appears an inmate who escaped Friday from the Northeast Correctional Complex in St. Johnsbury never made it very far due to...
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Mill River school district will raise BLM, Pride flags despite controversy
The entrance to Mill River Union High School in Clarendon. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger NORTH CLARENDON — Weeks of debate among Mill River Unified Union School District community members culminated...
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State seeks more time to make ‘cultural change’ at Woodside
Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex. Photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger The state is asking for more time to implement the terms of a settlement reached more than three months ago over...
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Black Burlingtonians arrested at much higher rate than white residents,...
Luhizo Luhizo in custody in a Burlington Police Department cruiser on Oct. 6, 2018. The Burlington Police Department arrests Black people at a rate 3.7 times that of white people, according to a city...
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Hinesburg Selectboard votes to hire new police officer
Hinesburg Police Department. Photo by Anna Watts Anya Kauffman is a reporter with Community News Service, a collaboration with the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling...
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Six inmates test positive for Covid-19 upon returning to Vermont from...
Six inmates tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from the privately run Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Tutwiler, Mississippi. Photo by Alan Keays/VTDigger Editor’s note: This...
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Tax Department warns of possible data breach
The Vermont Department of Taxes had a flaw in its system for three years that could have compromised the Social Security numbers of people who filed a property tax transfer return online — but the...
View ArticleSCOV Law: Engineer appeals a charge of unprofessional conduct
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by SCOV Law editor Andrew Delaney. In re Bombardier, 2018 VT 11 Here’s another blast from the past. This case is about a professional engineer’s...
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Receiver seeks court OK for $3.4M PPP loan for Jay Peak, Burke payrolls
The Timberline Cottages at Jay Peak Resort with Jay Peak and the resort’s tramway in the rear on Friday, June 7, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The man in charge of overseeing Jay Peak and...
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85 Vermont inmates in Mississippi prison test positive for Covid-19
Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, run by CoreCivic. Photo by Alan Keays/VTDigger This story was updated at 7:31 p.m. Early test results have found that 85 Vermont inmates held at a privately...
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Hiring practices, lawsuit, prompt questions over new prison health care provider
Vermont hired a new health care provider for prisoners after the death of Kenneth Johnson. Vermont State Police photo The new health care provider hired by the state to take care of prisoners is...
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‘We should have pressed harder,’ governor says of testing after prison outbreak
Gov. Phil Scott discusses the state’s quarantine requirements for travelers during a press briefing on July 24. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger When Vermont signed a contract nearly two years ago to...
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NEK agency looks to embed social workers with police
Tomasz Jankowski, CEO of Northeast Kingdom Human Services, rides along with a Vermont State Police trooper recently. His nonprofit wants to embed two social workers with police agencies in the...
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