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Number of Vermont inmates with Covid-19 in Mississippi prison surges to 147
Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, run by CoreCivic. Photo by Alan Keays/VTDigger This story was updated at 9:25 p.m. Corrections officials said Wednesday significantly more Vermont inmates...
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Police ID dead man as Black Lives Matter street painting vandal
The Black Lives Matter street painting in Montpelier, seen on Aug. 6, 2020. Photo by Sawyer Loftus/VTDigger The Montpelier Police Department says a man who died in a car crash in early July is...
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Quiros set to enter guilty pleas Friday in EB-5 fraud case, faces up to 8 years
Ariel Quiros, center, leaves federal court in Burlington after being arraigned on charges pertaining to the EB-5 fraud case on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Jay Peak’s...
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Vermonters call for police reforms in public forum
Tanisha Creary Minter listens to speakers as about 500 people gathered for a protest against racism and police brutality in Waterbury in June. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermonters called for...
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Five Woodside workers suspended for ‘unacceptable’ restraint of youth
Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex. Photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger Five state workers at Vermont’s only juvenile detention center have been put on leave as a child abuse investigation is...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Recent rulings from the Supreme Court
Editor’s note: This is a summary of cases posted Aug. 1 on the SCOV Law Blog by SCOV Law editor Andrew Delaney. I didn’t post an update last week, so there’s some ground to cover here. This week, SCOV...
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Quiros pleas delayed; expects to admit guilt in EB-5 rip-off next week
Gov. Peter Shumlin, Jay Peak CEO Bill Stenger, Ariel Quiros, the owner of Jay Peak, and his son Ary Quiros at a ribbon cutting. File photo by Hilary Niles/VTDigger It will be another week before the...
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Judge fines Bennington camp for violating noise orders after town asks for...
An aerial view of the Everett Mansion at Southern Vermont College in Bennington. Photo by SVC/Wikimedia Commons A Bennington Superior Court judge ruled Friday that Camp Southern Vermont LLC must pay a...
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Corrections commissioner ‘reassured’ after officials visit Mississippi prison
Jim Baker, interim commissioner of the Vermont Department of Corrections, expressed confidence Vermont prisoners in Mississippi were being properly monitored. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger...
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EB-5 fraud trial moved back; Stenger’s lawyers push to grill Quiros
Bill Stenger’s defense attorney Brooks MacArthur, right, proclaims Stenger’s “overwhelming innocence” after Stenger was arraigned on charges pertaining to the EB-5 fraud case in federal court in...
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SCOV tosses no-stalking order against Stowe-based GOP political operative
Stuart Stevens at home in Morristown on Feb. 12, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Vermont Supreme Court has thrown out a no-stalking order against a Stowe-based Republican political...
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How much is your town spending on police? Search our updated database
Black Lives Matter protesters march past a Brattleboro police cruiser. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Last month, amid heightened national scrutiny of police budgets, VTDigger published new data...
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Brattleboro wrestles with specifics of police review
A sign at a recent Black Lives Matter protest in Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger BRATTLEBORO — Local leaders and social justice advocates are closer to agreeing, yet continue to...
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Candidates see oversight potential in the little used position of high bailiff
A crop of new candidates has triggered a discussion about what kind of experience, or lack thereof, one should have to be a high bailiff. From left: Robert Sand, David Silberman, Sam Young and Simon...
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As Bennington forges ahead with bias training, critics wonder if it’s enough
A meeting to review a mission statement for the Bennington Police Department was held last week at the Fire Department to allow for social distancing. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger BENNINGTON — At an...
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Feds seek dismissal of veteran’s suit against VA in misdiagnosis of cancer
Wesley Black testifies before the Vermont Legislature on Feb. 26, 2019. Black has colon cancer after serving with the Army overseas near garbage burn pits. File photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger This...
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Vermont ACLU joins Maine and N.H. in suit over border checkpoints
Border Patrol agents speak with the driver of a car after it was pulled over at a checkpoint on I-89 south in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in September 2019. File photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley News ACLU...
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South Burlington man avoids prison in sex case
Stephen Edwards appears in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington on Jan. 3. Photo by Mike Donoghue/The Other Paper This story by Mike Donoghue was published by the Other Paper on August 6. A South...
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Jay Peak worker accused of embezzling over $125,000 set to enter guilty plea
Jay Peak Resort on Friday, June 7, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A former employee of Jay Peak in northern Vermont is set to plead guilty to federal charges alleging she embezzled more than...
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Quiros admits to federal crimes in EB-5 fraud
Ariel Quiros, center, leaves federal court in Burlington after being arraigned on charges pertaining to the EB-5 fraud case on May 22, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger This story was updated at...
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