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Former executive pleads guilty to obstructing Purdue Pharma investigation
A pre-pandemic Brattleboro public forum about the threat opioids pose drew a capacity crowd to the town fire station. The opioid pandemic raised tremendous public concern. File photo by Kevin...
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Court hearing about Newport UPS store centers on whether masks work
Clockwise from upper left, Judge Mary Miles Teachout, witness Aimee Stephenson, defendant Andre Desautels and defense attorney Deborah Bucknam appear during at a virtual court hearing Monday. Justin...
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Judge expected to rule soon in UPS store case about mask mandate
Rallygoers support the owner of a closed UPS franchise in Newport last month. Courtesy Newport Dispatch An embattled former UPS franchisee — whose defiance of the state mask mandate has drawn outrage...
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Mother of murder victim tells lawmakers mental competency laws need to change
Darren Pronto, 32, of Pownal is charged with first-degree murder in Bennington on Monday, Jan. 18. Police photo. In January, 26-year-old Emily Hamann was walking along the river path in downtown...
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Law enforcement seeks to ease hate crime prosecutions
Assistant Attorney General David Scherr speaks to the House Judiciary Committee in April 2018. VTDigger photo. Vermont law enforcement officials are calling on the Legislature to make it easier to...
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Judge blasts court system over lack of staff, rushes prisoners’ Covid-19 hearing
Judge Gregory Rainville presides over a video hearing Wednesday in Orleans County Superior Court in Newport. Photo by Alan Keays/VTDigger Judge Gregory Rainville railed Wednesday about the lack of...
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Peter Hall, lone Vermont judge on federal appeals court, dies at 72
Judge Peter Hall, a former U.S. attorney for Vermont, was appointed to the federal appellate court in 2003. Courtesy photo Updated at 5:33 p.m. Judge Peter Hall died early Thursday morning, one week...
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Judge rules against former UPS franchisee, says mask mandate is constitutional
This sign on the door at the UPS Store in Newport explains why employees were not wearing masks during the pandemic. Caledonian Record photo A judge ruled against the owner of a former UPS franchise...
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High court upholds Bourgoin’s five murder convictions in wrong-way crash
Steven Bourgoin arrives for his sentencing hearing in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Bourgoin was convicted in the deaths of five teenagers in a crash on I-89 in...
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Judge denies request to release inmates from Newport prison amid Covid outbreak
Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport is on lockdown after a Covid-19 outbreak resulted in 145 cases among inmates. Photo courtesy Vermont Department of Corrections A Vermont judge has...
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Bill Schubart: When the state takes a child
A group of children in Montpelier. File photo by Jasper Craven/VTDigger Bill Schubart is a retired businessman and active fiction writer, and was a former chair of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the...
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Brattleboro leaders confirm public safety problems as they plan reforms
A Black Lives Matter sign reflects from a storefront window in downtown Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger BRATTLEBORO — Local government leaders are publicly confirming public safety...
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‘Failure to communicate’ led to prison inmate’s suicide, attorney alleges
A lawsuit alleges a troubled inmate hanged himself at Northern State Correctional Facility after prison officials failed to pass along critical information. Courtesy photo The estate of Joshua Bittner...
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House panel seeks to outlaw sexual exploitation of parolees and probationers
The Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Sunday, March 24, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The House Corrections and Institutions Committee is seeking to make it a...
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State considers selling Windsor prison property
The former Windsor prison farm site in an undated photograph, included in a state report. State of Vermont photo Lawmakers are considering selling the former Southeast State Correctional Facility in...
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Defender General calls for mandatory vaccination of corrections officers
Defender General Matt Valerio at the Public Defender’s Office in Rutland on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Nearly 80% of the corrections staff members in Vermont’s prisons...
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Department of Health advisory group calls for vaccination of inmates, but...
A view out a window in the visiting room at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton on Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Updated at 8:40 p.m. A Vermont Department of...
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Congressional delegation wants longer public comment period for border towers
Border Patrol Agent Erik Lavallee, center, speaks to a group of residents and reporters near the site of a proposed surveillance tower Wednesday morning in Derby. Photo by Justin Trombly/VTDigger...
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House OKs bills to clarify police chokehold ban, ease hate crime prosecutions
Multiple signs at a Montpelier protest read, “I can’t breathe,” a common refrain since the death of Eric Garner in a police chokehold in 2014. In video of the incident in Minneapolis last year, George...
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Raymond James battles Jay Peak receiver over millions he ‘desperately’ needs
Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in the EB-5 fraud case, at a Statehouse news conference with Gov Phil Scott on April 13, 2017. Photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDigger Raymond James &...
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