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Senate signs off on creation of scaled-back Agency of Public Safety
Public Safety Commissioner Michael Schirling in Montpelier in January 2020. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger A long-running effort to establish a single agency for all of Vermont’s state-level...
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Teen carrying gun near Rivendell Academy stopped by residents; juvenile faces...
Rivendell Academy. Photo via Facebook Editor’s Note: This story by John Lippman first appeared in the Valley News on March 24. Two residents are being hailed for their decisive and calm interdiction...
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Judge rules Forte case to stay open, despite defendant’s death
Leonard Forte’s booking photograph following his arrest in LaBelle, Florida, on Oct. 18, 2021. Photo courtesy of Hendry County Sheriff’s Office The longest-running court case in Vermont history will...
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Joint Assembly votes to keep 6 judges for 6 more years
A Joint Assembly of the Legislature meets in the House of Representatives chamber in 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Six Vermont judges will keep their seats on the bench for six more years....
View ArticleJudge considers life behind bars for Vermont man in overseas murder-for-hire...
BURLINGTON — Prosecutors want to lock Sean Fiore away for the rest of his life for his role in an overseas murder-for-hire plot in which a victim was tortured on video and for producing images of...
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Man sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife declines a chance at...
Amy Fitzgerald, center, and her mother Ellen Zeltserman in an undated family photo. Courtesy David Zeltserman A man who’s been locked up since 1994 for killing his wife has declined a parole hearing...
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Former fertility doctor takes stand, admits using own sperm to impregnate woman
A lawsuit alleges Dr. John Boyd Coates III impregnated a woman with his own semen four decades ago. Photo via Pexels BURLINGTON — An attorney grilled former Vermont fertility doctor John Boyd Coates...
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In Panton farm case, judge orders Vorstevelds to stop runoff, but doesn’t...
This exhibit presented by the Hoppers’ attorneys shows runoff in Lake Champlain near the Hopper and Vorsteveld properties. Photo courtesy of Addison County Superior Court A judge has decided that...
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Corrections boss removes leader of Newport prison, says concerns ‘erode’...
The Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport. Photo courtesy Vermont Department of Corrections The head of the state’s largest prison has been suspended and won’t be coming back to his post....
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Jury awards over $5M in suit against Vermont doctor who used his own sperm to...
The Federal Building in Burlington. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger A federal jury has awarded a Florida woman more than $5 million in damages in a lawsuit against a Vermont fertility doctor she...
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Judge sentences Vermont man to 27 years in murder-for-hire case
Prosecutors had been seeking a life sentence for Sean Fiore, 38, formerly of South Burlington, who pleaded guilty in federal court to paying a Venezuelan woman to torture a man on video. Photo by...
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Superintendent of St. Johnsbury prison to retire
The Northeast Correctional Complex in St. Johnsbury. Vermont Department of Corrections photo The Department of Corrections on Thursday announced two new departures in the second shakeup to Vermont’s...
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Bennington leaders tentatively approve police advisory board, with sharply...
Bennington Selectboard Chair Jeannie Jenkins talks about the town’s forthcoming police advisory review board during the Selectboard meeting on Monday, March 28. Screenshot Bennington town leaders have...
View ArticleVermont State Police suspends trooper after court rules that he abused a woman
A Vermont State Police trooper has been ordered by Windsor Superior family court to stay away from a woman and her child after finding that the trooper abused the woman in February and remains a...
View ArticleFormer Vermont man faces murder charge in years-old case of shaken baby...
Updated at 7:23 p.m. A Tennessee man was arrested Friday on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the 2016 death of his daughter due to complications from an intentional injury she...
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Branding, waterboarding allegations at center of Norwich University rugby...
Norwich University in Northfield on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Police are investigating reports of hazing involving the Norwich University women’s rugby team, including...
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Police probe death of incarcerated person at St. Johnsbury prison
The Northeast Correctional Complex in St. Johnsbury. Vermont Department of Corrections photo Vermont State Police are investigating the apparent suicide Sunday night of a St. Albans man incarcerated...
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Vermont Supreme Court blocks public scrutiny in Hinesburg murder case
The Vermont Supreme Court building. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger The Vermont Supreme Court recently met in secret to hear an appeal in a Chittenden County murder case, a move that has...
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DCF looking to open ‘staff-secure’ juvenile facility in Brattleboro
The Windham County Sheriff’s Office has purchased the former Vermont Yankee headquarters on Old Ferry Road in Brattleboro. There, the state Department for Children and Families plans to lease space to...
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Williston lawyer exploring challenge to Sarah George for Chittenden...
Ted Kenney. Photo via Facebook After more than five years as Chittenden County state’s attorney, Sarah George — a reform-minded prosecutor who has drawn praise and condemnation for her positions on...
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