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Traffic stops in Burlington show persistent racial disparities
Stephanie Seguino makes a presentation Monday to the Burlington City Council. Photo by Morgan True/VTDigger BURLINGTON — Police Department traffic stop data from the last four years show persistent...
View ArticleReality TV dancer charged with sexual assault
A dance instructor is facing charges alleging he sexually assaulted two students. The Vermont State Police say Ernest Phillips, known as “E-Knock,” sexually assaulted two of his students at a Waterbury...
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Updated: Feds charge Quiros and Stenger with ‘Ponzi-like’ scheme
(Editor’s note: This story was significantly expanded and updated April 14 at 6:55 p.m.) Ariel Quiros. File photoThe Securities and Exchange Commission announced federal fraud charges Thursday against...
View ArticlePrisoner walks away from work camp
An inmate is missing from work camp duty in St. Johnsbury. William Blanchard, 26, was part of a crew from the Northeast Correctional Complex doing work in downtown St. Johnsbury on Wednesday. During a...
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Quiros, Stenger accused of 15 state law violations too
Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell speaks Thursday about alleged fraud in a string of development projects in the Northeast Kingdom funded with immigrant investors’ money. Looking on is Gov....
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State: Complaints in 2014 led to tougher look at EB-5 program
Four high-ranking government officials, including Gov. Peter Shumlin and Attorney General William Sorrell, defended the state’s oversight of Vermont’s EB-5 program in the wake of federal allegations...
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Pot amendment would legalize, license growing plants at home
The House Ways and Means Committee debates marijuana legalization Thursday. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger With time ticking down to the end of the session, lawmakers are looking at a new option...
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SCOV Law Blog: Tax troubles
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Andrew Delaney. In re Christena Obregon, Esq., 2016 VT 32 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr I hate doing my taxes. Things I would...
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Leahy says he had no warning of fraud case against ‘friend’ Stenger
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., speaks to the media Friday at the train station in Essex Junction. Photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger A disappointed Sen. Patrick Leahy said Friday he had no regrets about being...
View ArticleFrom addict to attorney: A drug user’s path to redemption
Timothy Fair was arrested in 2004 with 42 grams of cocaine. Since then he's become a criminal defense attorney. How he got from one place to another says a lot about what works and what doesn't in...
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Pot bill with home-grow provision faces final committee hurdle
When House lawmakers come back to Montpelier this week, they’ll return to another new version of the marijuana bill. Late last week, the House Ways and Means Committee approved an amendment offering a...
View ArticleAdministration falls behind on disclosure of public records requests
The log of public records requests that Vermont law requires the administration to keep up to date went more than a year without updating. And a required annual report detailing the same information is...
View ArticleJustices OK lifting of event limits for Burlington’s Waterfront Park
BURLINGTON — The state Supreme Court recently upheld an environmental court ruling removing most limits on the city’s ability to host events at Waterfront Park. In November 2012, Mayor Miro Weinberger...
View ArticleTwo deaths, close call blamed on heroin in a month in Burlington
BURLINGTON — Police reported three heroin-related incidents in the past month, including two overdose deaths. Rup Paudel, 28, of Burlington, died at a Luck Street apartment April 13, according to a...
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Valley News: Civil suits settled in fatal I-89 crash
Robert Dellinger is flanked by his attorneys Lucy Karl and Steve Gordon while his sentence is read in Grafton Superior Court in North Haverhill, N.H., on April 2, 2015. File Photo by Jennifer...
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UPDATED: Quiros asks federal court to lift asset freeze
Ariel Quiros. File Photo by Hilary Niles/VTDigger. Editor’s note: This story was updated at 2:12 p.m. April 20. Ariel Quiros, the man at the center of fraud allegations in the Northeast Kingdom, is...
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Stenger: ‘I didn’t think anything wrong was going on’
Bill Stenger outside the Stateside Hotel at Jay Peak in September 2013. File photo by Hilary Niles/VTDigger Northeast Kingdom developer Bill Stenger denied on Wednesday any wrongdoing in connection...
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In the Kingdom, the Ponzi cleanup crew is on the case
Attorney Michael Goldberg, left, is the court-appointed receiver in the Jay Peak EB-5 fraud case. Jeffrey Schneider is an attorney Goldberg brought in to help him with the case. Photo by Morgan...
View ArticleWinooski fire chief resigns after misconduct allegations
After being placed on administrative leave amid allegations of inappropriate behavior, Winooski Fire Chief David Bergeron resigned Monday. Bergeron, 65, has worked with the Fire Department for 43 years...
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Jody Herring’s lawyer says she’s incompetent to stand trial
Jody Herring is led out of court after her arraignment Aug. 10. File photo by Toby Talbot Jody Herring’s defense attorney says she does not have the mental competence to stand trial on charges that she...
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