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SCOV Law Blog: Settlement case returned to trial court for analysis
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by SCOV Law editor Andrew Delaney. Stevens Law Office v. Symetra Assigned Benefits Service Co., 2017 VT 61 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via...
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Judge: New trial in Fell death penalty case may be delayed more than a year
Donald Fell RUTLAND – Accused killer Donald Fell likely won’t face a retrial in his death penalty case for over a year due to the time it will take for an appeal to be decided on a pretrial ruling....
View Article7-year-old dies in Fairfield tractor accident
A man and a child passenger were trapped in a tractor after the vehicle rolled over on Friday afternoon. The 7-year-old died in the accident, which occurred on a farm in Fairfield, according to a press...
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Vermont Attorney General must release records
Attorney General William Sorrell. FIle photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger In a victory for open records advocates, a Washington Superior Court judge has ruled that the Vermont Attorney General’s office...
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Cats and chaos: How a town clerk allegedly stole $1M plus from Coventry
Scott Morley, Coventry Selectboard member. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger Scott Morley climbed a set of fire escape steps to the second story of the Coventry Community Center, slid through a window...
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Senators seek update to Reagan-era digital privacy law
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Photo courtesy of U.S. Senate WASHINGTON — Vermont’s senior senator is backing an effort to update and strengthen the federal law that governs law enforcement access to...
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State probing Maple Leaf drug treatment company for fraud
Assistant Attorney General John Treadwell. Pool file photo by Stefan Hard/The Times Argus BURLINGTON — The attorney general’s Medicaid fraud unit is pursuing an investigation into a drug treatment...
View ArticleBoy dies in Williamstown fire; two relatives hurt
A house fire early Monday in Williamstown has left a 6-year-old boy dead and his mother and grandfather injured. The Williamstown Fire Department responded to a blaze at the Railroad Street residence...
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In wake of Trump speech, police reiterate use-of-force policies
Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo. File photo by Morgan True/VTDigger Two of Vermont’s largest law enforcement agencies joined a chorus of police forces across the country reacting to a speech...
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Windsor prison will close this fall, but inmates’ future uncertain
The Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor. Department of Corrections file photo (This story is by Jordan Cuddemi of the Valley News, in which it first appeared July 31, 2017.) WINDSOR — The...
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Efficiency, access are goals of new ‘electronic courthouse’
A hearing in Washington County Superior Court. File photo by Alan J. Keays/VTDigger Vermont judiciary officials have finalized an information management contract with a vendor that they say should...
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Gas dealers must give legal foes potential ‘smoking gun’ documents
The plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging gasoline price-fixing scored a victory in court recently with a judge ordering the gasoline dealers to turn over additional internal communications. Chittenden...
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Ex-Coventry clerk admits destroying record of town finances
Cynthia Diaz, the former Coventry clerk, treasurer and delinquent tax collector, leaves the courtroom Tuesday in Newport. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger NEWPORT — The embattled former town clerk at...
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Randolph police chief arrested on domestic assault charges
Daniel Brunelle was hired several months ago as Randolph’s police chief after working for the South Burlington Police Department for 19 years. File photo by Mike Donoghue/Courtesy of the Valley News...
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New York murder plot suspect arrested in Burlington
Scott Hunter, 19, was arrested on a drug charge in Burlington. Police say he is wanted in connection with a murder conspiracy in Brooklyn. Burlington police photoBURLINGTON — A Tuesday traffic stop...
View ArticleGregg: Border Patrol checks IDs of bus passengers in White River Junction
(This column by political columnist and news editor John Gregg was published in the Valley News on Aug. 2, 2017.) More than a decade ago, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. Border Patrol began...
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Family skeptical of suicide ruling in woman’s death
A young St. George mother’s death has been ruled a suicide, but the woman’s family is questioning that conclusion. Pamela Price, 24, died July 4 at her home from a gunshot wound to the head. Vermont...
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‘I should have stopped’: Hit-and-run driver sent back to jail
Christopher Sullivan, former city attorney in Rutland, appears in Rutland Superior Court on Thursday for his sentencing in a fatal hit-and-run crash. Pool photo by Robert L. Layman/for the Rutland...
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ACLU sees rights at risk under new court recording rules
A crowd watches proceedings inside the Vermont Supreme Court early this year. New rules would prohibit most members of the public from taking or transmitting pictures and video inside Vermont...
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The Deeper Dig: Returning to Coventry
Coventry Selectboard Chair Mike Marcotte switches out the lock to Cynthia Diaz’s office the day she was removed as town clerk. File photo by Dan Schwartz/VTDigger Cynthia Diaz, the now-former clerk and...
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