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UVM student facing charge over alleged racist threats
Annie Stevens, left, UVM vice provost for student affairs, and Lianne Tuomey, chief of the UVM Police Department, answer reporters’ questions Friday. Photo by Morgan True/VTDigger BURLINGTON — A...
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Justices have faith church will get to retain funding from town
Justice Beth Robinson speaks during a Vermont Supreme Court hearing. Pool file photo by April McCullum/Burlington Free Press The Vermont Supreme Court said Friday that the town of Cabot is likely on...
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SCOV Law Blog: Cops in the kitchen
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. State v. Allis, 2017 VT 96 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr Ever have it when you don’t expect to find police in...
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Vermont corrections officer of the year dies in apparent suicide
Corey Beaudet, 41, seen on a fishing trip just days before his death. Courtesy photo The apparent suicide of a corrections officer has prompted an advocacy group to call for improving conditions in...
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Judge OKs $800K more for EB-5 cleanup work
Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in the EB-5 fraud case, speaks at a Statehouse news conference. File photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDigger A federal judge has approved the latest request...
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State’s guardian ad litem program pressured by caseloads
Alicia Connors, coordinator for guardians ad litem in Windsor, Orange and Washington counties, talks with guardian ad litem Kevin Christie, of Hartford, after a family court hearing in Windsor Superior...
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Judge allows Burlington to clear homeless camp
Attorney Jay Diaz, with the ACLU, and Jared Carter, answer questions from reporters on a class action lawsuit they filed on behalf of homeless residents in the city they say are being...
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UPDATED: NH investigating sexual misconduct allegations at Dartmouth
(This story is by Rob Wolfe of the Valley News, in which it first appeared Oct. 31, 2017. This version was updated Oct. 31 at 6:45 p.m. and Nov. 1 at 1:10 p.m.) HANOVER, N.H. — The New Hampshire...
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Arlington murder suspect’s trial set for next summer
BENNINGTON — The murder trial of Timothy Butler in the stabbing death of an 81-year-old Arlington woman is scheduled for August. Judge David Howard approved a trial schedule Friday after a status...
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Man wanted on murder, arson charges after Townshend fire
Vermont State Police investigators sift through debris Wednesday looking for clues into a Friday fire in Townshend. Authorities say two people whose bodies were found had been shot to death. Photo by...
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Lawyer challenging $500,000 judgment for shortchanging client
Robert Parizo with daughters Liza Barron, left, and Ashley Smith, sometime after the 2005 fall that left him paralyzed. He later sued his lawyer over a settlement Parizo was due for a 2010 car crash....
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EB-5 investors pursue lawsuit against People’s United Bank
The Hotel Jay is the signature project of the Jay Peak Resort expansion. The developers used EB-5 immigrant investor money to build the five-story hotel. An investor alleges that the fifth floor was...
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Johnson man accused of sex crimes against minor relatives
Jay Orost is led out of the courtroom Oct. 19 after pleading not guilty to several sexual abuse charges. Photo by Tommy Gardner/News & Citizen (This is a combination of stories by Tommy Gardner...
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Report proposes transitional housing for Windsor prison
The Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor. The original dormitory was built in 1916 by warden Ralph Walker who started a farm run by inmates. Photo by James M. Patterson/Valley News (This...
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End of a long chapter in Windsor as prison closes
Corrections work crew supervisor Dana LaPlante loads a metal detector taken from the gatehouse of the Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor onto a truck Monday. Photo by James M....
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SCOV Law Blog: Public records on private emails
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. Toensing v. The Attorney General of Vermont, 2017 VT 99 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr This decision seems...
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Fatal crash suspect wants trial moved
Rutland County State’s Attorney Rose Kennedy. Rutland Herald photo RUTLAND — The lawyer for a Middletown Springs man charged in a fatal hit-and-run crash is asking a judge to move his trial out of...
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Shrewsbury death ruled suicide
The home where a 32-year-old Shrewsbury woman was found dead. Photo by Alan J. Keays/VTDigger The death of a Shrewsbury woman last month that had been under police investigation has been ruled a...
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Canadian beer maker hopping mad over Rutland brewpub’s moose
Moosehead beer is for sale inside a store less than a mile from the Hop’n Moose brewpub in Rutland. Moosehead is suing Hop’n Moose, alleging trademark infringement. Photo by Alan J. Keays/VTDigger...
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Norwich University denies fault in alleged sexual assault
Lauren Morrissey, left, and her attorney, Jeff Herman, are suing Norwich University. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger Norwich University is denying several key claims in a negligence lawsuit...
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