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Activists rally against Trump’s separation of asylum-seeking children
Protesters gather across the street from the Department of Homeland Security’s Law Enforcement Support Center in Williston on Friday. Photo by John Young/VTDigger WILLISTON — Dozens of people gathered...
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Receiver presses case against former Canadian owners of Jay Peak
Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in the EB-5 fraud case, speaks at a Statehouse news conference Thursday. Photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDigger The court-appointed receiver for Jay Peak is...
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Expungement Day: ‘I’m not going to be looked at as a criminal’
Windsor County State’s Attorney David Cahill, right, helps Joseph Day of White River Junction fill out paperwork Saturday so Day can have a past misdemeanor marijuana conviction cleared from his...
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20-year-old Winooski man charged with second degree murder in fatal fall
WINOOSKI — A 20-year-old Milton man died Saturday night after falling from a Burlington railroad bridge during a physical altercation with another 20-year-old, reportedly over a woman. Joshua Granger,...
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Drug roundup nets 25 arrests in Washington County
US Attorney for Vermont Christina Nolan is shown here testifying earlier this year about fentanyl before a U.S. Senate subcommittee. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger A week-long drug roundup in...
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Prosecutor seeks 25 years to life for driver who fled crash that killed farmer
Thomas Velde. Photo courtesy Vermont State Police RUTLAND – A prosecutor is asking a judge to hand down a 25-years-to-life sentence to a man who pleaded guilty in a hit-and-run crash that killed...
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Ex-city attorney challenges fatal hit-and-run ruling
Christopher Sullivan, former Rutland city attorney, is shown at his sentencing in a fatal hit-and-run crash. Pool file photo by Robert L. Layman/for the Rutland Herald RUTLAND — The long-running case...
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Colson probe at standstill pending tests
Austin Colson Editor’s note: This story by Jordan Cuddemi was published by the Valley News on June 13. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The homicide investigation into the fatal shooting of Austin Colson is in a...
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UPDATED: Man indicted on charge of threatening to kill Sanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at center, stands outside the Statehouse in Montpelier during the Vermont March for Our Lives rally on March 24. File photo by Kelsey Neubauer/VTDigger This story was...
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Harwood Union High School student cited for crossbow threats
Harwood Union High School students were among dozens of students who pressed legislators to tighten gun laws earlier this year. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Police have cited a Harwood Union...
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Sawyer case back in court, minus the drama and the defendant
Jack Sawyer, of Poultney, talks with his defense attorneys Marshall Pahl, center, and Kelly Green, right, in Rutland criminal court during his bail review hearing. (Robert Layman / Staff Photo) RUTLAND...
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Infant strangled; mother and boyfriend give conflicting statements
Karsen Rickert in a photograph posted to Abigail Wood’s Facebook account. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Vermont State Police say the death earlier this year of an 11-month-old boy from Ludlow has been ruled a...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Court avoids free speech issue on appeal
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Charlie Buttrey. State v. Schenk, 2018 VT 45 Writing for the majority in the 2012 case United States v. Alvarez, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote...
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Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo injured in bike crash
Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo was injured in a single bicycle crash in the Adirondacks on Saturday. Del Pozo...
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Traffic stop data still shows racial disparity, but gap is closing
Vermont State Police command staff from across the state attend a report presentation in 2016. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger SOUTH ROYALTON – The latest figures are in from Vermont State Police...
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Enforcement questions loom in Vermont as pot legalization nears
Vermont State Police Lt. John Flannigan, left, and Capt. James Whitcomb explain operational changes under the state’s new marijuana law. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger WATERBURY – Vermont State...
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Discovery ongoing, database built for Townshend double homicide case
Justin Orwat of Springfield, Massachusetts, appears in Windham Superior Court, Criminal Division with his lawyer, Dan Sedon, for a status conference hearing in December 2017. File photo by Kristopher...
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Man linked to Colson case pleads not guilty to unrelated fraud charge
Richard Whitcomb, of Hartford, left, arrives in Windsor Superior Court with his wife Sara Whitcomb, right, and attorney Bradley Stetler, middle, to plead not guilty to a charge of home improvement...
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Officer cleared in probe into misuse of sick days and on-duty workouts
Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George addresses the media during a news conference last year. File photo by Cory Dawson/VTDigger A former Williston police officer was cleared on Wednesday...
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Father who implicated son in fatal Northfield fire gets jail time
Richard Hoisington was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison. Police photo BURLINGTON — A 70-year-old father who gave a statement to authorities implicating his son in a fatal blaze in...
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