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SCOV Law Blog: Challenging the admissibility of a refusal to take a roadside...
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. State v. Farrow, 2016 VT 30 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr This is a case all about admissibility of standard...
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Bennington daycare workers arrested on charges related to child neglect
Debi Miller and Kristie Clough, of Dooda’s Daycare, were arrested on charges related to child neglect. VSP photo Two employees at a North Bennington daycare center are facing criminal charges over...
View ArticleProtester charged with littering, trespassing
Henry Harris, a protester with the People’s Department of Environmental Justice, has been charged with trespassing and has been fined $500 for littering. Harris was one of 11 protesters who...
View ArticleTransgender man dies after Burlington assault
Amos Beede, 38, died on Monday, a week after he was assaulted at a homeless camp in Burlington, according to the Burlington Police Department. Beede, a transgender male, was hospitalized after the...
View ArticleMan shoots himself in Plainfield
An East Montpelier man shot himself in the yard of Plainfield residence on Sunday, according to the Vermont State Police. The police responded to a call Sunday morning about suicidal statements made by...
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New license law corrects ‘financial injustice,’ governor says
Gov. Peter Shumlin speaks Tuesday in Burlington about a bill he signed to help people restore suspended licenses. Photo by Kelsey Neubauer/VTDigger BURLINGTON — Vermont has become the third state to...
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SEC: Quiros potentially liable for $191.8 million in ‘ill-gotten gains’
U.S. Federal Court South Florida District. Photo by Anne Galloway The Securities and Exchange Commission told a federal court judge on Friday that there is sufficient evidence to show Jay Peak owner...
View ArticleSchool district settlement in sex assault by teacher is $140,000
(Editor’s note: This story is by Jordan Cuddemi, of the Valley News, in which it first appeared June 1, 2016.) BRADFORD — The insurance company for Oxbow Union High School District 30 paid $140,000 to...
View ArticleVermont State Police barracks built but needs permits
Editor’s note: This story by Chris Mays first appeared in the Brattleboro Reformer on June 1, 2016. WESTMINSTER — The Vermont State Police will have to wait just a little while longer before moving...
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Four fugitives wanted in Burlington homicide
BURLINGTON — Police say arrest warrants have been issued for four people wanted in the killing last month of Amos Beede, a well-known member of the city’s homeless community. The suspects, two men and...
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SCOV Law Blog: ‘CHINS’ from the moment of birth
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Andrew Delaney. In re D.S., 2016 VT 38 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr It’s nearly impossible to figure out what the “right”...
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Shumlin signs worker protection bills
Trissy Casanova, a Department of Children and Families social worker, with Gov. Peter Shumlin at a bill signing for new laws meant to protect social workers. Photo by Kelsey Neubauer / VTDigger...
View ArticlePolice: Four accused in killing of transgender man found in San Diego
BURLINGTON — Police say four people wanted in last month’s killing of 38-year-old Amos Beede were arrested Thursday in San Diego, California. The suspects, two men and two women in their 20s, were...
View ArticleVideo of man yelling at skateboarding teens in Manchester goes viral
Editor’s note: This story by Edward Damon first appeared in the Berkshire Eagle on June 3, 2016. MANCHESTER — A video of a man yelling expletives at two teenage skateboarders has been viewed more than...
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Sheriff rescinding contract proposal with Putney
Capt. Robert Lakin of the Windham County Sheriff’s Office discusses with the Putney Select Board on Wednesday why the office is rescinding its proposed contract with the town for fiscal year 2017....
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Vermont’s GMO labeling law — taking on the ‘natural’ claim
Some products contain a voluntary label indicating they were produced without GMOs. Photo by John Herrick/VTDigger Editor’s note: This article is by Robert Audette, of the Brattleboro Reformer, in...
View ArticleVermont Attorney General files charges against two men for logging from state...
Two Cavendish men are facing criminal charges for illegally logging trees from state property. Matthew Wyman, 31, is charged with two counts of unlawful mischief, and Joey Wyman, 34, is charged with...
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Reports from Michigan prison prompt concerns about conditions
A series of disturbances at a private prison in Michigan that houses Vermont inmates prompted investigation by state officials. In late May, the advocacy group Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform...
View ArticleOne hurt in Burlington pipe bomb explosion inside vehicle
BURLINGTON — A teenager accidentally set off a pipe bomb inside a car Wednesday while the vehicle was exiting I-189 in the city’s South End, injuring his hand and leg but not the driver or another...
View ArticleReality TV star sentenced for Social Security and Medicaid fraud
A reality TV star was fined and placed on probation after pleading guilty to accusations of Social Security and Medicaid fraud. Former Barre resident Paul Hebert, 51, now of Gloucester, Massachusetts,...
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