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Authorities say fire in downtown Woodstock ‘purposefully set’
Firefighters battle a blaze engulfing Pi Brick Oven Trattoria, The Vermont Standard, and The Collective in Woodstock on July 16, 2018. Photo by August Frank/Valley News This story by Jordan Cuddemi was...
View ArticleSearchers recover body of St. Albans man from Lake Champlain
Search crews recovered a body believed to be that of a St. Albans man from Lake Champlain near the Rouses Point Bridge. The body, preliminarily identified as that of Andrew Lynch, 42, of St. Albans,...
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Winooski man in custody after I-89 shooting
Vermont State Police caught the alleged shooter after a short pursuit. File photo by Tom Brown/VTDigger A 39-year-old Winooski man is in custody after he allegedly fired a shot from his moving car at...
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Attorneys mum as Sawyer case heads behind closed doors
A sign posted to doors leading into the courtroom at the Rutland Superior court during a hearing on Thursday morning. Photo by Alan Keays/VTDigger RUTLAND – A criminal case that prompted changes to the...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Valid arguments moot if party lacks standing
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Eric Fanning. In re PATH at Stone Summit Inc., 2017 VT 56 Appellants here are a group of neighbors opposed to the placement of a mental health...
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High court rules AOL didn’t violate Vermont man’s rights in child porn case
Vermont Supreme Court is at 111 State St., Montpelier. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger The Vermont Supreme Court rejected a challenge from a Vermont man of his convictions on child pornography and sex...
View ArticlePolice investigate fatal plane crash
One person is dead after a plane crash near a small airport in Island Pond on Saturday. State and federal officials are working to confirm the identity of the plane’s sole occupant, and to identify the...
View ArticlePolice charge juvenile after false reports of an active shooter at fair
Essex police have charged a 15-year-old with disorderly conduct and assault after finding him in possession of an air pistol Sunday evening at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex. Police officers...
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Fresh lawsuit filed over gun law as attorney presses on with another
Ed Cutler of Gun Owners of Vermont testifies in House Judiciary. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger A second gun rights organization is bringing a lawsuit against Vermont over firearm restrictions...
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Police say I-89 shooter fired at a second car
State police say a motorist was involved in at least two shootings on I-89 last week. File photo A 38-year-old Winooski man is facing additional charges after police say he was involved in a second...
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UPDATED: Judge in death penalty case bars public from courtroom
Judge Geoffrey Crawford presides over the Chittenden County Mental Health Court, which provides treatment options instead of jail time for mental ill offenders. RUTLAND — Saying that potentially...
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Vermonters among inmates locked down amid Penn. prison illnesses
Block J at the Camp Hill prison in Pennsylvania is where Vermonters are housed. Photo by Jasper Craven/VTDigger A rash of staff sickness from exposure to “unknown substances” has spurred a lockdown in...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Going once … going twice … sold! Maybe not
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. Bank of America v. O’Kelly, 2018 VT 71 Ever been to an auction? They’re kind of fun, depending on the type of auction. Want some...
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Prosecutors clear cops who wounded unarmed fleeing suspect
Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan, center. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Prosecutors in Vermont have cleared four officers of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting of an unarmed man wanted in a...
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Top court says ‘revenge porn’ law constitutional; defense calls ruling ‘bizarre’
Chief Justice Paul Reiber during a hearing of the Vermont Supreme Court. Pool photo by April McCullum/Burlington Free Press The Vermont Supreme Court says the state’s law against revenge porn is...
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Another Vermont inmate dies at Camp Hill; cause not yet known
The grounds of the Pennsylvania state prison at Camp Hill. Photo by Jasper Craven/VTDigger A Vermont inmate being held out-of-state in a Pennsylvania prison died Saturday, according to officials....
View ArticleGun smuggling caper using bathroom in Vermont library leads to prison term
BURLINGTON — A Canadian man who admitted to smuggling guns into Quebec, including some that had been stashed in the bathroom of a Vermont library straddling the international border, has been sentenced...
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Addiction treatment expansion hits snag in prisons
The Northern State Correctional Facility, the state’s largest prison, has the longest drug addiction screening backlog of all the state’s prison facilities, said Lisa Menard, commissioner of the...
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Norwich town manager convicted in I-89 crash with plow truck
Norwich Town Manager Herbert A. Durfee III BURLINGTON — Norwich Town Manager Herbert A. Durfee III received a 30- to 60-day suspended jail sentence and was ordered to pay $492 in fines and surcharges...
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Government joins VTDigger in objecting to closed hearing in death penalty case
Judge Geoffrey Crawford, right, closed a hearing in Donald Fell case over concerns that “volatile” testimony could taint a potential jury. Photo by Roger Crowley Federal prosecutors have filed a formal...
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