Friday, May 17, 2013
Montpelier — Vermont lawmakers have approved a bill requiring police to release records of their investigations, handing a significant victory to open-government advocates who have long criticized law enforcement for operating with little transparency. The bill, proposed by Gov. Peter Shumlin and backed by the American Civil Liberties …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Perkinsville — A one-story home on Quarry Road was completely destroyed and several pets believed lost yesterday afternoon in a fire that took firefighting crews from 11 towns battling for nearly five hours and into the evening before …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Claremont — Fire officials are labeling a small fire in the boys locker room of the Claremont Middle School yesterday as suspicious. Fire Chief Rick Bergeron said the fire was called in around 11:30. The heat set off the sprinkler system, which put out most of the flames, …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Hanover — A Dartmouth College freshman has been accused of raping a female student inside her dorm room earlier this month, Hanover police said. Parker C. Gilbert, 20, has been charged with four counts of aggravated felony sex …
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Newport — By the time Anthony Jarvis finished serving his prison sentence last September, he had a drug habit, fueled by the ready availability of opiates behind bars. And once he was free, Jarvis quickly turned to selling …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Newport — A Claremont man was sentenced to 3 1/2 years to seven years in New Hampshire State Prison yesterday after pleading guilty in Sullivan County Superior Court to stabbing a man with a box cutter in the Walmart parking lot in January. Eric Sanborn, 25, who was …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Lebanon — A Barnard grandmother pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of endangering her 3-month-old grandson for allegedly leaving him in a car in a West Lebanon parking lot in April. Patricia Dice, 63, is scheduled for an August trial on the misdemeanor charge, which carries a …
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Hanover — Every year, as the busy season approaches, the Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team takes to the classroom and the woods to teach search-and-rescue techniques to new members. “The ‘search season’ is the warmer months, when more …
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Hartford — Police have now identified a different driver at fault in a Route 4 crash in March that killed two people. In a news release yesterday, police said “extensive examination of the physical evidence by the crash reconstruction team and additional interviews,” led them to conclude that …
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Keene, N.H. — The family of a Springfield, Vt., man who died when a revolver he accidentally dropped fired a bullet that struck him in the head has sued the shop where he purchased the weapon and several gun manufacturers, claiming a faulty safety mechanism allowed the discharge. …
By Don's Early Light
