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Green Mountain Lawmakers Pass Plate Reader Restrictions

Friday, May 17, 2013

Montpelier — Vermont lawmakers this week approved a bill to regulate for the first time police use of automatic license plate readers and require law enforcement to dispose of the potentially sensitive information after 18 months. The measure, which Gov. Peter Shumlin told the Valley News he is likely to sign, represented a compromise measure between civil liberties advocates, who worry that plate readers could give police information about innocent …

Ayotte Angers Newtown Kin Over Gun Vote

Friday, May 17, 2013

Concord — Two men who lost relatives in last year’s shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school urged New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte yesterday to change her position on a gun control measure that would expand background checks. Neil Heslin and Gilles Rousseau spoke at a news conference held by advocacy group Granite …

Man Pleads Not Guilty In ’94 Vt. Death of Wife

Friday, May 17, 2013

Brattleboro, Vt. — A suburban New York man released from a life sentence after DNA tests casts doubt on his original conviction for killing his wife in Vermont pleaded not guilty yesterday to a new aggravated murder charge in the same case. Fifty-year-old John Grega entered the plea in response to a new …