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By ALAN J. KEAYS

Vermont’s Department of Public Safety has released audio and video recording of the arrest of Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos on a charge of drunken driving more than a year ago.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A federal judge has ordered a competency hearing for a California man accused of setting a fire at the Burlington office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders a little more than a year ago.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A federal judge has handed down a probationary sentence to a New York woman who served as the head of the union representing U.S. Department of Homeland Security workers in Vermont and New York and who admitted embezzling from that union. 

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A new report provides more details into the fatal shooting of a border patrol agent earlier this year in Coventry, Vt., as authorities consider bringing new charges against Teresa Youngblut, who has been arrested in connection with the incident.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A federal judge in Vermont is weighing whether she has the authority over a case of a Harvard Medical School scientist from Russia who claims she is being wrongly held in custody by federal authorities.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A Vermont judge has sided with VtDigger and ordered the Vermont Department of Public Safety to release state police audio and video recordings of the arrest more than a year ago of Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos on a drunken driving charge.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The federal government is appealing a judge’s ruling ordering the transfer of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University student currently detained in Louisiana at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, to a Vermont facility.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A federal jury has convicted the accused leader of a murder-for-hire plot of all charges brought against him in the 2018 killing in Vermont of a former business partner.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON – A federal prosecutor called Serhat Gumrukcu a manipulative charmer who led a band of men in a plot to kill a business partner in a remote part of Vermont more than seven years ago. 

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A Shelburne, Vt., police sergeant who investigators say had a YouTube video playing in his cruiser when he drove into and killed a cyclist has denied a felony offense, with a judge rejecting a bid by his attorney to toss or reduce the charge.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A Shelburne, Vt., police sergeant had a YouTube video playing on a computer tablet mounted in his cruiser when he struck and killed a cyclist in South Burlington, according to documents filed in support of a felony charge against him.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Vermont authorities have charged 25 Canadian nationals in connection with a nationwide “grandparent scam” that defrauded older Americans out of more than $21 million, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Vermont. 

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Caledonia County Sheriff James Hemond died over the weekend at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the department announced in a statement Sunday.  

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A former Stowe man already charged in connection with the 2023 deaths of two Massachusetts men in Vermont has been indicted on new charges that could carry the possibility of the death penalty if convicted.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON— A Washington state woman arrested last month in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. border patrol agent pleaded not guilty Friday to federal firearms charges.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A Vermont judge has rejected the latest bid by a self-professed white nationalist to toss out charges that he illegally possessed high-capacity firearm magazines in a case that stretches back nearly six years.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot and another person was killed Monday afternoon in the Northeast Kingdom town of Coventry, according to the FBI. A third person was injured and in custody, the federal agency said. 

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The estate of a man killed late last year when he was struck in South Burlington by an on-duty Shelburne police sergeant driving a cruiser has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the town of Shelburne, Vt.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld a decision to terminate a state police sergeant for misconduct, including sexually harassing female troopers.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Vermont’s top federal prosecutor announced Monday he will step down from his post later this month.U.S. Attorney for Vermont Nikolas Kerest said in a press release that his resignation would be effective Jan. 20, the day Republican Donald Trump is...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A former high-ranking employee at Norwich University has filed a lawsuit against the school alleging age and sex discrimination when she sought to work again at the Northfield military institution.June Heston brought the lawsuit earlier this month in...