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WOODSTOCK — For the next 18 months or so, Windsor County criminal court cases will be heading back to the future.Back, that is, to criminal cases being heard in the county’s historic Woodstock courthouse — and back again to resorting to video...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — A Cavendish, Vt., man who stole a Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center shuttle van from outside the emergency room and led police on a high-speed chase down Interstate 91 pleaded guilty to a raft of charges stemming from a 2022 crime...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

MERIDEN — A 17-year-old boarding student attending Kimball Union Academy was killed in a motor vehicle crash early Sunday morning in Shrewsbury, Vt., Vermont State Police reported.Macy Piersiak was remembered this week as an outgoing senior with a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A 30-year-old part-time Littleton police officer who promises “pro-active policing” has been elected the new sheriff of Grafton County.Democrat Jill Myers, of Lisbon, defeated Bath Police Chief Todd Matthew Eck, 28,937-23,098,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Town officials acknowledge they need to take better into account public views on law enforcement and improve how they communicate with the community and stakeholders regarding police actions, but argue the sweeping police response to a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — A Dartmouth student and a college employee were arrested by Hanover police after they protested for Palestinian rights by interrupting an appearance of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., on campus Wednesday, the latest campus incident over...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LITTLETON, N.H. — The husband of the Democratic candidate for Grafton County sheriff and three other men face criminal charges in regard to the alleged harassment of a Lisbon, N.H., man in September.James Myers III, of Lisbon, husband of Jill Myers, a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 42-year-old White River Junction man has been charged with sexually assaulting a minor after he was arrested in a raid by Hartford police at his apartment in White River Junction on Friday morning.Joseph “JoJo” Vaillancourt...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

RANDOLPH — A 42-year-old Randolph woman died in a single-vehicle accident on I-89 northbound in Williamstown on Wednesday afternoon, according to Vermont State Police. Beverly Emerson was riding in the front seat of a 1995 Subaru Legacy when the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Woodstock Police Chief Joe Swanson has been placed on administrative leave, the Town of Woodstock said in a news release on Tuesday afternoon.Swanson was placed on leave “as a precaution” following a “report of his alleged involvement in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BURLINGTON — A New Hampshire doctor who ran a chain of addiction treatment clinics in the Twin States, including one in Grantham, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to unlawfully distribute drugs.Dr. Adnan S. Khan, who prosecutors identified...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — The estate of a Cornish Flat man who was fatally shot by a friend’s son when he showed up at their home in Woodstock is suing the mother for financial damages.The civil suit alleges that the mother knew her 45-year-old son had a gun and...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BRADFORD, Vt. — Since Marilyn Rainville took over running the Bliss Village Store and Deli in the summer of 2022, she’s watched as four other small businesses along Bradford’s Main Street have, one by one, closed up shop.The cheese store, a boutique,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

SPRINGFIELD, N.H. — Safety officials are investigating the circumstances involving a 51-year-old man who was found deceased after he had been pinned under a dump bed in the early morning hours last Friday at a lumber mill in Springfield.The man, whose...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LISBON, N.H. — Robert Thomsen was asleep at his home in Lisbon on the evening of Sept. 13, when his wife woke him up to tell him there was some trouble going on outside their house.A group of men had pulled up in a vehicle, gunning the engine,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The Democratic candidate for Grafton County sheriff filed two formal complaints with the state and threatened to sue the county for nearly $400,000 last year after she accused the outgoing sheriff of creating a hostile work environment, making crude...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Grafton County prosecutor was arrested and charged with violating a temporary protective order issued against him, and has been placed on administrative leave from his job.On Tuesday, Michael Schauer, 40, of Piermont, pleaded not...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — A 9-month-old infant is hospitalized in “stable” condition after ingesting fentanyl at a residence in Charlestown and is likely survived because of the quick actions of a Claremont police officer, police said on Friday afternoon.Emergency...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — The two Dartmouth student activists who refused to leave a tent set up on the lawn outside President Sian Leah Beilock’s office last October were arrested by Hanover police that night at the behest of college officials who wanted them cited...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — Robert Tulloch is serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole for his part in the murders of two Dartmouth College professors in 2001.For years, Tulloch, who was 17 years old when he murdered Half Zantop has been challenging...