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BURLINGTON — A Cavendish, Vt., man with a lengthy criminal history in Vermont who bolted out of the emergency room at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and drove off with an idling hospital shuttle van that was parked outside pleaded guilty to...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — When a caravan of police vehicles descended early one morning last week upon a dilapidated red brick home behind a leaning, broken fence and overgrown weeds in the yard it did not take long for the public to take notice and assume...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HARTFORD — A Hartford man will be held without bail after police sealed off and issued a shelter-in-place advisory at a residential complex when the man allegedly threatened to shoot officers and burn down his condo building during a domestic incident...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A 57-year-old Vermont man who told police that he “had just run out of gas and needed some,” caused an environmental headache when he used an axe to puncture a truck’s gas tank to drain it so he could refuel a stolen recreational vehicle he...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A Strafford man who set the cabin where he was living ablaze after police failed to respond to his repeated calls of distress is free and received a fully suspended prison sentence as part of plea deal on a reduced arson charge.Edward...

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WEST LEBANON — Police on Monday retrieved the body of a missing Dartmouth College graduate student from the Connecticut River in Windsor, nearly 16 miles downriver from where her e-bike was last seen leaning against a picnic table in a parking lot...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Vermont man who was one of four men — and one of only two still living — involved in a drug dispute and violent robbery attempt in Springfield, Vt., two years ago has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to charges...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — Police retrieved a body they identified as that of a missing Dartmouth College graduate student from the Connecticut River in Windsor on Monday evening.Authorities found the body of Kexin Cai, 26, of West Lebanon, a graduate student in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — The New Hampshire Supreme Court denied a Hanover resident and former Keene State professor’s appeal to overturn his conviction on child pornography charges, holding that evidence in the case supported the trial court’s guilty verdict issued...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The theft was worthy of a Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys mystery: In the dark, early morning hours on a calm November morning in 1983 a pair of agile thieves used ladders and ropes to ascend the rooftop of the train depot in White...

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CONCORD — A Claremont couple has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud, seven months after being indicted on charges of submitting more than $40,000 in false mileage reimbursement for travel to treatment programs.Sarah LaPointe, 29, pleaded guilty in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — Spring is here and the Route 12A shopping plazas will be blooming with new retail businesses.Cold Stone Creamery and Planet Smoothie are in the works to open at Powerhouse Plaza, the latest national chains to stake out space along the...

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NEWPORT — A 21-year-old Claremont woman who cleaned blood stains from a vehicle used to transport a man who was shot and gravely wounded when he attempted to barge into a downtown apartment, has pleaded guilty to obstructing police in their...

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NORTH HAVERHILL — A 29-year-old former Dartmouth College student who assaulted two security guards at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center where he had been admitted for psychiatric care will avoid jail time, providing he continues to get mental health...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Criminal charges against two people who were accused of accosting and robbing a woman at a motel in Hartford last year have been dropped following the death of the alleged victim and a challenge by a defendant’s attorney that...

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MONTPELIER — A Vermont man at the center of complaints about crime and policing in Chelsea who had been held at gunpoint by a Chelsea business owner who accused him of stealing from his auto mechanic shop was released from prison over the...

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LEBANON — A Vershire man has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges stemming from an incident that provoked a lockdown at Lebanon High School and Hanover Street School in March when he allegedly approached the school campus with loaded weapons in his...

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BRADFORD, Vt. — A mainstay Bradford restaurant and anchor of the downtown business scene has been ordered to dish out a total of $290,000 in penalties and damages for running afoul of various federal employment practices.The U.S. Department of Labor...

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NEW LONDON — A former New London financial advisor who plowed his clients retirement savings into a high-risk financial product that went bust has been ordered to repay $4.8 million to his victims, although how much they ultimately recoup and how long...

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BURLINGTON — A 48-year-old Grantham doctor has been indicted on charges that he engaged in illegal drug distribution and health care fraud through a network of treatment clinics he owns in northern New England. The charges link him with another former...