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NEWPORT — The body of a Newport man who died of a suspected drug overdose earlier this month was left under a sheet on the kitchen floor of the home where he died for three days before the occupants of the home dumped him in the woods, where the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Windsor man and former owner of a well-known heating fuel distributor was sentenced to three years and three months in prison to 18 years after pleading guilty to brutally assaulting a person at his residence and business 16...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ORFORD — For 168 years, the Orford Congregational Church has ministered to the needs of the community.Now the Orford community is being asked to minister to the needs of the church.Voters at Town Meeting on Tuesday approved — excluding a solitary...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — Two people who police initially warned were at-large, armed and not to be approached each pleaded not guilty to charges of assault, robbery and unlawful restraint in Windham Superior Court on Monday. They pair is accused of...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BARNARD — For most of Barnard’s Town Meeting, the hour required to dispatch the town’s business breezed by uneventfully as it does almost every year. Familiar names were reelected by voice vote to town boards, positions and commissions and the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

QUECHEE — A snowplow driver in Quechee struck multiple cars earlier this week before fleeing the scene, and now the drivers of the damaged vehicles are asking the public’s help in identifying the rogue operator.“Honestly, it never occurred to me (the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

RANDOLPH — Perry Armstrong’s business in Randolph has been broken into four times since November, but one incident, caught on video cameras, stands out as more brazen than normal.Armstrong, owner of tent rental company Rain or Shine Events, said video...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

SHARON — An Amtrak train passing through Sharon with 76 people aboard struck a flatbed trailer hauling a load of stone destined for Massachusetts, demolishing the flatbed and leaving tons of broken stone on the ground. However, there were no reported...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A 38-year-old Vershire man wanted on warrants in two states is facing new charges after he allegedly persuaded a Vermont state trooper into loosening his handcuffs and begged, “Just let me run to New Hampshire!” before the officer used a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — A nearly century-old West Lebanon business has been sold in a unique arrangement designed to keep future ownership in the hands of its workers.West Lebanon Feed & Supply, which began as a feed store in 1926 before expanding into pet and...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 40-year-old Hartland man pleaded guilty to sharing child pornography online and will serve at least two years in prison, acknowledging in court on Wednesday that he committed “a serious crime” and he is “very ashamed for the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Newport, N.H. man accused of shooting a hotel guest in the face last fall may not be competent to stand trial, a judge overseeing the criminal case in Windsor County Superior Court said Thursday.Nathan-Mikheal Fuller, who has...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Lyme man charged with murdering his cousin at her home in Orford 14 months ago told police that he shot her in the head with handgun because she was “telling other people lies about him and his wife” and similarly told his wife he...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ROYALTON — Internet service in east central Vermont is now being run from south east Maine.A Maine company has taken over ValleyNet’s contract to operate internet service provider ECFiber, which pioneered the municipality-owned model of rural...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — Rescue crews retrieved a man who was stranded on the roof of his vehicle after it plunged into the Connecticut River in Plainfield early Wednesday evening, according to Hanover Fire Department.Hanover Fire Chief Jim Wheatley said...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ROYALTON — A Vermont Superior Court judge has ordered ECFiber operator ValleyNet to be paid a total of nearly $2 million in damages stemming from losses it suffered in the embezzlement of the company’s coffers, although how much of that sum —...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — A West Lebanon provider of in-home care workers is categorically denying that it cheated employees out of overtime pay and forced employees to “kick back” wages recovered by the government, setting up a potential court fight challenging...

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WINDSOR — Windsor-area school authorities have agreed to pay former Windsor School Principal Tiffany Riley a total of $650,000 to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit she brought against her former employer. Riley alleged that she was improperly...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHARLESTOWN — A Charlestown man is being charged with first-degree felony assault in the alleged beating of another man who then spent a combined 21 days in intensive and palliative care before dying, according to court records and interviews with the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

TUNBRIDGE — Who took Tundra? And why? Those and other questions surround the disappearance of a 2½-year-old Siberian husky named Tundra from a residence in Tunbridge last week, with the dog’s owner saying he returned home from an errand to find his...