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By RAY COUTURE  

SOUTH ROYALTON — The death of Vermont Law School student Thomas Fennell, who was killed last year at a South Royalton railroad crossing when a train struck his vehicle, was on the minds of many community members present at a Thursday hearing with the...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Police and school investigations are ongoing after three Hanover High School students were hospitalized after taking pills that school officials believe they acquired from another student.All three students who were hospitalized reported...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Multiple Upper Valley schools will be closed this week, some of them for multiple days, because of rising numbers of COVID-19 cases among staff and students.Schools in the Orange East Supervisory Union including Thetford Elementary, Bradford...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

SOUTH ROYALTON — A Vermont Law School student was killed Tuesday morning after the SUV he was driving was struck by an Amtrak train south of South Royalton village.Thomas Fennell had driven across the tracks at the rail crossing near South Windsor...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

ROYALTON — The Royalton man charged with a fatal shooting early Tuesday morning is claming self defense.Attorneys for Francis Phelps III say the 28-year-old was protecting himself and his family when he killed his mother’s ex-boyfriend outside of a...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A teenage girl stood at the podium in Windsor Superior Court on Wednesday morning and in a shaky voice recalled the moment she learned a former South Royalton School principal had been secretly recording her at his house.“It’s a...

By TIM CAMERATO and DANIELA VIDAL ALLEE

SOUTH ROYALTON — Flooding from heavy rain and snowmelt today closed several roads across the White River Valley, swamped downtown Quechee and sent the Connecticut River toward flood stage at West Lebanon.The parking lot between the Quechee Post Office...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Royalton Village — Town officials are scrambling to respond to complaints that a municipal bridge is dripping creosote into the White River, causing painful chemical burns to some people who recently were floating down the river in inner tubes.The...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

South Royalton — During the two years Sisyphus Bradford has been enrolled in Vermont Law School, she has aired and otherwise pursued a variety of concerns and grievances about the South Royalton institution, ranging from how it has handled its tight...

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — Emily Perkins has had years to consider what she might say, if given the chance, to the woman she shot and left for dead in a Bethel trailer in 2011.On Wednesday, at her sentencing hearing for the shooting, Perkins was to have...

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — The South Royalton woman convicted of killing a Bethel man and wounding a young woman during a drug-related incident in 2011 accepted some responsibility for her actions in a letter addressed to the judge who will sentence her...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Lebanon — The city police department this week is publicizing 14 arrests made in a recent prostitution sting to discourage the sex trade within Lebanon.Police on Monday sent out a news release that included mug shots and criminal charges against the...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Perkins Found Guilty- White River Junction — After deliberating for more than 10 hours, a jury on Thursday night found Emily Perkins guilty of voluntary manslaughter and attempted second-degree murder in the 2011 shootings of Scott Hill and Emma Jozefiak.Perkins held her...