The Vermont House Judiciary Committee has approved a bill requiring GMO food labeling, but the measure isn't expected to pass into law this year, because there isn't enough time to get the bill through the Senate.
A cost-cutting move by the Shumlin administration could save millions next year by changing the way Vermont deals with certain mentally impaired inmates, but critics say offenders will pose a more severe threat to public safety as a result.
Officials are planning to retrieve three freight train cars that plunged into the Passumpsic River in East Barnet Monday night.
