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A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday night in the assault case against Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore after the jury was unable to reach a verdict after more than five hours of deliberation.
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The number of calls to Vermont's child abuse and neglect hotline rose above the pre-pandemic level for the first time last year, according to the annual report from the Vermont Department for Children and Families.
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Vermont State Police Sgt. Joshua Mikkola and trooper Richard Berlandy, who are both assigned to the Derby barracks, shot Brendan Sackal, 30, multiple times Sunday night after Sackal led multiple law enforcement agencies on a pursuit through northern New Hampshire and Vermont. Sackal opened fire on the troopers first, according to Vermont State Police.
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Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver overseeing Burke Mountain Resort, wrote in a recent court filing he’s found a party to serve as an initial bidder on the property and that he hopes to complete the sale later this year.
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Vermont State Police say Gary Larocque, 40, of Brownington shot and killed Gunnar Watson, 27, at his home in Wheelock. No charges will be filed because Larocque killed himself two weeks after the homicide.
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New data from the Vermont Department of Corrections shows a 25% increase in detainees in prisons from five years ago. Officials said it could be due to the pandemic-era backlog of cases.
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A workplace safety complaint filed recently by the Vermont State Employees' Association alleges that staff at the state prison in Springfield are forced to work in excessively hot conditions.
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Border Patrol agents say a woman from China has been arrested at Lake Wallace for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak.
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The settlement covers Greg Bombard's 2018 arrest by a state trooper who said Bombard flipped him the middle finger — and a second, related citation nearly six years later, on Christmas Day.
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Vermont State Police said on Tuesday that a skull found in Cavendish four years ago belongs to Bryan Gomez, a 48-year-old man who disappeared in 2010.