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By ALAN J. KEAYS

The court-appointed receiver who has worked to help Jay Peak Resort and Burke Mountain Resort emerge from a financial scandal has been granted his request for more than $1 million to help cover his latest costs and expenses for himself and others helping him.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Prosecutors are calling on a federal judge to reject a request from attorneys of Teresa Youngblut to delay their decision-making process as they consider whether to bring charges that carry the death penalty in the fatal shooting of a U.S. border patrol agent in Vermont. 

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A state trooper shot and killed a man Monday in Putney, Vt., after reportedly seeing what he believed was a firearm in the man’s hand and after the man ignored police commands, according to the Vermont State Police. 

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A Hyde Park, Vt., man accused of helping conceal the fatal shooting of two Massachusetts men in northern Vermont where their alleged killer faces a possible death sentence has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Attorneys for Teresa Youngblut want more time to present information as they try to convince federal prosecutors not to file charges that carry the death penalty against their client in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. border patrol agent earlier this year in Vermont.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The attorney for a Burlington man sentenced to serve at least 27 years in prison for killing his wife and seriously injuring her mother with a meat cleaver in 2017 argued Thursday that the convictions for murder and attempted murder against him should be thrown out.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The alleged leader of the Zizians, Jack LaSota, already jailed in Maryland on state misdemeanor drug and gun charges, has now been indicted on a federal felony firearms offense.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

RUTLAND — A Vermont man who prosecutors say was behind a hacking operation used to steal personal information from tens of thousands of people has pleaded guilty to a federal criminal charge in Vermont.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A federal judge has ordered a competency hearing for a California man accused of setting a fire at the Burlington office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders a little more than a year ago.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A federal judge has handed down a probationary sentence to a New York woman who served as the head of the union representing U.S. Department of Homeland Security workers in Vermont and New York and who admitted embezzling from that union. 

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Vermont’s Department of Public Safety has released audio and video recording of the arrest of Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos on a charge of drunken driving more than a year ago.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A new report provides more details into the fatal shooting of a border patrol agent earlier this year in Coventry, Vt., as authorities consider bringing new charges against Teresa Youngblut, who has been arrested in connection with the incident.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A federal judge in Vermont is weighing whether she has the authority over a case of a Harvard Medical School scientist from Russia who claims she is being wrongly held in custody by federal authorities.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A Vermont judge has sided with VtDigger and ordered the Vermont Department of Public Safety to release state police audio and video recordings of the arrest more than a year ago of Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos on a drunken driving charge.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The federal government is appealing a judge’s ruling ordering the transfer of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University student currently detained in Louisiana at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, to a Vermont facility.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A federal jury has convicted the accused leader of a murder-for-hire plot of all charges brought against him in the 2018 killing in Vermont of a former business partner.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON – A federal prosecutor called Serhat Gumrukcu a manipulative charmer who led a band of men in a plot to kill a business partner in a remote part of Vermont more than seven years ago. 

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A Shelburne, Vt., police sergeant who investigators say had a YouTube video playing in his cruiser when he drove into and killed a cyclist has denied a felony offense, with a judge rejecting a bid by his attorney to toss or reduce the charge.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A Shelburne, Vt., police sergeant had a YouTube video playing on a computer tablet mounted in his cruiser when he struck and killed a cyclist in South Burlington, according to documents filed in support of a felony charge against him.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Vermont authorities have charged 25 Canadian nationals in connection with a nationwide “grandparent scam” that defrauded older Americans out of more than $21 million, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Vermont. 

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Caledonia County Sheriff James Hemond died over the weekend at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the department announced in a statement Sunday.