Vermont

Sixteen and 17-year-olds in one Vermont town will get to vote in the local elections next week. And those who turn 18 by the November general election will be permitted to vote in the state’s presidential primaries on Super Tuesday. That means some voters in Brattleboro could have a hand in choosing major party nominees who are more than 60…...

A 15-year-old boy has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman found dead in a vehicle in a St. Johnsbury, Vermont, parking lot last month. The suspect, who is from Springfield, Massachusetts, will be charged as an adult in Vermont with second-degree murder. He is accused of shooting 38-year-old Christina Chatlos, of Williamsto...

Plunging into a frozen lake and swimming laps may not be everyone’s good time but for winter swimmers who return year after year to a northern Vermont lake near the Canadian border, there’s nothing better. The 10th annual Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival kicked off Friday with the 200-meter (218-yard) freestyle race in a narrow poo...

A skier who was reported missing at Stowe Mountain Resort was found dead in a steep, wooded out-of-bounds area late Tuesday night, police said Wednesday. Brooks Ralph, 27, of Cold Springs, New York, was reported missing around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said. He was last seen at the resort. Search crews found his body at about 11:45 p.m. His body&#8...

The death of a woman found in the woods last year in Washington, Vermont, has been ruled a homicide. Vermont State Police said the state medical examiner’s office recently informed them that the cause of death for Tainairy “Tanya” Velazquez Estrada, 23, of Barre, was ashpyxia due to strangling and the manner of death was homicide....

A 3-year-old fell through ice on Lake Memphremagog in northern Vermont with two adults and another child on a side-by-side recreational vehicle over the weekend and was later hospitalized, Newport Police said Tuesday. By the time police responded Saturday evening, the four were out of the water, and three people ran toward the officers pulling a sl...

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott announced Monday that he has requested a federal major disaster declaration to help communities hit by severe rainfall and flooding in December. Such a declaration would allow municipalities to be reimbursed for 75% of eligible costs, such as debris removal, road and public building repairs, and staff overtime related to cle...

A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to involvement in two separate malware schemes including a cyberattack at the University of Vermont Medical Center in 2020 that temporarily shut down some of its vital services and cost it tens of millions of dollars, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, also known as Vyache...

A resident of Strafford, Vermont, was killed in a house fire Thursday morning, according to Vermont State Police. The fire was reported around 8 a.m. at a house on Rogers Road, NBC affiliate WPTZ reported. Firefighters found the house completely engulfed in flames, state police said. They were alerted that one person was still inside the house but ...

Three people have been arrested on drug charges as police investigate the killing of a woman whose body was found in a container on a river sandbar in northern Vermont, according to court papers. Kayla Wright, 29, of Derby, died of a gunshot wound to the head, Vermont State Police said on Wednesday. Her body was found Tuesday in a…

Vermont State Police are investigating a suspicious death in Pownal, a town with about 3,200 residents in the southwestern part of the state. The investigation began around 3 p.m. Tuesday when police received a report of an altercation in Chickadee Drive. Responding state police troopers found a man dead at the scene. No arrests have been made, and...

A third person has now been arrested in connection with the murder of a tennager in Vermont, according to state police. Isiah Rodriguez, 17, was found dead on the side of the road in Danby, Vermont, on Feb. 3, 2022. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Rodriguez died of gunshot wounds to the chest. Investigators believe it&#8230...

Police in Vermont are looking for a missing 29-year-old woman and have concerns for her welfare. State police say Kayla Wright, of Derby, was last seen in the Troy area in the early morning hours on Friday and she hasn’t had any contact with her family or acquaintances since then. Wright was reported missing on Saturday. She is described......

A Vermont mother wanted to teach her then-14-year-old son a lesson after he came home with electronic cigarettes he stole from a gas station. So she called the police. What happened next that evening in May 2021 is the basis for a lawsuit by the mother alleging that Burlington police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed son, w...

Two people have been arrested in connection with the murder of a teenager in Vermont, according to Vermont State Police. Isiah Rodriguez, 17, was found dead on the side of the road in Danby, Vermont, on Feb. 3, 2022. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Rodriguez died of gunshot wounds to the chest. Investigators believe it stem...

Vermont State Police say a 60-year-old man died while snowshoeing at the Magic Mountain Ski Area in Londonderry on Saturday. State police said they received a call around 6:15 p.m. Saturday for a report of a death that had occurred in the back country of the ski area. Responding troopers found the man and learned that he had been snowshoeing…...