St. Albans

A brave group of community members has smashed fundraising goals with weeks left in its effort to raise money for a nonprofit serving at-risk youth in Burlington and St. Albans, Vermont. The Red Hot Chilly Dippers are friends who are taking daily dips into icy Lake Champlain throughout March to raise money and awareness for Spectrum Youth and Family Services….

The “Red Hot Chilly Dippers” take daily swims into Lake Champlain to raise funds for Spectrum Youth and Family Services.

Word has spread swiftly around the small working-class city of St. Albans about looming furloughs at its U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services center, the largest employer in the city that just went through layoffs at its hospital. USCIS has warned that if it doesn’t receive $1.2 billion by Aug. 3, it will be forced to furlough about two-thirds of its…

A former Vermont police officer was in a St. Albans courtroom Monday, pleading not guilty to an assault charge stemming from the way he handled a handcuffed suspect in March. Defense attorney Rebecca Otey entered a not guilty plea on behalf of her client, Jason Lawton, 31, of Cambridge.

A 44-year-old Vermont man was arrested and charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing his roommate early Monday morning, authorities said.

A drone stuck in a tree at a Manchester, New Hampshire park prompted firefighters to make an unusual rescue. Firefighters said a 30-year-old man could have fallen to his death from a 60-feet fall after he climbed a tree at Lafayette Park to retrieve his drone. Crews said that the man had little to no climbing experience but watched self-help...

Two men have been arrested after a SWAT team responded to a disturbance call Thursday night in Massachusetts. Authorities in Methuen received a call around 11:20 p.m. for an assault reported at a rooming house on Broadway, where responding officers confronted two individuals.

Two men have been arrested after a SWAT team responded to a disturbance call Thursday night in Massachusetts. Authorities in Methuen received a call around 11:20 p.m. for an assault reported at a rooming house on Broadway, where responding officers confronted two individuals.

A sap bucket thief has brought a sour note to Vermont’s maple sugaring season. Fred Hopkins tells MyNBC5 that someone took 140 of his sap buckets, a first for him. Hopkins makes award-winning maple syrup at his home in the town of St. Albans and gifts it to friends and family. He says he has since replaced many of the…

Massachusetts State Police say a Maine man struck and killed by his own pickup truck on a highway near Boston may have suffered some kind of medical emergency. Police identified the victim of Sunday afternoon’s accident on Interstate 95 in Canton as 72-year-old Michael Kulas of St. Albans, Maine.

For reasons still under investigation, Massachusetts State Police say a 72-year-old man stopped and exited his 2006 Ford F-150. He was subsequently struck and fatally injured by his truck.

A 30-year-old man was rushed to a hospital via helicopter early Friday following a shooting in Methuen, Massachusetts. Police responded to the shooting sometime before 3:30 a.m. near the area of 170 Broadway, according to officials. There, they encountered the shooting victim.

Maine firefighters are preparing to lay to rest a town fire chief who died after suffering a medical emergency during the funeral of another firefighter. A procession of firetrucks led fallen Oxford Fire Chief Gary Sacco from Maine Medical Center in Portland to a funeral home in Lewiston on Monday. The 63-year-old suffered the emergency and died Sunday as several...

A man was arrested and charged after police say he attempted to force his way into a woman’s car and kidnap her in a grocery store parking lot in Methuen, Massachusetts. Rafael Rosario, 53, of Lawrence, was charged with strangulation, attempted kidnapping, attempted carjacking, and assault and battery after the Friday night incident. Methuen police responded to the Market Basket...

Maine has launched a review of its chief medical examiner and his side consulting business. The Portland Press Herald reports the attorney general’s office confirmed a lawmaker’s complaint triggered the review this week. A mistrial was recently declared when Maine Chief Medical Examiner Mark Flomenbaum changed his opinion about the direction of the shotgun wound in a Windham murder...

One firefighter was injured battling a blaze that engulfed three propane-carrying trucks in Northbridge, Massachusetts. Fire crews received reports of a vehicle fire shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday and responded to a business located at 998 Church Street, authorities said.

Vermont State Police say a northern Vermont police chief and his wife were injured in a crash that killed a 48-year-old man. State police officials say St. Johnsbury Police Chief Tim Page and his wife Colleen Page were driving in Groton Saturday afternoon when 48-year-old Davan Ostrover crossed the center line and collided with Page’s car.

Police in Burlington, Vermont say the death of a 29-year-old man who was critically injured during a boxing match with a friend is a homicide but not criminal.

Police in Maine are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in a pond.

A Vermont health care center has announced it will start giving away free test strips to determine if a drug contains fentanyl.