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Hoping to sway lawmakers, two of the state's most famous residents and one of its former governors joined groups opposed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in announcing a push for Town Meeting Day votes on whether the plant should keep operating past 2012.
What possesses a man to steal his ex-employer's bus, take it for a three-state joy ride and then post a video of the lark on YouTube?
A former U.S. ambassador who served as a private advisor to Kurdish leaders in Iraq defended his financial stake in oil fields in the country's north, insisting Saturday there was no conflict of interest.
Three years ago, Rose Loving got the visit every GI's family fears.
When a fire destroyed the beloved, centuries-old Putney General Store 18 months ago, some people here cried.
A New Hampshire man charged in the murder of a developmentally disabled Wal-Mart cashier who'd been flirting with his girlfriend pleaded guilty Monday to lesser charges, admitting he helped orchestrate the attack from his jail cell.
Vermont's capital city is coming clean about a 5-year-old accounting mistake that cost it hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"The Grapes of Wrath" was labeled vulgar and pornographic, a dangerous depiction of class hatred. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was removed from school classrooms and library shelves after its 1969 publication, deemed inappropriate for its depiction of author Maya Angelou's rape as an 8-year-old girl.
It was a murder plot hatched over what happened at a Wal-Mart.
Some coins here, a couple of lottery tickets there, a wallet stolen from a parked car, some food taken from a vacant house.
After 17 years together, Bill Slimback and Bob Sullivan couldn't wait another minute to get married. So they didn't.
Finding the "birthplace" of President Chester A. Arthur is easy: Turn left at Town Hall and its Chester A. Arthur Conference Room, go past Chester's Bakery and turn right on Chester A. Arthur Road.
Milk prices are down. So are spirits on Newton Reynolds' dairy farm, where red ink is flowing faster than the milk from his Holsteins.
Calm and contrite, an accused arsonist diagnosed with multiple personality disorder entered "no contest" pleas Wednesday over a pair of fires — one of which she blamed on an alter ego named "Blackie Rage."
For the 17-year-old Baghdad girl, it's all so new: The sight of the lush green mountains, the smell of cow manure on a working dairy farm, the safety of the streets.
For Pfc. Andrew Parker, it was a bittersweet homecoming: He was hailed as a hero, feted with a star-spangled parade and showered with gifts at a welcome home ceremony. He had to watch it all from a wheelchair.
Accommodating weather and a boost in the number of maple trees tapped are being credited for a bumper 2009 maple syrup crop.
After 30 years smoking Marlboros, 53-year-old hospital maintenance man Dave Hanna was ready to quit.
To prison inmates, he's a jailhouse lawyer made good.
At Centennial Field, the sun was out, the infield grass freshly cut, the home team riding a six-game winning streak into a Tuesday afternoon doubleheader.
When former schools superintendent George Sleeman went to prison for embezzlement, folks here figured they had seen the last of him.
Richard Phillips' crew missed out on a reunion with him. His hometown won't. Balloons, "Welcome Home" signs and spirits are up as the small Vermont town where the freed sea captain lives gears up to welcome the "biggest celebrity in Underhill." Phillips is scheduled to return Friday.
Richard Phillips' crew missed out on a reunion with him. His hometown won't.
He went from driving a cab in Boston to piloting multimillion-dollar cargo vessels around the world.
Vermont was the first state to outlaw slavery. Neighboring New Hampshire declared its independence from England before any other colony. Maine led the way with Prohibition.
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