Vermont

Ben & Jerry’s has sued its parent company Unilever accusing it of silencing the ice cream maker from making statements in support of Palestinians in the Gaza war. The complaint, filed Wednesday in federal court in New York, says the multinational conglomerate has failed to adhere to its contractural obligations with Ben & Jerry’s by threatening to dismantle the...

Police say they are investigating a suspected double homicide that occurred on Friday morning in Montpelier, Vermont. Vermont State Police said the incident was reported around 11:30 a.m. at a home on Gallison Hill Road. The first officers to arrive at the scene found two people dead and detained one man. Everyone involved in the incident is believed to be…

The man charged with shooting and wounding three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont last year has been declared fit to stand trial, according to the judge presiding over the case. The findings from a psychological evaluation of 49-year-old Jason Eaton were discussed during the hearing Tuesday, and the judge also gave defense attorneys more time to collect depositions….

A bicyclist pulling a trailer in Vermont died after he was struck by a police cruiser, state police said. The crash happened just before 3 a.m. Monday on U.S. Highway 7 in South Burlington. The officer, a sergeant with the Shelburne Police Department, was heading south and struck the southbound bicyclist. It was raining and dark, and the road was…

A teenage driver was killed after crashing her pickup truck into a tree in Vermont early Sunday morning. State police said they were notified of a motor vehicle crash on Cold River Road near Upper Cold River Road in Shrewsbury shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday. Their investigation determined that the driver of a Dodge Ram 1500 was traveling south on…

The governor broke with his party and voted for President Joe Biden in 2020.

Philippine police said Wednesday they arrested three suspects in the kidnapping of an American in the country’s south and believe the victim, who was shot in the leg during the abduction, is still alive.

Police have identified the elderly Vermont couple found dead in their home last Friday, and family members released a statement saying the husband and wife “chose to die together.” The investigation began on Friday around 5 p.m. after police received a call from relatives who reported finding two family members dead in a home on South Wardsboro Road in Newfane,...

It’s beginning to feel a bit more like winter in parts of the Boston area. Snow was spotted falling in Beverly, Massachusetts, on Monday morning, as well as in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire. We saw more snow in Duxbury, Vermont, as well. Monday was much colder than it’s been in New England, though that’s not expected to last. In fact, Halloween...

Two relatives were found dead at a home in Newfane, Vermont, on Friday, state police said. They didn’t say what’s believed to have led to the deaths, but said there was no apparent threat to the public and everyone involved was believed to have been accounted for; no one was in custody. Relatives reported finding the bodies of family...

Vermont will run an emergency alert test on Wednesday. The Vermont Department of Public Safety will test the functionality of its Blue Alert System from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. This system is designed to spread information to the public when a law enforcement officer has been seriously injured, killed or gone missing in the line of duty, and…

20-year-old Fabrice Rumama, of Springfield, Massachusetts was arrested and charged with second degree murder.

The Philippine police said Friday it has launched a search after gunmen reportedly abducted an American national, who was shot in the leg as he tried to resist before being spirited away from a southern Philippine coastal town by speedboat.

One woman is dead and two others, including a teenage, are hurt after a car crashed on Interstate 89 in Williamstown, Vermont, Wednesday afternoon. State police say they were notified of the single motor vehicle crash in the area of I-89 northbound near mile marker 42 around 3:40 p.m. and arrived to find a Subaru Legacy resting to the right…

One man was killed and a second was left with critical injuries after a shooting in Waterbury, Vermont, according to state police. No one has been arrested. Vermont State Police said they were called to a home at the Kneeland Flats Trailer Park around 12:45 a.m. Monday and found the victims. The man with critical injuries was taken to the…

One man was killed and a second was left with critical injuries after a shooting in Waterbury, Vermont, according to state police. No one has been arrested. Vermont State Police said they were called to a home at the Kneeland Flats Trailer Park around 12:45 a.m. Monday and found the victims. The man with critical injuries was taken to the…

The state of Vermont has reported its first death caused by Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, since 2012, the Department of Health confirmed Thursday. The patient, a man in his 70s from Chittenden County, was hospitalized in late August and died in September, health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the test results showing he died…

The small plane that crashed in Vermont near an airport in Ferrisburgh in early September was on an instructional flight when it went down, killing the student pilot, the instructor and two passengers, according to a preliminary report released Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The victims, all from Connecticut, were identified as Delilah Van Ness, 15, of Middletown;…