Bennington News

A panel of anti-smoking advocates presented a request to the selectboard, asking permission to hang signs in the town parks, declaring those spots as smoke-free zones.

A developer has been cleared to start construction on a Wal-Mart expansion in Bennington, Vt., seven years after first proposing it.

In February, an audio recording of alleged verbal abuse against an autistic student surfaced at Bennington Elementary School, prompting a Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union investigation.

Agri-Mark, which owns Cabot Creamery, is buying and renovating a 28,000-square-foot facility in the Waitsfield Industrial Park for $2.8 million.

A mobile home park that has been under pressure from the Vermont town of Bennington and the state to fix problems with its water supply is now facing a foreclosure complaint.

A two-vehicle accident Friday along Route 7A caused significant damage to the two vehicles involved but no injuries were reported.

Far East Massage Therapy looks like a regular business from the outside. It's located in a friendly residential neighborhood in Rutland.

Health care is big business; just ask those who work at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. Last year, revenues totaled more than $1.2 billion.

The building was evacuated and police are awaiting the arrival of the hazmat team.

Authorities are investigating a possible human trafficking and prostitution ring in Bennington, and now police say they are looking for a woman named Inson Everitt.

The Vermont Senate on Wednesday passed a hybrid aid-in-dying bill under which stiff safeguards would be in place for terminally ill patients seeking lethal medication for the first three years, after which regulations would be lessened significantly.

"Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today's Vermont," by Howard Coffin, is a unique and fascinating book.

The former head of a Lenox school for troubled young women and his son and son-in-law are facing prison time and have agreed to pay back the state of Vermont and the U.S. government $3 million for what the U.S. Attorney's Office calls "egregious" tax and health care fraud connected to a Bennington, Vt., school they had operated.

Local and federal authorities executed search warrants Tuesday afternoon at two massage parlors that may be involved with prostitution and human trafficking and include as many as 10 women.

Robert Baker, 43, pleaded guilty to wire fraud Tuesday. He was the special administrator for the estate of Nada Ledinko, who died in July 2011.

Police say a well-known musician from Bennington is also a burglar. Guitarist Nikki Lixx plays all over the northeast.

MSNBC recently ran a highly controversial promo in which Melissa Harris-Perry, one of their show hosts, floated the idea that our kids don't really belong to us, but rather to the community at large.

With passage of its $5.23 billion budget bill Thursday, the Senate set up the points of contention on spending that senators, the House and the Shumlin administration will have to resolve next week -- if the Legislature is to adjourn May 11 as planned.

Crews were called to Copeland Furniture at about 7:45 p.m. after fire broke out in the sawdust silo.

The Senate Finance Committee beat back most, but not all the efforts to change its $10 million tax package before winning a 24-5 vote Wednesday for passage of the bill.