Brattleboro News

Despite Sen. John McCain's belief to the contrary, the situation in Iraq has become increasingly twisted and convoluted.

A Bennington nursing assistant found not guilty of murdering a woman by injecting her with a fatal dose of insulin was released from a Vermont jail this week.

From the state of Tennessee to the town of West Dover and many places in between, donations arrived on Tuesday for the 77th annual Reformer Christmas Stocking.

Eugene Narrett, a published author and scholar, had recently taken up painting again and he was in Brattleboro Friday night for the first opening of his work in a Brattleboro gallery.

Intending to travel there as a Spanish student at Ithaca College, Lewis instead journeyed to Oman -- it's a long story, but it includes having the word "Oman" appear to her in a dream.

While not packing the punch some forecasts called for last week -- anywhere from 3 to 5 inches was expected -- the precipitation and temperatures worked together to slicken area roads and make for a slippery start to the week.

The Virginia pastor convicted in federal court in Vermont of helping a woman and her child flee the country rather than share custody with her former lesbian partner says the case should be dismissed because it had no connection to Vermont.

Forgive us for sounding like a broken record, but with the privilege of driving around in a moving vehicle comes some inherent responsibilities.

Commonwealth makes yogurt for retailers - such as Wegmans, Costco and others - that private label it and under its own brand, Green Mountain Creamery.

It wasn't too hard for Vermont Foodbank Southern Region Director Maurice Casey to point out, while walking through the foodbank warehouse Friday, equipment he has been able to purchase with U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development money.

Brattleboro Police are investigating a fatal hit and run accident. It happened at about 7 p.m. on Friday near the intersection of Western Avenue and Union Street.

Icy conditions may have contributed to a fatal accident Monday morning in Burlington.

People who live near six Vermont lakes are banding together to try to focus more resources on lake protection efforts.

"Are Artists Special?" was the title of an amusing and insightful talk that the painter Wolf Kahn gave at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center on Saturday.

There is the traffic on the interstate and on busy Route 30 below, not to mention the West River and West River Trail.

You'd think that in the 21st Century, we could do things better than we did in the 1930's.

Perhaps no artist is more closely identified with Vermont's pastoral landscape than Sabra Field, whose spare, elegant prints depict the Green Mountain State in all its seasonal splendor.

A few months ago former Gov. Madeleine Kunin was invited to speak at events in San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., hosted by Emerge America, a national political action group that trains women Democrats to help prepare them to run for local, state and national political offices.

Some volunteers are long-time members of the committee that organizes it, while others may unload boxes and unpack the winter clothing that will put a smile on the faces of the local children the Stocking serves.

The Brattleboro Police Department were called to the scene at 7:06 p.m. Friday for a report of a pedestrian who was struck on Union Hill.