Bennington County News

A Bennington lawmaker is working to draft a bill that would combine laws from at least two other states to criminalize the killing of the unborn in Vermont.

If the organization I work for, the Bennington County Conservation District, is an outpost for good works , it is mostly because we help other like-minded people and groups achieve their goals.

Bennington County is sending 46 men and women to the war in Afghanistan, according to numbers released this week by the Vermont National Guard.

A Bennington County woman pleaded not guilty to all of the charges against her stemming from a car accident that killed unborn twins.

A Pownal woman, who police said admitted to speeding and taking prescription drugs before the Aug.

Almost three years after he entered into a plea arrangement that set off a national controversy, Andrew C. James, a convicted sex offender, may be facing real jail time within the next month.

The state has ordered a competency hearing for a man whom prosecutors believe was the first charged under Vermont's latest, tougher sex crimes legislation.

The town's Planning Commission was named "Citizen Board of the Year" at the Vermont Planners Association's fall conference, earning its members praise from the Select Board.

A Vermont man facing murder and sexual assault charges will reportedly take a plea deal.

A smaller supply of the H1N1 vaccine in the state has caused some vaccination clinics scheduled in area schools to be delayed, including one scheduled Tuesday for studentsatMount AnthonyUnion Middle School.

It seems a mix of Robert Frost and J.R.R. Tolkien, this southwest corner of the Green Mountain State with its unofficial designation as "The Shires of Vermont.'' As it turns out, there is more than literary background to the moniker.

Rescuers were searching late Sunday evening for a small plane that apparently crashed near Whipstock Mountain, near the William H. Morse State Airport, police dispatchers said.

In what could be one of the first races of its kind in recent memory, a challenger for political office, who will be deployed in Afghanistan during the election, plans to run against an incumbent, a situation Secretary of State Deborah Markowitz said could be repeated several times in 2010.

The moose that have attracted tourists to the area since May were auctioned off Saturday at the Moosefest Grand Gala and Auction, although people won't have to travel far to see much of the herd that were bought by people in Bennington.

Several people were issued underage drinking citations Friday evening as police agencies worked together to break up a keg party at a cabin in the Merck Forest in Rupert.

An underaged drinking party involving more than 30 people was broken up Friday in the Merck Forest off Route 315, according to state police.

A man who was stabbed at a local bar in June 2008 has filed a lawsuit against the establishment, claiming that the bar's employees failed to prevent him from being injured.

The 50 or so decorated moose figures that have stood on display around the Bennington area through the summer and early fall "migrated" early Tuesday morning to the Bennington Center for the Arts for one last roundup and a gala event.

A local man pleaded innocent on Tuesday to what police said was his fifth charge of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Although the real estate side of Jack Appelman's business has been slow, the art print side is getting a boost after Appelman acquired Bruce McGaw Graphics, a company that has exclusive rights to prints from the Walt Disney company, the works of Andy Warhol and images from the Museum of Modern Art.