Washington County News

Police have arrested three Washington County men in the last week for several violent attacks over the previous five months in Barre, including a vicious beating last summer that left a Barre man with what a doctor called a "severe brain injury." Sean Clark, 39, of Barre was arrested on Friday for his alleged role in the beating of 27-year-old Sean ...

Dennis Root, of Schroon Lake, talks to his wife, Debbie, in car on right, while waiting for the Fort Ti Ferry in Ticonderoga on Oct.

A massive and controversial restructuring of the state court system was approved by a commission studying the judicial system Friday and will be taken up by lawmakers in January.

The past two district attorneys in Washington County are in a tight battle for the seat that will be decided by voters on Tuesday.

Police arrested a 25-year-old Middlesex man on an arrest warrant Tuesday but had to call in a police dog to find the suspect who had fled the scene, according a news release from the Washington County Sheriff's Department.

A 50-year-old Mississippi man accused of drugging and raping a Plainfield woman on Halloween in 2007 was put on trial starting Tuesday in Vermont District Court in Barre.

Laura Hernandez, 54, of Williamstown was sentenced Tuesday to three to 15 years in prison by Vermont District Judge Brian Grearson, according to the Attorney General's Office.

Woodbury police responded to a call Friday night about a man jumping in and out of a freezing pond.

A Vermont man was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly stealing a car from an elderly couple while they were parked at a rest area on the Vermont border, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said.

A jury has found three former correctional officers not guilty in the beating of an inmate at the Roxbury Correctional Institution.

Though the state expanded its online sex offender registry just last week, there's a chance it will be bolstered with even more information in the years to come, a state senator said on Tuesday.

Carolyn Hutchinson went out on top. The Barre resident spent 25 years working at two different district court buildings in Barre - she was district court manager for the last 20 - and a total of 31 years working in the Vermont judiciary before retiring recently.

When Gwendolyn Hallsmith's mother suffered a debilitating stroke some years ago, the Montpelier director of planning came face-to-face with shortcomings in the region's elder-care system.

These are some of the calls received by the Barre police department between Sept.

A bus driver who police say caused a dramatic six-vehicle crash last spring on Interstate 89 will face a criminal charge for alleged negligence, the Vermont State Police announced on Monday.

More than two decades ago Liz Zundel of Barre was diagnosed with lupus, a treatable but incurable illness.

Investigators continue to review the Green Mountain Transit Authority bus accident in Washington County, and may have more to say about the crash soon.

Lawmakers are trying to fix the state's dwindling unemployment insurance fund. The fund is set to run out of money in January because so many workers are unemployed.

Washington County Sheriff's Department arrested two individuals Sunday morning after finding four hypodermic needles and 284 bundles of heroin in a vehicle after an officer pulled the vehicle over for a traffic violation.

Mayor Thomas Lauzon says he's ready to abandon an ordinance designed to regulate where convicted sex offenders can and can't live in the Granite City.