Windham County News

Although Daniel Sanoff and Avraham Raskin stick out like a pair of sore thumbs in downtown Brattleboro with their traditional Hassidic fedoras and black jackets, the two are not sightseeing tourists.

Republican and Democratic state officials joined hands in a demonstration of unity Tuesday, pledging to strengthen Vermont's sex offender laws, despite some lingering differences.

A 42-year-old Newfane man, still on federal probation from a 2004 incident in Newfane in which he pulled a gun on two Vermont State Police troopers Easter morning, pleaded innocent Monday to five new charges ...

Thomas Costello, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, visited Bennington on Friday, pledging that he would pay attention to "forgotten" areas of the state.

It is the first known "documented use of the word Vermont," according to University of Vermont romance language and Canadian studies professor Joseph-Andre Senecal, and it is on display at the Brooks Memorial ...

If state officials are serious about reducing the number of sex offenses in Vermont, they should concentrate on getting new special investigation units up and running sooner in all counties, said Windsor County ...

State Police have determined the drowning of a mother and her two young daughters in April in Windham County to be a double murder and suicide.

The American Revolution did not transpire in a stroke of a pen on July 4, 1776. The struggle for independence began years before the Second Continental Congress decided to codify the colonists' grievances with ...

When first-time director Brad Coley was looking for a gritty, small Vermont town to act as a back drop for his film, "The Undeserved," he settled on Bellows Falls.

The Brattleboro Union High School school board would like the public to know that we are all disturbed at the recent incident of hate centered racism which was recently discovered by our faculty.

The American Cancer Society has recognized the Brattleboro Retreat for its decision to institute a campus-wide tobacco free policy beginning Aug.

While the discovery of a racist group at Brattleboro Union High School sent shockwaves throughout the community, parents of minority students said this is nothing new in town.

The Vermont State Police have completed their investigation into allegations that Capt.

An energy provider serving the Northeast has purchased four Windham County gas stations previously owned by Rice Oil Co.

A Guilford teenager pleaded innocent Friday to hate-crime charges after he allegedly threatened a group of black teenagers while shouting racial epithets at them.

The only birds that tested positive last year for West Nile virus in Vermont came from Windham County, and the Department of Health is starting its program again this month of collecting and testing dead birds ...

Rep. Ann Manwaring, D-Wilmington, who won the Windham District-2 seat two years ago after longtime representative Bob Rusten retired, will seek re-election in the 2008 race.

There is no statistical difference between the health of the people who live near Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and people who live elsewhere in Windham County, Vermont or the United States, said Vermont's ...

To paraphrase an old maxim, you can take the girl out of Vermont but you can't take Vermont out of the girl.

MONTPELIER - Prosecutors say no criminal charges will be filed against two Vermont State Police troopers who ran over a man who'd been lying in the roadway on Route 100 in Dover.