Public Safety
Coventry shooting
The fatal shooting of a border patrol agent in Coventry in January 2025 led VTDigger’s reporters to help uncover a dark network of people known by some as “the Zizians.” Authorities have tied the group to a half-dozen homicides around the country.
Vermont State Police make arrest in Brownington suspicious death
A Newport woman has been charged with second-degree murder, first-degree aggravated domestic assault and violation of conditions of release.
Vermont State Police investigating suspicious death in Brownington
Initial investigation points to a dispute between individuals who knew each other. No arrests announced pending the results of an autopsy.
ICE raid detainee remains jailed as judge orders immigration court hearing
Testimony Tuesday revealed new details of the immigration raid that led to the detention of three people last week.
One of three detained by ICE in South Burlington released
“Johana would not be detained but for an unlawfully executed search warrant,” her lawyer Kristen Connors said in court. Two others are still detained.
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Immigration lawyers accuse Vermont prisons of impeding their work
Lawyers with the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project say it’s become increasingly difficult to meet with clients after a new commissioner took over the department.
PHOTOS: Protesters gather to block ICE agents from apprehending man in South Burlington
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had been pursuing a man who they believed fled into a house on Dorset Street near University Mall.
ICE agents take man in custody in Vermont after hourslong standoff as protesters gathered
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement entered the South Burlington home late Wednesday afternoon, helped by a Vermont State Police tactical team that cleared the way.
Woodstock Village again holds hearing on police chief’s demotion
Last week’s hearing was in many ways a replay of a similar hearing held last March. The trustees upheld Duffy’s decision to demote Swanson last April.
Vermont flood watch issued as warming causes ice jams
It basically becomes a dam, and water can flood behind it very, very quickly,” said Maureen Hastings, a lead meteorologist at the NWS. “So it’s very chaotic and very hard to predict.”
Judge tosses key DNA evidence that helped crack cold case in Danby double-murder more than three decades ago
Suspect’s attorney moves to throw out charges, highlighting weakness in prosecutions that rely on DNA evidence collected by deceased officers.
More than 500 attend ceremony for new leader of Vermont National Guard
Maj. Gen. Henry “Hank” Harder said a few hundred members of the guard are deployed to the war in Iran, “many of them in harm’s way.”
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