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• UPDATE: Suspect was unarmed in Brattleboro police shooting

  05-05-2018 12:15 via vtdigger.org
  Three officers from the Brattleboro Police Department and one Vermont State Police trooper shot a man who was allegedly involved in two armed robberies Friday night in Westminster and Weathersfield.The suspect was not armed when he was shot, though police say they later found a pellet gun in his car.Get all of VTDigger's criminal justice news.You'll never miss our courts and criminal justice coverage with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Daily
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• Four police officers shoot armed robbery suspect in Brattleboro

  05-05-2018 12:15 via vtdigger.org
  Three officers from the Brattleboro Police Department and the Vermont State Police shot a man who was allegedly involved in two armed robberies Friday night in Westminster and Weathersfield.The suspect fled from police who discharged their guns at the suspect, Mark Triolo, on Black Mountain Road in Brattleboro at 9 p.m. Friday. He was transported to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and then sent to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Get all of VTDigger's criminal justice news.You'll never miss our
  
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• Burlington cracks down on livable wage law violators

  05-05-2018 05:35 via vtdigger.org
  More than a dozen spiritual and social justice groups in the Vermont Raise the Wage Coalition. Burlington has a ‘livable wage’ ordinance but until recently it has gone unenforced. File photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
  Three Burlington companies, ADA Traffic Control, Westaff, and S.D. Ireland, have been cited for underpaying employees in violation of the city’s livable wage ordinance, the city attorney’s office said in a recent report.The livable wage ordinance has b
  
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• Minimum wage, paid family leave bills limp toward floor votes

  05-05-2018 04:51 via vtdigger.org
  Senate President Pro Tem Tim Ashe, left. House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, right.
  In nearly simultaneous votes on Friday afternoon, two legislative committees voted out minimum wage and paid family leave bills without their recommendation, further endangering measures that already faced fraught paths forward.
  The bills were at the heart of the Democratic agenda heading into this legislative session.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly headlines in y
  
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• Case of restaurant bidder with buyer’s remorse returned by trial court

  05-05-2018 04:42 via vtdigger.org
  The former Brasserie L’Oustau in Manchester. Photo by Scott Stafford/Manchester Journal
  MANCHESTER — The buyer of a Manchester restaurant, stricken by an apparent case of buyer’s remorse two days before the closing, cannot be forced to go through with the purchase without other options being explored, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled.
  The high court reversed a Bennington Superior Court decision ordering R.E.E.& C. Capital Management Services to complete the purchase of t
  
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• Bidder with buyer’s remorse cannot be forced to purchase restaurant

  05-05-2018 04:42 via vtdigger.org
  The former Brasserie L’Oustau in Manchester. Photo by Scott Stafford/Manchester Journal
  MANCHESTER — The buyer of a Manchester restaurant, stricken by an apparent case of buyer’s remorse two days before the closing, cannot be forced to go through with the purchase, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled.
  The high court reversed a Bennington Superior Court decision ordering R.E.E.&C Capital Management Services to complete the purchase of the former Brasserie L’Oustau rest
  
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• He Wrote Disturbing Plans for a School Shooting. But Was That a Crime?

  05-05-2018 01:47
  After residents reported a man who worried them, a journal turned up. “I’m aiming to kill as many as I can,” it read. But that wasn’t the end of the story.
  
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• State’s top court tosses convictions in KKK flier case

  05-05-2018 01:33 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont Supreme Court is at 111 State St., Montpelier. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger
  A North Carolina man accused of targeting two women of color with Ku Klux Klan recruitment fliers has had his convictions for disorderly conduct tossed out by the Vermont Supreme Court.In a 3-2 decision issued Friday, a majority of the state’s high court ruled in favor of William Schenk, who was 21 at the time of his arrest on the charges three years ago. Get all of VTDigger's criminal justice news.Y
  
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• Mike Yantachka: The ESSEX Plan is a solution

  05-05-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by By Rep. Mike Yantachka, a Democrat who represents Charlotte in the Vermont House of Representatives. He is a member of the House Energy and Technology Committee.It is well known that John McClaughry doesn’t care about finding solutions to climate change. In a commentary published in VTDigger he attacks the ESSEX Plan, a proposal developed by business owners, low-income advocates and legislators to strengthen the Vermont economy, prioritize the mos
  
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• Bob Stannard: Fear or love – what’s it going to be?

  05-05-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bob Stannard, an author, musician and former lobbyist. This piece first appeared in the Bennington Banner.
  We live in strange times; but we’ve lived in strange times before. Human behavior has been driven by either fear or love forever. Of those two emotions, fear is the one that wins out more often than not.
  Fear allows those who thirst for power to hold sway over large groups of humans. The Inquisitions, promoted by the Catholic Church as a way
  
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• House advances bill to fund water cleanup

  05-05-2018 00:58 via vtdigger.org
  Swimmers and boaters at the beach in Burlington. File photo by Cate Chant/VTDigger
  The Vermont House advanced a bill on Friday to raise funds for water quality improvements by imposing a quarter percent increase on the state’s rooms and meals tax, and diverting the proceeds fromunclaimed bottle deposits.The slight increase in the rooms and meals tax — for a total tax of 9.25 percent — plus the bottle receipts, would raise $6.4 million for the state’s clean water fund, but
  
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• O. Ross McIntyre: The White House physician

  05-05-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by O. Ross McIntyre, M.D., who is the James J. Carroll Professor of Oncology Emeritus of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
  I have been watching and listening to all sorts of otherwise intelligent and experienced individuals struggle with the conundrum posed by the blow-up of Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson’s nomination to become the head of the Veterans Administration. How could a person with a successful military career and apparently good track r
  
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• Man suspected in killing was freed on bail despite sex-assault charges

  05-05-2018 00:13 via vtdigger.org
   
  Murder suspect Leroy Headley. South Burlington Police photo
  A man currently on the run after a South Burlington woman was found shot to death was freed on bail last year in a separate case in which he was charged with sexual assault against two 13-year-old girls, whom he allegedly plied with alcohol in a hotel room.Get all of VTDigger's criminal justice news.You'll never miss our courts and criminal justice coverage with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Daily
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