The authorities in Vermont arrested a man they said used an accelerant and a lighter to start a fire on Friday outside of Senator Bernie Sanders’s office in Burlington. The man, Shant Soghomonian (also known as Michael Soghomonian), 35, previously of Northridge, Calif., was arrested on Sunday on a charge of using fire to damage…
A storm system that was already delivering significant amounts of springtime snow to parts of the Great Lakes region this week will move east on Wednesday, bringing heavy snow, soaking rains and high winds from northern New York State through northern New England, the National Weather Service said. Here are the main things to know…
President Biden won Democratic nominating contests in 13 states on Tuesday, when he is expected to dominate all 16 races as the 2024 presidential campaign shifts fully toward the general election. The Associated Press called the victories for Mr. Biden soon after polls closed in each state. Mr. Biden has faced only token opposition from…
A 48-year-old Vermont man was charged on Monday with three counts of attempted second-degree murder in the weekend shooting of three young men of Palestinian descent on a Burlington street, a violent episode that stunned the small city. As investigators sought to determine whether the shooting could be classified as a hate crime, local officials…
The police in Burlington, Vt., on Sunday were investigating the shooting of three students of Palestinian descent as a possible hate crime, the city’s mayor said. The three victims, all men in their 20s and students of American universities, were walking near the University of Vermont on Saturday when they were shot and wounded by…
Vermont, a state known for peaceful green mountains, grazing cows and tidy covered bridges, is not often seen as a place where mudslides threaten highways, rivers churn with debris and murky, propane-fouled floodwaters fill downtown streets. But those kinds of images of destruction were seared into memory when Tropical Storm Irene battered Vermont in 2011,…
In the wake of a powerful storm that dumped as much as nine inches of rain on parts of Vermont, residents in cities and towns across the state are only beginning to grapple with the destruction caused by the flooding unleashed by the historic deluge. Though skies have cleared since Monday’s storm, rivers are spilling…