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The report, hopefully written in understandable English, will be issued this week, and it seems likely to put the administration of Bob Kiss at odds with a majority of the City Council.

The administration of Mayor Bob Kiss asked the City Council on Monday for authority to file a claim against Morgan Stanley with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for the company's alleged mishandling of the city's pension investments from 1991 to 2006.

A former Lyman C. Hunt Middle School teacher's aide pleaded guilty Monday to one count of aggravated sexual assault in connection with charges he molested a student he was mentoring over a six-year period in the 1990s.

As President Barack Obama unveiled details Monday of his $3.8 trillion budget proposal that would include jobs programs, leaders of Vermont nonprofits said the president's economic stimulus package in 2009 bolstered their services and added jobs.

Burlington police need your help finding a suspected hit-and-run driver. It happened early Sunday morning at the intersection of St.

Financially troubled FairPoint Communications Inc. has submitted its bankruptcy reorganization plan after two months of delays.

The new goggle streamlines size, weight and design for superior comfort and equipment compatibility and provides an uncompromised field-of-view, best-in-class ballistic protection and dual-material frame technology for comfortable, extended wearability, the company said.

The Burlington Business and Professional Women's organization recently presented its 2009 Woman of the Year, Employer of the Year and Woman of Achievement Awards at the Best Western Windjammer Conference Center in South Burlington.

The cold, huddled masses on Burlington's waterfront Saturday showed Mother Nature that 33-degree water and a wind chill of zero are not obstacles to a good time or a good cause.

Thursday evening, the Burlington City Council will meet to discuss the report from the Burlington Telecom Blue Ribbon Committee.

Ground and air searches have turned up no trace of a South Burlington man who's been missing for almost a week.

A new University of Vermont study offers fresh hope for protecting Lake Champlain.

On 'House,' a popular TV medical drama, the title character is a brilliant but sarcastic physician who diagnoses a mysterious deadly ailment before each one-hour show ends.

http://bit.ly/d2CFnt Michel Guite, President of Vermont Telephone Co. in Springfield, suggests in the following email sent to the Blue Ribbon Committee that VTel may be interested in working with Burlington Telecom. Guite sent a copy to the Free Press. ---Original Message-- From: Michel Guite Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 1:51 PM To: Provost, David; Subject: Note from VTel Mr. Provost, John Briggs in the Burlington Free Press reports the Committee you chair, reviewing BT, is doing a very careful job. I would like to see BT survive, and thrive, and in that context I hope the following comments might be helpful. These comments are my personal opinions only....

A new University of Vermont study offers fresh hope for protecting Lake Champlain.

A customer at a Burlington massage parlor already charged with sexual assault is now accused of another similar assault at a second establishment.

Gannett has always seemed to be a likely directory player. In fact, the world's largest newspaper publisher owns a small group of print directories.

A Vermont business is getting more than its 15 minutes of fame. The Vermont Brownie Company was featured in Tuesday night's episode of Throwdown with Bobby Flay on the Food Network.

BURLINGTON, Vt. - The media are invited to attend a Coast Guard search and rescue vessel demonstration at 10 a.m., Friday Feb.

The Nomadic Oven, www.thenomadicoven.com . Valentine's Day orders must be placed by February 10.