White River Junction News

An Ascutney man denied charges Tuesday he broke into a house to steal scrap metal.

Police said a transient man is a person of interest in the homicide of an elderly woman.

In advance of next week's ALA convention, Chelsea Green went live today with an online gift registry at chelseagreen.com/company/libreg to enable libraries to let their patrons know which titles from the White River Junction, Vt.-based press it would like.

When former Vermont Gov. and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was invited to talk about his new book on health care reform on Stephen Colbert's television show, he had a small problem when dealing with a visual medium: No book.

Can comic strips be green? Why not? say the members of Trees & Hills , a group of comic artists from Vermont, New Hampshire and western Massachusetts.

A Springfield man was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for assaulting a woman over dinner.

A Rockingham man is in jail on charges he repeatedly sexually assaulted a girl. Elson B. Wright, 42, pleaded innocent last Tuesday in White River Junction District Court to felony charges of repeated aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault of a victim younger than 18.

A man has received a six-month prison sentence for robbing a Springfield convenience store.

A Castleton man is in jail on charges he led police on a 20-mile high-speed chase across four towns.

A Ludlow woman denied charges Tuesday she deliberately struck a cyclist with her car.

2009 Dr. Wansoo Im, president of Vertices LLC, a GIS consulting firm, and a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, helped students and parents documents routes to school armed with pedometers and digital cameras.

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, an extensive array of armor, swords, helmets and halberds reside in their own sanctum, at some distance from the Monets, Renoirs and Picassos.

POSTED: 12:47 pm EDT June 11, 2009 UPDATED: 2:09 pm EDT June 11, 2009 HARTFORD, Vt.

Students in Hartford are on the cutting edge when it comes to a new social studies class at the high school.

Adam Corcoran could have been bitter, but instead he's trying to share something sweet with the world.

Democratic Rep. Peter Welch has appealed to the Veterans Administration to return to a more localized approach to processing veterans' benefits claims.

Scott L. Morrison, 43, of Lebanon, N.H. is facing his second driving under the influence charge arising from a traffic stop Tuesday in Hartland.

With passenger rail traffic climbing, moving The Vermonter train back to a rebuilt Connecticut River rail line to save 45 minutes is a 'no brainer,' as one Bellows Falls resident said Wednesday.

A new Vermont law designed to promote renewable energy in the state is winning praise both from the renewable energy industry and anti-nuclear activists.

Presentations, including ASME Turbo Expo 2008 Best Technical Paper Award winner, about turbomachinery performance modeling, radial flow meanline modeling and analysis of heat transfer in automotive turbochargers promise to be valuable.