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Frank Meyer, a 911 dispatcher and volunteer firefighter charged with slave trafficking and sexual assault, committed suicide on Tuesday night while out on bail in Vermont. Vermont State Police arrested Meyer, 39, a volunteer West Haven, Conn., firefighter, in Ludlow, Vt., on Feb. 27 after a sting operation in which the victim wore a wire.

A Vermont prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates has gotten the best of the state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.

When Navy Lt. Gary Ross and his partner were searching for a place to get married, they settled on a site in Vermont, in part because the state ...

Tropical Storm Irene destroyed roads and marooned residents in more than a dozen central and southern Vermont towns in a matter of hours. The disaster took four days to unfold on Camels Hump Road, just east of Chittenden County.

Joshua Snowcroft has lived through some intense winter weather in the decade he's lived in Vermont. But this winter -- which offered an encore Monday in the form of up to 30 inches of snow -- takes the cake.

Police in Vermont say a 75-year-old woman trying to rescue a cat stuck on a highway's median was hit by a car and killed.

Vermont State Police say a snowmobiling accident on a frozen lake has killed three people including a 3-year-old girl.

Matt Dunne's use of that technology -- and the broadband Internet connection supporting it -- is an example of what he touts as the key to Vermont's economic future as he campaigns for the 2010 Democratic nomination for governor.

Vermont Gov. James Douglas announced Wednesday that he plans to veto a bill that would grant same-sex couples equal rights in marriage, if the bill reaches his desk.

Something is rotten in the state of... Vermont. A seven-year-old US boy has smelt his first whiff of success - for owning America's most malodorous trainers.