The Associated Press
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The board of trustees announced the closing Tuesday, saying the school faces financial insolvency. It currently has 220 students but had more than 1,900 in the early 1970s.
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The U.S. Forest Service says the skier who died, a 20-year-old student at the University of Vermont, fell about 600 vertical feet on Saturday afternoon in very steep terrain and hard, icy conditions.
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A New Orleans magician says a Democratic consultant who worked for Dean Phillips' presidential campaign hired him to create the audio for what authorities say may be the first known attempt to use artificial intelligence to interfere with a U.S. election.
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After last year's catastrophic flooding in Vermont, some farmers are trying to figure out how to get to the next season. New federal legislation aims to create an insurance program for small produce farms facing losses.
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Ben & Jerry’s has reached its first contract agreement with workers at its retail location in Burlington. About 40 workers at the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop in Burlington announced last April that they planned to form a union.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury has convicted a 35-year-old woman of murder in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist and Anna Moriah Wilson in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search for the killer. Kaitlin Armstrong was convicted Thursday and faces a sentence of up to life in prison. Prosecutors say Armstrong gunned down the 25-year-old Wilson in a jealous rage. Armstrong then fled to Costa Rica where prosecutors say she got plastic surgery to change her appearance. Wilson, a Vermont native, was an emerging star in professional gravel and mountain bike racing. Sentencing will continue Friday.
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The board of the Vermont State Colleges says it continues to back a plan to cut and consolidate some programs and reduce faculty at Vermont State University. Board support came after hearing from faculty and students who urged it to reconsider, including student government groups who have voted no-confidence in the board and administration.
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Retired U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy is being honored by the University of Vermont with a new program dedicated to solving challenges faced by rural communities, such as access to broadband and clean water, and mitigating the stresses of extreme weather brought on by climate change.
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Autopsies have confirmed that the two bodies found in a wooded area off a rural road in northern Vermont are those of two missing Massachusetts men who were shot to death, Vermont State Police said Thursday.
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Dozens of people, primarily children, were killed Thursday when a gunman opened fire in a child care center in northeastern Thailand, authorities said.