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Skydiver rescued after being entangled in Tracy power lines, causing outage
KCRA Sacramento's Channel 3
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July 20, 2025
Skydiver rescued after being entangled in Tracy power lines, causing outage DOZENS OF PEOPLE INJURED AFTER A CAR RAMMED INTO A CROWD OUTSIDE OF A LOS ANGELES NIGHTCLUB. THE INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY. AND WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE SUSPECT. PENDING...
Vermont Women’s Fund announces $359,336 in 2025 grants
Brattleboro Reformer - Vermont
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July 11, 2025
The Vermont Women’s Fund, a component fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, announced its 2025 grant cycle awards. This year, awards were distributed to 39 nonprofit organizations across the state, totaling $359,336. These grants support...
Vermont State Police investigate suspicious death in Pittsford
VTDigger - Vermont
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July 10, 2025
Vermont State Police are investigating a suspicious death that occurred in the town of Pittsford. Police received a call from a resident at a home on Hollister Quarry Road about the death of an individual, and they began the investigation at about...
Vermont Planned Parenthood health centers will lose millions under Trump law
Vermont Public Radio
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July 10, 2025
Planned Parenthood health centers in the region stand to lose nearly half of the revenue they get from seeing patients under the sprawling tax and spending bill signed by President Donald Trump this month. The law prevents Planned Parenthood from...
Vermont updates its Climate Action Plan
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus - Vermont
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MONTPELIER — After two years of historic floods and a radically changed political landscape, Vermont’s plan for a changing climate has received its first update. The Climate Action Plan, adopted four years ago, was updated July 1. “The plan itself...
Vermont beaches are closing for cyanobacteria. Here's how to keep track
Vermont Public Radio
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July 10, 2025
Several beaches on Lake Champlain in Burlington have closed this week due to slick green cyanobacteria blooms — and several other bodies of water in the northwestern part of Vermont are on high alert. As of Thursday, low to moderate levels of...
Vermont Women's Fund announces 2025 grants; PAVE among awardees
Bennington Banner - Vermont
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The Vermont Women’s Fund, a component fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, on Thursday announced its 2025 grant cycle awards. This year, awards were distributed to 39 nonprofit organizations across the state, totaling $359,336. These grants...
Vermont State Police Log: Man flees, crashes motorcycle
Addison County Independent - Vermont
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July 10, 2025
ADDISON COUNTY — In an otherwise quiet first week in July, Vermont State Police dealt with a bad motorcycle crash and a situation in which a local man was alleged to be the perpetrator of one crime and then the victim of another. On July 5 just...
Vermont’s largest hospital says it’ll cut insurance rates by 8%
Vermont Public Radio
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July 3, 2025
Next year, patient care at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington and Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin will be cheaper for commercial insurers. The hospitals submitted budgets to state regulators this week that would reduce...
Vermont Conversation: Sociologist Arlie Hochschild on the rise of the right in rural America
VTDigger - Vermont
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July 9, 2025
Arlie Hochschild’s new book is “Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right” (The New Press, 2024). Photo by Paige Parsons The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and...
Vermont film gives voice to ‘quiet crisis’ facing boys and young men
VTDigger - Vermont
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July 9, 2025
A camera operator from the Montpelier-based Well Told Films talks with a Vermont boy for the new documentary “Gone Guys.” Photo courtesy of Well Told Films Adjusting 90 pounds of gym weights, a Vermont teenager named Gabe introduced himself to a...
Healthy and wealthy: these California cities least stressed in U.S.
Stockton Record - California
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Financial security, access to healthcare, and strong family support services make these three California cities the least stressed in the United States. A new study by WalletHub compared more than 180 cities, including the 150 most populous,...
Vermont State Trooper suffers minor injuries after crash on Interstate 89
NBC5 - Vermont
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July 9, 2025
A Vermont State Police trooper suffered minor injuries after a crash on a wet roadway Tuesday morning.VSP Sergeant Benjamin Katz was on active duty when he lost control of his department-issued vehicle just before 3:30 a.m. while on Interstate 89...
Pennsylvania fines gay grandpa with stage 4 cancer $16k for protesting trans youth suicide
The Advocate
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July 9, 2025
A Vermont grandfather has been ordered to pay over $16,000 in damages after gluing his hand to a Pennsylvania Capitol railing to protest lawmakers' indifference to transgender youth suicides. James Lantz, a filmmaker known online as "Angry Gay...
Vermont Climate Superfund Lawsuits Pile Up: Advocacy Groups Join Defense
The Montpelier Bridge - Vermont
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July 9, 2025
The Vermont Climate Superfund Law aimed at holding oil companies financially responsible for flooding and other damages caused by climate change is facing a flurry of litigation that Gov. Phil Scott anticipated when he declined to endorse the...
Vermont State Police ID trooper involved in fatal shooting incident in Putney
NBC5 - Vermont
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July 8, 2025
Vermont State Police have identified the trooper who fatally shot a man in Putney on Monday.Officials identified the trooper as Peter Romeo. Romeo has been a member of VSP since 2022 and has been a uniformed trooper at the Westminster Barracks...
Vermont State Police trooper shoots and kills man in Putney reportedly amid threats
VTDigger - Vermont
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July 8, 2025
A Vermont State Police crime scene team member works Tuesday at the site of a shooting at the Putney Landing apartment complex just off Interstate 91’s exit 4. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger A state trooper shot and killed a man Monday in Putney...
Vermont, Ohio, North Carolina, and Oregon enact K-12 cellphone bans
Ballotpedia
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July 8, 2025
Welcome to the Tuesday, July 8, 2025, Brew. By: Lara Bonatesta Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Vermont, Ohio, North Carolina, and Oregon enact K-12 cellphone bans Nine candidates running in Aug. 5 primary for mayor of...
Medical examiner's office says woman found in Woodbury was strangled
WFFF - Vermont
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July 7, 2025
by: Ben Breen Posted: Jul 7, 2025 / 03:33 PM EDT Updated: Jul 7, 2025 / 03:33 PM EDT WOODBURY, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – Vermont State Police reported Monday afternoon that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Burlington identified the cause of...
Vermonters Fight To Free Their Dairy Farmworker Neighbors
Truthdig
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July 8, 2025
On a cool May afternoon, a group of Vermonters crowded into the cheerful, teal-painted headquarters of Migrant Justice, a human rights organization led by immigrant farmworkers. The team of over a dozen volunteers assembled quickly, in just a...