BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont stated that on March 7, 2024, Quenton Dodson, 36, originally from Ypsilanti, Michigan, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Geoffrey Crawford to a term of 96 months' imprisonment to be followed by a four-year term of supervised release. Dodson pr  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, March 16 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on March 15, 2024: The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) encourages small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private nonprofit organizations in Vermont with economic losses due to severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides that occurred July 7-21, 2023 to apply for working capital disaster loans before the April 15 deadline.   more

BETHESDA, Maryland, March 15 -- The Uniformed Services University issued the following faculty news: By Sharon Holland Karen and Stewart Zalan were hiking with friends at Smugglers' Notch State Park near Stowe, Vermont. The couple, who are from Canada, had traveled together with their friends to hike all over the country and in other places like Nepal. This was their second year at Smugglers' Notch, which is a narrow pass through the Green Mountains, characterized by steep 1,000-foot cliffs, r  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, March 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release: The United States Attorney's Office stated that Lamont Hudgins, 42, of Staten Island, New York, has been indicted by a federal grand jury with distributing cocaine base at Decker Towers, a Burlington Housing Authority high-rise for elderly and disabled residents. Hudgins was arraigned on March 11, 2024 and is detained pending further proceedings. According to court r  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, March 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release on March 11, 2024: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jennifer Stocker, 46, of New Haven, Vermont was sentenced on Friday, March 8, 2024, in United States District Court in Burlington for making false statements to a credit union on an application for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, and for violating conditions of probation rela  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, March 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: The United States Attorney's Office announced that Paul Hendler, 52, of Burlington, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to a total of 36 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a federal forgery charge. As part of these court proceedings, Hendler also admitted that he violated the terms of his supervised relea  more