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6 days ago | 
manchesterjournal.com | Michael Albans
BENNINGTON — The defendant in two separate repeated child sex assault cases has taken a plea deal on the day of jury selection in the first case. Levi Varno, 30, also known as Levi Haner, of Pownal, took a plea deal with prosecutors that dismissed a felony aggravated and repeated sexual assault charge and replaced it with two lesser charges of sexual assault with no consent and sexual assault with a victim under 16.
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1 week ago | 
benningtonbanner.com | Michael Albans
BENNINGTON — The defendant in two separate repeated child sex assault cases has taken a plea deal on the day of jury selection in the first case. Levi Varno, 30, also known as Levi Haner, of Pownal, took a plea deal with prosecutors that dismissed a felony aggravated and repeated sexual assault charge and replaced it with two lesser charges of sexual assault with no consent and sexual assault with a victim under 16.
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1 week ago | 
benningtonbanner.com | Michael Albans
BENNINGTON — A Bennington Judge, for the second time in six weeks, has rejected a Vermont Attorney General’s plea deal involving someone charged with nine counts of possessing explicit and disturbing child sexual abuse images while he lived with his own young children.
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1 week ago | 
benningtonbanner.com | Michael Albans
OLD BENNINGTON — Vermont history was on display for fourth graders on Ticonderoga raid’s 250th anniversary weekend in Bennington. A lucky group of local fourth graders got to see and touch some of Vermont’s most-celebrated history Thursday afternoon when one of its most famous sons, or at least a reenactor playing the role, returned to tell the tale of how the Green Mountain Boys played a critical part in defeating the British 250 years ago.
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2 weeks ago | 
reformer.com | Michael Albans
BENNINGTON — After nearly seven years, two Vermont Supreme Court rulings involving ever-shifting second amendment rights, the attention of gun safety organizations nationwide, and a much delayed one-day jury trial, Max Misch, the Bennington resident, former honorably discharged Iraqi war veteran, and formally self-described white nationalist was found guilty on two misdemeanor counts for possessing two large-capacity firearm magazines against Vermont law.
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2 weeks ago | 
manchesterjournal.com | Michael Albans
BURLINGTON — A group of over 300 Vermont attorneys, including several prominent attorneys from Bennington County, have organized a march and rally to take place in Burlington on Saturday, May 3 to demonstrate their commitment to protecting the rule of law and to underscore its central importance to American democracy. The march will begin at noon at the Chittenden Superior Court, 175 Main St., Burlington.
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2 weeks ago | 
benningtonbanner.com | Michael Albans
BURLINGTON — A group of over 300 Vermont attorneys, including several prominent attorneys from Bennington County, have organized a march and rally to take place in Burlington on Saturday, May 3. to demonstrate their commitment to protecting the Rule of Law and to underscore the central importance to American democracy of insisting that federal agents and agencies follow that Rule of Law. The march will begin at noon at the Chittenden Superior Court, 175 Main St., Burlington.
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2 weeks ago | 
reformer.com | Michael Albans
BURLINGTON — A group of over 300 Vermont attorneys, including several prominent attorneys from Bennington County, have organized a march and rally to take place in Burlington on Saturday, May 3. to demonstrate their commitment to protecting the Rule of Law and to underscore the central importance to American democracy of insisting that federal agents and agencies follow that Rule of Law. The march will begin at noon at the Chittenden Superior Court, 175 Main St., Burlington.
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2 weeks ago | 
manchesterjournal.com | Michael Albans
BENNINGTON — The Massachusetts teenager who stabbed a Bennington man to death after a drug debt dispute in Pownal in February 2024 has taken a plea deal with prosecutors. Elizah Coppedge was just 17 when he was charged with stabbing victim Casey Gras to death on Chickadee Drive in the Pownal Estates on Route 7 after an alleged drug dispute and robbery. Coppedge, at first, faced one count of murder in the second degree, a felony with a possible life sentence.
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3 weeks ago | 
benningtonbanner.com | Michael Albans
BENNINGTON — The Massachusetts teenager who stabbed a Bennington man to death after a drug debt dispute in Pownal in February 2024 has taken a plea deal with prosecutors. Elizah Coppedge was just 17 when he was charged with stabbing victim Casey Gras to death on Chickadee Drive in the Pownal Estates on Route 7 after an alleged drug dispute and robbery. Coppedge, at first, faced one count of murder in the second degree, a felony with a possible life sentence.
