Here are your highlights from this day in history for April 26, 2012: – 2000: Vermont Governor Howard Dean enacts same-sex civil unions – 1989: TV star Lucille Ball dies – 1986: The Chernobyl nuclear accident – 1937: Guernica bombed in the Spanish Civil War – 1865: John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, killed [...]

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Today, police in Vermont charged a couple with second degree murder in the death of teacher Melissa Jenkins. The pair allegedly pretended to have car trouble in order to lure her to an area where she was strangled, according to court documents. Allen Prue, 30, and wife Patricia Prue, 33, wanted to “get a girl” [...]

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Police in Vermont believe they’ve found the body of 33-year-old school teacher Melissa Jenkins, who had been reported missing. Jenkins, a single mom, hadn’t been seen or heard from since Sunday night. Yesterday afternoon, state police were searching along a remote road when they spotted a wooded section that looked to have been disturbed. After [...]

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In support of gay marriage in the United Kingdom, ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has launched a new flavor called Apple-y Ever After, which was developed after a gay rights organization created a bill that would legalize weddings between same-sex couples in the U.K. Ben & Jerry’s Europe initiated a letter-writing campaign to urge [...]

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The great state of Washington became the first state in the U.S. to require a minimum wage of more than $9 per hour when it joined seven other states yesterday in automatically adjusting salaries to keep pace with inflation. Over 1 million workers will see their hourly rate increase pay go up after the adjustment. [...]

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It’s going to be a David vs. Goliath battle for the ages. A Vermont small business is owner is prepared to duke it out with Chick-fil-A over over the use of a slogan. Chick-fil-A has trademarked the use of the phrase “Eat Mor Chikin”, and they use the popular marketing motto alongside images of cows. [...]

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Our generation needs its own version of “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this any more!” We just might have found it. In the video below, World War II Veteran Verne McGrew, from the village of McIndoe Falls, VT, sounds off on the problems facing America today. More than 300 people [...]

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Hurricane Irene certainly wasn’t the big city disaster the media made it out to be, but it was no picnic either.  The storm left 5 million homes and businesses without power and over 20 people were killed along the East Coast. The extent of Irene’s damage remains yet to be seen, as upstate New York [...]

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18-year-old Robert “Sandy” Vietze, of Warren, Vermont, has been booted from the U.S. ski team after getting drunk and urinating on an 11-year-girl on a JetBlue flight, wiping out his hopes of competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Vietze was on the Wednesday flight because he was returning to Vermont from an Oregon [...]

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This could be a big one.  Millions of residents are getting ready for a massive winter storm system to sweep through the central U.S. and beyond this week, according to meteorologists. A blizzard watch has already been issued in Chicago, where they are expecting a snowstorm of possibly Biblical proportions. In fact, this storm could [...]

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A 24-year-old Vermont man was shot and killed by a friend who used a gun in a prank that went horribly wrong. Nicholas Bell, 23, attempted to play a prank on his sleeping friend by awakening him with the loud sound of an air rifle, according to police. Instead, however, Bell accidentally used a real [...]

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How often do you get to see an historic bridge get blown to smithereens?  Today, you have that chance. The Champlain Bridge, which links Crown Point, New York to West Addison, Vermont, was demolished at 10:05 a.m. EST this morning by a company called Advance Explosives Demolition.  The bridge had stood for 80 years. Linear [...]

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