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Saturday February 11, 2012 TOWNSHEND -- Following a recent inspection, the Vermont Agency of Transportation late Friday closed the historic Scott Bridge.   Full Story

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Friday, February 10, 2012 WALPOLE, N.H. - Authorities placed the local elementary school on lockdown Friday morning after a student shot himself with a gun.   Full Story

BRATTLEBORO -- Local police have arrested a California truck driver, saying he drove over a car in town and then took off.   Full Story

MONTPELIER (AP) - Count stores that sell winter gear and outdoors clothing among the businesses struggling with the milder winter.   Full Story

MONTPELIER (AP) - Vermont's retired U.S. Sen. James Jeffords is being honored for his work helping to preserve a Civil War battlefield site in Virginia where the Green Mountain Boys fought in the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek.   Full Story

Thursday, February 9, 2012

BRATTLEBORO -- Former Brattleboro Area Middle School coach and safety officer Robert Dykes was on Wednesday sentenced to serve 74 months in jail.   Full Story

MONTPELIER (AP) - Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed legislation allowing people to attach the new "I am Vermont Strong" license plate to the front of their vehicles.   Full Story

BURLINGTON (AP) - The top ticket price to see President Barack Obama in Vermont next month is $30,800.   Full Story

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The New Hampshire Executive Council has confirmed Glenn Normandeau to serve a second, four-year term as executive director of the state Fish and Game Department.   Full Story

MONTPELIER (AP) - Vermont's health commissioner is offering a compromise on his push to eliminate the exemption from school immunization for the children of parents who have philosophical objections.   Full Story

MONTPELIER (AP) - A Vermont Senate committee is taking testimony about the possibility of having the state buy a controlling stake in the state's electrical transmission system.   Full Story

Wednesday February 8, 2012 KEENE, N.H. -- A New Hampshire man suspected of participating in a series of burglaries across five states was arrested Tuesday afternoon in Keene.   Full Story

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Police Department is asking for help from the public in locating a man wanted on an arrest warrant out of New Jersey.   Full Story

MONTPELIER (AP) - Environmental activist and writer Bill McKibben says states like Vermont need to take the lead in addressing climate change, because Washington isn't doing so.   Full Story

BURLINGTON (AP) -- The White House has confirmed that President Barack Obama will stop in Burlington on Friday, March 30, to attend campaign events.   Full Story