An early morning disturbance ended with a dead body in a Rutland hotel room.

After patiently asking a man to drive away from the UVM Medical Center ER, the cop blew his cool. He angrily used a four-letter word. The man then punched the cop. The cop punched back. Days later the man died. Now the man’s family is suing for wrongful death.

Police dogs in recent, separate incidents on both sides of Vermont helped apprehend alleged out-of-state drug-trafficking suspects who were fleeing human police, police say. 

Whether it’s normal attrition or cops getting the message they’re not wanted in Burlington anymore, the Burlington PD will soon be two-thirds of the way to its goal of reducing police officers by 30%. What will happen to the quality of policing when the city reaches its “goal”?

The Bennington woman motorist who struck a police cruiser also could have struck children playing nearby.

An independent candidate for the Waterbury seat in the Vermont House of Representatives says police should be segregated. Sending only minority police to deal with incidents involving minorities could defuse racial tensions, Chris Viens says. Incumbent Tom Stevens calls that idea “racist.”

Despite being disturbingly similar to threats sent to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Capitol Police say notes sent to seven lawmakers pose no danger and are not illegal.

Another woman lawmaker - this time fiscal conservative Republican Felisha Leffler of Enosburg - has received a postcard calling for her arrest. But unlike House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, someone’s also fired a threatening gunshot near her home.

Berlin part-time police officer Jeffrey Strock and Julie Fandino had lived together for five years before Strock moved on and got married. Monday he shot her and then killed himself, police say.

A longtime part-time Berlin police officer and deputy sheriff, while on duty, shot and killed a woman he knew Monday afternoon. Then he shot and killed himself. The scene of the killing was next door to the Barre Elementary School.