The Vermont State Police have determined that underage drinking played a role in the car crash that killed 17-year-old Caidin McKeever last June in Plainfield, but the role of a tractor trailer truck that was on the road at the same time may remain a mystery.
An employee at a bank branch in Berlin and his girlfriend have been cited to appear in court to face felony charges of embezzlement for allegedly diverting thousands of dollars from an out-of-state bank account into a local account.
A man accused of raping a woman in Plainfield in 2007 walked away from a Barre courtroom a free man on Wednesday after a jury declared he was not guilty of sexual assault.
A 50-year-old Mississippi man accused of drugging and raping a Plainfield woman on Halloween in 2007 was put on trial starting Tuesday in Vermont District Court in Barre.
Laying on a patch of dew-drenched grass, her eyes bulging and her face beet-red, Maria Beede was tempted to let a 600-pound tractor tire get the better of her.