Federal immigration officials served subpoenas on at least four Vermont dairy farms Thursday as part of a national crackdown on businesses suspected of using immigrant workers who have entered the country illegally.

Village Square Booksellers welcomes Vermont author Joseph A. Citro and illustrator Stephen R. Bissette on Friday at 7 p.m., to discuss their new book, "The Vermont Monster Guide," published by the University Press of New England.

The "Skull-and-Bones Bandit" has struck again. Just after 11 a.m. Friday, a man armed with a knife and wearing a brown hooded sweat shirt with a skull design on the front, robbedthe TD Bank branch on Main Street in Enosburg Falls.

Members of a farm family who earlier this year said their livelihood was threatened by planned improvements to a port of entry at the Canadian border in Franklin said talks with the government are growing more productive.

DHS report examines Morses Line, Pinnacle ST. ALBANS - The Department of Homeland Security should consider closing small, low-traffic ports of entry located near larger ports, a committee assembled by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a report issued Friday.

"On the way to the jail I kept saying to myself, you know this is a really bad dream.

The Chittenden Bank branch in Swanton was robbed this morning, and police are looking for a male suspect.

Police are searching for a Swanton area for a bank robber, and they think he could be connected to other robberies in the area.

Police unable to say if it ties to local cases By LEON THOMPSON Messenger Staff Writer ROCHESTER Following two bank robberies in Franklin County, police are now on the lookout for a pair of men they believe committed another robbery at the Randolph National Bank here early Thursday morning.

Agriculture leaders from across the state will try to chart a path out of a financial morass that threatens to undo the state's dairy industry.

RICHFORD -- Angie Bishop, daughter of Darlene and Alan Bishop of Enosburg, and Michael Legault, son of Monica and John Legault of Berkshire, were united in marriage July 25.

A teacher who worked at Richford Elementary School has been sanctioned by the Vermont Education Department for grabbing and pushing two students forward with enough force that it caused bruising to at least one of the students.

More charges against a Newport man in connection with a fatal hit-and-run car accident in August.

A Richford man who gunned down a local selectman twenty years ago was back in court today using a rarely seen legal process to ask for a re-trial. A criminal conviction in Vermont, and every other state, is never absolutely final.

Suspect flees into city neighborhood ST. ALBANS CITY A man wearing a dark hoodie sweatshirt robbed the Chittenden Bank here this morning, marking the second Franklin County bank robbery in less than two weeks.