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BENNINGTON â A man on Wednesday denied accusations that he injured an elderly Pownal couple when he crashed a car inside their house while driving drunk.
State police said Robert Viores, 31, was seen driving at an âextreme high rateâ shortly before crashing into a house near the intersection of Route 346 and North Pownal Road on Tuesday evening.
The house residents, Ralph and Judith Greenawalt, both 73, were injured in the crash, according to court documents. They were reportedly seated in the living room when the Toyota Camry driven by Viores came through the walls.
BENNINGTON Bennington County’s longest-jailed defendant is scheduled for a jury trial in July, the county’s first since the coronavirus outbreak hit Vermont in March 2020.
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If you took a stroll through any Vermont town on Saturday, chances are you saw green garbage bags at one point or another.
You more than likely also saw people on the side of the road, volunteering their time to participate in the stateâs annual Green Up Day.
The initiative is simple: Pick up as much litter as possible.
North Bennington resident Marcy Sprague had multiple bags filled as she spent hours picking up litter along the shoreline at Lake Paran.
âI walk here a lot with my dogs and it s disheartening to see all the garbage that people leave behind,â Sprague said.
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MONTPELIER â The courts are preparing to hold back-to-back jury trials in May after the jury trial restart in Windham County fell through last month. Officials have greenlighted eight courthouses to resume jury trials amid the pandemic, but they donât include those in Bennington County.
Windham County will get another shot at paving the way for the resumption of jury trials, with a jury draw set for May 17 in Brattleboro, according to Stateâs Attorney Tracy Shriver.
Three more counties have also scheduled jury selections next month: Windsor on May 20, Washington on May 24 and Rutland on May 26-28. The others that have gotten approval â Caledonia, Chittenden and Lamoille counties â will be up in June, said Vermont Chief Superior Judge Brian Grearson. But when â or where â the stateâs first jury trial in more than a year will happen is left to be seen. Court officials and the public defende
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BENNINGTON â Florida police spoke Wednesday about seeing Leonard Forte walking and breathing without trouble, which prosecutors said contradicts Forteâs claims of being in such bad health his decades-old child sex case should be dropped.
Forte, 79, is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl at his Landgrove vacation home back in 1987. A retired investigator in New York, he was convicted the following year, but the presiding judge ordered a new trial, saying the female prosecutor had prejudiced the jury by being too emotional.
Forte began presenting evidence this week that he is too sick to be retried; therefore, his three felony charges should be dismissed â assertions he has made since the 1990s. State prosecutors believe Forte has been lying all along and have been gathering supporting evidence.