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For 30 years, Elga Gemst kept to herself and went about her business in her small Vermont town.
Ben & Jerry's has Schweddy Balls. Would you like a taste?
In Ayden, N.C., a man dies in his recliner, riding out Hurricane Irene at home because he didn't want to leave his Chihuahua at home alone.
Coffins lie exposed at the village cemetery, having popped out of the ground. Homes are reduced to what look like piles of giant matchsticks. A weathered brown house hangs precariously out over a creek, an enormous chunk of soil underneath chewed away by floodwaters.
The owners of an inn that refused to host a same-sex wedding reception say they have no policy to discriminate against gay couples.
Making good on a campaign promise, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin married a lesbian couple in a small ceremony in his office.
For Vermont Law School, the price of standing on principle was $500,000.
After 20 years as a deputy, Ray Allen finally made it to sheriff Wednesday. But not the way he wanted.
Shy and sweet, with a gap-toothed smile and a reputation as reliable, 11-year-old Celina Cass is the last person anyone in her New Hampshire community would expect to run away. At this point, they only wish that were the case. The other explanations are too scary.
At the state maintenance garage where Lori Girard-Pion works, the water cooler isn't a luxury. It's a necessity, especially for the mechanics who maintain the Vermont State Police vehicle fleet.
Lisa Miller's path from lesbian in committed relationship to international fugitive started in 2003.
When documentary filmmaker Art Jones and his five-man crew set out from New York to shoot footage of a blood drive in a small Vermont city, he did it to satisfy an old friend, one of the organizers. Jones figured it might make a nice four-minute film.
A Vermont man charged with possessing a religious artifact that dates to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ remained held on $10,000 bail Wednesday after pleading not guilty.
Vermont's capital city is going ahead with a plan to expand state government's wood-fired heating system into city schools and government buildings.
Minnows swim in the driveway, and big, fat carp are now breeding in the 2-foot floodwaters that cover the street. Some days, the only way Buzz Hoerr can get out of his home is by rowboat, paddling 200 feet to a grassy spot across the street where he and others park their cars to keep them dry.
Swamped farm fields and gorged rivers could worsen pollution worries for the flooded Lake Champlain because of the high amount of phosphorus that has washed into it, officials said Tuesday.
A little-used border station earmarked for closing by the federal government may keep its doors open after all.
A Christian missionary charged with helping a woman take her 9-year-old daughter to Central America during a custody dispute with her former lesbian partner was allowed Monday to remain free on $25,000 bond.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus got a cool reception Wednesday in heavily Democratic Vermont, where about 125 jeering, sign-waving union members and others protested his appearance at a party dinner.
Even in a state where small is the norm, Ira is small.
An American college student who was arrested on a Syrian street after he pulled out his smartphone near a demonstration and then spent two weeks in jail told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he was interrogated, threatened with violence and packed so tightly with other prisoners that everyone had to sleep on their sides on the floor.
Last year, when the sap stopped running from some of Bruce Curavoo's maple trees, it kept running in others. He got enough to make about 300 more gallons of syrup from his crop.
Dog registrar, historian, justice of the peace, town meeting organizer: For nearly 48 years, Town Clerk Eva Morse has been "town mother" in this rural Vermont town.
Before he started "saving the earth, one beer at a time," all inventor Eric Fitch knew about home brewing was that it could make quite a mess.
Pete the Moose's pardon may be short-lived after all, now that state lawmakers are being urged to reconsider it. Or he may just have to find a new home.
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