Liam Elder-Connors
Interim News EditorLiam is 开云体育鈥檚 public safety reporter, focusing on law enforcement, courts and the prison system.
Liam has worked at 开云体育 since 2015 and has reported several special projects, including an investigation into one of the state's prominent landlords and a series of remembrances of Vermonters killed by COVID-19. In 2018, he reported and co-hosted JOLTED, a five-part podcast about an averted school shooting and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for his work on that project.
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A Rhode Island man who was shot and injured by Vermont State Police last month pleaded not guilty to more than a dozen charges, including attempted aggravated murder. Police say Brenden Sackal led law enforcement agencies on a vehicle pursuit and opened fire first. -
Vermont hasn鈥檛 had a locked facility for youth since shuttering Woodside in 2020. The new temporary facility in Middlesex will accommodate up to four youth. -
Bill Mares, an accomplished author and journalist, former state lawmaker, high school teacher and beekeeper, died last week. He was 83. -
Tracy Shriver has held the job for nearly two decades. Her retirement is effective immediately. -
A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday night in the assault case against Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore after the jury was unable to reach a verdict after more than five hours of deliberation. -
A Greensboro family will not lose their 300-acre farm, and a 66-year-old woman will get back her house after the village of Orleans seized it. Both cases are tied to tax sales 鈥� a process municipalities can use to collect unpaid taxes, but that can also lead to people losing their homes. -
Vermont State Police Sgt. Joshua Mikkola and trooper Richard Berlandy, who are both assigned to the Derby barracks, shot Brendan Sackal, 30, multiple times Sunday night after Sackal led multiple law enforcement agencies on a pursuit through northern New Hampshire and Vermont. Sackal opened fire on the troopers first, according to Vermont State Police.
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On Thursday morning, Lyndonville was inundated with water 鈥� washing away houses, businesses and roads. Tens of residents were evacuated, and many have been displaced; one death in Lyndonville has been reported. Residents in the Northeast Kingdom town say it's the worst natural disaster to date. -
Heavy rain Wednesday night and Thursday morning inundated northern and central Vermont, causing severe flooding in many communities. For some towns, like Waterbury, floods have become an all-too-frequent part of life. -
A year after floods devastated many municipalities across Vermont, there鈥檚 an urgent need for towns to take on projects to limit damage from future disasters. But that work will take years and cost millions of dollars.
