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 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. -
Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver overseeing Burke Mountain Resort, wrote in a recent court filing he鈥檚 found a party to serve as an initial bidder on the property and that he hopes to complete the sale later this year. -
Vermont State Police say Gary Larocque, 40, of Brownington shot and killed Gunnar Watson, 27, at his home in Wheelock. No charges will be filed because Larocque killed himself two weeks after the homicide. -
A workplace safety complaint filed recently by the Vermont State Employees' Association alleges that staff at the state prison in Springfield are forced to work in excessively hot conditions. -
The settlement covers Greg Bombard's 2018 arrest by a state trooper who said Bombard flipped him the middle finger 鈥� and a second, related citation nearly six years later, on Christmas Day. -
Vermont State Police said on Tuesday that a skull found in Cavendish four years ago belongs to Bryan Gomez, a 48-year-old man who disappeared in 2010.
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Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's statement comes a day after the Legislature overrode Gov. Phil Scott's veto of a bill to create a pilot facility in the Queen City. -
Johnson & Johnson will pay $700 million to a multistate coalition that sued the company over allegations that it misled the public about the safety of its talc-based baby powder. Vermont is set to receive $3.1 million from the settlement. -
Vermont State Police announced last week that they鈥檇 identified the parents of an infant who was found dead on the side of the road in Northfield in 1982. Law enforcement officials say no criminal charges will be filed. -
More than four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the state judiciary is still struggling with an enormous backlog of criminal cases and competing public pressures around how justice should be pursued. To better understand how the system is working, Seven Days and 开云体育 embedded two reporters at the Burlington criminal courthouse for one week.
