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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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. -
Admissions offices are trying everything from entrepreneurship programs to hunting classes. -
VSP's Major Crime Unit investigates dozens of cold cases. It can be a challenge to move them forwardThere are more than 80 unsolved homicides and missing persons cases in Vermont. These decades-old investigations present unique challenges: witnesses and detectives who worked the case may be dead, physical evidence can deteriorate and the case files can be hard to find. -
Shant Michael Soghomonian is accused of using fire to damage a building used in interstate commerce. The federal charge carries a five to 20 year prison sentence. -
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a 35-year-old man on a charge that he set fire to the door of Sen. Bernie Sanders鈥� Burlington office. A judge also ordered the man to be held in prison while the case is pending
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Bram Kranichfeld, a veteran prosecutor and ordained priest, took over as Franklin County state鈥檚 attorney after his predecessor resigned amid an impeachment inquiry. Kranichfeld was permanently appointed about three weeks ago, and will serve until January 2027. -
A special legislative committee will not recommend articles of impeachment for Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore because the alleged misconduct took place before he was elected to office. -
Around 3:25 this afternoon northwestern Vermont will be plunged into darkness for about three minutes as the moon completely covers the sun. State officials estimate that 160,000 people could come to Vermont to view this once-in-a-generation celestial event. -
Shant Soghomonian, 35, is accused of setting fire to the door of Sen. Bernie Sanders鈥� Burlington office on Friday. He faces a federal charge of using fire to damage a building used in interstate commerce.
