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Vermont's moose biologist says brain-worm parasites and not onlookers probably caused the death of a moose that had drowned in Lake Champlain after swimming across about a 6-mile stretch of the lake from New York to South Hero.

A moose drowned in Lake Champlain after people crowded around the animal to take its picture, Vermont wildlife officials said.

Police in Vermont are investigating an apparent drowning in a river behind the Green Mountain College campus.

A Vermont police department says the vehicle of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a South Burlington woman has been found in New York.

A Vermont woman told police that she shot a man living in her home and stashed his body in a trash bin because he manipulated family members with drugs, constantly drank and raped her, according to court papers released Tuesday.

The U.S. Border Patrol says agents arrested 20 people who entered the country illegally in four separate incidents in upstate New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.

The National Weather Service and Vermont officials are warning that the recent snowstorms and previous warm weather have increased the risk for avalanches.

State lawmakers across the U.S. are considering new laws in the wake of the Florida high school shooting, and legislatures from Maine to Alaska took action on Wednesday.

A panel of the Vermont Senate has approved a process for ordering people to relinquish guns and explosives if they are deemed at risk of violence or suicide.

The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife is planning a series of clinics to help people learn about ice fishing.