Frederick Bragdon News Today

The defendant in a years-long child sex assault case violated his conditions of probation minutes after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of prohibited conduct, a misdemeanor, with a suspended sentence, by contacting the young victim minutes after an emotional victim’s statement.

Bennington Judge Robert Kalfus, citing the safety of the community, continued a hold without bail on a 26-year-old defendant who is charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old teenager over several months last year.

A young homeless man who was working at Hannaford supermarket in Bennington while living with his girlfriend in a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck he allegedly stole in Albany in September was arraigned Tuesday at the Bennington Courthouse on three counts related to the stolen vehicle.

A masseuse at the historic Equinox Resort and Spa in Manchester Center was arraigned Wednesday afternoon on one count of sexual assault without consent after a customer told police that she was sexually assaulted last October during a massage while on a weekend vacation at the resort.

A masseuse at the historic Equinox Resort and Spa in Manchester Center was arraigned Wednesday afternoon on one count of sexual assault without consent after a customer told police that she was sexually assaulted last October during a massage while on a weekend vacation at the resort.

The last of three Massachusetts gang members who shot up a residence as part of a drug territory dispute in Bennington has taken a plea deal with prosecutors.

Grant Bentley, a defendant accused in the 2022 hit and run of an elderly woman in the Bennington Walmart parking lot became visually frustrated, cursed, and stormed out during a Thursday hearing after Judge Kerry McDonald-Cady denied his request to switch defense attorneys for a second time.

Two well-known Bennington attorneys – seasoned prosecutor Alexander Burke and accomplished public defender Susan McManus – at the Bennington Courthouse are among a small group of lawyers nominated by Governor Phil Scott to become Vermont’s newest Superior Court judges.

Two well-known Bennington attorneys – seasoned prosecutor Alexander Burke and accomplished public defender Susan McManus – at the Bennington Courthouse are among a small group of lawyers nominated by Governor Phil Scott to become Vermont’s newest Superior Court judges.

A judge granted a state motion Monday for a new competency evaluation in the years-long case of Darren Pronto, accused in the slashing death of a Bennington woman in early 2021 as she walked along Downtown Bennington’s Riverwalk path in broad daylight.