Heavy rains wash across Northeast, quickly ending dry spell and cutting power to thousands

Northeast storm brings sheets of rain, high winds

Figure in Haiti quake kidnapping case pleads not guilty in Vt. in immigrant smuggling case

Haiti quake figure pleads not guilty in Vermont

Months of perfect weather in northern New England draws tourists _ but not free-spending ones

The Dalai Lama

66 years after crash, WWII pilot’s remains buried in Vermont with full military honors

WWII pilot’s remains buried in Vt.

ESSEX, Vt. — A World War II pilot has been laid to rest at a family plot in Vermont 66 years after his plane crashed in Corsica.

Head of US nuclear regulatory agency hears from critics who want Vermont plant shuttered

Foes tell nuclear regulator to shutter Vt. plant

Gulf oil spill reinforces environmental concerns over sunken tugboat in Lake Champlain

Feds assess threat from sunken Lake Champlain tug

Vermont nuclear plant says design flaw in underground piping system led to radioactive leak

Vt. nuke plant says flaw led to radioactive leak

Bad news: Radioactive fish found near Vt. nuclear plant; Worse news: Fish said to be ordinary

Radioactive fish near Vt. nuke plant deemed common

Bad news: radioactive fish found near nuclear plant; Worse news: fish said to be ordinary

Radioactive fish near nuclear plant said ordinary

Vt. Yankee official: Leak of radioactive water found at nuke plant, fixed, no public threat

Radioactive leak found, fixed at Vt. nuke plant

Vt. man imprisoned nearly 20 years for drunken driving death charged again soon after release

Repeat DUI offender held without bail in Vermont

Teens get firsthand experience with dangers of texting while driving

Teens learn dangers of texting while driving

4 months after near-fatal accident, Pearce returns home to Vermont

Injured snowboarder returns home to Vermont

Spring storm drops up to 2 feet of snow in northern NY and New England; thousands lose power

Nearly 2 feet of snow falls in NY, New England

Spring snowstorm hitting northern NY and Vt.; heavy, wet snow could cause power outages

Spring snowstorm hits northern NY, New England

Yankee hospitality: Americans open homes _ and wallets, and parks _ to stranded travelers

In US, welcome mat goes out for stranded travelers

More than 100 Haitians face illegal entry charges in Vt. since earthquake shook their country

Haitians face illegal entry charges in Vermont

Test results confirm a second radioactive isotope in soil around Vermont Yankee nuclear plant

Second radioactive substance at Vermont Yankee

Vermont nuke plant says radioactive leak plugged, groundwater cleanup to begin

Vermont nuke plant says radioactive leak plugged

Police: Vt. fire dept. member set 2 fires at his house to pay for wife’s infertility treatment

Cops: Infertility treatment cost led to Vt. arsons

More than a million lack power in East as winter storm saves the worst for New England

Storm rakes East; more than 1 million in the dark

Winter storm battering Northeast begins tapering off in NJ, Pa.; roads getting cleared

Eastern winter storm tapering off in points south

Eastern winter storm boasts hurricane-force winds, flooding, deep snow and darkens homes

New England bears brunt of massive winter storm

First round of storms brings heavy snow to Northeast, 2nd storm packing high winds on tap

Snow storms blanket Northeast; 2nd storm on tap

Schools closed, power out as 1st round of storms brings heavy snow to NY, New England

1st round of storms blankets Northeast

ALBANY, N.Y. — A storm dropping rain and snow moved over the Northeast on Wednesday, closing hundreds of schools and knocking out power to more than 160,000 customers as forecasters warned it could linger over areas largely spared this winter from record snowfalls that socked other parts of the nation.

Skeptics call Vt. nuclear plant’s offer of cheap power a bribe on eve of crucial vote

Skepticism meets Vt. nuke plant’s cheap-power gift

Environmental groups ask Justice Dept. to launch criminal probe of Vermont Yankee officials

Green groups call for federal probe of Vt. Yankee

Snowless New England contracts ’snow envy’ watching white stuff pile up in Mid-Atlantic

New England states contract case of ’snow envy’

Southern cold snap diverts emergency heating aid away from cold-weather states

Cold-weather states lose heating aid to South

Vermont nuke plant: 27th of 104 US reactors with known leaks of radioactive tritium