
Vt. poised to allow lethal meds for terminally ill
Vermont is poised to join three other states permitting doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients after the state ...

Bayern, Klose top weekly AP soccer poll
Fresh off a second straight drubbing of the once-mighty Barcelona, Bayern Munich was voted the top team in the Associated Press global soccer poll for ...
TV-over-Internet service Aereo expands to Boston
Aereo, the television-over-the-Internet service that is threatening the broadcast and cable TV industries, is expanding to Boston on May 15.

Manchester United wins record 20th league title
With 75,000 delirious Manchester United fans chanting "Champions! Champions!" at full voice, Rio Ferdinand tugged the back of Robin van Persie's ...

Bayern wins Bundesliga title with 6 games to spare
Bayern Munich clinched the Bundesliga title with a record six games to spare, winning 1-0 at Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday as Bastian Schweinsteiger ...

After 40 years, Vietnam memories are still strong
The last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam 40 years ago Friday, and the date holds great meaning for many who fought the war, protested it or otherwise ...

US pockets of protest persist after years of war
The protesters gather at noon every Friday in front of the Montpelier post office, sharing signs made up years ago to tell their little part of the ...
Maine school laptop contract to be open to others
The only state to provide laptops to public school students statewide said Thursday the contract it's negotiating for new devices can be used by other ...

Vt. paper defends 'fry Rice' sign supporting team
A Vermont newspaper defended itself Saturday against accusations of racism over a poster it published in support of a local sports team that read "fry ...

Pastor sentenced in Vt. lesbian custody case
A Mennonite pastor who helped a still-missing woman and her daughter flee the country — and a custody fight with the woman's former lesbian partner ...

Vt. town ponders exhibit honoring Soviet dissident
Residents of the southern Vermont town that was once the home-in-exile of former Soviet dissident and writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn are considering ...

Toure, Tevez keep alive Man City's title hopes
Manchester City kept alive its slim Premier League title hopes Sunday, beating Chelsea 2-0 on second-half goals by Yaya Toure and Carlos Tevez.

Ex-Vt. college president dies in apparent suicide
The former acting president of a small Vermont liberal arts college was found dead in an apparent suicide amid an investigation into the embezzlement ...

Vt. hopes syrup grade changes will sweeten sales
Would fancy grade maple syrup by any other name taste as sweet? Vermont lawmakers are pondering that question as they consider whether to drop the ...

Blizzard could bury New England's bare grounds
A blizzard heading to New England could make travel nearly impossible and dump up to 2 feet of snow on a region that has seen mostly bare ground this ...

Looters steal $200K in coins after hoarder's death
It took months for anyone to discover that an eccentric man known simply as Radkin had died, crushed under a tractor-pulled horse trailer on his ...

Column: Balotelli can shake off clown tag in Italy
"A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma:" Winston Churchill's famous description of Russia easily could be applied to Mario Balotelli.

Calif. woman, 70, is fatally stabbed at NH hotel
A 70-year-old California woman who was a trustee at a private school and a retired business counselor with the U.S. Commerce Department was stabbed ...

Messi scores 4 goals to pass 200 in La Liga
Lionel Messi scored four goals to become the youngest player to pass the 200-mark in the Spanish league and set a La Liga record with goals in 11 ...

Trying to unlock secrets of dead serial killer
The suspect, hands and feet shackled, fidgeted in his chair, chuckling at times as he confessed to a brutal killing. Israel Keyes showed no remorse ...

Vt. Air Guard hopes for jet, but others fear noise
Plans on where to base the U.S. military's next-generation fighter jet, the F-35, concern people in communities from California to Florida to Maine ...
Vt. town says woman's pigs in home must go
A Vermont woman considers her pigs to be pets, but town officials say they're farm animals and have no business living in a residential neighborhood.

Some gun shows canceling after Conn. mass shooting
Several gun shows, all about an hour's drive from Newtown, Conn., have been canceled. A show in White Plains, N.Y. — brought back a few years ago ...

Minimum wage gap grows wider between states
With a bump in the Washington state minimum wage to $9.19 an hour, high school student Miranda Olson will edge closer to her goal of buying the black ...