WASHINGTON, July 23 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news brief on July 22, 2024: * * * Tito's Taqueria also paid $12K in penalties for illegal tip violations * * * Employer: Tito's Taqueria LLC, 898 Putney Road, Brattleboro, VT 05301 Type of action: Administrative settlement Investigation sites: Greenfield, Massachusetts Keene, New Hampshire Brattleboro, Vermont Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division's N  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 22 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BURLINGTON, Vt. The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont announced that Jamonty Brister, 29, of Queens, New York, appeared in United States District Court in Burlington on a complaint charging him with a federal drug offense. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin J. Doyle ordered that Brister be detained without bail pending tria  more

RUTLAND, Vermont, July 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release: The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont stated that on July 24, 2024, Roosevelt Norris, 55, most recently of Rutland, Vermont was sentenced by United States District Judge Geoffrey Crawford to time served to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release. Norris previously pleaded guilty to one count of distributing cocaine base, also known   more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, July 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release on July 25, 2024: The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont stated that Hussein Iman, age 20, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Joseph Cadorette, II, age 37, of Williamstown, Vermont, have been charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute and distribution of fentanyl and cocaine base. Cadorette is scheduled to have his initial appear  more