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Downtown Rite Aid nixes wee-hour shifts

BURLINGTON — Night owls will have to find a new place to get beer and cigarettes now that downtown Burlington’s once 24-hour store shuts down at midnight.... Read more

BURLINGTON — When residents living near Pomeroy Park in the Old North End first learned about the late-night assault last month on one of their neighbors, they probably didn’t get the news from the daily newspaper. More likely, they read about it on the Front Porch Forum. This online social-networking site has become a useful tool for Chittenden County residents to alert one another about what’s happening in their neighborhoods, from garage sales to lost cats to car burglaries.... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When members of Congress approved the National Defense Authorization Act last October, most of them had no idea that they were fundamentally altering the balance of power between the federal and state governments that’s existed for more than 200 years. Buried within the $538 billion military spending bill was a rider making it easier for the president to declare martial law and assume command of the National Guard, with or without a governor’s consent.... Read more

VERMONT - It's Thanksgiving Day and your family is seated around the dinner table, enjoying ample portions of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. Amid the cacophony of chatter, laughter and clinking silverware, your Uncle Bob suddenly lurches to his feet, his face beet-red as he clutches his throat and gasps for air.... Read more

You don't want to meet Laurie Shover in a dark alley, or in a parking lot, or on Burlington's Main Street at 2:30 a.m. Not if you're a mugger, rapist or murderer and see the blond woman as your next victim. One of only a handful of eighth-degree black belts in the country, Shover will take you down faster than you can holler "Bruce Lee." She may break your nose, break your femur or just break your balls. Pepper spray? Please. With two of her petite fingers, Shover can gouge your eyeballs with her fierce, twin-headed dragon move.... Read more

Ralph Stuart is a detective of sorts, but he's no private eye. Private nose is more like it. For the last 15 years, Stuart has been the environmental safety manager at the University of Vermont. When there's something wrong with the air inside a campus building -- usually a foul odor no one can explain -- he's the one they call in to sniff it out. And with about 120 buildings on campus of varying ages, designs, uses and states of repair, Stuart fields these kinds of calls at least once a week.... Read more