Liam Elder-Connors
Senior Reporter, Public SafetyLiam is Vermont Public’s public safety reporter, focusing on law enforcement, courts and the prison system.
Liam has worked at Vermont Public since 2015 and has reported several special projects, including an investigation into one of the state's prominent landlords and a series of remembrances of Vermonters killed by COVID-19. In 2018, he reported and co-hosted JOLTED, a five-part podcast about an averted school shooting and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for his work on that project.
Leave Liam a voicemail at 802-552-8899 or get in touch using the form below: liam.elderconnors@vermontpublic.org
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A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday night in the assault case against Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore after the jury was unable to reach a verdict after more than five hours of deliberation.
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A Greensboro family will not lose their 300-acre farm, and a 66-year-old woman will get back her house after the village of Orleans seized it. Both cases are tied to tax sales — a process municipalities can use to collect unpaid taxes, but that can also lead to people losing their homes.
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Vermont State Police Sgt. Joshua Mikkola and trooper Richard Berlandy, who are both assigned to the Derby barracks, shot Brendan Sackal, 30, multiple times Sunday night after Sackal led multiple law enforcement agencies on a pursuit through northern New Hampshire and Vermont. Sackal opened fire on the troopers first, according to Vermont State Police.
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On Thursday morning, Lyndonville was inundated with water — washing away houses, businesses and roads. Tens of residents were evacuated, and many have been displaced; one death in Lyndonville has been reported. Residents in the Northeast Kingdom town say it's the worst natural disaster to date.
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Heavy rain Wednesday night and Thursday morning inundated northern and central Vermont, causing severe flooding in many communities. For some towns, like Waterbury, floods have become an all-too-frequent part of life.
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A year after floods devastated many municipalities across Vermont, there’s an urgent need for towns to take on projects to limit damage from future disasters. But that work will take years and cost millions of dollars.
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Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver overseeing Burke Mountain Resort, wrote in a recent court filing he’s found a party to serve as an initial bidder on the property and that he hopes to complete the sale later this year.
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Vermont State Police say Gary Larocque, 40, of Brownington shot and killed Gunnar Watson, 27, at his home in Wheelock. No charges will be filed because Larocque killed himself two weeks after the homicide.
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A workplace safety complaint filed recently by the Vermont State Employees' Association alleges that staff at the state prison in Springfield are forced to work in excessively hot conditions.
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The settlement covers Greg Bombard's 2018 arrest by a state trooper who said Bombard flipped him the middle finger — and a second, related citation nearly six years later, on Christmas Day.