Pat Bradley

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy says he had a big smile on his face at the end of the most recent presidential debate.

Leahy said Wednesday the debate the previous evening between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney showed the president offering substance while Romney offered symbols.

The Democratic lawmaker from Vermont praised Obama's debate performance and said he's confident the president will be re-elected.

Leahy says he plans on visiting Ohio and New Hampshire in the coming weeks to help the Obama campaign.

Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin is highlighting the upcoming "hackathon" and "tech jam" as ways to bring high paying, high technology jobs to the state.

Beginning on Friday, teams will compete in Vermont's second hackathon, in which computer programmers will compete to develop computer applications that will benefit Vermont.

Shumlin made the announcement Wednesday at the Winooski headquarters of the high-tech company MyWebGrocer. The company along with Dealer.com and Fairpoint Communications use the competition as a way to recruit high-tech employees.

Clinton County’s Partnership for Community Development is looking forward to the year 2040 to create a competitive economic future. The group has been holding a series of forums on how to foster such growth. The latest, to be held this week, assesses how education and the business community must work together to foster economic development in the region.

One of the most-watched contests in Vermont this election season is the race for the state Attorney General.  The state’s largest newspaper recently hosted a debate between the three candidates vying for the position.

Vermonters may have their Thanksgiving turkey before knowing the official results of the Nov. 6 election.

That's the word from Secretary of State Jim Condos, who says he's worried about a delay that could be caused by a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The federal agency wants the state to push back until Nov. 16 — ten days after the election — the deadline for overseas and military voters to get their ballots to municipal clerks.

A Vermont company that manufactures military helmets will double its workforce by the end of the year.

The company Revision Military has begun work at its Newport factory on a $21.6 million contract to make more than 90,000 helmets for the U.S. military.

The contract will require the company to double its workforce from 40 to 80 people.

The facility produces Advanced Combat Helmets, the lightweight helmets worn by most U.S. service members as well as soldiers from some other countries.

A Vermont defense lawyer wants a judge to dismiss the charges against a man accused of driving a tractor over seven sheriffs' department cruisers because the prosecutor in the case was improperly appointed.

Attorney David Sleigh included Roger Pion in a list of 20 clients from 22 cases being prosecuted by Orleans County State's attorney Alan Franklin that he wants dismissed.

Sleigh says Governor Peter Shumlin didn't have the authority to appoint Franklin.

A private fund-raising group set up to help Vermonters recover from Tropical Storm Irene has paid out more than $2 million to flood victims.

There is another $2 million remaining in Vermont's Long Term Disaster Relief Fund, but officials say they could still be short of the money required to meet the ongoing demand for assistance following last year's flood.

So far, the fund has helped 195 applicants working to rebuild their homes and their lives after the storm.

The Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake recently named a new leader for the scientific research facility.  

The board of trustees of the biomedical research institute  in the Adirondacks named Dr. Ronald H. Goldfarb to lead the Trudeau Institute beginning on October first.  Goldfarb has more than 30 years academic and industrial experience in cancer research, and co-founded a biopharmaceutical company.  He has been on numerous peer-review panels and scientific advisory boards, and edited cancer journals.  He is the Trudeau Institute’s sixth President, Director and CEO.