A longtime state Corrections Department leader has been named executive director of the Vermont Criminal Justice Council. Waterbury resident Heather Simons, 55, will oversee the daily operation of the Vermont Police Academy in Pittsford – the single full-time training facility for all law enforcement in the state.

MONTPELIER – The Vermont Supreme Court heard arguments this week in the appeal by a Williston man seeking to overturn his convictions on five counts of second degree murder after the wrong-way crash on Interstate 89 that killed five area teenagers in 2016.