Rental application fees are rampant statewide despite Vermont’s prohibition

ALSO: Montpelier Police Chief Brian Peete is leaving for Kansas after just over two years of heading the police force in the capital city; A jury deliberated for about six hours Monday without reaching a verdict in the case of a Burlington man accused of killing his wife and seriously injuring her mother with a meat cleaver; Nearly 90 forlorn snowplows still lack names of their own, and the Vermont Agency of Transportation is turning to the kids again to remedy that.