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Vermont State University’s literary magazine Green Mountains Review is ceasing publication after the university slashed its funding as part of a broad cost-cutting initiative. The 36-year-old annual literary magazine published poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, literary essays, interviews and book reviews. It was a prestigious journal with an acceptance rate of around 3 percent. Now, VTSU

The Alabama Supreme Court has granted the state’s request to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. Smith was twice convicted by juries for the murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett in her home in Colbert County in 1988. Sennett was a pastor’s wife who was beaten and stabbed. Smith confessed to his role in the crime. Smith

A elementary school custodian in Cumberland County is facing multiple charges accusing him of urinating and spitting on school cafeteria cooking utensils, rubbing his genitals on food, spraying bleach on food items and performing sex acts on library furniture, while videoing himself to share online. Giovanni Impellizzeri, 25, of Vineland, is employed by the Upper Deerfield Township School

Giovanni Impellizzeri, a school custodian in Upper Deerfield Township, shared videos of himself "performing sexual acts with inanimate objects" around Elizabeth Moore School, officials said. He also contaminated food and cafeteria utensils with saliva, urine, feces and bleach, according to the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office (CCPO). Impellizzeri faces several charges, including second-