Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca was elevated today to education secretary. A grassroots campaign wants to amend the Vermont constitution to recognize the rights of the environment. Bennington police say a Vermont teacher is hospitalized following a mental health evaluation, after he was spotted carrying an assault rifle and was heard making a series of disturbing comments about the school where he works. Lawyers for a Vermont man potentially facing the death penalty in the sexual assault and killing of his 12-year-old niece in 2008 have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a key ruling in the case.