Native Vermonter and award winning journalist Michael Hastings, 33, died early Tuesday morning in a car accident in Los Angeles. According to the LA Times, the coroner still had not identified the badly burned body as Hastings as of mid-Wednesday, though his employer, BuzzFeed, announced his death Tuesday. Hastings had opened BuzzFeed's LA office just last fall.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said a new report released today by the Joint Economic Committee showed the average student loan debt in Vermont was greater than the amount in all but six other states. New Hampshire's was by far the highest at ove