The Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office arrested Kristen A. Yerry, 25, of Richford, Vermont for second-degree burglary and fourth-degree grand larceny on July 4.

Authorities responded to a call of inactive larceny at a residence on Hudson River Road at 10:18 a.m. in Halfmoon.

After investigation, Yerry was arrested and charged for entering and remaining unlawfully in a dwelling with the intent to commit a crime, said the Sheriff’s Office.

She is also charged with stealing property from the residence with value in excess of $1000.

The Sheriff’s Office says she was arraigned in Halfmoon Town Court and remanded to the Saratoga County Jail in lieu of bail or bond pending further action in the matter.

US President Joe Biden heads back out on the campaign trail Sunday, desperate to salvage his re-election bid as senior Democrats meet to discuss growing calls that he quit the White House race.

The 81-year-old Democrat kicks off a grueling week with two campaign rallies in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, before hosting the NATO leaders’ summit in Washington. 

He will do so under an increasingly unforgiving spotlight, as pressure mounts for him to drop out after his disastrous debate against Donald Trump last month ignited panic over his age and fitness to serve another four years.

Biden has remained defiant, unequivocally declaring — at a rally, to reporters and on social media — that he is fit to serve, the only one who can defeat Trump, and staying in the race. 

“I beat Trump in 2020. I’m going to beat him again in 2024,” his campaign social media account posted Saturday.

But a televised interview with ABC News on Friday has failed to quell concerns. His next major test in the public eye will be a press conference scheduled for Thursday, during the NATO summit. 

So far, five Democratic lawmakers have called on Biden to drop out, with the drumbeat of dissent slowly rising.

The House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, has scheduled a virtual meeting of senior Democrat representatives for Sunday to discuss the best way forward, and Democrat Senator Mark Warner is reportedly working to convene a similar forum in the upper chamber.

First Lady Jill Biden, who — according to some US media reports — is urging her husband to stay in the race, is scheduled to campaign in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina on Monday.

But after Sunday’s rallies in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, the president will have to step away from the campaign for the NATO summit beginning Tuesday.

Here, too, he will find himself having to reassure allies at a time when many European countries fear a Trump victory in November. 

The 78-year-old Republican has long criticized NATO as an unfair burden on the United States, voiced admiration for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, and insisted he could bring about a quick end to the fighting in Ukraine, where the Russian invasion is now in its third year.

– ‘Lord Almighty’ –

For now, Democrat heavyweights are largely keeping a lid on any simmering discontent with their leader — at least in public.

But with election day just four months away, any move to replace Biden as the nominee would need to be made sooner rather than later, and the party will be scrutinized for any signs of more open rebellion.

Meanwhile, for Biden and his campaign team, the strategy seems to be to ride it out.

The campaign has unveiled an intense battle plan for July, including an avalanche of TV spots and trips to all the key states.

That includes a visit to the southwest of the country during the Republican convention from July 15-18, at which Trump is set to be anointed the party’s official presidential nominee. 

In what had been billed as a make-or-break interview with ABC News on Friday, Biden flatly dismissed the falling poll numbers and concerns over his mental and physical fitness triggered by his dismal June 27 performance against Trump.

He blamed a severe cold for the debate debacle and insisted it was just a “bad night” rather than evidence of increasing frailty and cognitive decline.

The sit-down has not soothed the concerns of critics who say that — away from a teleprompter — Biden can struggle to communicate.

Some of his answers were tentative, meandering and difficult to follow, even as he sought to deflect questions about his mental acuity and dismissed the notion that his party would consider replacing him.

“If the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race,’ I’d get out of the race,” he said.

“But the Lord Almighty is not coming down.”

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BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Community members gathered in the heat Saturday to unveil a new marker in Burlington’s Battery Park.

Remembering Vermont soldiers that might not be easily found in a graveyard.

“For me, it’s about bringing history forward,” said Karen Brigham.

Brigham is a member with the Daughters of the American Revolution, Green Mountain Chapter, helping to reveal the new plaque.

Brigham says she has three people in her family that are on the new marker. She says she may not have ever met them but she feels it is her responsibility to keep their memory alive.

“If we don’t commemorate and recognize 1776 today in 2024, it’s only getting further away. The memory, and the paper trail will just get smaller and fade away,” said Brigham.

For the last four years the organization has been working to place the marker in the park. Members wanted a way to remember revolutionary war patriots in unmarked graves across Chittenden County and ended up finding over three hundred twenty soldiers without a stone. They couldn’t mark all the graves so they thought the marker was a perfect way to spread the word about those who have been forgotten.

“Parents with children may be walking through the park, be able to stop and take a look. Maybe there is a name on there. Someone they might know their last name. People will say, hey maybe I am related to a revolutionary war patriot,” said Betty Ann Andrews, also a member of the Green Mountain Chapter, DAR.

And veterans that stopped by the ceremony say they are glad organizers placed the marker in the park.

“I think it is wonderful that we are acknowledging and honoring their sacrifice. Our revolutionary war heroes that really put everything on the line. Family, farms, occupations, everything,” said John Moore of Burlington.

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