Midday Newscast: March 12, 2008

The weather may be starting to warm up. But there’s still a danger that roofs piled with water-laden snow and ice could collapse; Vermont Democrats are trying to figure out whether to field a candidate for governor; Vermont’s unemployment rate climbed three-tenths of a point in January; the newly elected constable in Brighton will try again after failing the entrance exam to the Vermont Police Academy.

Midday Newscast, September 26, 2007

Brattleboro’s beleaguered town government has a new manager; Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Kerry Sleeper says an increase in serious crime over the past year has been alarming; persistent dry weather for the past two months has started to cause some problems; a boater from Vermont is safe after the Coast Guard rescued him and a companion from a homemade boat about one mile off the New Jersey shore.