Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Funeral services will be held this weekend for Christopher Gelineau, who was killed in combat in Iraq earlier this month; Vermont’s DNA databank helped solve a fatal hit and run in New York; Governor Jim Douglas and NASA representatives will recognize two students from the Northeast Kingdom, who won first place in an engineering challenge; Agriculture Secretary Steve Kerr comments on two pending agriculture bills; New Hampshire lawmakers are debating whether to make it illegal to recognize same-sex marriages performed out of state.
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