Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Republican Senatorial candidate Jack McMullen launches a pair of campaign ads aimed at incumbent Patrick Leahy; an inmate accused of gouging the eye of a Springfield prison guard has pleaded innocent to simple assault; this weekend in Vermont, you can buy a computer without paying state sales tax on it; promoters of next week’s Phish concert are renting out a local radio station to provide updates on traffic and to broadcast the concert; a Whitingham man has been ordered to repay Medicaid money he was accused of stealing from a nonprofit organization he once directed.
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