Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Four men from New York and a Massachusetts teenager are jailed in Rutland on multiple counts of kidnapping; state officials expect a large crowd in Brattleboro tonight for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting on Vermont Yankee; Senator Patrick Leahy spends a second day at the United Nations in New York; Stephen Benard is sworn in as Rutland County sheriff.
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