Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Vermont’s Catholic churches face consolidation due to a shortage of priests; a U.S. Marine is charged with assaulting his parents in Colchester; Congress approves a budget for Amtrak that is considerably less than the amount the rail corporation says it needs to operate; four Pennsylvania men spend a subzero night and day in the woods after getting lost outside the boundaries at Killington Resort; Barre School language teacher Karen Heath is named Vermont’s teacher of the year.
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