Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Vermont State Senate is about to pass a bill that would add annual cost-of-living adjustments to the state’s $7.00 minimum wage; a woman critically sickened by a carbon monoxide leak near the University of Vermont is improving; Howard Dean is poised to become the chair of the Democratic National Committee; a former member of the Twelve Tribes Community Church in Island Pond has been charged with sexual misconduct involving children; Corinth and Topsham in Orange County are still the most affected by power outages from the latest heavy snowfall.
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