Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Governor Jim Douglas tries to expand the eligibility rules for the earned income tax credit, which benefits low-income wage earners; Major General Martha Rainville has been re-elected as commander of the Vermont National Guard; Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz introduces young Vermonters to the Town Meeting tradition and thereby tries to keep it going; the Vermont Senate has approved roughly $30 million in adjustments to the current year’s state budget; Mia Hendricks is in jail in Rutland, charged with stabbing two store clerks in an attempted robbery.
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