Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Vermont Assistant Attorney General Julie Brill goes before the House Commerce Committee to testify about identity theft; several senators express their unhappiness with an administration shakeup during a cabinet confirmation hearing; almost all the members of the State Senate are attending the funeral of the late State Senator Julius Canns in St. Johnsbury; Governor Jim Douglas meets with President Bush’s new secretary of Health and Human Services; seven Army National Guard truck drivers who’ve been serving in Iraq will arrive in Vermont tomorrow.
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