Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Judicial Retention Committee of the Vermont Legislature reviews the performances four sitting justices of the State Supreme Court; a doctor who practices in Plainfield leaves on Friday for a month in Indonesia, where he will help with tsunami relief efforts; the developer of a proposed Wal-Mart store in St. Albans town says his company will pay for an independent review of traffic and economic impact the store would have; Vermont has joined a multi-state settlement against three affiliated insurance companies charged with improperly denying disability claims; the seventy-first Vermont Farm Show opens in Barre today.
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