Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Fish and Wildlife Department will issue stiffer penalties this fall for hunters who shoot deer from the road or from a vehicle; this afternoon in Springfield the Vermont Corrections Department holds its second public hearing on health care for prison inmates; a Bennington man is finishing a cross-country bicycle trip he started nearly a decade ago but had to put on hold after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis; inmates at the Women’s Correctional Facility participate in a program to grow organic produce for schools in the Windsor area.
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