Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Vermont State police are reporting a shooting incident involving a trooper in the Bethel area, but there are few details so far; state regulators and Vermont Yankee have produced more information on last Friday’s fire at the nuclear energy plant in Vernon; Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell has been named president of the National Association of Attorneys General; the oldest two of the eight young eagles being raised in Vermont have flown the coop and the younger six will be ready to fly by the Fourth of July; the Brattleboro School Board is considering changes in the high school dress code, which hasn’t been updated in ten years; the Boys’ State and Girls’ State young leadership conventions are underway.
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