Funeral services will be held in Vergennes in about two hours for Specialist Alan Bean, the second of two Vermont Army National Guardsmen killed last week in combat in Iraq; a Johnson man is due in court Monday to answer charges that he murdered his wife; Rutland firefighters say the net loss of three firefighters after an early buyout program will threaten community safety; prosecutors in southern Vermont say a 78-year-old man found dead in his driveway in Townshend was murdered; update on Vermont’s congressional delegation; Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi delivers today’s commencement address at Bennington College.
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