Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Jury selection begins today in federal court in Burlington, in the capital murder case of Donald Fell; the Vermont House has a plan to help the elderly and disabled pay for prescription drugs that they might not otherwise be able to afford under a new federal Medicare law; a woman who was accused of leading police on a high-speed chase will not face criminal charges because she was rushing her 9-month-old son to a Middlebury hospital for burn treatment; a funeral service will be held tomorrow for Leonard Wing Junior, retired Brigadier General of the Vermont Army National Guard.
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