Midday Newscast: February 20, 2008

School administrators across Vermont have had to deal this week with some of the frozen beef that the federal government ordered recalled over the weekend; scientists say they still don’t understand the affliction that has caused thousands of bats to die in Vermont, New York and now Massachusetts; a young bull moose’s popularity with the public in the central Vermont town of Rochester helped lead top his death; a graduate of Vermont’s Norwich University is the new regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service