Here are the top stories at noon:
With most of Vermont’s precincts reporting, Obama has 59 percent to Clinton’s 39 percent; Secretary of State Deb Markowitz says turnout yesterday was at 41 percent, which breaks a record set in 1980; Burlington voters approved a bond to renovate the Moran plant, and a bond to update a power plant; Middlebury approved a bond for a new in-town bridge, and a local option tax to fund it; Voters in East Montpelier passed a moratorium on groundwater extraction.