Top stories developing around the region at the noon hour:
Martha Rainville receives endorsements from Republican lawmakers in Montpelier; discussion continues around whether premises ID and animal ID would stem the spread of animal diseases; Vermont health and safety officials hold a regional flu pandemic summit tonight for first responders in the Upper Valley; Bellows Falls Police Chief Keith Clark joins the race to replace Sheila Prue as Windham County sheriff; the Coventry town clerk faces charges that she embezzled money from a private company where she worked as a bookkeeper; a federal judge says Radio Free Brattleboro can never again broadcast unless the station gets a license from the Federal Communications Commission.