Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The University of Vermont prepares to break ground for its big new student center; Senator Patrick Leahy fine tunes a bill to set guidelines for asbestos lawsuits; Leahy and New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg try to get notorious Liberian warlord Charles Taylor put on trial; Vermonters enlist in the Peace Corps; Vermonters react to news of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker sighting.
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