Here are the top stories at the noon hour.
Rutland police are searching for the person who fired a bullet into the occupied home of a local police officer; about 60 children of Vermont military veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will be eligible for a new college scholarship paid for by the family of one of the founders of the IDX software company; a Rutland County business official is complaining about state plans to delay a project to improve U.S. Route 7; and in part three of our series, The Year in Review: 2006, Steve Delaney looks at how crime and punishment frequently made news this past year.