Here are the top stories at the noon hour.
It is more than thirteen months until the Presidential primary in New Hampshire, but already the maneuvering among candidates has begun; the field of candidates for Mayor of Rutland gets larger; the state’s top law enforcement office says legalizing drugs would be a profound mistake; the pilot who was killed in a plane crash in Wilmington over the weekend has been identified as 65-year-old Robert B. North of West Dover; a Fairfield mother is facing child cruelty charges for leaving her two children in a car in a parking garage in Burlington; a Toronto man is expected to be charged today in the death of a former Norwich University hockey captain.