Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Retailers report on the end of the holiday shopping season; Vermont’s Congressional delegation enters the new year fighting some familiar legislative battles; an environmental group says it may be zeroing in on the specific types of pollution that have led to a 20-year decline in wild trout populations; on the presidential campaign trail, all nine Democratic candidates are concentrating on New Hampshire and Iowa.
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