Here are the top stories at the noon hour.
Vermont’s Attorney General speaks out on how some of the state’s tobacco settlement money should be used; the Governor says he’ll address the property tax issue in his budget address next week; so far in this generally mild winter there haven’t been many combinations of high winds and low temperatures, like the events that produced last night’s wind chill advisories; in Plainfield New Hampshire, a few miles from White River Junction, a man fighting tax evasion charges has barricaded himself in his hilltop home, saying he is prepared for an armed standoff.