Here are the top stories at the noon hour.
Vermont lawmakers are finding the new Federal rules on identification documents expensive to implement; Vermont’s Congressional delegation says Iraq seems to be trying harder to come apart than to put itself together; the new Barre police chief say fighting crime will take more than police. the state plans to test the soil around the Bennington State Office Building, where an unsually high number of employees have come down with a rare disease; Ed Brown is still holed up in his house in Plainfeield New Hampshire, newly convicted of tax evasion.