Top stories developing around the region at the noon hour:
Peace advocates gather at the Statehouse to say American troops in Iraq should come home now; scores of businesses will be honored this afternoon for being in business more than a century; Manchester officials are hopeful that improvements are on the way for one of the state’s more notorious intersections; New Hampshire’s unemployment rate went up a fraction in February, but still is lower than the national average.
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