Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Lawmakers at odds with each other and with the governor over how to expand health care coverage; Lt. Governor Brian Dubie addresses an international energy forum in Montreal; a UVM rowing coach is charged with driving 126 mph on I-89; tent caterpillars are threatening Vermont’s maple trees; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center plans a new substance abuse program.
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