Here are the top stories at the noon hour.
Senators Jim Jeffords and Senator Patrick Leahy, usually in lockstep on important issues, are differring over gubernatorial endorsements; the two main contenders for the Jeffords seat in the Senate have displayed their differences in another debate; the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, was in Vermont yesterday, and addressed a full house at Middlebury College’s Mead Memorial Chapel.