Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The dean of the University of Vermont Medical School, Dr. Joseph Warshaw, has died of cancer at 67; Vermont is about to open a new kind of court to deal with addiction cases; an American Research Group poll shows that former Vermont Governor Howard Dean still holds a big lead in New Hampshire; Democrats in the Vermont Legislature laid out their vision of health care legislation this morning; the Board of Education, which wants to make it easier to get bad teachers out of classrooms; the 125-year-old weekly Vermont newspaper – the Northfield News – will not end publication this week as planned.
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