Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Howard Dean will make an announcement this afternoon that may reveal the future of his presidential campaign; Senator Jim Jeffords announces federal funds for a South Burlington project; the Vermont Teddy Bear Company says its newly acquired flower delivery business has caused a jump in profits and revenues in its second quarter of the fiscal year; there will be a hearing next month in Montpelier to determine whether workers at the Capitol Plaza Hotel should join restaurant workers in a potential union vote; a series of hearings on wind energy continues tonight in Rutland.
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