Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.:
Senator Patrick Leahy is scheduled to address the Democratic National Convention next week; Supporters of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant are defending its operating record in the face of a call by a consumer and environmental group that it be shut down when its current license expires in 2012; Community Health Services of Lamoille Valley is the most recent clinic to win the federal community health center designation; The Burlington Fire Department is recognizing a Shelburne man for saving a 15-year-old boy from drowning last year in Lake Champlain.