Newscast: Friday, January 25, 2013, 5:50 p.m.

Attorney General Bill Sorrell will not file criminal charges against a state police officer who fired a stun gun at an unarmed man last June; Advocates for the poor say they’re disappointed with the spending priorities that Governor Shumlin laid out in his budget speech this week, and commentator David Moats  takes a Whitmanesque tour of America.