Newscast: Monday, June 25, 2012, 7:34 a.m.

As economists and policy makers study Vermont’s employment numbers, they’ve seen an interesting pattern in recent months. Even as the unemployment rate goes down, there are fewer people working. An eyewitness is disputing a police account of what happened to a 39-year-old Thetford man who died after being shot in the chest with a stun gun. At the Library of Congress in Washington this morning, lawmakers and higher education officials will celebrate the 150^th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Morrill Act.