Newscast: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 7:34 a.m.

The Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington will not lose its Medicare and Medicaid funding. After a six-month struggle to correct a string of violations, a final inspection completed yesterday found the home in compliance with federal rules. Vermont got a taste of presidential politics this week when Mitt Romney’s campaign complained that Vermont’s secretary of state didn’t get ballots to members of the military on time. But Secretary of State Jim Condos says it’s just political posturing by Romney.