Newscast: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 7:34 a.m.

The Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington faces some crucial decisions and deadlines in the next week or so. A tripartisan group of seven of Vermont’s eight mayors gathered at the Statehouse yesterday to endorse Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin’s re-election effort. State police suspect speed played a role in two deadly car crashes on Vermont roads Monday. Officials in the New Hampshire city of Berlin are trying to prevent the spread of bed bugs.