Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Officials from Vermont and Canada are in Essex performing a drill on how to deal with a weapons of mass destruction incident along the border; State Auditor Elizabeth Ready is accusing her Republican challenger of trying to buy the election; the political campaigns at the top of the ticket are competitive in New Hampshire; a Vermont TV station is resisting efforts by prosecutors to get un-aired videotape of last week’s baseball riot at UVM; candidates are on the campaign trail across the state.
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