Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Vermonters will have six presidential candidates from which to choose on the November ballot; Howard Dean promotes his new book and campaigns in Rutland for Democratic legislative candidates; Attorney General William Sorrell presides over a National Youth Smoking Conference in Burlington; gubernatorial candidate Peter Clavelle has $44,000 on hand going into the final month of the campaign; Republican Jim Douglas has more than $200,000 to finance the final month of his re-election campaign.
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