Morning Newscast: March 18, 2008

Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.: Five-hundred fewer businesses registered with the state of Vermont in 2007 than in previous years. That’s the according to the Secretary of State’s Corporations Division, which oversees business registrations; The economic news is bleak and the U.S. dollar keeps falling. But there may be a bit of a silver lining, the state’s ski areas are getting a boost from foreign skiers…