Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Angelina Marano starts in June as the new chief operating officer of Fletcher Allen Health Care, part of the hospital’s effort to emerge from a financial scandal; New Hampshire has surpassed Vermont as the nation’s healthiest state; the Vermont Public Interest Research Group is warning that Vermont needs to act now on anti-pollution commitments it made three years ago; Senator Patrick Leahy opposes President Bush’s nominee for the ninth circuit court of appeals.
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