Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Public Service Commissioner says he doubts the spent fuel rods missing from Vermont Yankee are in the power plant’s spent fuel pool; funding for Rutland’s rail yard relocation in bogged down in Congress; Senator Jim Jeffords’ criticizes President Bush’s environmental record; Dartmouth College launches a research service for public issue questions that may become legislation.
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