Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Leader of the Vermont Senate says Vermont Yankee has lost credibility as well as fuel rod pieces; political and military leaders are talking about the need for more troops in Iraq and elsewhere, if they can be found; Senator Patrick Leahy says Justice Antonin Scalia should recuse himself from a case involving Vice President Cheney’s energy task force; veteran state senator Gary Gossens of Addison County will not run for re-election in the fall. (To hear the Midday Report, click on the “Listen” icon.)