Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Congressman Bernie Sanders says the fight to roll back portions of the Patriot Act will continue; Vice President Cheney’s wife says his obscene comments to a Vermont senator were both understandable and out of character; Vermonters are remembering billionaire Laurance Rockefeller, whose conservation efforts created the state’s first national park; the Vermont Secretary of State’s office has published an etiquette brochure for interacting with people with disabilities.
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