Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Howard Dean speaks to the Democratic National Convention on national TV and radio tonight at 9 o’clock; the two leading gubernatorial candidates agree on a schedule of at least a half-dozen debates; the Manchester, New Hampshire airport is one of eight across the country that’s testing a new system for baggage screening; efforts to mediate a lawsuit by two member communities of the Mount Anthony Union school district seem to have broken down.
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