Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Dignitaries are gathering at the Champlain Mill in Winooski to launch Phase One of the ambitious plan to re-make downtown Winooski; Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell announces that, as of tomorrow, identity theft will become an official crime in Vermont; the Rutland Area Physical Activity Coalition says the best way to fight the state’s growing obesity problem is to get moving; the New Hampshire man accused of killing a Vermont State Police trooper with his car last year pleaded guilty today to involuntary manslaughter.
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