Top stories developing across the country at the noon hour:
The Vermont State Employees’ Association will appeal the decertification of the Vermont State Hospital; Secretary of State Deb Markowitz has declared Town Meeting Day 2005 a success; Howard Dean tells Democrats in Mississippi that the party will no longer concede the South to Republicans; Senator Patrick Leahy continues his questioning of appeals court nominee William Myers; voters in Montgomery have rejected a plan for expanded sheriff’s patrols in three towns.
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