Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Vermont State Teachers’ Retirement Board opposes President Bush’s Social Security reforms; the Senate debates a motion to override a veto by Governor Jim Douglas; Governor Douglas makes a public appeal to keep some violent sexual predators in treatment after their sentences expire; a railroad developer proposes passenger service between Portland and Montreal through New Hampshire and Vermont; the legal fight over who controls the fate of Terri Schaivo prompts people to think about their own end-of-life wishes; Howard Dean visits Tennessee.
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