Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Legislators have agreed on a $955 million spending limit in the next Vermont budget; Vermont Yankee has reported that fuel rod parts last accounted for in 1979 are not at the bottom of the spent fuel pool; two Vermont inmates who says they were sexually abused in a private Kentucky prison are being sent back to Vermont to finish their sentences; Governor Jim Douglas signed into law a bill to prevent bullying at schools; the Vermont Folklife Center hands out its annual awards tonight in Middlebury.
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