Midday Newscast April 24, 2008

Many fire wardens across Vermont will not issue a burn permit for the rest of the spring because they’re worried about wildfires; Vermont legislators are on an overtime schedule this week as they move closer to adjournment. Vermont’s congressional delegation wants Defense Secretary Robert Gates to give his personal attention to service members’ difficulty returning from overseas deployments; Vermont State Police say they’ve charged a woman who shot her husband to death during a family fight last weekend.