Midday Newscast: February 18, 2008

Legislators are divided over a bill aimed at making it easier to build modestly priced housing closer to town centers; Owls are struggling to find food in New Hampshire this winter; a weekend of searching the Middlebury College campus for a missing student turned up nothing; the Vermont Air National Guard is hoping that it will be able to replace its aging fleet of F-16 fighter planes with the F-35 Lightening II; the Woodstock Water Buffalo dairy in Woodstock has closed its doors and is liquidating its assets.