Midday Newscast: October 17, 2007

Vermont’s dominant phone company has admitted to Congress that it turned over customer phone records to the government without a warrant; Barack Obama’s Vermont supporters are getting his name on next winter’s presidential primary ballot; Vermont plans to use a $150,000 grant from a federal agency to conduct a census of the state’s barns; student government at the University of Vermont has rejected a proposal that would have prevented the American Red Cross from collecting blood on campus.