Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The state auditor charges Windham County Sheriff Sheila Prue with using public money for a wide array of personal expenses; the Legislature looks at laws governing public access to government documents; Bernie Sanders joins the TV ad game in his race against Rich Tarrant for the U.S. Senate; farmers begin some spring chores; a hearing is scheduled for tonight in Brattleboro on the Vermont Yankee evacuation plan; a Claremont, NH woman is charged with throwing a drinking party for about 20 teens.