Top stories developing around the region at the noon hour:
Snowboarder Hannah Teter of Belmost wins a gold medal in the half-pipe; skier Bode Miller of New Hampshire is disqualified from the men’s combined Alpine; Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop, has started treatment for alcoholism; a poll suggests a lack of public knowledge about mercury in teeth fillings; divers plan to recover more artifacts from an important Revolutionary War battle on Lake Champlain.
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