Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
No Vermonters were among the four soldiers killed in a bomb attack 30 miles south of Baghdad; the Business and Industry Expo opens tomorrow in Burlington; planners in Brattleboro will pass along a recommendation for a temporary 65,000 square foot size limit on retail stores; a federal mediator has been assigned to the labor dispute that has closed seven schools in an Orleans County Supervisory Union.
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