Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
A teachers’ strike in Orleans ends with a contract tentative agreement; the Vermont House prepares to debate the so-called morning after pill; Congressman Bernie Sanders votes in favor of a stem cell research bill; a compromise is reached on a vetoed state pension bill; a controversial Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 91 in Hartford is being scaled back.
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