Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Howard Dean says he’s honored to win the Vermont primary; Secretary of State Deb Markowitz discusses Town Meeting votes on school budgets; the U.S. Second Circuit Court of appeals has overturned a death penalty ruling in the case of accused murderer Donald Fell; Governor Jim Douglas is in the southwestern corner of the state for most of the day.
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