Around VT authorities are preparing for Hurricane Sandy. The future of health care in Vermont has emerged as a key issue in the race for Treasurer. A man charged with killing his former boss at the Brattleboro Food Co-op has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Federal prosecutors say a Florida woman is facing charges she smuggled firearms to Canada by transferring them to a Canadian co-conspirator in a library that straddles the border between Vermont and Quebec.