Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
A Vermont Army National Guard soldier wounded in Iraq this May has returned home; fifty other Vermont National Guardsmen return home tomorrow after serving a year in Afghanistan; candidates in statewide races are on the campaign trail today; federal funding for the Vermont State Hospital could be restored by the end of November; work crews in Coventry are still cleaning up after the Phish concert held there last month.
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