Nearly 40-thousand runners and spectators will be in Burlington this Sunday for the annual KeyBank Vermont City Marathon. Security is tighter than in past years due to the bombing nearly six weeks ago at the Boston Marathon.

Days after the tragedy, race officials and the Burlington Police Department met to reassess security protocols for the Vermont City Marathon.  Run Vermont Executive Director Peter Delaney says the plan is set by police, with information from race officials.

Fri 5/21/13 Noon & 7PM How can the Republican Party connect with mainstream America? Former Governor Jim Douglas talks with Bob Kinzel about the future of Vermont's GOP. We'll also hear from Pete Hirschfeld of the Vermont Press Bureau.

VPR will air live NPR coverage of President Obama's speech today at 2 p.m. at the National Defense University in Washington, DC.

He is expected to announce major changes in US foreign policy regarding the use of drone airstrikes overseas. He is also expected to talk about the issue of detainees in Guantanamo prison.

Host Neal Conan will be joined in the studio by NPR counter-terrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and senior Washington editor Ron Elving. 

High school students who have autism now have more options than ever for enrolling in college and succeeding there. On the next Vermont Edition, we look at programs that provide social and academic support for college students on the autism spectrum.

A field of 524 individuals registered for the first KeyBank Vermont City Marathon in 1989 and 414 of them completed the 26.2-mile course. In the 23 subsequent races, the number of runners who have finished every marathon has shrunk to an elite group of five.

A Massachusetts developer has proposed a power line under Lake Champlain to carry renewable electricity from northern New York into the New England grid.

Anbaric Transmission has developed several challenging projects, including an undersea power line that connects Long Island and New Jersey via Long Island Sound.

Magic Hat Brewing is suing a Kentucky brewery over its corporate logo, which it says is a trademark infringement.

West Sixth Brewing's logo has a numeral 6 and a star-like symbol. Magic Hat says it's too much like its No. 9 beer label, which has a 9 and a star-like symbol.

Ben Self, co-founder of West Sixth Brewing, says he will stop the brewery's online logo petition calling for a stop to "corporate bullying" if Magic Hat drops its lawsuit.

Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed into law a novel measure aimed at protecting companies from so-called patent trolling — the practice of making deceptive claims of patent infringement in the hopes of collecting licensing or settlement money.

The new law, believed to be the first in the nation, allows courts to consider if a claim is deceptive, specifies factors that can be considered as evidence, and provides for damages or relief to Vermont companies wrongly pressured into paying licensing fees or a settlement.