The White House plans to announce Tuesday that the government will acquire an Illinois state prison. That prison will likely become the home to about 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees. (Dec. 15)
Prison officials say an inmate who took an employee hostage at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center in southern Illinois has been shot and killed. The hostage was a 62-year-old female employee, who officials say is under medical evaluation. (Dec....
...
Here's the latest news for Monday, Dec. 14: President Obama grades himself; Accenture drops Tiger Woods; Search continues for missing climbers in Oregon; Toyota unveils plug-in hybrids.
Twenty-six operations to put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: A team of doctors in the nation's capital just performed a 13-way kidney swap -- the largest kidney exchange ever recorded. (Dec.14)
Two high school students are dead after an auto accident late Saturday night in Montgomery County, Jamie Smith speaks exclusively with the parents of one of the victims.