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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reports that a contractor for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet switched the new 38-mile section of Interstate 69 in…

Pastor Tim Kuhn held a prayer vigil in his home after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

Claudio Sanchez talks to Robert Siegel about what schools do to assure that students understand safety procedures.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy spoke at a mass for victims of a elementary school shooting in Newtown.

Audie Cornish talks to Craig Lemoult about the latest in the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

The city's Plan for Transformation aims to diversify public-housing units, adding a mix of market-rate and subsidized residences. But the project, one of the country's most closely watched public housing experiments, has been hampered by the flailing economy and faces protests from people living in the units.

Republicans are insisting on more austere entitlement programs as leaders negotiate a deal to keep the nation from going over the "fiscal cliff" in the new year. But many Democrats are wary of including any far-reaching and long-lasting entitlement reforms in a hastily thrown-together deal.

Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon speaks with NPR Justice Correspondent Carrie Johnson about the latest news of the law enforcement investigation into Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.

Live updates about one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history — the attack on an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Twenty young children and six adults were murdered. The man identified as the killer and one other person at a home in Newtown are also dead.

Empty, forgotten, forlorn — the curbside recycling bin can seem like a sort of existential low point for all those soda bottles, tin cans, egg cartons and other containers whose contents we consume. But then – voila! Sorted for recycling, they become a thing of beauty.