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Gov. Larry Hogan announced the closure of the Baltimore City Men's Detention Center on Thursday. The jail, which is run by the state, has been plagued by corruption and deplorable conditions.

The explosion collapsed a part of the building and happened just as a utility crew had been on site looking for a gas leak at Bristol Health & Rehab Center in Bristol Township, just outside Philadelphia.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Cynthia Cook from the Center for International and Strategic Studies about why naval shipbuilding in the U.S. has become so difficult lately.

At least a dozen victims are dead after a shooting at a Virginia Beach, Va., municipal center Friday afternoon. The shooter is also dead.

Eighteen U.S. passengers have returned stateside after weeks on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak. They're being monitored at specialized medical facilities.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jack Schmidt, director of the Center for Colorado River Studies at Utah State University, about new record low water levels in two major reservoirs.

Israeli Prime-Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat have joined President Clinton for peace talks at Camp David outside Washington DC. The two leaders left sharply divided public opinion at home -- Prime Minister Barak narrowly survived a no-confidence vote in the Parliament yesterday -- to attempt to make progress in their negotiations, which have been stalled for some time. Linda talks with NPR's Ted Clark who is at the media center near Camp David.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports on the first day of a two-day meeting about the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800. Members of the National Transportation Safety Board are discussing what the staff has compiled on the crash. They're also preparing to approve the staff report on the probable cause. The board is expected to vote tomorrow, and release safety recommendations. The staff has concluded, as has long been accepted, that the center fuel tank exploded and destroyed the airplane, killing all 230 people on board.

The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing that airlines be required to improve the fuel system wiring and vent systems on Boeing 737s. The proposed rules, which are now in a 45-day comment period, stem from the investigation of the TWA Flight 800 explosion. The cause of that blast has not been determined, but the investigation turned up the possibility that sparks could reach the center fuel tank where fuel vapors could ignite. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

A new study by researchers at Duke University and the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs Medical Center found that television medical programs such as "ER" and "Chicago Hope" give viewers an overly optimistic impression of the effectiveness of certain medical procedures...particularly cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The percentage of people who survive cardiac arrest after receiving CPR is far lower than represented on television programs. Linda talks with one of the authors of the study, Dr. James Tulsky, about how the portrayal of miraculous recoveries on television may ultimately undermine trust in doctors and scientific data.