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Lego — the world's most valuable toy company — has created a multimedia empire that runs on fans not only using Lego to build things, but as the basis for creating entirely new projects.

The frequency of severe storms is focusing new scrutiny on whether to build in coastal, flood-prone areas. That's a question facing city leaders in Norwalk, Conn., a city on Long Island Sound. They're hoping to upgrade a public housing project using federal dollars.

Dutch architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Rem Koolhaas's first U.S. project opens to the public Saturday in Chicago. The student center at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) campus has bright orange glass and a stainless steel tube on top that the Chicago elevated train passes through. Edward Lifson of Chicago Public Radio reports.

Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at BNH Stage in Concord for a live taping of The Middle!

The Department of Homeland Security will award aerospace giant Boeing a contract to provide high-tech methods to catch illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Boeing's "virtual fence" concept includes an estimated 1,800 towers along the border equipped with cameras and motion sensors.

President-elect Barack Obama names Gov. Bill Richardson Secretary of Commerce in his administration, and Saxby Chambliss wins the Senate run-off in Georgia. Plus, former governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has some recommendations to get Republicans moving the "right" way.

A gunman opened fire outside the Empire State Building on Friday, shooting and wounding several people. The Associated Press reported that the gunman had recently been fired, and that he shot a former colleague to death.

Most telescope cameras can only capture a small patch of sky at a time. But a new camera has a much larger field of view, and its backers are hoping for help in deciphering its reams of data.

A ceremony in New York City commemorates the placement of a 20-ton granite cornerstone at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center towers. The stone is part of the replacement skyscraper called the Freedom Tower. We hear from John Foy, who attended today's ceremony and whose mother-in-law died in the attacks.

Experts say the ruins are part of a residential community in what was the ancient capital city of Memphis. They also found a Roman bath and an ornate basin perhaps used for religious rituals.