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NPR's Robert Siegel speaks to Erika Aguilar, a reporter for Southern California Public Radio, about the search for three inmates who escaped a maximum-security jail. The dramatic escape has also prompted an internal investigation to find out if anyone inside the jail helped them break out.

For her son's second birthday, L'erin Dobra of Prairieville, La., chose to throw him a Morris Bart-themed party. Dobra's son is a huge fan of the commercials Bart stars in for a personal injury firm.

Richard Overton is the oldest living American veteran of World War II, according to the White House. He turns 109 on Monday. Overton spends most days on the front porch of his home in Austin, Texas.

As you listen to Morning Edition on Tuesday, pay special attention to the music you hear between stories. The band Yo La Tengo will be in the NPR studios, accompanying the show while it's live on the air.

In Texas, the Prairie View City Council has voted to rename a street as "Sandra Bland Parkway." Bland was arrested by police after a traffic stop and later died in jail.

If you look up between 9 and 10 p.m. ET on Sunday, you're likely to see an extra-large, crimson full moon — as it undergoes a lunar eclipse. Astronomer Jackie Faherty of the Carnegie Institution breaks down the celestial situation that's causing it.

Criminal justice experts say deciding whether young people should face adult courts at age 18 looks increasingly arbitrary, given the state of science on brain development. They want to see a change.

Author and journalist A.J. Jacobs has made a career of being an amateur. He talks about the year he spent living biblically — following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.

Two West Point graduates have become the first women to complete the grueling Army Ranger course. NPR profiles the women, who will graduate at Fort Benning, Georgia, on Friday.

Throughout his memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, Costello grapples with parallels to his father's life. "In the end, music was playing in the room when my father left this earth," he says.

Iconic architecture, long a subject for academics and designers, is being explored with sound in a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.

Novelist, screenwriter and film producer Mollie Gregory speaks to NPR's Rachel Martin about her new book, Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, and the women who can do anything!