The World 9/8/11

THURSDAY

Ohio officials sold the Lake Erie Correctional Institution, an 11-year-old prison housing about 1,500 nonviolent prisoners, to the Corrections Corporation of America for $72.7 million. The state will now pay the Nashville-based company to run the facility

Nate Smith, the 11-year-old Minnesota boy who made an amazing hockey shot last month into a small hole from center ice while standing in for his identical twin brother Nate, will not get a $50,000 prize. The company that insured the event, Odds On Promotions of Reno, Nevada, will donate $20,000 to youth hockey in Minnesota in the twi...