Meth Houses: The Sheriff's Department in Jefferson County Missouri has started posting the locations where evidence of methamphetamine production has been found. An AP story, by Betsy Taylor in today's San Francisco Chronicle, reports that the public can log on to the Sheriff's website and find the Meth house addresses in their neighborhoods. The link is here. Missouri leads the nation for meth lab incidents.

Gitmo Hearings: A U.S. District judge has expressed concerns about the closed hearings regarding Guantanamo Bay detainees that he will conduct, according to this Associated Press story by Matt Apuzzo. For national security reasons, the public and the detainees themselves cannot attend the hearings, where Military Intelligence information regarding terrorists will be presented. The Judge worries that unless the hearings are at least partially open, civil liberties groups will criticize them as unfair.

An undeterred murderer serving two life sentences in Indiana will face the death penalty for killing his cellmate according to this story by News & Tribune reporter Matt Thacker. Zahariah Melcher received a life sentence in 2006 for murdering his wife and child, and hiding their bodies in a storage container. Last March, he strangled Nicholas Roman in their cell. In another story, Michael Gibson, an Indiana inmate serving 119 years for attempted murder, strangled and drowned his cellmate as reported by WTHI writer Mike Grant. Prosecutors will also seek the death penalty in his case.