Ken Stanford

Hundreds of firefighters are working to protect communities from a wildfire chewing up a scenic Arizona canyon, but some business owners worry that the blaze will keep customers away from the premier tourist area over the important holiday weekend.

As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a backdrop of scarce drugs and botched executions, Tennessee has come up with an alternative: the electric chair.

FBI Director James B. Comey has named Christopher Todd Doss assistant director of the agency's Laboratory Division. Doss most recently served as the deputy assistant director for the division.

Six couples filed a federal lawsuit Thursday seeking to block South Dakota's gay marriage ban, leaving North Dakota as the only state in the country with an unchallenged law prohibiting same-sex weddings.

General Motors is telling Wall Street that a recent spate of recalls may last until mid-summer as the company continues to review unresolved safety issues.

The Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention (CFFP) Program Committee has awarded the 2014 Silver Smokey Bear Award to Mike Davis, Fire Management Officer for the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests in Georgia.