Ken Stanford

Hemmed in by solid Republican opposition, the Senate seems ready to hand a fresh defeat to President Barack Obama by blocking an election-year bill increasing the federal minimum wage.

Clark Atlanta University President Carlton E. Brown has announced plans to retire in June of 2015.

In the latest blow from a dayslong chain of severe weather across the South and Midwest, the Florida Panhandle and Alabama Gulf Coast were hit with widespread flooding early Wednesday, with people stranded in cars and homes waiting for rescuers to find a way around impassable roads and others abandoning vehicles to walk to safety.

Oklahoma prison officials halted an inmate's execution after a new drug combination left the man writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney. He later died of a heart attack.

Expect a dreary report Wednesday when the government issues its first estimate of how fast the U.S. economy grew in the January-March quarter.

Police have identified the gunman who shot six people at a FedEx package-sorting center before taking his own life.

Chicopee Woods Nature Preserve will become part of the national Old-Growth Forest Network next month.