Gov. Bill Lee is again tapping former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton to lead an investigation into Tennessee’s execution protocols.

The architect of Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocols is stepping down as leader of the Department of Correction after a second failed execution this year.

Plaintiffs’ attorney says Department of Energy will reimburse company for settlement costs

Concerns about partisan political influence in Kentucky’s judicial elections are growing, as Gov. Andy Beshear and GOP lawmakers are taking sides in a Court of Appeals race.

Big Rivers, an electric utility serving several Western Kentucky counties, is telling the state regulator it anticipates keeping its existing coal-fired and natural gas-fired power plants open beyond 2050. That projection comes amid state and federal efforts seeking to boost fossil fuel-fired power.

U.S. Senator and Tennessee governor hopeful Marsha Blackburn is calling for the state to use the electric chair for executions.

Hill co-starred in HBO's Somebody Somewhere and has hosted drag king shows and queer cabarets. "This is my mantra … if you don't see yourself represented, go out and represent yourself," he says.

Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.

Endgame and Avatar have been jockeying for the title for years now.

The campaign is led in part by India's "Cockroach" youth movement, which previously forced the education minister to resign.

State media cited investigators who said the network recruited people to ride motorcycles through neighborhoods at night, trapping up to 10 cats a night.

Morning Edition is heading to Maine, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan to hear what voters say is shaping their choices ahead of the midterm elections.