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KACHINA VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Residents living about 3 miles away from a wildfire in a scenic Arizona canyon are under pre-evacuation warnings, as firefighters try to stop the blaze from advancing. Fire officials say they have made progress in fighting the fire in and around Oak Creek Canyon, which burned more than 11 ½ square miles from Tuesday to Thursday. Sedona businesses, including tour companies, are encouraging Memorial holiday travelers to still come.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is bringing back the electric chair. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law yesterday, allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates if there's a shortage of lethal injection drugs. There are other states that give death row inmates a choice of being put to death by execution. The Tennessee law does not give that option.
CHICAGO (AP) — Later today, President Barack Obama is expected to nominate Democratic San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro as the next housing secretary. Obama wants current housing secretary Shaun Donovan to serve as budget director.
ARLINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of American flags are now at the resting places of service members at Arlington National Cemetery and the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery in Northwest Washington. There are more than 280,000 gravestones and niches for cremated remains to place those flags, and each year soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry are given that task. The Old Guard's annual "Flags In" project takes place just before the Memorial Day weekend. It's been part of the Old Guard's mission since 1948.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The owner of the Atomic Grill in Morgantown, West Virginia says he got offended when a customer suggested that his servers "show more skin." Daniel McCawley says the comment "hit home" because he has a wife, a 12-year-old daughter and five sisters. So McCawley decided that his restaurant would show more skin — potato skins. And he says the money made from selling those potato skins this holiday weekend will go to a West Virginia rape crisis center.
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