By ERIK SCHELZIG of Associated Press 

Tennessee brings back the electric chair-

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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.

Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event prisons are unable to obtain the drugs, which have become more and more scarce following a European-led boycott of drug sales for executions.
Tennessee lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the electric chair legislation in April, with the Senate voting 23-3 and the House 68-13 in favor of the bill.

Tennessee is the first state to enact a law to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that opposes executions and tracks the issue.

"There are states that allow inmates to choose, but it is a very different matter for a state to impose a method like electrocution," he said. "No other state has gone so far."

Dieter said he expects legal challenges to arise if the state decides to go through with an electrocution, both on the grounds of whether the state could prove that lethal injection drugs were not obtainable and on the grounds of constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

Republican state Sen. Ken Yager, a main sponsor of the electric chair measure, said in a recent interview that he introduced the bill because of "a real concern that we could find ourselves in a position that if the chemicals were unavailable to us that we would not be able to carry out the sentence."
The decision comes as lethal injection is receiving more scrutiny as an execution method, especially after last month's botched execution in Oklahoma.

In that case, convicted killer Clayton Lockett, 38, began writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow after he had supposedly been rendered unconscious by the first of three drugs in the state's new lethal injection combination. The execution was halted, and Lockett died of an apparent heart attack 10 minutes later, authorities said. They later blamed a collapsed vein, not the drugs themselves.
But concerns about lethal injection also have risen at a time when Tennessee and many states — including Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas — obtain execution drugs in secret from unidentified compounding pharmacies. Death penalty opponents say the secrecy raises the risk of something going wrong. Read more

By ABC NEWS | Good Morning America

Katharine McPhee Files for Divorce from Nick Cokas,

Katharine McPhee's marriage is over. The actress and her husband, Nick Cokas, are getting divorced.
"After six years of marriage, and having been separated for the past year, Katharine McPhee has filed for a dissolution of marriage from Nick Cokas. The two have an amicable relationship and will remain friends. They ask that people respect their privacy during this time," a rep for the "Smash" star told People.
 
Katharine McPhee Gets Personal

Last year, McPhee, 30, was photographed kissing her "Smash" director, Michael Morris, who is married to actress Mary McCormack. However, a source told the magazine that the split has nothing to do with the controversial pictures.
It was just time," the source said. "They'd grown apart and weren't right for each other anymore."
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Fox news anchor arrested-MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Fox News weekend anchor who was arrested after he allegedly became combative with police at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport may have taken a drug that didn't mix well with alcohol, a police report released Thursday suggests.

Gregg Jarrett, 59, was arrested Wednesday after police were called to the Northern Lights Grill in the airport's main terminal on a report of a customer who was "acting very intoxicated," the report said.

Officers arrived to find Jarrett sitting at the bar — swaying back and forth and using the bar for support — and unwilling or unable to answer questions.

The bar employee told police Jarrett seemed very intoxicated after just one drink. Jarrett allegedly told another customer he'd taken medication before his flight, but he denied that when questioned by police. He told police he'd been drinking vodka since 9 a.m., the report said.

Jarrett was taken to a holding cell for possible detoxification and evaluation, and while there he became agitated, grabbed an officer's arm, and began struggling with police. It took more than one officer to handcuff him, the report said.

Officers found gabapentin pills in his pocket. A search of Jarrett's bag showed he was just released from an alcohol and chemical dependency treatment facility, the report said.

Gabapentin is approved for treating seizure disorders and pain that occurs after shingles, though it is prescribed for a number of other reasons. Side effects can include drowsiness, dizziness and loss of coordination. Jarrett was charged with one count of obstructing the legal process/interfering with a peace officer. He posted $300 bond and was released from the Hennepin County Jail early Thursday. He is scheduled to appear in court June 6.

Court records don't list a defense attorney, and Jarrett did not return an email seeking comment. A person who answered the phone at Fox asked that The Associated Press call back for him at another time.Read more

Kyle McCarthy, FOX Soccer
Klinsmann jolts squad by excluding Donovan from World Cup roster-United States men's national team manager Jurgen Klinsmann always promised a surprise or two with his World Cup roster. He approaches his duties with his own unique perspective. He assembles his squads with an expansive mindset. He shuns convention. He thinks well outside the box.

Few people expected him to spring this sort of country-shaking, mind-blowing shock, though. Klinsmann revealed his 23-man roster for the World Cup on Thursday afternoon and left Landon Donovan off of it.

Donovan isn'€™t some fringe player operating around the margins or some spent force clinging onto hope in the winter of his career. He is the leading scorer in the history of the United States men's national team. He is on the very short list of the best players to ever wear the red, white and blue. He is still one of the best players in Major League Soccer. And now he is surplus to Klinsmann'€™s requirements.

"It has been an honor and privilege to have represented the US National Team in three World Cups," Donovan said on his official Facebook page late Thursday evening. "I was looking forward to playing in Brazil, as you can imagine, I am very disappointed with today's decision."By just about every measure, it is a staggering and seemingly imprudent decision. Donovan -- alongside Michael Bradley, Clint Dempsey and Tim Howard -- represents one of the few players proven under the glare of a World Cup.

He delivers time and time again in the biggest game, a fact reinforced by his heroics against Algeria to send the Americans through four years ago. Even at this stage of his career and even if only used as a substitute, he rests comfortably among the best players at Klinsmann'€™s disposal.

It is a bold and risky decision to leave one of the few players of established class out for this arduous World Cup journey. There are no replacements for Donovan in the pool, no players capable of replicating his particular set of skills. Klinsmann -- the same man who brought Donovan to Bayern Munich and who welcomed him back into the fold after his oft-discussed sabbatical last year -- understands his utility. He simply doesn'€™t value him enough anymore to include him on his 23-man list.

The grounds for that sort of judgment encompass far more than his performances during the first week of a World Cup training camp. It is a wider verdict about his perceived place in the pecking order and his usefulness to a side where he might not feature as a certain starter.

Klinsmann offered a glimpse into his thought process surrounding Donovan when he discussed his roster during a conference call last week. He noted his frank exchanges after Donovan returned to the team last year and spoke about how he evaluated his merits every time he linked up with the team. Read more

'Pretty Little Liars' star Troian Bellisario addresses GQ Photoshop controversy-

"Pretty Little Liars" stars Troian Bellisario, Shay Mitchell, Ashley Benson and Lucy Hale pose in their bikinis for a super-sultry spread in the June 2014 issue of GQ magazine, but the pictures aren't without a bit of controversy -- some are complaining that the photos of the already young and beautiful ladies are overly Photoshopped.

And now Bellisario, 28, has taken to Instagram to not only acknowledge the heavy Photoshop, but to show off her real body sans the heavy touch-ups.

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"So by now you have seen many a shot from #GQ and many people have said that we were Photoshopped ... OF COURSE WE WERE!" she writes. "That's a very specific type of photo shoot. And looking very blown out and perfected was obviously what they were looking for. Great. Cool. As long as we acknowledge how it was achieved so we know it's not real." Read more

Arizona Wildfire Grows Along Highway Between Sedona, Flagstaff-Hundreds of firefighters were working to protect communities from a wildfire chewing up a scenic Arizona canyon early Friday that had turned entire trees to ash. The human-caused fire north of Slide Rock State Park grew to about 7,500 acres since Tuesday, as about 900 firefighters and personnel were finally able to get about 5 percent of the blaze's southern end contained, officials said.

The fire is concentrated in and around Oak Creek Canyon, a scenic recreation zone along a highway between Sedona and Flagstaff. Flagstaff Fire Capt. Bill Morse said Friday that the number of burned acres will continue to grow, but so will the containment numbers. “It is important to understand this is all within our catcher’s mitt,” Morse said, adding, “We’re going to be here for a while.” The fire grew tenfold from Wednesday and from 7-1/2 square miles earlier Thursday.

There have been no reports so far of injuries or structures burned. Fire incident commander Tony Sciacca said Thursday night that crews have made good progress and some containment was expected soon but he added, "We are not out of the woods yet." The fire still was 3 to 3-1/2 miles away from the residential areas of Forest Highlands and Katina Village, where 3,200 residents remained under pre-evacuation warnings.

Officials were mindful of the fire's dangers, as they looked at giant flames shooting up the walls of the canyon and saw how hot the fire was burning in the tinder-dry drought conditions. "The fuels are just so dry, entire trees are turning to ash," said Dick Fleishman, a spokesman for fire managers. A primary focus of firefighting efforts will be to pinch off the fire where it has reached the top of the canyon's northeast corner to keep it from burning northward toward residential areas, he said. Read more

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