Kendrick Antonio Simpson was pronounced dead at 10:19 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

Kendrick Simpson is a New Orleans native who fled to Oklahoma as a Hurricane Katrina refugee. He's being executed for gunning down two men after an argument.

Oklahoma has carried out its first execution of the year on a man convicted of killing two men in a drive-by shooting ...

In the wetlands of coastal southeast Louisiana, conservation groups are wrapping up a four-year project to plant 30,000 trees.

EGOT winner Viola Davis has been named as the recipient of the Chairman's Award for the 57th NAACP Image Awards. The honor is handed out annually to "individuals who excel in public service and ...

Emergency management is, at its heart, a profession obsessed with the future. We model storms that have not yet formed, train for attacks that have not yet occurred, and write plans for cascading ...