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PHOENIX -- Garrett Bryant said he did everything he could to keep his sexual orientation from the Boy Scouts, the organization he first joined as a third-grade Bear Cub, rising through the ranks to earn the coveted Eagle award.Under Scouting policy, gay youth are welcome, but gay adults are not.

A "fairly significant" tornado flattened several homes in northeast Alabama early Tuesday - but downed trees and debris meant rescue crews could not reach victims.The twister collapsed "multiple structures" in the rural community of Aroney in DeKalb County at about 2 a.m.

A massive rescue operation was underway in Bessemer, Alabama, early Tuesday after a tornado tore across the city, causing “major structural damage” and gas leaks, officials said.

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VILONIA, Ark. — On Sunday morning, Wade Lentz, the pastor of the local Baptist church, was handing over the keys for a new donated home to a mother and her disabled son. Hours later, his own family was homeless.

Constance Lambert embraces her dog after finding it alive Monday, when she returned to her destroyed home in tornado-ravaged Tupelo, Miss.Lambert was at an event away from her home when the twister struck and rushed back to check on her pets.

By NBCConnecticut.comA 16-year-old Connecticut student accused of stabbing a classmate to death inside a Milford high school will be arraigned Monday, as the community in mourning paid tribute to the victim at an evening vigil.

Maren Sanchez, a 16-year-old junior at Jonathan Law High School, was fatally stabbed by a classmate on Friday morning