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Cub Scout Pack 215 in rural Arkansas is waiting for a vote that could mean big changes for their tiny outfit.That’s because of a decision being made Thursday at the national Boy Scouts of America annual meeting that will have ramifications for their pack and other Scout units across the country: whether or not to end its controversial policy banning gay Scouts.The 1,400 delegates of the National C...
An FBI agent was involved in a deadly overnight shooting connected to the Boston Marathon bombing case.The man who was shot, Ibragim Todashev, had been interviewed about his connections to the bombing suspects before by the FBI and started out cooperative, NBC sources said.The suspect then went to attack the agent and was shot, the sources said.The suspect is deceased, the FBI said.“We are current...
Survivors of Monday’s devastating tornado in Oklahoma are coming to grips with their post-storm realities, and there’s one person who knows all too well what they are feeling. Stephanie Decker understands the emotions of fear, shock and loss after the disaster -- and also the gratitude for what remains and the hope for what’s to come.Decker, a 38-year-old mom of two from Henryville, Ind., survived...
An area stretching from the lower Great Lakes to the Tennessee Valley was expected to be hit by severe thunderstorms on Wednesday, forecasters warned.The National Weather Service said that the “primary threats” would be damaging winds and large hail, but added “isolated tornadoes will also be possible.”“Farther south, Tuesday night thunderstorms could continue into Wednesday morning with some dama...
Anthony Weiner, whose career as a congressman collapsed after he posted sexually suggestive pictures of himself on Twitter, has announced that he’s running for mayor of New York City.“I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of people down. But I've also learned some tough lessons,” the Democrat said in a video posted on his website late on Tuesday."I'm running for mayor because I've been f...
The massive tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday bore down hardon Plaza Towers Elementary School, where children sheltered inside from the roaring gusts, even as the building began to come apart around them.The winds and flying debris from the mile-wide tornado claimed at least two dozen lives, the Oklahoma medical examiner said on Tuesday. Nine of those victims were children. The sev...
