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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

Updated: 6:37 PM - The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.

Updated: 6:41 PM - A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.

Posted: 5:46 PM - Tobacco farmers long on the defensive notched a victory when the U.S. Senate defeated an attempt to eliminate the federal insurance program for the embattled crop.

Posted: 5:05 PM - Kentucky Emergency Management (KYEM) officials are learning that officials in Moore, OK are becoming overwhelmed with unneeded donations and self deployed volunteers.

Posted: 2:53 PM - The painting depicts the island from across the East River against a dark silhouette of buildings. The island was renamed for President Franklin Roosevelt in 1971.

Posted: 2:26 PM - A newly discovered novel by the late Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck is to be released this fall.

Posted: 2:13 PM - A company that sent layoff notices to about 260 workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant says it will delay implementing them for at least 30 days.

Updated: 11:46 AM - A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States.

Updated: 11:31 AM - Clothing and accessories company Rue21 has agreed to be taken private in nearly $1 billion deal with private equity firm Apax Partners.

Posted: 10:32 AM - A vendor lost his job after a baseball fan captured video of him taking products into a bathroom stall.

Posted: 10:08 AM - The less volatile four-week average ticked down 500 to 339,500. That's close to the five-year low.

Posted: 6:41 AM - All states but West Virginia and North Dakota showed significant drops over five years.

Updated: 4:37 AM - The death toll from this week's monster tornado in Oklahoma stands at 24, with all victims positively identified.

Posted: 05/22/2013 - Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday.

Posted: 05/22/2013 - The Oklahoma Insurance Department says a preliminary estimate suggests the cost of the tornado that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore could be more than $2 billion.

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