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    • Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Texas. (Jason Sickles/Yahoo News)

      [Updated at 5:40 p.m. CT]

      DALLAS – The Boy Scouts of America, one of the country’s largest and oldest youth organizations, decided Thursday to break 103 years of tradition by allowing openly gay members into its ranks.

      The controversial move was approved by more than 60 percent of the approximate 1,400 votes cast by the BSA’s national council. According to the new resolution, beginning Jan. 1, 2014, "no youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.”

      “The resolution also reinforces that Scouting is a youth program, and any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting,” the BSA stated in a press release.

      Lifting the organization’s ban on gay adult volunteer leaders and paid staff was not considered and remains in place.

      Pascal Tessier, a gay Scout from Maryland, told Yahoo News that he was ecstatic with the outcome.

      “Proud, happy and on top of the

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    • A house leveled during Superstorm Sandy in Fairfield, Conn. (Dylan Stableford/Yahoo News)

      A year after Superstorm Sandy, residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts should prepare for "an extremely active" 2013 hurricane season, U.S. forecasters say.

      There is a "70 percent likelihood" that will be three to six major hurricanes this year with winds above 111 mph, according to the 2013 hurricane outlook unveiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center on Thursday.

      During the six-month hurricane season, which begins June 1, forecasters anticipate 13 to 20 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher). Of those, seven to 11 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher).

      Those ranges are above normal. According to the National Hurricane Center, the seasonal average is 12 named storms, six hurricanes and three major hurricanes. Hurricane season ends Nov. 30.

      The dire forecast comes as many shoreline residents—particularly in New York and New Jersey—are still recovering from Sandy, which killed 147 people and caused more than $75

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    • Photos recovered from the debris after a tornado swept through Moore, Okla. (Jason Sickles/Yahoo News)

      MOORE, Okla. — Some of the photos are crumpled. Others coated in crud. But what the monster tornado couldn’t obliterate are the memories captured in the images.

      A girl playing kitchen with her pink toy stove.

      Colleagues clowning around the office.

      A father posing with his young girls at a daddy-daughter dance.

      Angela Madory examines photos she recovered. (Jason Sickles/Yahoo News)

      “These are things insurance can’t replace,” says Amy Habegger-Pierce.

      Habegger-Pierce, her mother-in-law and a friend were scavenging downtown Moore for photos on Wednesday.

      Like crime scene detectives, they wore rubber gloves and gently rummaged through debris left by Monday’s 200-mph twister, which damaged or destroyed 13,000 homes.

      “It’s hard to tell if it is trash or a picture until you flip it over,” Habegger-Pierce said.

      A few blocks away, Angela Madory had the same idea and was hunting as well.

      “Damaged or not, they are still valuable,” says Madory, a mother of three. “I know I would want someone to find my pictures and contact me.”

      Their mission might seem

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