A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under fire from an outraged neighborhood.

The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership voted Thursday to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members.

Thursday will be a cloudy, muggy day with highs closer to 80 degrees. Scattered thundershowers develop through the day with some being on the heavier side, maybe even severe.

The gambling began Wednesday afternoon, and will continue around the clock.

There's a big push to put the brakes on drunk driving this holiday weekend. And it's coming to a movie theater near you. Two short ads from the Unified Prevention Coalition of Fairfax County will reach moviegoers starting Friday.

Virginia Democrats continued focusing their fire in November's bellwether statewide elections not at the top of the Republican ticket but in the middle, at E.W. Jackson, the outspoken conservative black minister nominated by GOP delegates for lieutenant governor.

In the late 1970s, Bob Ryan was the first meteorologist to regularly appear on the Today Show before coming to Washington in 1980. Now, after 45 years in the business, he's retiring from television to spend more time with his family.

An Army sergeant has been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, including in a bathroom.