Authorities say a worker who killed himself inside an Alabama federal courthouse went through an employee entrance to avoid a security check that could have caught the gun.

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Police are searching for a man who allegedly attempted to kidnap a 13-year-old girl Thursday morning.

She was walking southbound of Castlemand near Teal at around  7 a.m. when a black male approached her in a burgundy vehicle. The victim told police the suspect grabbed her but that she was able to get away. 

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The University of Tennessee is trying to answer the question 'is homosexuality a choice or genetics?' 

Their newly-released report says that children may inherit homosexuality from their parents.  The research uses mathematical modeling to show sexual orientation may not be linked to genetics exactly, but to the