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Boy Scout Wakes to His Leg in Bear's Jaws While Camping With Troop at NY State Park
“Be Prepared” may be the motto for the Boy Scouts, but a 12-year-old from New York was anything but prepared for the encounter he had while on a recent camping trip, which resulted in his leg in the jaws of a black bear.
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Boy Scouts of America Reaches Deal With Official Abuse Claimants Committee
Two years after filing for Chapter 11 protection amid a flood of child sex abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America has reached a tentative settlement with an official bankruptcy committee representing more than 80,000 men who say they were molested as children by Scout leaders and others.
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Scout Groups See a Decline in Members From Before Pandemic
America’s most iconic youth organizations — the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA — have been jolted by unprecedented one-year drops in membership, due partly to the pandemic, and partly to social trends that have been shrinking their ranks for decades.
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Girl Scouts Rebuke Boy Scouts in Escalating Recruitment War
Lawyers for the Girl Scouts say that the century-old organization is now directly competing with the Boy Scouts for female recruits and that it’s not a fair fight
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Boy Scouts Launch Ads on How Abuse Victims Can Seek Money
The Boy Scouts of America has launched a nationwide advertising campaign to notify victims of decades-old sex abuse by Scout leaders that they have until Nov. 16 to seek compensation as part of its bankruptcy case
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4th Grader Becomes NYC's First Female Boy Scout
A New York City girl has made history by attending her first Boy Scouts meeting. Roseanne Colletti reports.
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Boy Scouts' Bid to Admit Girls Pits Them Against Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts pledge to be friendly and helpful. But their parent organizations may find that promise hard to keep as they head into a potentially bitter competition triggered by the Boy Scouts of America’s dramatic move to admit girls throughout its ranks. The BSA’s initiative, announced Wednesday, has already chilled what had been a mostly cordial relationship...
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In Historic Change, Boy Scouts to Let Girls in Some Programs
In its latest momentous policy shift, the Boy Scouts of America will admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting next year and establish a new program for older girls based on the Boy Scout curriculum that enables them to aspire to the coveted Eagle Scout rank....
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Parent Leader Showed Porn to Group of Boy Scouts: Police
A Davie man is facing charges after he allegedly showed pornographic videos to a group of Boy Scouts.