Order Lets Boy Scouts Keep New Abuse Files Private
The Irving-based Boy Scouts of America has won a stay of a court order that would have required them to turn over more than two decades of files the group kept on sexual abuse complaints.
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The Irving-based Boy Scouts of America has won a stay of a court order that would have required them to turn over more than two decades of files the group kept on sexual abuse complaints.
The UPS Foundation says it will no longer give grants to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group excludes gays and lesbians from being scouts or scout leaders.
Even as its past policies on sex-abuse prevention fuel controversy, the Boy Scouts of America is hosting an unprecedented closed-door symposium Thursday with other national youth organizations.
True to their motto, the Boys Scouts tried to be prepared. For months, they braced for the backlash sure to follow the court-ordered release of voluminous confidential files detailing decades of alleged sex abuse by Scout leaders.
Thousands of pages from the 'Ineligible Volunteer' list that were kept by the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America have been released.
The Boy Scouts of America have for decades have held private files on individuals who came under suspicion for all kinds of misconduct, including claims of sexual abuse.
The Boy Scouts of America say they knew of cases of abuse in their ranks, and now they're turning over the information to law enforcement.
The Irving-based Boy Scouts of America has announced that it is launching a review of files the organization compiled over more than four decades on suspected child sex abusers.
The Irving-based Boy Scouts of America faces new allegations of possibly covering up child abuse decades earlier than previously alleged.
An newspaper investigation has found that the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of suspected child sex abusers to authorities and often helped cover up the accusations over two decades.
A Texas Judge has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to produce secret files it keeps to prevent accused pedophiles from becoming employees of or volunteers for the organization.
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The fight over the policy to ban participation in scouting, based on sexual orientation, took a symbolic turn in Irving Wednesday morning, inside the Irving national headquarters for the Boy Scouts of America.
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The Irving-based Boy Scouts of America have agreed to review a proposal that would allow individual units to accept gays as adult leaders.
The family of a Santa Barbara Californa boy say the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America is trying to cover up thousands of cases of sexual abuse dating back to 1991. The BSA is prepared for a fight.
A judge overseeing a lawsuit brought by the family of a California boy molested by his troop leader has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to hand over confidential files detailing allegations of sexual abuse by Scout leaders around the nation.
An Arlington Boy Scout Den leader has been arrested on federal child pornography charges. 41-year-old Timothy Weirich was arrested at the Arlington restaurant he works at after files were found on his home computer.
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27-year-old Junior Ezeonu is the Democratic State Representative-Elect for the 101st District.
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27-year-old Junior Ezeonu is the Democratic State Representative-Elect for the 101st District.
The Texas Comptroller's Office said it received 274,183 applications to take part in the program.
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