Boy Scouts spend over 100,000 hours on new project
This year, the Boy Scouts of America announced a brand new service project. It took over three months, but 400 troops conducted around 400 community-wide service projects across southeast Texas. Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. on Houston Life, weโll check in with some of those troops and their families to see how they helped out in their local neighborhoods.
Judge tosses Girl Scoutsโ lawsuit claiming Boy Scouts โdamaged their recruitment effortsโ
A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit in which the Girl Scouts claim that the Boy Scouts are creating marketplace confusion and damaging their recruitment efforts through their use of words such as โscoutsโ and โscouting.โ.
Boy Scouts: Tentative deal with official sex abuse claimants
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.
Boy Scouts settlements reached with major insurer, Mormons
One of the primary insurers of the Boy Scouts of America has reached a tentative settlement agreement with the Boy Scouts and attorneys representing tens of thousands of men who say they were molested as youngsters decades ago by scoutmasters and others.
Teen credited with saving injured KPRC 2 reporter receives national award
In January of 2020, KPRC 2 reporter Brandon Walker was hit by a truck in a crosswalk. He was severely injured and doesnโt remember much of that night. A few weeks later he learned a high school senior and Eagle Scout came to his rescue before an ambulance arrived. Walker and the young man have remained in touch ever since.
Victims agree to extend temporary halt on Boy Scout lawsuits
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2013 file photo, shows a close up detail of a Boy Scout uniform worn during a news conference in front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Texas. The committee representing child sex abuse survivors in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case has agreed to the extension of an injunction halting lawsuits against local Boy Scouts councils and sponsoring organizations. โ The committee representing child sex abuse survivors in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case has agreed to the extension of an injunction halting lawsuits against local Boy Scouts councils and sponsoring organizations. The insurers argue that the arrangement regarding roster information would potentially reveal private information without the consent of local councils and sponsoring organizations. AdThe agreement also prohibits local councils from designating unrestricted assets as restricted โby board resolution or otherwise,โ including proceeds from the sale of assets.
Boy Scouts celebrate the first group of female Eagle Scouts
Only in 2018 did the Boy Scouts start accepting girls as Cub Scouts; older girls were admitted into the flagship scouting program in 2019. The Boy Scouts say about 6% of all scouts attain Eagle rank โ roughly 2.5 million since the awardโs creation in 1911, a year after the Boy Scouts of America was founded. โPeople recognize Eagle Scouts as individuals of the highest caliber, and for the first time, that title isnโt limited by gender." The celebration of the new Eagle Scouts comes at a challenging time for the Boy Scouts. The daughter, 18-year-old Rebecca Wright, is among the new Eagle Scouts, having earned 102 merit badges.
Girl Scouts rebuke Boy Scouts in escalating recruitment war
They called the lawsuit โutterly meritless.โThe Boy Scouts on Saturday pointed to legal arguments in which it blames the Girl Scouts for reacting to its expansion plans with โanger and alarmโ and said the Girl Scouts launched a โground warโ to spoil plans by the Boy Scouts to include more girls. โAs a result of Boy Scoutsโ infringement, parents have mistakenly enrolled their daughters in Boy Scouts thinking it was Girl Scouts,โ the lawyers said, adding that this never occurred before 2018. The lawyers for Girl Scouts said Boy Scouts councils in Illinois acknowledged improperly using the Girl Scoutsโ slogan in Cub Scout recruiting materials and pictures of Girl Scouts to promote a Boy Scouts โScouts Sign-Up Night!โThey said a western Massachusetts Boy Scouts council posted a recruiting flyer on Facebook including a photograph of a girl depicted in her Girl Scouts Brownie uniform. Meanwhile, Ohio Boy Scouts used the Girl Scouts trademark to try to get a local newspaper to write an article, suggesting a storyline entitled โBoy and Girl Scouts Looking for Membersโ even though the recruitment involved only the Boy Scouts, the lawyers said. In Seattle, a Boy Scouts council used the Girl Scouts trademark in social media recruiting materials, the lawyers said.
About 90K sex abuse claims filed in Boy Scouts bankruptcy
NEW YORK โ Close to 90,000 sexual abuse claims have been filed against the Boy Scouts of America as the Monday deadline arrived for submitting claims in the organizationโs bankruptcy case. The Boy Scoutsโ insurers also will be contributing, as will the Boy Scoutsโ roughly 260 local councils and companies that insured them in the past. โWe are deeply sorry.โThe bankruptcy has been painful for the 110-year-old Boy Scouts, which has been a pillar of American civic life for generations. Under the terms of the case, no additional sex abuse claims can be filed against the Boy Scouts after Monday. One of the official parties in the case, a group of nine sex abuse survivors representing all the victims, called the case โthe largest and most tragic bankruptcy ever resulting from sexual abuse liability.โ"More sexual abuse claims will be filed in the Boy Scouts bankruptcy than all claims filed against the Catholic Church throughout the nation," the Torts Claimants Committee said.