The Boy Scouts of America — its national headquarters is shown in Irving, Texas — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware on Feb. 18. (photo: Bruce Andersen/CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia Commons ...

Officials at BSA national headquarters in Irving said they have upgraded youth protection policies since the 1980s. New staff training programs are in place, they said, ...

The Boy Scouts' New York chapter said Thursday that it has hired the nation's first openly gay Eagle Scout as a summer camp leader, a direct and public challenge to the national scouting ...

Jennifer Tyrrell, who was the leader of a Bridgeport, Ohio, Tiger Cub den, brought 300,000 signatures collected by Change.org to the Boy Scouts’ national office in Irving, Texas.

The new youth policy was approved during a BSA meeting in May in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, near the Scouts' national headquarters in Irving, Texas.

Caught in an ideological crossfire, the Boy Scouts of America is putting off until May a decision on whether to ease its policy of excluding gays. Whatever the organization eventually does, it's ...

It's important to point out the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing is purely by the national organization. Local councils, like the Heart of America council based in Kansas City, Missouri, are not ...

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Boy Scouts of America is delaying a decision on whether to accept gay members and leaders. Word came today after a three-day national board meeting in Dallas.

The challenge to the national headquarters was laid down by the Boy Scouts’ Greater New York Councils, which announced the hiring of Pascal Tessier, an 18-year-old Eagle Scout.

The president of the Boy Scouts of America, Robert Gates, said Thursday that the organization's longstanding ban on participation by openly gay adults is no longer sustainable and called for ...

There were dire warnings for the Boy Scouts of America a year ago when the group’s leaders, under intense pressure, voted to end a long-standing blanket ban on participation by openly gay adu… ...

No national polling has been released conveying what current Scout parents and leaders think about the Boy Scouts of America policy of excluding gays. But overall, U.S. voters favor eliminating ...