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For Explorer Scouts, Good Deeds Have Whole New Meaning

May. 13, 2009
The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America, is training young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and border violence.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 11 (UPI) -- The Swedish Embassy in Damascus has denied visa applications to a group of Boy Scouts from northern Beirut who wanted to attend a jamboree in Sweden.

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Scout official faces pornography charge

DALLAS, March 29 (UPI) -- A retired national official of the Boy Scouts of America has been indicted in Texas for receiving and distributing child pornography. Douglas Sovereign Smith Jr. is charged in a federal indictment with trading several computer images "of minors engaging i

Court lets anti-Scouts ruling stand

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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler