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PTL Links: April 3, 2012
Visit the links below for more on today’s guests & topics: Cooking Corner Recipe Market District Foodie Focus Newsletter Boy Scouts Laurel Highlands Council Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank...
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Boy Scouts Pedophile List Revealed
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The release of hundreds of documents related to alleged sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts program decades ago reveals a number of cases centered in the local viewing area. Boy...
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Boy Scouts Executive Opens Up About Allegations
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – The Boy Scouts of America are under fire over recently released files that detail sexual abuse among scouts and their leaders. What these files are and what they...
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Local Executive: Boy Scouts Are Safe For Young People
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) –The Boy Scouts of America recently released confidential documents about ineligible volunteers. The organization has been accused of hiding decades of abuse prior to 1994. Local...
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Ousted Boy Scout Leader Reacts To Potential Policy Change
PITTSBURGH (KDK) — A Bridgeport, Ohio woman ousted as the Den Mother of her son’s Boy Scout group is reacting to the national organization’s possible shift in policy regarding gays and lesbians as...
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Tuesday’s KDKA Afternoon News: Super Bowl, Boy Scouts And The Vine App
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) — Tuesday’s edition of the KDKA Afternoon News featured more updates from the Super Bowl, the Boy Scouts possible policy change on gays and who could turn out to be...
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Former Doctor Pleads Guilty To Molesting 2 Students
BUTLER (AP) — A former doctor from Butler County who is already serving six to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a teen boy from 1989 to 1995 while working as a Boy Scout leader has now pleaded...
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Local Boy Becomes Eagle Scout Despite Great Obstacles
WASHINGTON, Pa. (KDKA) — The Washington County Fairgrounds Camporee is a chance for Boy Scouts to share stories and compare merit badges. But for Eagle Scout Aaron Fajerski, earning 32 merit badges is...
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Boy Scouts Vote To Include Gays Members
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – The Boy Scouts of America have officially voted to allow openly gay members to join their organization. But top officials are not ready to allow gay leaders. With...
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Family Distraught After Woman Found Dead In River
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — For the family of Peggy Sue Kriek, the details surrounding her brutal murder are difficult to comprehend and even harder to talk about. Today her sister Deborah Leonard talked about...
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Boy Scouts’ Jamboree Puts Weight Restrictions on Scouts, Leaders
GLEN JEAN, W.Va. (AP/KDKA) – This year’s Boy Scouts of America’s national Jamboree is being billed as the most physically demanding in its history, but if your BMI is too high, you’re not invited. For...
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Young Eagle Scout Making Impact On His Community
RICHLAND TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — Ryan Farbacher, 13, is the youngest Eagle Scout in his troop. Yet he dreamed up one of the most ambitious service projects: constructing a pavilion behind St. Richard Parish...
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Boy Scouts’ Leader Says Ban On Gay Adults Not Sustainable
PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) – 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...
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Boy Scouts Getting Help To Save Colonial-Era Cabin
OAKDALE (KDKA) — A Boy Scout log cabin on a hillside in Oakdale was actually built in North Fayette Township 280 years ago. Boy Scouts of years past moved it to its current location in 1932. It took...
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Boy Scouts Ratify Resolution To Allow Gay Scoutmasters
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Boy Scouts of America ratified a resolution today that lifted the long-standing ban on gay adults serving as den leaders, scoutmasters and camp counselors. The wonder of a...
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Boy Scouts Earn Aviation Merit Badge With Hands-On Airport Experience
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – It takes months, or even years for pilots to learn to fly. Today, nearly 100 Boy Scouts learned some of the basics. Nearly seven dozen Boys Scouts were at the Allegheny County...
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PTL Links: Aug. 27, 2015
Visit the links below for more on today’s guests & topics: Doug Oster’s Blog Ripe Red And Roasted Event At Phipps Conservatory Great American Banana Split Festival Big Burrito Restaurant Group Chef...
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Boy Scouts Help Clean Up Korean War Memorial On North Shore
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Korean War took the lives of 33,000 American soldiers from 1950 to 1953. The struggle dividing North and South Korea has been called “The Forgotten War.” But that’s not the case...
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Boy Scout Advisor Arrested On Child Pornography Charges
SHALER TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — A Shaler Township man with reported connections to the Boy Scouts has been arrested, accused of having child pornography. Police with a search warrant showed up at 41-year-old...
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Boy Scouts Will Allow Transgender Children Into Programs
DALLAS (AP) – The Boy Scouts of America says it will allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys only programs. The organization announced Monday that it had made the decision...
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Boy Scouts Agree To Pay $18,000 To Transgender Boy
OAKLAND, N.J. (AP) – A New Jersey branch of the Boy Scouts has agreed to pay $18,000 to a transgender boy who was barred from joining. The Record reports the Northern New Jersey Council of the Boy...
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Trump To Visit Boy Scouts Jamboree In West Virginia
GLEN JEAN, W.Va. (AP) – The Boy Scouts of America says President Donald Trump will visit the 2017 National Scout Jamboree next week in West Virginia. On Monday, Trump will become the eighth U.S....
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Trump’s Political Speech To Scouts Inspires Parental Outrage
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s fiery speech Monday night at the National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia has infuriated parents and former Scouts. Standing before thousands of school-aged...
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Boy Scout Leader Apologizes For Trump’s Political Rhetoric
NEW YORK (AP) – The Boy Scouts’ chief executive has apologized to members of the scouting community who were offended by the aggressive political rhetoric in President Donald Trump’s recent speech to...
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Troop Leader Killed In Crash While Driving Boy Scouts To Camping Trip
GUSTAVUS TOWNSHIP, Ohio (KDKA) — A troop leader was killed in a car crash in eastern Ohio while driving Boy Scouts to a camping trip Saturday morning. It happened around 7:15 a.m. on State Route 11....
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2 Boy Scouts Killed, 1 Hurt In East Texas Boating Accident
AVINGER, Texas (AP) – Authorities say two Texas Boy Scouts were killed and another critically hurt when their sailboat hit an overhead power line and apparently electrocuted the youths. The Texas Parks...
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3rd Boy Scout Dies After Sailboat Strikes Power Line On Lake
AVINGER, Texas (AP) – A third Boy Scout has died from injuries suffered when a sailboat struck an overhanging power line on a lake east of Dallas. Texas Parks & Wildlife spokesman Steve Lightfoot...
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Former Boy Scout Leader Sentenced To Prison For Child Porn
PITTSBURGH (AP/KDKA) – A former Boy Scout leader from western Pennsylvania has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. Forty-one-year-old Christopher...
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In Historic Change, Boy Scouts To Let Girls In Some Programs
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter NEW YORK (AP) – In a historic change, the Boy Scouts are announcing plans to admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting next year and to establish a new program for...
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Boy Scouts Suffer Concussion-Like Symptoms After Leader Allegedly Smashed...
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PINE GROVE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania Boy Scout leader accused of smashing two Scouts’ heads together at a camp meeting has been criminally charged. State police on...
View ArticleWith Girls Joining The Ranks, Boy Scouts Plan A Name Change
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter NEW YORK (AP) – The Boy Scouts are getting a name change. The Boy Scouts of America says the program for 11- to 17-year-old boys will become Scouts: BSA starting next...
View ArticleFormer Pa. Boy Scout Leader Admits To Sexually Assaulting Scouts For Years
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter CATASAUQUA, Pa. (AP) – Authorities say a former Boy Scout leader in Pennsylvania has admitted he sexually assaulted three scouts over a number of years. Stephen...
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Kidsburgh: Girl Scouts Aims To Give Young Girls ‘Safe, Supportive Space’
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Now is the time when families are signing up kids for many activities, including Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, but it’s a different decision this...
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Kidsburgh: Clearing Up Confusion About Who Can Join Boy Scouts And Girl Scouts
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — There’s been a lot of confusion since the Boy Scouts of America announced in May it would begin allowing girls into its younger scouting programs....
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Officials: Boy Scout Leader Recorded Videos Of Boys Changing Clothes
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter CLEVELAND (AP) – Federal prosecutors say a Boy Scout leader recorded boys changing clothes before and after swimming at a YMCA, his home’s bathroom and inside teepees...
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Boy Scouts Affiliate Accused Of Filming Boys Changing Indicted On Federal...
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter CLEVELAND (AP) – A man accused of secretly recording boys changing clothes at a YMCA, his home bathroom and in teepees at an Ohio scout reservation has been indicted...
View ArticleW. Va. Health Officials Planning Taking Measles Precautions Ahead Of World...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia state health officials and Boy Scout leaders say they’re preparing for the possibility that some children may bring measles to the World Scout Jamboree this...
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Coronavirus In Allegheny County: Boy Scouts And Girl Scouts Shift To Online...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It is not just students who have been forced to learn differently at school. Scouting organizations must adapt the way they teach in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The Boy...
View ArticleBoy Scouts Postpone National Jamboree In W. Va. Due To Coronavirus Uncertainty
GLEN JEAN, W.Va. (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America have postponed next year’s National Jamboree due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. The organization shared its disappointment about...
View ArticleEagle Scout Builds Gazebo At Memorial Park In Edgewood
By: KDKA-TV News Staff EDGEWOOD (KDKA) — A local boy scout troop gave back to the community and veterans. They built a brand new gazebo at Memorial Park in Edgewood. It’s all part of Edward Lockman’s...
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