Photo: Amy Kerkemeyer/Shutterstock The Boy Scouts of America may file for bankruptcy. On Wednesday,The Wall Street Journalreported that the organization is considering filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and that the Boy Scouts group has hired the Sidley Austin law firm as it deliberates. A Sidley Austin representative did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment, but in aletterprovided to PEOPLE, chief Scouts executive Michael B. Surbaugh addressed the group’s “financial position....

Boy Scouts.Photo: Eric Gay/AP/REX/Shutterstock Boy Scouts of Americahas filed for bankruptcy. The organization announced the news ina press releaseearly Tuesday morning. The filing comes after years ofallegations of sexual abusewithin the organization, and amid increasing legal costs as it faces multiple sexual abuse lawsuits, according toNBC News. Amy Kerkemeyer/Shutterstock The press release noted that local Boy Scouts councils, which are legally separate and financially independent from the national organization, are not included in the bankruptcy filing....

Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty Images After the filings of tens of thousands of sexual abuse claims, the Boy Scouts of America has reached an $850 million settlement as part of the organization’s bankruptcy case, multiple outlets report. Back in November, the total number of sexual abuse accusations against the BSArose past 92,000 just ahead of the deadlinefor submitting claims, as the BSA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2020 after facing a wave of decades-old sexual abuse claims....

In June of 2018, the parents of 8-year-old Quinn, of St Louis, Mo., sent him on a four-night camping trip with his Cub Scout troop, believing he would be safe. (Quinn’s name has been changed in this article to protect his anonymity.) He was not. Four months later, Quinn’s parents learned that his Cub Scout leader had been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a child at his home. Wondering whether Quinn had suffered the same terrifying fate, his dad asked him if the leader had ever touched him inappropriately....

Boy Scouts of America.Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty The Boy Scouts of America’s settlement offer to the more than 82,000 boys and men who were sexually abused as scouts recently increased, PEOPLE confirms. On Monday, theCoalition of Abused Scouts for Justiceannounced that it reached a settlement agreement with another one of the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) primary insurers, Century Indemnity Co., and its affiliated companies for $800 million, according to arelease from the Coalition....

Photo: Smyrna Police Department A Tennessee police officer is praising one little boy and his mother for spreading love in his community after they recently surprised him with a random act of kindness. Raving about the unexpected and serendipitous encounter on Facebook shortly after their meeting, Little, 25, explained that Levi, who appeared to be around 10 years old, came up to his vehicle as he was drying off in a bank parking lot....

Ronnie with his siblings and parents. Ronnie Blair was lying on a bed in the intensive care unit of Tampa General Hospital, gauze bandages covering the arms and legs of the 8-year-old’s tiny body. Mike Blair and his wife Danyel sat with him watching a movie, tending to the boy as he drifted in and out of a fitful, heavily medicated sleep. “It was just devastating to me that he didn’t have a mom to take care of him in that condition,” Danyel tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue....

Photo: Mark Erickson/Getty Images Landen, the5-year-old boy who was thrown over a balconyat the Mall of America in April, has had at least 15 operations since then and remains in intensive care, his family said. “While the miracle of his survival is what we celebrate and thank Jesus for every day, we must also acknowledge that our beautiful boy has been on a very challenging road to recovery,” Landen’s family wrote on theirGoFundMe page Tuesday....

Photo: GoFundMe Landen Hoffman,the five-year-old boy who was thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America, is back home following his release from the hospital after nearly five months of medical treatment. An update posted Tuesday tothe GoFundMe campaignlaunched for Landen’s family — which has raised over $1 million — revealed the boy, who endured multiple surgeries, had “completed his inpatient rehabilitation and is now home.” “We are so thankful, and we rejoice in the Lord’s blessings to our family,” reads the update....

Photo: Facebook After witnessing his family be brutallymurdered in an ambush in Mexico, one 13-year-old boy trekked through the dangerous countryside for six hours to get help for the injured survivors. Devin Blake Langford was one of the 14 children and three mothers who were attacked and gunned down near the United States’ Arizona border on Monday, his relative Kendra Lee Millerwrote on Facebookearly Tuesday morning. The three mothers, Christina Langford, Rhonita Miller and Dawna Langford, were each driving separate SUVs from their family community, LaMora, in Sonora, Mexico....

Photo: Scott Barbour/Getty Meghan Markleis known for being a style icon, even when it comes to the homemade accessories she wears. The family decided to create a website for Gavin, where fans can purchase the dinosaur-shaped pasta with gold paint necklaces for $20. The kindergartener has since received orders from Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. “She’s a part of our lives still, even for the kids, and they talk to her every day,” she told Network 10....

Sparkle Jurnakins with son Kendall.Photo: Sparkle Jurnakins A day to remember! Kendall Jurnakins, now 15 months old, was treated to a big celebration earlier this month, when he was finally cleared to leave Ascension St. Vincent Women’s Hospital in Indianapolis following a 460-day stay in the neonatal intensive care unit. “This moment, actually, I have no words,” NICU medical director Dr. Taha Ben Saad told NBC affiliateWTHR. “It’s such a reward for all of us....

Officials in Pennsylvania say they have a person of interest after a 9-year-old boy was found dead under a lawn chair. More than 30 officers from the New Kensington Police Department, Pennsylvania State Police and other surrounding areas were briefed and stepped in to help find the missing child, who Ziccarelli said died of homicide. “This is a horrible tragedy for our community here at New Kensington and our county at large,” Ziccarelli told reporters....