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A 12-year-old Scout, Mason Pulliam, has been honored by Scouting America with the Medal of Heroism for saving his grandmother’s life after she nearly drowned.

For more than a century, children have awakened on Christmas morning to find a teddy bear waiting under the tree. One child took that simple joy and turned it into something much bigger, bringing comfort to children who need it most.

Just after midnight during a Scout campout at Scusset Beach State Reservation in Massachusetts, a vehicle unexpectedly drove into a campsite where about 35 Scouts were sleeping.

Three Long Island, New York Eagle Scouts from Troop 7 have achieved a major milestone by earning congressional nominations to U.S. military service academies.

A new historic marker was unveiled at the History Museum of Mobile to honor the Pelican Girls, the French women who arrived in 1704 to help establish the early colony by building families with local settlers.

Tommy Salch, a 17-year-old alum in Peoria, Arizona, was honored with the National Heroism Medal after stepping in during a violent rollover crash.

Camp Josepho, a 110-acre landmark in the Santa Monica Mountains, has been a cornerstone for generations of Scouts since the 1940s. The recent Palisades Fire changed that history in minutes, leaving nearly the entire site destroyed except for a concrete pool house.

January 19, 2026 will be a meaningful day for Scouts nationwide as they take part in the Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service.

John Ormond thought he was attending a meeting about a roof repair grant, but he was surprised by the announcement that he is Smithfield, North Carolina’s 2025 Citizen of the Year.

Scouting America is proud to join forces with America250, the official U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, in a dynamic new partnership designed to inspire and empower young people as we commemorate 250 years of American history.

More than 70 years after he took part in the longest dogfight in Navy history, shooting down four enemy aircraft, alum Royce Williams (class of 1940 Eagle Scout) may finally receive the Medal of Honor.

Scouting alum Dr. E. Gordon Gee, President Emeritus of West Virginia University, has been named the 31st recipient of the Distinguished Citizen Award for Berkeley County. The award is presented by the Shenandoah Area Council’s Potomac District, Scouting America.