Four men who claim they were sexually abused by their Boy Scout leader have filed suit against the organization.

The country's leading technology trade association has written a brief in support of the Boy Scouts of America in a lawsuit that seeks to make public the organization's so-called "perversion files."

A federal judge said Tuesday he's inclined to dismiss many of the claims in a lawsuit against the Mormon church made by a man who says the church didn't do enough to stop a Boy Scout troop leader from sexually abusing children.

A judge could release records used in the $20 million abuse case against the Boy Scouts of America organization.

Was Rod Blagojevich a crook? Or was he merely a bumbler, a goof - naive, trusting and played for a fool by cynical campaign fundraisers and political fixers?

Cardinal William Levada is the highest-ranking American at the Vatican and head of the office that defrocks pedophile priests.

An Oregon jury has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $18.5 million in punitive damages in a sex-abuse lawsuit.

After a monthlong trial, a sex abuse lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America is moving to an end with an Oregon jury considering whether to award $25 million in punitive damages.

In his opening statement for the punitive damages phase of the trial, Clark told the jury they had already determined the Boy Scouts' failure was "reckless and outrageous," and the only question left was how much they should pay for that conduct.

Lawyers for an Oregon man who won a sex abuse lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America told a jury Tuesday that the organization should pay $25 million in punitive damages for failing to prevent that abuse.

Jurors on Tuesday found the Boy Scouts of America negligent and awarded $1.4 million to a former Portland man who was abused by an assistant Scoutmaster in the early 1980s.

A former Portland archbishop and current top Vatican official once returned a priest accused of sex abuse to administrative duty in Oregon on the condition that he be barred from direct contact with children or teenagers.

In a newly released court deposition, a top Vatican official who is a former Portland archbishop defends not telling Oregon parishioners about the sex abuse allegations against a priest he restored to duty.