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Girl Scouts Take on Iconic Cookies for the Sake of Orangutans

While some bemoan Girl Scout cookies' addictive qualities, two Michigan Girl Scouts have been working to change the iconic cookie since they found out the cookies' ingredients are unfriendly to orangutans. Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva, 15-year-old scouts from Ann Arbor, Mich., started work on the Girl Scout bronze...

Thin Mints, No More: Girl Scout Cookie Sales Barred at Girl Scouts Founder's Home

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Girl Scouts are no longer able to sell their famous cookies outside the historic Savannah home of the woman who founded the organization almost a century ago. A complaint last year ended the longtime practice of selling the cookies on the public sidewalk outside the home of Juliette Gordon Low at the busy...

Scout's Dishonor: Florida Mom Arrested in Fight Over Girl Scout Cookies

Sell the most Girl Scout Cookies and you might get a merit badge. Attack someone in an argument over Girl Scout Cookies and you'll see a police badge. Police in Florida say a Collier County mom earned a demerit when she assaulted her roommate in a dispute over Thin Mint cookies. Hersha Howard, 31, is accusing of waking...

Teenage Quadruplets Make History With Admission Into Mensa

Most teenage siblings tend to share clothes and maybe even a family car, but one set of quadruplets from Wylie, Texas, shares something much greater: serious smarts. The Crowley quadruplets -- Moria, Alanna, Thomas and Patrick -- are 17-year-old juniors at Lovejoy High School who just happen to be extremely bright and...