“There is no such thing as a bad boy.” — Servant of God Father Edward Flanagan, founder of Boys Town By 1937, the success of Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska, founded by Servant of God Father Edward ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lee Rood’s investigation into Boys Town began, as so much good journalism does, with a reporter’s curiosity. Rood, the Des Moines ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The family of one of the men who helped Father Flanagan’s Boys Town vision become a reality is continuing the mission and legacy of the organization in a small but meaningful way.

This run-down Victorian Mansion at 25th and Dodge Streets in Omaha was the first home of Boys Town when it was founded in 1917. The mansion no longer exists. If Father Flanagan hadn't been on a bus ...

Boys Town believes that these boys were the first five children — or at least among the first — to reside at Boys Town when it opened on Dec. 12, 1917, in a run-down Victorian mansion that Father ...