A green sash covered with more Boy Scouts of America merit badges than one can imagine sits on the wood coffee table in the Nelsen family home. There are merit badges for cooking and crime prevention, ...

Forget Girl Scouts, these geek merit badges sound way more fun to collect. There are many ways to be a geek: music, theater, books, science. In that sense there's a little geek in all of us. What ...

The Boy Scout's motto is "Be prepared." Josh McCoy is prepared for just about anything. On Nov. 10, the Alexandria 14-year-old earned his 135th Boy Scout merit badge. That represents every single ...

Now, with the rare accomplishment complete and all 141 Boy Scouts of America merit badges in hand (and on a sash), John Folwell IV can fondly look back at the 50-mile bike ride that almost derailed ...

During their recent meeting at the Epworth Methodist Church in Exmore, one member of Boy Scout Troop 314 stood out among the group of beige shirts. What makes Nathaniel Long stand out is the sash that ...

SPRING HILL, Kan. (WDAF) – A Kansas girl is taking the Boy Scouts by storm, earning a record number of merit badges. She’s working on earning the highest honor in Girl Scouts, too. Fewer than half of ...

SPRING HILL, Kan. (WDAF) — A Kansas girl is taking the Boy Scouts by storm, earning a record number of merit badges. She’s working on earning the highest honor in Girl Scouts, too. Fewer than half of ...