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, ...

GREENVILLE – It turns out, 139 merit badges don't fit on a single sash. At least, that was the case for Eagle Scout Riley Mooney, whose mom had to sew two sashes together to accommodate them all.

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 ...

Only 21 merit badges are required to advance out of Eagle Scouts, the highest rank in Scouting America. One dedicated ...

Josh McCoy of Alexandria, Virginia, right, is awarded his 135th Boy Scout merit badge from Scoutmaster Dwayn Hanford in Springfield, Virginia. The Boy Scout’s motto is “Be prepared.” Josh McCoy is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRING HILL, Kan. (WDAF) – A Kansas girl is ...