President Biden in 2022 announced Admiral Linda Fagan as the new commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard making her the first woman to lead a branch of the U.S. military. President Trump's administration ...

A running joke with my department chairs, when I was a dean, involved the awarding of merit badges for the accomplishment of a particularly thorny task that the outside world (outside of academia, ...

Besides, there were bigger things ahead. Reagan Poindexter earned every one of the 138 merit badges offered, making her one of less than 600 who managed the feat since the founding of the Boy ...

Jimmy Poirier, 18, a senior honors student at Essex Agricultural & Technical School in Danvers, didn't set out to earn all of ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — Scouts have gotten a helping hand for more than two decades to obtain their merit badges.

BLOUNTS CREEK, N.C. (WNCT) — Over the weekend, nearly 400 scouts and leaders met up at Camp Boddie in Blounts Creek for Winter Merit Badge Weekend. They offer about 30 merit badge opportunities ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When people join the Boy Scouts they take an oath to do their best but one Louisville Boy Scout definitely ...

George Green IV, a junior at Whitefield Academy, has earned every merit badge available, a feat accomplished by fewer than 1% of scouts. Only 596 scouts have ever achieved this milestone ...