Faizan's triumph at Scripps National Bee spotlights North Texas' competitive spirit while urging more schools to join, ...

Joanne Lagatta arrived at the University of Wisconsin in 1995 with a flawless academic record and an achievement on her resumé that she didn’t like to talk about — but that no other undergrad on the ...

Beatriz Lucille Whitford-Rodriguez, 14, of Chicago, spells her word in the semifinals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday in National Harbor, Md. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) The ...

Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old from Texas, has just won this year's national Scripps Spelling Bee. His winning word was "éclaircissement," a French word that means clarification, explanation or ...

It's the 100th year of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. From a pool of more than 200 students, nine finalists will take the stage Thursday night. The bee has evolved immensely over a century, ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

Surfside Playhouse in Cocoa Beach is staging the musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." The show follows six quirky adolescents competing in a spelling championship, exploring themes of ...

The Champion City Spelling Bee is about more than words. It’s about fun. “You may not think a spelling bee would be fun to watch, but we had some very vibrant personalities,” said Sophia Lopez, event ...

The Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library has hosted adult spelling bees for 11 years, and one man has won six of them. His name is John Lipani. That’s L-I-P-A-N-I, Lipani. The soft-spoken ...

There was only one word that the whipsmart winner of the Prime Minister’s high school Spelling Bee couldn’t quite get: ...

FILE - Katharine "Kerry" Close, 13, poses at home in Spring Lake, N.J., May 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Tim Larsen, File) Joanne Lagatta arrived at the University of Wisconsin in 1995 with a flawless academic ...

Joanne Lagatta arrived at the University of Wisconsin in 1995 with a flawless academic record and an achievement on her resumé that she didn't like to talk about — but that no other undergrad on the ...