The first bee was held in 1925, when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers to host spelling bees and send ...

An eighth grader at Bright Horizon Academy in San Diego will begin competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Tuesday ...

On Tuesday, the young contestants will have to spell a word and answer a vocabulary question to advance to the next round.

Duaa qualified for the national bee by correctly spelling the word "droshky," a public carriage used in Russia.

Two students from Los Angeles County and one from Orange County will begin competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee Tuesday in National Harbor, Maryland. Kamya Balaji, Oliver Halkett and Sydney ...

There are times when the Scripps National Spelling Bee transforms into a geography bee. Scripps has begun relying on obscure geographical terms to winnow down the field of spellers in the later rounds ...

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(KNSI) - The third time was the charm for Emmaline Bushman of St. John's Prep when it came to the spelling bee. This week, ...