What’s known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee was spearheaded by The Courier Journal and organized with the help of eight other newspapers in 1925 ...

Spelling bees are a century-old tradition. What’s now known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee was spearheaded by The Courier Journal 100 years ago.

As they do this time every year, spellers all over the country are combing through hundreds of thousands of words, quizzing ...

An eighth-grader at Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly, Nikita said she had been trying since fifth grade to make it into ...

After four years of hard work with her grandfather, 14-year-old Adele Gibbens, a student at Indian Trail Middle School in ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Florida kids won the last two, will the state see ...

Her commitment paid off when she secured her spot in the national competition for a second time by winning the Boulder Valley Regional Spelling Bee in March. She took first place by correctly spelling ...

Thirteen years after he participated in the Scripps National Spelling Bee as a competitor, campus Ph.D. student Frank Cahill ...