"The district worded it wrong,” said Angie. “The answer would be 42.5, though, if done at an age appropriate grade." ...

Two NYPD cops paralyzed during line-of-duty car crashes about two decades ago were promoted to second-grade detectives Friday – as one of the brave Finest declared, “I wasn’t going to give ...

The official source for the Spelling Bee is Merriam-Webster Unabridged. The competition began 100 years ago. It was canceled, however, four times, between 1943 and 1945 because of the Second World ...

Second time was the charm for champion speller Faizan Zaki and all it took was being able to spell a 15-letter word exactly right. The 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, came in second in the 2024 ...

Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old boy from the Dallas area, won the 97th Scripps National Spelling Bee, after missing out on the title and coming in second place last year. Mr Zaki swiftly nailed the ...

Photos of Former National Spelling Bee Champions (and the Words They Won with) The second round of competition in each phase includes a vocabulary round that was introduced in 2021 to promote “k ...

Oxon Hill, Maryland (AP) – Faizan Zaki nearly threw away his opportunity to go from runner-up to champion at the Scripps National Spelling Bee with a shocking moment of overconfidence.

Faizan Zaki is the 2025 champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition. The winner, 13, will receive $50,000 in cash from Scripps, $2,500 cash prize and reference library from Merriam ...

He has a good mentor. His older brother, Vikram Raju, took second place at the Scripps Bee three years ago. Blanche Li, 14, of Boulder reacts after unsuccessfully spelling her word in the ...

A middle school student from Concord tied for fourth place in the finals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday ... Kallakuri is an eighth-grade student at Valor Preparatory Academy ...

Elliana Pagliarini was eliminated in the quarterfinals at the 100th annual Scrippts National Spelling Bee. LA protests: Trump and Newsom clash as National Guard deployed Rod Stewart ‘devastated ...