FILE - In this May 28, 2015, file photo, Vanya Shivashankar, 13, left, of Olathe, Kan., left, and Gokul Venkatachalam, 14, of St. Louis, hold up the trophy as co-champions after winning the finals of ...

WASHINGTON – Ties are back at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. To the relief of many participants, bee organizers have gotten rid of the written test spellers took just in case a single champion ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) -- Hello. I'm Speller No. 282. And I'm not going to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. But thanks to the new vocabulary test, I might have been a contender. This being my ...

Think you could hold your own among the 562 spellers at this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee? Below is a list of the final five words that knocked out spellers last year before 14-year-old ...

OXON HILL, Md. – The sign outside the waiting room read: ‘Preliminaries Test, Quiet Please.’ Spellers emerged one by one, having taken the first vocabulary test in the history of the National Spelling ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The youngest finalist in the 74th annual state spelling bee left the written portion of the competition in tears. Little did she know the other participants ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Scripps National Spelling Bee is adding a new wrinkle this year in an attempt to stop a streak of ties for the championship. This year, the top spellers will sit for a written ...