The best young spellers in the English language are competing this week at the Scripps National Spelling Bee – and one of them is a kid from Aiken County.

Indian American youngsters consistently win academic competitions of all sorts. Cultural beliefs about the changeability of ...

After flubbing a chance to win earlier in Thursday’s Scripps National Spelling Bee final, the 13-year-old from the Dallas ...

The best young spellers in the English language competed at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrated its 100th ...

Faizan Zaki, the 13-year-old champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, spoke with "CBS Mornings Plus" about the tense ...

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On Wednesday, he will be in the quarterfinals, along with 182 other kids. The Scripps National Spelling Bee kicks off on Tuesday, and we have two local kids to watch. Nearly 250 participants ...

Previous winners say the spelling bee has become much more competitive and credit television with making it a cultural ...

"The National Spelling Bee is extremely fun; it was for me," she said. "It's a lot of kids who are very smart and cooperative together." Saturday's event featured school Bee winners from public ...

“I went in thinking I was a smart kid who had won a National Spelling Bee, and I must be able to compete with the highest-level academic kids. I signed up for a bunch of advanced classes I ...

“I went in thinking I was a smart kid who had won a National Spelling Bee, and I must be able to compete with the highest-level academic kids. I signed up for a bunch of advanced classes I ...