KANSAS CITY, Mo. – After 19 rounds in a Missouri county's annual spelling bee over the weekend, only two of the 25 contestants who started the competition remained. Several hours and 47 rounds ...

They were positively flummoxed, bamboozled and discombobulated — all words that would have been child’s play for their young charges to spell. Now the organizers of the Scripps National… ...

E-P-I-C. S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G. C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-I-O-N. Two Missouri students went more than 60 rounds Saturday in a spelling bee that had to be called because organizers ran out of words. The battle was ...

OXON HILL, MD., May 31 (Reuters) - Eight young super spellers beat the dictionary to be crowned co-winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, in what officials said was a first since the U.S ...