For 39 years, The News has saluted a group of Michigan’s best and brightest high school students in the spring of their senior year. Partnering with CATCH — Sparky Anderson’s Charity for ...

Faizan Zaki won the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, defeating eight other finalists and earning more ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — With the benefit of hindsight, Vikram Raju knows there was almost no chance he would win after being a ...

I owe my entire journey to them.” While one of last year’s runners-up is putting pressure on himself to win this time around, the other is taking the opposite tack, with Dailey insisting she ...

Cora Massaro, of C.J. Hooker Middle School in Goshen, will compete in the 97th Scripps National Spelling Bee. The Bee is May ... the first round of the finals up to the seventh place contestant ...

Starting in September, spelling bees in classrooms work up to regional spelling bees in February and March to determine national competitors. Spellers may not be older than 15 or past the eighth ...