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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee begins May 27. And, the organization has said it is dialing back its reliance on the high-pressure tiebreaker round known as the “spell-off,” ...

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 ...

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 ...