OXON HILL, Md. -- The words were tougher. The final rounds lasted longer. The result was the same. The Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a tie for the third consecutive year Thursday night, with ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) – If not for his high-pitched voice, there would be no way to peg Nihar Janga as the youngest-ever winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 11-year-old breezed up to the ...

Avijeet Randhawa, 13, an eighth grader at Corona’s Auburndale Intermediate School, is preparing for the quarterfinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee — a year after he tied for 12th place in 2023 ...

Sriram Hathwar of Painted Post, New York, and Ansun Sujoe of Fort Worth, Texas, got back-to-back words wrong, each giving a reprieve to the other. Neither stumbled again, and a dozen words later, they ...