WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- Kavya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old girl from Kansas, won "The 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee" in Washington Thursday.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- National spelling bee wannabes got an early Christmas present when a Minneapolis law firm agreed to sponsor a regional spelling bee.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Spelling bee wannabes in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area may have to wait for a shot at nationals because no money spelled no regional c-o-m-p-e-t-i-t-i-o-n.
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- A home-schooled eighth grader from Danville, Calif., correctly spelled the word "serrefine" to win the 80th annual Scripps Spelling bee in Washington.
WASHINGTON, May 31 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old boy from Danville, Calif., is the winner of the 80th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington.
AUSTIN, Texas, April 13 (UPI) -- A charity spelling bee for adults in Austin, Texas, raised $70,000 for the Literacy Coalition of Central Texas.
AMARILLO, Texas, June 15 (UPI) -- An Amarillo, Texas, billboard donated to praise a city girl's 8th-place finish in a national spelling bee was short, sweet, and spelled her last name wrong.
WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- Using modern technoloigy for old-fashioned cramming, a 13-year-old California boy has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee championship.
WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- A tearful David Tidmarsh hyperventilated his way through the correct spelling of autochthonous to become the United States' top speller Thursday.
WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- Seven members of the American Literacy Society picketed the 77th annual national spelling bee in Washington, calling for the modernization of English spelling.
