Scenes from the Theater Art Guild's Tuesday rehearsal of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the Lincoln Theatre.

Upcoming George Washington High School student Charvitha Sanjaya, 14, was a competitor in the 100th Annual Scripps Spelling ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The best young spellers in the English language are competing at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was held ...

Ultimately, his joyful approach made him the Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. The favorite entering the bee after his runner-up finish last year — during which he never misspelled a word ...

The centennial spelling bee began Tuesday morning with preliminaries, in which participants have to pass two rounds — a traditional spelling round and a multiple-choice definition round ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — As the National Spelling Bee kicked off Tuesday, some West Michigan students made it past the first two rounds. The annual Scripps National Spelling Bee is taking ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — This year marks the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee, a longstanding tradition with deep Louisville roots. The Courier Journal sponsored the first national spelling bee back ...

One of our local spellers is going to the next round for the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Congrats to 13-year ... You can see Jenna weekday mornings at the anchor desk on WSLS 10 Today from ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — The Scripps National Spelling Bee begins May 27 with the preliminary rounds. This year’s competition is all the buzz as the Spelling Bee is celebrating its 100-year anniversary.

The annual competition where students put their spelling skills to the test began in 1925 when nine newspapers hosted a spelling bee. Only nine spellers participated in that first competition.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., is celebrating its 100th anniversary this week, and Miles Little, a McCracken Middle School student, represented Spartanburg at the competition.