A Harrisburg-area student will once again compete in the National Spelling Bee. In a field of 243 top young spellers, one ...

A lot of us have a hard time with spelling, but not Nikita Ramakrishnan. The eighth grader at Rocky Run Middle School in ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee won’t be so quick to force spellers into a lightning-round tiebreaker to decide a champion ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Scripps National Spelling ... to let the bee play out, even if it runs into overtime. “We don’t have those constraints in place that will force us into a spell-off ...

Scripps National Spelling ... more discretion to let the bee play out, even if it runs into overtime. “We don't have those constraints in place that will force us into a spell-off situation ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is modifying its rules, reducing the emphasis on the controversial "spell-off" tiebreaker. This decision follows criticism of last year's abrupt ending.