Abilene school children can say goodbye to Friday spelling tests — the kind that once had them writing “cat” ten times at the kitchen table. District leaders say that practice is on its way out, ...

And with that word, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. If you weren't playing along at home, take our mini-Bee quiz, which uses words from the real ...

The practice paid off Tuesday night, as Chukwuma-Eze won The Lima News Regional Spelling Bee by correctly spelling the word “pinnate,” an adjective for an object resembling a feather.