The Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library has hosted adult spelling bees for 11 years, and one man has won six of them. His name is John Lipani. That’s L-I-P-A-N-I, Lipani. The soft-spoken ...

The winner of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee says that even after practicing spelling for nearly 40 hours a week prior to the competition, his win Thursday night was "all a blur." "I was ...

Sarv Dharavane | Scripps National Spelling Bee Sarv Dharavane, 11, is a student at Austin Elementary School in Tucker, Georgia. He competed in the finals on Thursday night and came in third place ...

Ned Andrews, 1994 champion Andrews, now 34, was only 13 when he won the Bee after spelling the word "antediluvian," a reference to the period before the flood described in the Bible.