The three-day competition begins Tuesday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee and 14 North Carolina students are among the competitors. Ask Jae Canetti to recite pi, and the numbers come out like a ...

RACINE — The Knights of Columbus Monsignor Stanley B. Witkowiak Council 697 of Racine is sponsoring its annual knowledge and free throw contests as part of the KC’s statewide competition. The spelling ...

Last year was all about spelling for Gov. Mifflin eighth-grader Jay Schoenen, who won the 38th annual Berks County Spelling Bee in March and advanced to the third round of the Scripps National ...

WASHINGTON (SHNS) -- The 2007 champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee doesn't really like spelling all that much.Math and music are more to the tastes of 13-year-old Evan O'Dorney of Danville, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Having spelled “serrefine” to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Evan O’Dorney is ready to tackle an even more unusual challenge for a 13-year-old boy. “In the fall,” said his ...

The St. Joseph Knights of Columbus, Monsignor Blecha Council #2055, invites all boys and girls in grades 5 through 8 in private or public schools or home schools to participate in the annual ...

-Thumbs up to yet another spelling-bee win for Sean Dennison. The 12-year-old son of Mike Dennison and Sue O'Connell won the state championship last year, and he was on his way to another shot at the ...

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. Not so long ago, it was assumed that cognitive decline was just a natural part of aging. In the past decade, though, scientific and medical ...

WASHINGTON – In the early 1970s, when college for many meant antiwar protests and experimenting with recreational drugs, friends say Ben S. Bernanke was busy at Harvard and MIT trying to figure out ...