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A 14-year-old student spells 21 words correctly during a 90-second spell-off to claim the annual competition.

"It made me feel really proud," Zaila Avant-garde said after clinching the victory. The 14-year-old Louisianian crushed the competition with the winning word "murraya."

The academic games were canceled last year, but the mental sport is back. First lady Jill Biden is attending the finals Thursday night in Orlando, Fla.

There were warning signs throughout a marathon day of spelling that this Scripps National Spelling Bee would not conclude like any other in the event's鈥�

The kids were just too good.The finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee turned into a slog on Thursday, with bee organizers unable to scour Webster's鈥�

The country's top young spellers battle next week in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Last year鈥檚 champion, Karthik Nemmani, is from McKinney.Youngsters鈥�

鈥淜oinonia,鈥� a noun meaning a body of believers or spiritual communion, is the last word Karthik Nemmani spelled correctly to win this year鈥檚 Scripps鈥�

Karthik Nemmani of McKinney defeated 15 finalists, including three North Texans, in the 2018 annual Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night.Nemmani,鈥�

Five stories that have North Texas talking: Seventeen spellers, including first grader Akash Vukoti, represented the state; golfer Jordan Spieth and Bill鈥�

For the first time in 52 years, two spellers were declared co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday -- and one of them is from North鈥�

It took ten rounds to stump Plano eighth grader Chetan Reddy. He had no trouble in the first few rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee championship鈥�

The answer for most of us? Probably not. There are 42 competitors still standing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. One of them is Plano eighth grader鈥�