WASHINGTON , May 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee takes place this week in Washington D.C. , featuring top spellers from across the U.S. and including competitors from Europe , Guam , Jamaica , Puerto Rico , the U.S. Virgin Islands , The Bahamas , American Samoa , Ghana , South Korea , Canada and New Zealand .
CHARLEVOIX †Aaron Wier had three hits and Matt Hall homered Sunday as BASES defeated the Cheboygan Merchants, 11-5, to win the 5th Annual Bob Klooster Memorial Men’s Class C, D & E Fast Pitch Softball Tournament.
This is the kind of excused absence that can get you out of your English assignments. Freeland Middle School eighth-grader Andrew J. Bicigo is representing Saginaw County in Washington, D.C., this week, hoping to win the 81st annual Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.
Gassing up the D.C. government's vehicle fleet has cost nearly $3 million more this fiscal year than last, but District officials say they saw the fuel price spike coming and adequately budgeted for it.
The 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee takes place this week in Washington D.C., featuring top spellers from across the U.S. and including competitors from Europe, Guam, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the U.S.
Reforming small business taxation would remove major incentives for firms to stay small, encourage their growth and make the Canadian economy more competitive overall, according to a Commentary released today by the C.D.
WASHINGTON - Critics say changes to the D.C. public school funding formula are a setback for efforts to promote transparency in the school system. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is scrapping a system used since the late 1990s known as the "weighted student formula."
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The New England Revolution will train in Foxborough twice this week in preparation for the club's match against bitter rival D.C. United at 7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, May 29, at Gillette Stadium in an ESPN2 nationally-televised Primetime Thursday match.
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