Faizan Zaki has seized the title of best speller in the English language at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Kessler first lost her beloved black cat, Voodoo, when she was 18. Her mom had gone to a shelter and asked which cat had been there the longest. The staff pointed her to "a grumpy black cat with a ...

The nation’s best young spellers gathered in Maryland this week for the 100th anniversary of the Scripps National Spelling ...

Traditional hair washing A woman has her hair washed with water boiled with iris leaves during an event at the National Folk ...

Chef Kelly English joins Holly Whitfield on this week’s Sound Bites to talk about the Second Line’s renovations, their ...

What this means for Company 1 is unclear, since we’ve never seen someone take over as a new Captain before, but the church ...

Black locusts are native legumes in the pea family. They fix nitrogen in the soil and their flowers are a major source of ...

English lessons, trips to the mosque. Some are tasks that at one point may have been done by staffers at Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, or IRIS. But the refugee resettlement agency has ...

This photo shows the logo of Iris Ohyama. SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Japanese home appliance company Iris Ohyama Inc. said Monday it will invest around $13 million to boost output at its four plants in the ...

But why irises, and not some other flower species ... debate MONTREAL - Liberal Leader Mark Carney spent his first English election debate presenting himself as a safe pair of hand April 17 ...

Iris flowers also have a long association with French and English royalty, thanks to the Fleur-de-Lis symbol. Grown in the right spot, irises are easy to grow and long-lived. Most iris flowers bloom ...