Laredo’s top speller perfect on stage but fails to make Spelling Bee semifinal

By CHUCK LEWIS and NICOLE NAREA Ryan Anthony Soriano aced his two on-stage spelling tests Wednesday but failed to accumulate enough points to get to the semifinals in the 86th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. Soriano correctly spelled “babka,” pausing only to ask for the definition (a bread) and the language of origin (Polish) before Read More