The student from Brentwood’s Mirman School was among nine spellers from the original field of 243 to reach the finals.

Oliver Halkett, a 13-year-old from Los Angeles, has reached the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals and stands to win ...

Oliver Halkett, a seventh grader from The Mirman School in Bel Air, has advanced to the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.

It only took the promise of a cupcake with yellow frosting, made by his school’s hot lunch lady and depicting a cartoon bee, to make six-year-old Oliver Sullivan McRae Halkett jump into his ...

Oliver Halkett omitted the “u” in the adjective that means “marked by or relating to a yellow or pink tint given a white sauce by the addition of egg yolks, tomato puree, or lobster coral.” ...