Kudos to 14-year-old Karthik Nemmani of McKinney! He won the Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling "koinonia" after runner-up Nasya Modi from Frisco misspelled "Bewusstseinslage."
In fact, the top 3 spellers were from North Texas. Karthik is from McKinney, Naysa is from Frisco, and third-place finisher Abhijay Kodali lives in Flower Mound.