by Xiumei Dong | Aug 16, 2016 | Business & Tech
WEST MIFFLIN, PA. — Along the Monongahela, stretching from West Virginia to downtown Pittsburgh, a few steel plants still shadow the river banks, supporting thousands of families with good- paying jobs. For these stalwarts of the middle class, steel is more than...
by Xiumei Dong | Jun 7, 2016 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – “Do not call” doesn’t work so well anymore. Telemarketers and scammers are finding ways around the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which sought to protect consumers from unwanted robocalls. At the same time, the act is blocking beneficial...
by Xiumei Dong | May 31, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — After nearly an hour and 25 rounds of back-and-forth spelling in the finals, fifth-grader Nihar Janga from Texas and seventh-grader Jairam Hathwar from New York were declared co-champions of the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee; each took home...
by Xiumei Dong | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Vasundara Govindarajan had already exceeded her family’s high expectations when she made it to the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. But the sixth-grader at the Archimedean Academy in Miami was eliminated Thursday when she...
by Xiumei Dong | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR — While she could have gone to the Maryland state math competition, 13-year-old Chloe Johnson decided to pursue spelling instead. And she almost made it to the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. After several attempts to correctly pronounce...
