For Eswar Ramamurthy, the hardest words to spell are science and culinary terms, because of their diverse origins. So it seemed fitting that the Lux Middle School eighth-grader won the 32nd annual ...

Twin brothers Eswar (left) and Sankar Ramamurthy, both 13, competed against each other in the LPS Spelling Bee on Saturday at Culler Middle School. Sankar won the title and Eswar finished second.