Photo Gallery: The 35th annual Rio Grande Valley Regional Spelling Bee

EDINBURG — “I mean, I don’t have, like, a heart monitor, but I feel like it was 140 (beats per minute),” 13-year-old Roberto “Robbie” Ortiz said of the adrenaline rush he felt shortly after winning the 35th annual Rio Grande Valley Regional Spelling Bee here Saturday afternoon. The eighth grader from Brownsville’s Incarnate Word Academy … Continue reading Photo Gallery: The 35th annual Rio Grande Valley Regional Spelling Bee