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Gabe Steadham, a fourth-grader at Baldwin Elementary School Intermediate Center, won the 2021 Douglas County Spelling Bee, which took place in an online format this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gabe Steadham, who finished eighth in last year’s Douglas County Spelling Bee, channeled his competitive drive to win this year’s contest a different kind of bee that was held entirely online because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Baldwin Elementary School Intermediate Center fourth grader brought the same drive to the bee that he exhibits in soccer, football, wrestling, ninja warrior gymnastics and most other things he does, according to his mother, Shanna Steadham.
hello. i m j.c. hayward. we are beginning with breaking news of another shooting that occurred at the marine museum in quantico, virginia. this makes the fourth shooting at a military building in the washington area. investigators are asking the gunman to surrender. bruce leshan is live from the scene. investigators are there collecting evidence. bruce? we are out at the front gate at the national museum of the marine corps and you can see the police have this shut off here. they are turning people away. there are a lot of people coming by, haven t heard the news, trying to visit the museum and they are be being turned away. up in the museum area, if you look at the videotape, you will see it is absolutely crawling with police officers who are going through it and investigating inch by inch. they are bringing in sophisticated machinery. i m not even sure what it is. but really the big news has come out of the briefing at the washington fbi field and their acting assistant j