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A FORMER beauty queen has been named as the woman who died suddenly at the stables owned by ex-England striker Michael Owen. Jessica Whalley, 25, could not be revived by paramedics after collapsing at Manor House Stables, Cheshire, where she worked as a transport manager. Owen, 43, was said to have broken down "in tears" on Tuesday after the shocking death at the stables he co-owns with daughter Gemma, 19. Emergency services rushed to the racing yard after Ms Whalley fell ill around 8.50am, but she was tragically pronounced dead at the scene, Cheshire Police said. Officers said the death...

Valentina Figuera of Venezuela was crowned Miss Grand International 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela last night, 10/25/19, and Nellys Pimentel of Puerto Rico was crowned Miss Earth 2019 in Manila, Philippines today, 10/26/19. Both pageants are part of "The Big 4" international beauty pageants. The other two (the bigger, most prestigious ones) are Miss Universe and Miss World. Miss Universe is scheduled for Dec. 8th in the US and Miss World is scheduled on Dec. 14th in London. I don't have the power of posting photos, but here are the winners: Valentina Figuera Images: https://www.google.com/search?q=valentina+figuera&rlz=1CAQRFK_enUS791US791&sxsrf=ACYBGNT3n0N7zFD_dbjh4OgF5sq-IWT0fg:1572112718601&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAiI6hwLrlAhVsS98KHSgbDpIQ_AUIEigB&biw=1536&bih=706#imgrc=UHq048bugmyhGM: Nellys Pimentel Images: https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CAQRFK_enUS791US791&biw=1536&bih=706&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ACYBGNQuakhckc4QSNpTBGwOfjK1-fo6oQ%3A1572112722887&sa=1&ei=Uom0XcfTNcbn_Qa7vJOICw&q=nellys+pimentel&oq=nellys+&gs_l=img.1.0.0i131j0l8j0i10.130424.133675..135288...1.0..0.72.1441.23......0....1..gws-wiz-img.....10..35i39j0i5i30j0i30j0i24j0i67j35i362i39.ktQpejePt0s

This is one beauty queen who doesn’t mind being called trashy. Pageant veteran Nicole Doz — the first runner-up for Miss Staten Island 2017 — has added a sanitation worker uniform to her wardrobe of sashes. And the 23-year-old is doing it all for the love of New York City. “That’s why I took the job!” she told The Post. “It’s not the most glamorous look, but that doesn’t mean [the job’s] not awesome.” And getting to her new title of street sweeper was even more grueling than going through talent, interview and swimsuit contests. There’s “the physical test, the...

A flight attendant who tried to smuggle almost 70 pounds (31.8 kg) of cocaine from Los Angeles International Airport has turned herself in to authorities, a report said on Thursday. Marsha Gay Reynolds, a JetBlue Airways flight attendant, and former Jamaican beauty queen, turned herself in to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in New York on Wednesday. It said that she would face a charge of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. It said that Reynolds was stopped at random during luggage-screening processes on Friday by a Transportation Security Administration officer at the airport. The report added that she kicked...

Utah beauty queen accused of throwing bombs resigns title A Utah beauty queen accused along with three friends of throwing homemade bombs in a Salt Lake City suburb resigned her Miss Riverton title on Tuesday, according to a statement posted on the city's website. In the statement, city officials said they had been informed by the director of the Miss Riverton Pageant that Kendra Gill, 18, had resigned her position effective that day. "Prior to the alleged incidents of August 2, 2013, Kendra had done a good job during the short time she served as Miss Riverton," the statement said....

President Barack Obama will have dinner with the first-ever black Miss Israel when he makes his first visit to the Jewish state as US leader next week. An advance party of White House officials insisted on inviting Yityish Aynaw, 22, to next Thursday's gala dinner hosted by Shimon Peres, Israel's president, after hearing how she became the first Israeli of Ethiopian origin to win the country's premier beauty queen contest last month.

Another weapon from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency's controversial Operation Fast and Furious was recently recovered at a Mexican crime scene, CBS News has learned. Congressional investigators say the crime scene was likely where a recent shootout took place between reported Sinaloa drug cartel members and the Mexican military, in which Sinaloa beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez and four others were killed. According to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the Justice Department did not notify Congress of the Fast and Furious firearm recovery in November, even though Grassley has requested an accounting of weapons that...

(CNN) -- A Mexican beauty queen was killed during a weekend shootout in the restive northern state of Sinaloa, authorities said Monday. Maria Susana Flores Gamez , 20, was the 2012 Woman of Sinaloa. She was killed Saturday during clashes between criminals and military troops in the municipality of Mocorito. Two others, both men, also were killed in the shootout.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Editorial by John Ziegler Sarah Palin: Selfish, Hypocritical, Sellout 1/3/2012 As surreal as it may be, after spending over two years and several thousand dollars defending Sarah Palin at great personal cost, I now find myself in the bizarre position (three years to the day from starting the journey to Wasilla to do the interview of record on her 2008 VP run) of being perhaps the only conservative commentator willing to point out that Palin has now clearly revealed herself to be a selfish, hypocritical, sellout. While she was doing her presidential tease (an act that...

A former UA law school student and beauty queen was sentenced to two years in prison plus six years probation Thursday for her part in the kidnapping and torture of her former boyfriend.   Kumari Fulbright is leaning over and talking to her attorney Steve Sherick during her sentencing in Superior Court Thursday morning.  Kumari Fulbright, 28, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and aggravated assault as part of a plea agreement that stipulated the prison sentence.It was left up to Pima County Superior Court Judge Michael Miller to decide how long she should be on probation following her release. Defense attorney...

Nations give to their women a precious place in their society not just give their rights but also, giving a value of their beauty, give her sense of her femininity; from that level you can measure that nation as a civilized nation, country because one reasons of nations development is relating with women & their rights & how they have an effective roles in societies. -What about Iraq’s beautiful women now? -Where they are? Or who hid them? Why we don’t hear about our beauty queen? Iraq’s Beauty Queen? The interesting thing in this issue we had our beauty queen...

Megyn Kelly interviews Courtney Friel about Miss USA. It doesn't get much better.

Miss Teen Louisiana USA lost her crown following an arrest for skipping out on a $46.07 restaurant bill. ...The 18-year-old beauty queen and three friends were arrested and charged with theft on Saturday after walking out of a Bossier City, La., restaurant without paying the bill. Evans left her purse in the restaurant and they were caught when they returned to get it, police spokesman Mark Natale told The Associated Press. Evans was also booked for possession of marijuana found in her purse.

"We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could save just as much."

Just a hilarious video I found. Spliced together newscasts of a super spoiled teenage beauty queen. What happens when parents don't say no. http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2008/02/15

Associated Press - December 31, 2007 8:34 PM ET TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A beauty pageant winner and law school student clerking for a federal judge faces charges that she kidnapped and tortured an ex-boyfriend. Twenty-5-year-old Kumari Fulbright was indicted with three men December 18th by a Pima County Superior Court grand jury. Fulbright faces charges of kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated robbery and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Fulbright was Miss Pima County in 2005 and Miss Desert Sun in 2006, and sought the title of Miss Arizona during those years. The Arizona Daily Star says Fulbright...

A University of Arizona law school student and beauty queen has been indicted on charges that say she and three others held her former boyfriend captive for 10 hours while torturing and robbing him. Kumari Fulbright, a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Raner Collins, was indicted Dec. 18 on five felony charges – armed robbery, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The reigning Miss Savannah has been arrested for shooting and critically wounding a former standout high school football player in what Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police say was an attack motivated by jealousy. Tuesday evening, Sharron Nicole Redmond, 21, went from relative glamour to the stark surroundings of the Chatham County jail. Redmond has been charged with aggravated assault of Kevin Shorter, 25. But that charge could be upgraded to murder if Shorter dies in Memorial Health University Medical Center. As of Tuesday afternoon, Shorter was in critical condition, and police said he had lost a large amount of blood. Shorter was...