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Kristen Dalton - Miss North Carolina wins Miss America.

The Miss America contest is stupid and dated and we crowned a new winner in Vegas on Saturday night. One of the big surprises to me the last couple of years has been the relocation of the Miss America pageant to Vegas. Why would you bring this antiquated event -- an Atlantic City tradition that had seemingly run its course there -- to Vegas? Vegas aspires not only to be hipper than Atlantic City, but also wants to be a city with a relevance to the 21st century. (And anyway, swimsuit competitions made much more sense near an ocean.)...

Miss Indiana crowned new Miss America The 22-year-old student battled laryngitis during competition week Dashing the dreams of 50 other beauty queens, 26-year-old Texan View photos from the competition. Sat., Jan. 24, 2009 In ball gowns, blue jeans and bikinis, 52 young women took to the stage Saturday to compete for the Miss America 2009 title. But only one beauty took the crown — Miss Indiana Katie Stam. While accepting her new position from host Mario Lopez and Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund of Michigan, Stam shared her glory with fellow contestants. “I’m gonna thank all these amazing girls behind...

There comes a time when a man should deviate from writing about hair, and this is one of them. "I've never done this on national TV before..." And I'm betting you wish you hadn't, now that you're on every blogger's website west of the Gaza Strip, doll. Watch the video here...

LAS VEGAS -- Miss Michigan Kirsten Haglund, a 19-year-old aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America 2008 on Saturday in a live show billed as the unveiling of the 87-year-old pageant's new, hipper look. Haglund, of Farmington Hills, Mich., sang "Over the Rainbow" and walked a crowd-pleasing strut in a black and gold bikini to clinch the title. She beat Miss Indiana Nicole Elizabeth Rash, the first runner up, and Miss Washington Elyse Umemoto, the second runner up for the $50,000 scholarship and year of travel that comes with the crown. Haglund, who studies music at the University of Cincinnati,...

National Guard Medic to Represent Utah at Miss America Pageant . . . Sgt. Jill Stevens of the Utah National Guard in her Soldiers magazine cover shot. Miss Utah Jill Stevens will have a combat boot up on the competition next month when she dons her pageant gown in Las Vegas.Stevens, a contestant in the 2008 Miss America pageant, is also a sergeant in the Utah National Guard's 1st Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment.But touting her slogan "Lock and Load," it's clear she's not your average beauty contestant. In fact, it wasn't until she was recruited for the Miss Southern Utah...

Soldier Journals Her Run at Miss America Nov 19, 2007 BY Beth Reece Sgt. Jill Stevens of the Utah National Guard is a top contender for the 2008 Miss America competition, which takes place Jan. 26. Catch print and video coverage of Sgt. Stevens' journey through pageantry and the Army's ranks at www.army.mil/gijill Photo by Beth Reece WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Nov. 19, 2007) - One of the Army's own will take a shot at the "Miss America 2008" title Jan. 26 in Las Vegas and a new Army Web site that goes live today will follow her progress. A...

Here she won't be -- Miss America. The case against at least one -- and probably more -- of the 11 men arrested in Suffolk with the help of the beauty queen and the television show "America's Most Wanted" is in jeopardy because representatives for Miss America 2007 Lauren Nelson have told prosecutors she won't return to Long Island to testify, said Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota. Without Nelson available as a star witness, every case she actively participated in during the undercover police sex sting may be up in the air, said Spota. He called the police operation well-intended...

82-year-old former Miss America stops thief by shooting his tires out 9:07 am on April 20, 2007 After confronting a man she said was stealing from her Kentucky farm, Ramey pulled out a gun and shot out a tire on his truck so he couldn’t leave, allowing police to arrest him and two others. “He was probably wetting his pants,” Ramey said Thursday from her home in Waynesburg, about 140 miles south of Cincinnati… She had to balance on her walking stick as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun. “I didn’t even think twice. I just went and did...

She's 82 years old and today says she's not afraid to use a gun to protect her community. This comes after she did just that shooting at a man's car she says was trying to steal metal near her home in Pulaski County. WYMT's Phil Pendleton spoke to the woman and found out something else about our gun totin' grandma. Venus Ramey knows it would be easy for someone to take advantage of her. She's 82 and needs a walker to get around. "I'm an old woman. They figure they can get away with a lot," Ramey said. Last Friday,...

WAYNESBURG, Ky. - Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder. Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment. Ramey said the man told her he would leave. "I said, 'Oh, no you won't,' and I shot their tires so they couldn't leave," Ramey said. She had to balance on her walker...

Ex-Miss America shoots thief's tires 82-year-old wielded snub-nosed .38: 'He was probably wetting his pants' Posted: April 20, 2007 2:18 p.m. Eastern © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Venus Ramey (Photo: MissAmerica.org) Tough isn't a word necessarily associated with Miss America, but three thieves arrested after their truck tires were shot out by 82-year-old Venus Ramey might beg to differ. Ramey, who won the elite beauty crown in 1944, confronted one of the three robbers on her farm in Waynesburg, Ky., about 140 miles south of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. "He was probably wetting his pants," said Ramey, who balanced on her...

WAYNESBURG, Ky. — Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder. Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment. Ramey said the man told her he would leave. "I said, 'Oh, no you won't,' and I shot their tires so they couldn't leave," Ramey said. She had to balance on her walker...

  Venus Ramey (Photo: MissAmerica.org) Tough isn't a word necessarily associated with Miss America, but three thieves arrested after their truck tires were shot out by 82-year-old Venus Ramey might beg to differ. Ramey, who won the elite beauty crown in 1944, confronted one of the three robbers on her farm in Waynesburg, Ky., about 140 miles south of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. "He was probably wetting his pants," said Ramey, who balanced on her walking stick as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun. Ramey said thieves for some time have been breaking into a building on her...

<p>Venus Ramey has earned lots of fame in her 82 years.</p> <p>She was Miss America 1944 and later a candidate for Cincinnati City Council and worked to save Over-the-Rhine's historic buildings. She performed on Broadway and in movies.</p> <p>Now, though, she's in the news for another reason.</p>

LAS VEGAS — A 20-year-old aspiring Broadway performer from Oklahoma was crowned Miss America tonight in Las Vegas. Lauren Nelson, a student at the University of Central Oklahoma, outlasted 51 other women to become Miss America 2007. In addition to the crown, she gets a $50,000 scholarship and stands to make thousands more in appearance fees during her one-year reign.

Take a good look at the photo above, guys. Okay, when you are finally done drooling uncontrollably, try to guess which one was Miss America 2001, Angela Perez Baraquio from Hawaii. It's impossible to pick out who was Miss America because all seven of the Baraquio sisters are STUNNING. Yes, you read that right. I wrote "sisters." Amazingly, those Baraquio sisters are all so hot looking that ANY one of them could have been crowned as Miss America. For this reason I am not going to pick out which of those stunnees was the actual Miss America. Does it...

She's not going to let State of the Union overshadow the state of the nation -- Washington -- House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi made clear Tuesday she's not willing to cede the public spotlight to President Bush in the weeks before his State of the Union speech. Pelosi plans to start the 110th Congress with a bang on Jan. 4 -- when the House holds its ceremonial swearing in and elects her as speaker -- by immediately setting off on a sprint of several weeks to enact the Democrats' ambitious 100-hour agenda. Lawmakers usually return home between the swearing-in ceremony and...

tlantic City, N.J. -- The Miss America pageant will broadcast a seven-episode reality show/documentary series next year to draw in viewers and let the audience choose some of the finalists, officials announced Saturday. Country Music Television will air the seven-episode "Finding Miss America" in the days leading up to the January 2007 pageant, the network and the Miss American Organization said. Each episode will focus on a group of contestants as they live together and compete in preliminary competitions: evening wear, swimwear, talent and the one-on-one interviews with judges. At the end of the preliminary period, judges will tally their...