There's plenty of West Michigan connections to the 2009 Miss America pageant, which airs at 8 p.m. today on cable network The Learning Channel, TLC. First, the reigning Miss America, Kirsten Haglund, ...

One way to describe Jillian Dansko, winner of a major beauty pageant in the South, is a pretty, petite woman who likes pierogies. "I’m 100 percent Polish. I do love pierogies," Dansko said. Dansko ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The 2009 Miss Purdue Scholarship Pageant will take place at 5 p.m. Sunday (March 1) in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Eight students will participate in the pageant, which is ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last year, women maimed by landmines around the world competed for the grand prize of ...