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 ...

Last year's pageant had the first Somali-American woman to compete in her hijab. — -- Mikayla Holmgren made history on Sunday as the first young woman with Down syndrome to compete in a Miss USA ...