PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A $3,400 dress belonging to Miss South Florida was vandalized during the pageant, sparking a Palm Beach Police investigation.
PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Miss Colorado Teen USA Hilary Carol Cruz was named this year's winner of the Miss Teen USA title during a live event in Pasadena, Calif.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Miss USA 2006 Tara Conner, from Kentucky, may be stripped of her title due to her inappropriate behavior in New York bars.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The Miss Universe Organization Tuesday said its 2006 Miss USA pageant would be conducted in Baltimore for the second consecutive year.
ALBANY, N.Y., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Ms. Wheelchair New York, a 27-year-old woman disabled from spina bifida, is set to tour the state promoting causes on behalf of the disabled.
BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Allie LaForce, a 16-year-old aspiring broadcaster from Vermillion, Ohio, has been named Miss Teen USA 2005.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- ABC-TV Wednesday dropped the Miss America pageant, whose audience has decreased sharply during recent years after being on the air for five decades.
BEIJING, June 7 (UPI) -- China is planning a beauty pageant for contestants who have had plastic surgery, Chinanews reported Monday.
SEOUL, March 21 (UPI) -- South Korea will no longer offer the spectacle of beauty-pageant contestants parading in identical swimsuits.
KADUNA, Nigeria, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Rioting that has left more than 100 dead has forced organizers of the Miss World pageant to move the beauty contest to London where it will be held Dec. 7, authorities said. Muslims in Nigeria have protested the hosting of the pageant in their country bec