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by Jessica Shaw Just a little more than four hours until my inner feminist gives me the finger for relishing every second of the Miss America pageant. The cheesy lighting, the horrible swimsuits matched with mall pumps, the goal of attaining a sash and

Asheville's Maria Beale Fletcher became a celebrity after being crowned Miss America 50 years ago. / Special to the Citizen-Times Asheville's Maria Beale Fletcher was crowned Miss America in 1962. The pageant returns tonight on ABC and WLOS/Channel 13.

LAS VEGAS — The nation's newest Miss America is a 23-year-old Wisconsin brunette who had long conversations with her family mulling whether or not to make her father's jail time for mail fraud the heart of her campaign in

by Jessica Shaw Just a little more than four hours until my inner feminist gives me the finger for relishing every second of the Miss America pageant. The cheesy lighting, the horrible swimsuits matched with mall pumps, the goal of attaining a sash and

Who will be Miss America? The 2012 competition for the All-American woman is underway. Meet the gorgeous contestants Brunette beauty Hope Anderson is from the great state of Louisiana. Hailey Best, Miss North Carolina, struts her stuff.