Southern Brooklyn’s grandmothers graced the stage in their glitziest gowns at the annual Your Highness Grandmother pageant in Brighton Beach on Oct. 27 to show, once again, that age is just a number.

Born almost a decade before the first Miss Universe contest was held in 1952, 80-year-old Choi Soon-hwa could now make history as the pageant’s oldest ever participant. Earlier this month, she was ...

A record 26 young women from around the state will compete for the title of Miss South Dakota 2007, June 6-9, at the Mueller Civic Center in Hot Springs. The previous record number of contestants, 24, ...

The first African Americans to appear in the Miss America Pageant came onstage as 'slaves' for a musical number in 1923. It was not until 1970 that a black woman, Iowa's Cheryl Brown, won a state ...