Though Miss Ohio didn't walk away with the title of Miss America on Sunday, Stephanie Finoti is nonetheless victorious. Competing with 51 other young women, the 22-year-old Columbus native made it ...

A nursing student from Alabama was crowned Miss America 2025. Abbie Stockard, 22, who represented Alabama during the 2025 Miss America Pageant, won the title of Miss America Sunday. “This is ...

Pageant organizers have drawn up contracts over the years for sponsors of local contests. This one, from 1948, includes the notorious rule number 7 barring non-white women from competing.

"Miss America is someone who needs to educate," said the 24-year-old PharmD student Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the brand since ...

"We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance," Gretchen Carlson said of the Miss America competition Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor, Writer and Reporter at PEOPLE.

The Miss America Pageant and its sponsor, the Miss America Organization, has evolved from a beach-side showcase for frolicking bathing beauties to a competition that still includes bathing suits ...