MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - A warm congratulations to Miss Minnesota for placing in the top 11 at Miss America! Mankato’s own Emily Schumacher competed alongside 51 other contestants in Orlando ...

Nitaya Panemalaythong was skeptical when a friend suggested she look into the Miss Minnesota USA competition last year. She’d done some modeling before, but thought, “No, that’s not my thing.

Last year, Ember got her chance at the Miss MN USA pageant. This time, she didn’t doubt herself and she tried her best to lift up her fellow contestants, too. And while she didn’t win the ...

But if there was anyone that was going to get me to change my mind, it would be someone like Halima Aden, who became the first woman to wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant, or the just ...

Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, Miss Teen USA Kaliegh Garris and Miss America Nia Imani Franklin all currently hold their respective crowns — a first in history For the first time ever, Miss USA ...

But just four months later, Kolbow was named Miss Black Minnesota 2008, and is now on her way to representing the Land of 10,000 Lakes in the Miss Black USA 2008 Scholarship Pageant. “I think it’s ...