Once little more than a beauty pageant, the Miss Strawberry Days contest is doing away with swimsuits and is judging contestants on personality and leadership qualities. Strawberry Days is almost as ...

Down here on the Alabama Gulf Coast, unless it's the Hangout Fest, it's not a real event until it happens at the Flora-Bama and includes a bikini contest. Each year, as part of the Carl Legett ...

A new behind-the-scenes book, “There She Was,” and a Smithsonian collecting initiative celebrate the pageant’s centennial The author of a penetrating new book, documenting the multi-layered ...

After this year's Miss Louisiana Pageant, which is under way in Monroe, the aspiring young women will no longer appear in revealing bathing suits. In 2018 "contestants will compete in interview, ...