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.

The Plymouth teenager was named Miss Minnesota Teen USA recently at a ceremony at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. It means months of work for the Benilde-St. Margaret senior, but also an ...

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 ...

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 ...