Miss Alabama is Crowned Miss America
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Deidre Downs, Miss Alabama, was crowned Miss America Saturday night in Atlantic City and won a $50,000 scholarship. She was the third Miss Alabama to win the pageant, following Heather Whitestone, who won
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Carly Patterson became the first American woman to win the gymnastics all-around competition since Mary Lou Retton in 1984.
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Miss America is all dressed up with  no place to go -- at least for now.
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Kenneth Darby rushed for 197 yards and scored two touchdowns, one on a run and one on a pass, as Alabama beat No. 24 Southern Mississippi 27-3 Saturday for its first win against a ranked opponent in nearly two years.
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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 29 -- Lauren Nelson, an aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America on Monday night, the second year in a row that a Miss Oklahoma has won the crown.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.  - Miss Alabama Deidre Downs,  an aspiring medical student, won the Miss America contest on  Saturday and said she would work to regain public respect for  the event.
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NO. 22 WASHINGTON 79, NO. 19 ALABAMA 76: At Anchorage, Alaska - Will Conroy scored 18 points, leading five Huskies in double-figures scoring and Washington (4-0) won the Great Alaska Shootout title game over Alabama (4-1) on Saturday night.
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GARDNER -- As Jess Barton sprinted the final 100 yards of yesterday's 2.9-mile MIAA Division 1 Cross-Country State Championships at Gardner Municipal Golf Course, she allowed, just for a moment, her emotions to get the better of her. &quot;When I got to that stretch, I started smiling,&quot; said Newton North's Barton. &quot;I got halfway before I got tired and stopped ...
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Kennedy Winston scored 22 points and No. 17 Alabama shot 58 percent in a 71-45 victory over Mississippi on Saturday night.
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Deval Patrick, a business executive and former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Clinton administration, has been declared by the Associated Press  as the winner of TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs Democratic primary for governor of Massachusetts.
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ATHENS, Greece - The United States shook off early shooting woes and sloppy play to claim its third straight Olympic women's basketball title Saturday, a 74-63 victory over Australia. They did it by turning up the defense, crashing the boards harder in the second half and, most importantly, finding their shooting touch...
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Miss Alabama Deidre Downs, an aspiring medical student, won the Miss America contest on Saturday and said she would work to regain public respect for the event.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Skimpy swimsuits, a shortened telecast and a last-woman-standing talent competition couldn't help Miss America's TV ratings...
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The annual Miss America pageant will return to the Las Vegas Strip for its 2007 contest, organizers said Thursday. The crowning will air live on Country Music Television from the Aladdin Resort &amp; Casino on Jan. 29, organizers said.
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Tatana Kucharova, an 18-year-old student from the Czech Republic, won the Miss World 2006 beauty contest on Saturday.
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Miss America is all dressed up with no place to go -- at least for now.
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Before pancreatic cancer kills serial murderer Danial Lee Siebert, Alabama made one final try to do the job itself.