Mandeville native wins preliminary award at Miss America pageant

Miss South Carolina gained the swimsuit competitors and Miss Iowa gained the expertise portion of the primary night of preliminaries within the Miss America pageant on Tuesday.

Miss Louisiana April Nelson, 23, sang “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” from “The Sound of Music” to win the talent portion Wednesday, news website NJ.com reported.

Residents will be glued to their televisions Sunday night to cheer for Miss Florida winner MaryKatherine Fetchel, hoping she’ll be crowned Miss America.

Preliminary competitions run through Thursday. She graduated in 2013 with a degree in forensic science from Bay Path University in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and got an internship with the Vermont state medical examiner’s office. Her platform is “The Heart of Learning: Providing What Our Classrooms Need” and her talent is contemporary ribbon dance.

First Lt. Colleen McFadden said she had very few details to release, including what type of vehicle rolled over or the extent of the injuries involved. And if some self-promotion creeps in, all the higher.

The 2016 Miss America competition, hosted by Chris Harrison and Brooke Burke-Charvet, airs Sunday, September 13 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.

Miss Georgias steadily invoke their busy airport in saying, “If you wish to get to heaven, you will have to vary planes in Atlanta!”

And some contestants not only pushed the envelope, they shredded it to bits.

However, a meeting Wednesday with Williams apparently didn’t go well after the Miss America Organization expected her to say she was sorry for the scandal – before they give her a new crown.

Westcom has immersed herself in science and wants to encourage girls and young women to do so as well.

She said at the time that she was told by the photographer the photos were for an artsy technique being shot in silhouette and would never be published. “They don’t have to be skinny to be beautiful from the inside out”.