Diane Tucker of Tucson was crowned Mrs. America 2006 during its 30th anniversary pageant here on Wednesday night. Tucker, 29, an accountant executive with a mortgage company, competed as Mrs. Arizona.

Beauty pageants are an interesting – and very public – balancing act between womankind's degree of wholesome versus their sex appeal, a real-life judgement of whether contestants meet Mr Darcy's ...

Floats, holiday lights and the big man in red will all appear Friday night as part of Naperville’s annual Holiday Parade of Lights.