Reigning Miss America Laura Kaeppeler does not shy away from her father’s prison past. In fact, it’s an integral part of Kaeppeler’s personal platform as Miss America, which is to ...

Kaeppeler, a former Miss Wisconsin, was crowned Miss America 2012 on Jan. 14. She is a 2010 graduate of Carthage College in Kenosha and plans to use the $50,000 scholarship she won as Miss America ...

Miss America Laura Kaeppeler will take part in Saturday’s Fourth of July celebration in Portage. We are scheduled to interview her today. If you could ask her any one question, ...

Miss America Laura Kaeppeler will sing the national anthem and "God Bless America" at the Legion Community Days opening ceremony at 6 p.m. Friday and will take part in the festival's parade on ...

The unofficial policy — dictated by former Miss America CEO Sam Haskell — was explained by past winners such as Savvy Shields Wolfe and Betty Maxwell in the 2023 A&E docuseries "Secrets of ...

At left is Miss Wisconsin first runner-up Raeanna Mary Johnson with newly named Miss America, Laura Marie Kaeppeler of Kenosha, middle, in July 2011 when Kaeppeler came to West Salem for a ...