ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Former Miss America winners and state pageant officials are split over the leadership and direction of the organization, which was rocked by a 2017 email scandal that ...

Former Miss America Mallory Hagan is hopeful that the email scandal surrounding the pageant “signals the reinvention” of the organization moving forward, she told Good Morning America.

Staff writers Nicholas Huba and Erin Serpico are joined on the podcast by Lauren Carroll, who is part of the Press' Miss America Team, to talk about the scandal and what is next for the pageant.

A contestant in the Miss America pageant says President Trump “has caused a lot of division” in the nation. Madeline Collins, Miss West Virginia, was asked an onstage question Friday night ...

Miss America 2017, Savvy Shields, walks on the beach for the iconic toe dip. Monday, September 12, 2016. (Viviana Pernot/ Staff Photographer) PRESS PHOTO MARK MELHORN Staff Writer ...