The 43rd annual Shell Rotella SuperRigs is happening at Atlanta Motor Speedway through Saturday. The event is known as "North America’s premier truck beauty competition," and honors the tireless work ...

The pageant queen of the 1933 Orange Parade in Riverside was Edna Knoll. When was the last time you even heard about a beauty pageant? (Los Angeles Times archive / UCLA Library) There she … isn’t.

A federal court last week determined that a beauty pageant association could exclude a transgender “female” (i.e., a male) from participating in one of its contests. The decision Wednesday by the U.S.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And for the scandal-ridden Miss Universe pageant, this is proving a big part of the problem. Opaque and subjective voting criteria have made it difficult to ...