(CNN) -- Teresa Scanlan of Nebraska will spend the next year as Miss America after besting 52 other pageant hopefuls at Saturday's event in Las Vegas.
The 17-year-old Gering resident and Scottsbluff High School student played the piano during the competition. Her platform issue was tackling eating

Actor Patrick Swayze is to write a memoir with his wife, his spokeswoman has said.
A publisher and release date for the book have yet to be announced, but Annett Wolf confirmed the couple were working on a book.
The 56-year-old Dirty Dancing star has been battling pancreatic cancer for the last

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Asking Patricia Clarkson if she's "Seen any dead people lately?" isn't as creepy as her reaction made it appear. Our guy just thought she was actually "Sixth Sense" star Toni Collette.

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Actor Daniel Radcliffe leaves Harry Potter behind to play another orphan in the independent film December Boys.
The coming-of-age film tells the story of four Australian boys who head off on holiday and find themselves competing to be adopted by a couple they meet at the seaside.
It is the

The 70-year-old resurfaced at a memorial service in L.A. last week, looking pure.


Peggy's kabuki inspired makeup and distinctive hairdo became iconic for the '60s mod style.
Moffitt helped pave the way for other models like Twiggy.
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TMZ has learned Hulk Hogan underwent successful back surgery this week -- and is already out of the hospital.

Sources close to the family tell TMZ the Hulkster had the procedure done on Wednesday -- it took 3-4 hours to complete. We're told bone spurs had shaken loose

In this "Harry Potter" story, Draco Malfoy gets the girl ... the really hot girl.

Malfoy aka Owen Wilson Tom Felton soaked his pale bones in the Miami sun with his bathing beauty Jade Olivia on Tuesday.
It's good being bad.
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