Judge withholds beauty queen crown

The state, which has had two reigning beauty queens for a month, now has none. A judge in Raleigh ordered the Miss North Carolina pageant to not recognize anyone as the state titleholder

until Rebekah Revels, who won the pageant but was forced to resign over topless snapshots, resolves her legal dispute with the organization. Revels went to Atlantic City, N.J., for the Sept.

21 Miss America pageant along with Misty Clymer, the original runner-up who was elevated to the title when Revels resigned. Within a week, a federal judge refused to force the Miss America

pageant to include Revels, leaving Clymer as the state’s sole representative at the competition. MORE TO READ