- {Kentucky}...Twenty-one year old Ann-Blair Thornton of Bowling Green, a student at Western Kentucky University, has been crowned Miss Kentucky 2011. Thornton will represent Kentucky in the Miss America Pageant on January 14th in Las Vegas. Thornton's talent during the pageant Saturday night was a piano performance. She is majoring in English and economics at Western Kentucky and her platform is Alzheimer's awareness and research. As Miss Kentucky, Thornton will receive an $11,000 scholarship and more than $5,000 in clothing certificates, along with jewelry, use of a car for a year, dry cleaning, dental care, personal fitness training and other prizes and services.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 11:16 PM