ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.: The Latest on the 2017 Miss America pageant (all times local):
11 p.m.
Savvy Shields, of Arkansas, has been crowned Miss America 2017.
The winner of the nationally televised pageant was announced Sunday night.
The outgoing Miss America, Betty Cantrell, placed the crown on the head of her successor.
Shields won the talent competition on the second night of preliminaries with a jazz dance to a song from the TV show Smash.
The pageant began in Atlantic City in 1921 as a way to extend the summer tourist season beyond Labor Day weekend.
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9:35 p.m.
The first openly gay contestant in the Miss America pageant has been eliminated from the competition.
Miss Missouri Erin O’Flaherty was not chosen as one of the top 15 finalists in Sunday night’s nationally televised pageant.
She is the first openly gay contestant to win a state title.
The top 15 are: Kentucky; Washington; Massachusetts; Arkansas; South Carolina; Idaho; Iowa; Texas; California; Oklahoma; Maryland; New York; Tennessee; Louisiana; and Mississippi.