Beauty Queen in a Bar Fight

I can't believe she gave up her crown over this. If there are any real men on the judges panel of the Miss World she would have been sure to win in landslide. The only thing that could be better is if she actually owned the bar.

The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.

Pageant organizers say Rachel Christie has also withdrawn from next month's Miss World competition in South Africa.

They said in a statement that the 21-year-old heptathlete will now focus on clearing her name and training for the 2012 Olympics.

British newspapers reported that Christie got into a dustup with another beauty queen — Miss Manchester Sara Beverley Jones — in a nightclub earlier this week.

I'm sorry, did I say the only way this could get better is if she owned the bar? This is way better. Are you ready for who will be replacing her? You got to love this.

Soldier Kat Hodge is glowing with the thrill of taking second place in the Miss England contest – and nursing a pair of very tender feet.

In her day job, the Lance Corporal is used to wearing sturdy boots, but for the beauty pageant these were replaced by a pair of heels. The 22-year-old clerk with the Adjutant General's Corps is probably the only entrant to Miss England who has a commendation for bravery.

Miss Hodge, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, was only 18 and was serving in Iraq with the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment when she leapt into action after the vehicle she was travelling in overturned.

It gave an Iraqi insurgent time to grab two rifles and threaten the soldiers. Miss Hodge punched him and retrieved the guns.

Illegal Alien Murders Former Beauty Queen ... Allegedly

This has been a big story down here in my neck of the woods and of course now our suspicions have been confirmed.

Valentino Vasquez Miranda, 19, who's described by police as an illegal immigrant, faces a charge of first-degree murder in her death.

Mr. Miranda had an accomplice.

No murder charges have been filed against Rogelio Melchor, 38, the other man arrested on forgery charges at the motel. The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency put a hold on him and Miranda after their arrest. That means neither man can leave jail, even with bail money.

The story contains many of the same things we hear over and over again. Fake Social Security cards and Miranda and his wife both lived and worked at the motel in which Ms. Hampton was staying. She was from Alabama and was up in Knoxville to train new employees for a restaurant that was opening up. Her life ended with her nude body being found in a lake after she was strangled.

A fisherman found Jennifer Lee Hampton's nude body floating in Melton Hill Lake on Saturday, seven days after friends reported her missing from her West Knoxville motel room.

Just a reminder that with all of our attention on our economic problems and the presidential race and whether or not Governor Palin is suited to be Vice President and Obama's cult-like following sucking the air out of everything, some of the same old problems are still out there and still affecting the lives of everyday Americans.