After four nights of competition, Miss North Dakota Cara Mund was crowned the 2018 Miss America on Sunday night.
North Dakota has never had a Miss America winner, or a contestant reach the top five.
The 2017 Miss America, Savvy Shields, passed on the tiara to Mund during the final night of competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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*It's becoming the season of corn mazes, we'll a farmer in Indiana created a corn maze that's dedicated to Carrie Fisher's memory. It's basically a picture of her with the Princess Leia buns on the side of her head and its says "Carrie Fisher RIP 1956-2016"
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Box Office:
"IT" Scares Up Record-Breaking $117 Million Weekend. Movie experts knew it would do well but it did better then they expected. The opening should break several box office records
*The largest September debut (previously set by Hotel Transylvania 2‘s $48.5 million in 2015)
*The largest opening for a horror movie
*2nd best opening for an R-rated movie (behind Deadpool‘s $132.4 million)
*3rd highest opening of 2017 (behind Beauty and the Beast and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2)
1. It — $117.2 million
2. Home Again — $9 million
3. The Hitman’s Bodyguard — $4.9 million
4. Annabelle: Creation — $4 million
5. Wind River — $3.2 million
6. Leap! — $2.5 million
7. Spider-Man: Homecoming — $2 million
8. Dunkirk — $2 million
9. Logan Lucky — $1.8 million
10. The Emoji Movie — $1.1 million
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*Mindy Kaling is having a baby and now we know she's having a girl! We still don't know who the baby daddy is because she's keeping it a secret for some reason. BUT Kaling's mother, Dr. Swati Chokalingam, an OBG/YN, died from pancreatic cancer in 2012, that day the actress was told Fox had picked up The Mindy Project. Kaling plays an OBG/YN on the show.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEPTEMBER 11
Ludacris, rapper (40)
Taraji P. Henson, actress (47)
Harry Connick Jr., singer/ Idol judge (50)
Tommy Shaw, Styx guitarist (64)
Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead drummer (75)