N.J. OKs $11.9M to keep Miss America pageant
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – There she is … and she costs about $4 million more this time. A New Jersey redevelopment agency approved an $11.9 million deal to keep the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City for the next three years. That’s $4 million more than the previous three-year deal as the gambling resort teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, the state threatens to seize control of its finances and some of its eight casinos hang on by a thread.