Miss Michigan Takes the Stage Tonight for the Miss America Crown

Macomb County native Angela Venditti will compete tonight in the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas.

Posted Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:56 pm ET|Updated Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:36 pm ET

Miss Michigan will try to outshine 52 other women tonight at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas to become Miss America.

Angela Venditti, of Shelby Township, has been competing all week in preliminary competitions leading up to the pageant at 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12.

The pageant, hosted by Chris Harrison and Brooke Burke-Charvet, will be broadcast on ABC-TV nationally and on WXYZ-Channel 7 locally.

Venditti, who was Miss St. Clair Shores when she was crowned Miss Michigan in June, has a platform of "Above the Influence: Keeping Kids Drug Free."

Patch will have results after the pageant.

And if you want to wish her well, say "break a fingernail," Venditti told Patch previously.

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