Elvera Patrick and Hadiyah Muhammad will compete in the Pure International Pageant in Columbus, Ohio, in September.

Photo courtesy Miss America.Not too shabby a Saturday night for a pair of local ladies at the 2010 Miss America Pageant. Miss Virginia — the alliterative Caressa Cameron of Fredricksburg, who, by the way, is also the reigning Miss Arlington — took home the top prize, which includes a $50,000 scholarship along with the symbolic crown and sash. Cameron beat out a pre-med ballet dancer from California, which sure seems like an upset. (Far be…

Jennifer Corey, Miss DC 2009 The Miss District of Columbia pageant took place Sunday night at the Lincoln Theatre, and 22-year-old American University student Jennifer Corey took home the crown. Corey (you can follow her on Twitter, if you like) will go on to represent the District in the Miss America pageant in January, where to the best of our knowledge, no Miss DC has ever taken the top prize. Corey won on the…