<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/be68741f-2cec-4b0c-a7bc-a6f86e8e3e5a/6580A749-823E-43C8-BD7E-DAF6B8D94065/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369" href="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369" style="font-size: 11px;">news.enquirer.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369"><P>Venus Ramey has earned lots of fame in her 82 years.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369"><P>She was Miss America 1944 and later a candidate for Cincinnati City Council and worked to save Over-the-Rhine's historic buildings. She performed on Broadway and in movies.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369"><P>Now, though, she's in the news for another reason.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369">After confronting a man she said was stealing from her Kentucky farm, Ramey pulled out a gun and shot out a tire on his truck so he couldn't leave, allowing police to arrest him and two others.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369"><P>She had to balance on her walking stick as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369"><P>"I didn't even think twice. I just went and did it. If they'd even dared come close to me, they'd be 6 feet under by now."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369"><P>Ramey, who lived in Cincinnati on and off for about 30 years, admitted that she is known for taking chances for what she believes in.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369"><P>Don't ask her if she <I>was</I> Miss America.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS01/704200369"><P>"I still am. You never live it down," she said before laughing. 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