ABC’s “Good Morning America” weekend edition co-anchor Kate Snow is leaving the network to join NBC’s “Dateline,” TVNewser has learned.

Kate Snow has been on the weekend edition of “Good Morning America” since 2004.

NBC says they are thrilled about the move. “Kate is a tremendously talented and respected journalist:.

Kate Snow is from New York and graduated from Cornell in 1991. She has previously worked for NPR and CNN.

Amy Holmes, Amy M. Holmes (born in 1973 in Lusaka, Zambia) is a conservative political contributor for  She has also appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher several times. Holmes graduated from Princeton University with a BA in economics in 1994. She is an independent conservative.

Holmes was born to a Zambian father and a Caucasian American mother. She was raised in her mother’s native Seattle, Washington after her parents divorced when she was three. She has co-hosted The View and co-hosted CNN’s Glenn Beck while Beck was on the road with his “Unelectable” show. Holmes wrote Senate floor statements for Bill Frist, a two-term United States Senator from Tennessee and the Republican Majority Leader from 2003 until his retirement in 2007. She is currently an anchor of a morning radio program syndicated by the Washington Times newspaper called “America’s Morning News”. Holmes is skeptical that global warming is caused by human activity.

Scott Macintyre American Ido, Scott MacIntyre is one of the 13 finalists on FOX’s “American Idol 8.” Scott MacIntyre auditioned in Phoenix, Arizona. Scott MacIntyre sang “And So It Goes” by Billy Joel for his audition. All four judges voted yes to send Scott MacIntyre to Hollywood. Scott MacIntyre was in the third group of 12 contestants to perform out of the top 36 and was one of the highest vote getters, guaranteeing him a spot among the finalists.

Scott MacIntyre is almost blind and plays several instruments including the piano. Classically trained, Scott MacIntyre has been internationally profiled on CNN, Headline News, Sky News Europe, Global Television Network, USA Today, and national and local news, radio, and print media as pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. Scott MacIntyre has independently produced, engineered, and released 6 full-length CD’s and has written in genres spanning pop, rock, punk, jazz, and classical.

Scott MacIntyre started college at 14 years old and earned his bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University at age 19. Scott MacIntyre then attended graduate school in London, England. Scott MacIntyre also plays piano, guitar and drums. Scott MacIntyre is from Scottsdale, Arizona. Scott MacIntyre is 23 years old.

American Idol top 12 Season 9, The eighth season of American Idol premiered on January 13, 2009 and concluded on May 20, 2009. Judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson continued to judge the show’s contestants, along with Ryan Seacrest as host. The season introduced Kara DioGuardi as the fourth judge on the Idol panel.[1]  It was also Abdul’s final season as a judge.[2]  Kris Allen was announced the winner of the competition on May 20, 2009, defeating runner-up Adam Lambert after nearly 100 million votes, the highest recorded vote total in the history of the show. Kris Allen is the only married winner of the competition at the time of his victory.

The eighth season saw numerous changes to the format of the show. There were 36 semi-finalists instead of 24, and thirteen finalists instead of twelve, nine contestants chosen by the public and four by the judges. Another addition was the “save,” which was used on the top seven results show to veto Matt Giraud’s elimination.

General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, praised the efforts of Pakistan Army in eliminating terrorists, since last ten months.
I think you have heard it said by pundits that Iran has gone from being a theocracy to a thugocracy, Petraeus, whose command stretches from Egypt to Pakistan and includes Iran, said in an interview on CNN. Most recently, the Pakistanis have stepped up their efforts and arrested a number of high-ranking Afghan Taliban commanders. Petraeus said critics needed to appreciate the gains made in Pakistan and “the limits again to how much more can be done until these gains have been solidified. Petraeus appreciated the commitment and sacrifices made by the security forces, armed forces and the people of Pakistan in eradicating militancy and terrorism.

Betty Nguyen Leaving Cnn, Betty Nguyen is leaving CNN and joining the network as a full-time CBS News Correspondent as of March 11th. Nguyen will anchor “CBS Morning News” and report for “The Early Show.”

Nguyen joined CNN in 2004 and is an anchor for the weekend editions of “CNN Newsroom.” “She has a great on-air presence and brings a tremendous amount of hard news reporting and anchoring experience to CBS News,” said CBS News and Sports president Sean McManus in a release.

Prior to her time at CNN, Nguyen started her career as an anchor at two CBS affiliates in Texas, first at KWTX in Waco, then KTVT in Dallas. Full announcement after the jump.

More: TVNewser has an email that current “CBS Morning News” anchor Michelle Gielan sent to colleagues early today in which she announces that she’s leaving CBS News in the next few months.

Joseph Andrew Stack, Joe Stack: Just a few hours after Joseph Andrew Stack killed himself in an attack on an Austin building that housed local IRS office someone went and set up a fan club for him on Facebook. It already has 124 members.

“Finally an American man took a stand against our tyrannical government that no longer follows the constitution and is turned its back on its founding fathers and the beliefs this country was founded on,” the page explains.

One Stack fan had this to say about the insane Stack manifesto: “This shows that he was in fact, not a deranged man, but a very intelligent one, who understands typical everyday problems that people have with the government. It’s just too bad people are deciding to focus on the fact that he tried to kill his wife and daughter, and not the means of why he did this.”

The fan page also uses the line from Thomas Jefferson that crazy political types, like the guy who brought a gun to a town hall meeting with Barack Obama, just love. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

Plane Crash Austin, Echelon Building Austin, AUSTIN, Texas: A low-flying small plane crashed into an office building that houses the Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Texas on Thursday, and at least one person was missing, witnesses and officials said.

Assistant Austin Fire Chief Harry Evans said two people have also been taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known.

A law enforcement official said the crash did not initially appear to be the result of a crime or terrorism. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss the crash.

Thick black and gray smoke was billowing out of the second and third stories of the building Thursday as fire crews using ladder trucks and hoses battled the fire. Dozens of windows were blown out of the hulking black building, and vehicles traveling on a nearby highway paused to look.

Peggy Walker, an IRS revenue officer who works in the building said she was sitting at her desk when the plane crashed.

“It felt like a bomb blew off. The ceiling caved in and windows blew in. We got up and ran,” she said.

Matt Farney, 39, who was in the parking lot of a nearby Home Depot, said he saw a low-flying private plane near some apartments and the office building just before it crashed.

“I figured he was going to buzz the apartments or he was showing off,” Farney said, adding that the plane dipped down. “It was a ball of flames that was high or higher than the apartments. It was surreal. It was insane. … It didn’t look like he was out of control or anything.”

Sitting at her desk about a half-mile from the crash, Michelle Santibanez said she felt vibrations. She and her co-workers ran to the windows, where they saw a scene that reminded them of the 2001 terrorist attacks, she said.

“It was the same kind of scenario with window panels falling out and desks falling out and paperwork flying,” said Santibanez, an accountant.

Fire crews were inside the building battling the blaze and looking for survivors, Evans said.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the agency was investigating but had no immediate information on the type of plane or how many people were on board.

Plane Crash Austin, Echelon Building Austin: Authorities are investigating an Austin plane crash that took place this morning at an office building in Northwest Austin, Texas.

Austin police say a small plane crashed into the seven-story building in the 9400 block of Research Boulevard, per the Austin Statesman.

CNN is reporting that the man set his house on fire, stole the plane and crashed it intentionally, citing a federal official.

The Dallas Morning News reports that the building is located on a major highway in the city.

CBS Radio News tweeted that the FBI has an office nearby the site in the same office park.

Austin police said at least two people were hospitalized and one person was unaccounted for.

Twitter updates around Austin are streaming in about the crash. The TweetPhoto image of the building seen here was posted by

Alabama National Championships, Just in time for Alabama possibly winning it’s eighth legitimate national championship, we have this article from The Birmingham News that finally answers the age old question of how Alabama came to claim 12 MNCs. It is a subject that many have speculated on for quite some time. Meet Wayne Atcheson, former Alabama sports information director and the man that ‘won’ more national titles for the Crimson Tide than anyone except the Bear. In 1983 (he claims) as the first year director, he added five back-dated and minor-selector titles to the Tide media guide. Taylor Watson, current director of the Bryant museum in Tuscaloosa, says that it was in 1986. A look back at the 1982 media guide lists only those six titles won under Bryant (other than a footnote denoting 1934 as one).

Said Atcheson: “I’ve talked to university officials about it. You’re about the first reporter to ever ask me about it. I want to say the right thing here. I made the change because Coach Bryant had these 25 years and six national championships and they were emphasized so much. It was on all the stationery. And when I got there, it was a matter of seeing there were five others and we should put them all together. It was as simple as that.”

According to the NCAA, only ‘consensus’ national titles go into the ‘record books’, a term used selectively as we all know that the NCAA does not sanction a title in FBS football. A consensus national title is considered to be any title bestowed after 1950 by any (but not necessarily all) of the following NC selectors: AP, UPI, Football Writers Association of America, National Football Foundation/College Football Hall of Fame, USA Today/CNN or USA Today/ESPN. Hmmm. So what made Atcheson do it?

“I tried to make Alabama football look the best it could look and just make it as great as it could possibly be,” Atcheson said. “I was a competitor myself with the other schools, and what they bragged about and boasted about, I wanted people to know the best about my school.”

In other words, he embellished it. And so many Tide faithful take that as the gospel for Alabama football tradition–and it happened from the mere stroke of a pen. And so as Paul Harvey used to say, now you know the rest of the story.