So You Think You Can Dance Winner

So You Think You Can Dance Winner. The final result of "So You Think You Can Dance" season 8 didn't fall from predictions. Having been judges' favorite since her audition, Melanie Moore was proclaimed as the champion on the Thursday (Aug 11) show, with forty-seven percent of total vote. Another female dancer on the top 4, Sasha Mallory, was placed 2nd. Meanwhile, 22-year-old Marko Germar, who once made Lady GaGa cry with his routine on high 8 performance night, and 25-year-old Tadd Gadduang were the 3rd placer and 4th placer respectively. On the final result show, all top twenty dancers from this season returned to stage to perform. The judges, that admit Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Robin Antin and Lil' C, picked the routines that were performed by the contestants that night. After, the top 10 dancers from the season are scheduled to embark on a 32-city tour on Sept 17. The stops admit Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City on Sept thirty and the Prudential Center in Newark on October 4.

Miranda Cosgrove Detail of Bus Accident

Miranda Cosgrove Detail of Bus Accident: Miranda Cosgrove escaped her tour bus crash Thursday morning with a broken ankle, but she was not the only one wounded in the "life-threatening" accident. Miranda's mom was on the bus with her and got truly beaten up by the crash," a source close to the iCarly star says PEOPLE. "She's expected to fully recover, but it has scary because the driver was hurt, too, and he's in truly bad shape because the wound happened close to his heart. This was a life-threatening crash," the source carries on, adding that the driver is in critical condition later the bus collided with a tractor-trailer. "A piece from the tractor-trailer went straight through the windshield and the driver's arm was sliced all the way through. Agreeing to the source, the folks on the bus who were sleeping on the bunks in the back weren't physically affected by the crash, but because Cosgrove, eighteen, was sleeping on a couch in the front, she felt the impact. The Nickelodeon star was left "truly shaken-up," the source says. "The paparazzi craze at the hospital has been additionally overwhelming, but she's handling the whole thing very well. The source adds that Cosgrove, who had to postpone her tour "until additional notice," and her band are tentatively planning to pick up their tour in the fall.Miranda Cosgrove Detail of Bus Accident

Rick Perry Discusses for President

Rick Perry Discusses for President: Governor Rick Perry on Wed added fuel to the conference realignment fire when he said conversations had been had about a possible move by Texas A&M from the Big twelve to the Southeastern Conference, The Dallas Morning News described. Asked about speculation & M would move conferences, Perry say Dallas-based paper, "As far as I know, the discussions were. It ', frankly, I do not know. I was referring to universities and decision-makers out there”. Texas A & M issued a statement later Wednesday afternoon and did not deny any conference on the move. President of the loft is committed to making the best Texas A & M, not only now, in the future, "the declaration".We carry on having wide-ranging conversations regarding all aspects of the university, admitting both academics and athletics.” The Big twelve nearly split apart last summer later Nebraska and Colorado departed for the Big 10 and Pac-10 conferences, respectively. However, Texas decided to stay put later Big twelve commissioner Dan Beebe convinced Longhorns officials and administrators from other league schools that the conference could stay viable with its remaining ten schools. However & M and other major schools in twelve hours sounds concerned about the new Longhorn Network. Year with ESPN, Texas, can send its track and field events, something to think about other schools could create a competitive advantage in the budget of the recruitment process. A & M senior official told the Houston Chronicle that the other union members are "tired of Texas." Rick Perry Discusses for President

Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Hudson: Since then, Show the pleasure Behar said she found Jennifer Hudson size 0 for shopping, blogs are buzzing. MORE 'asked if the J-Hud was really zero integers, while others asked if it was becoming too small. We all know Hudson has been “feeling fine,” sharing her Weight Watchers aided weight loss and new body with the global. Later being so comfortable and confident in her ample size for years, J-Hud decided to make a change and drop some weight. A lot of her fans-undoubtedly feeling abandoned by a sister they could relate to-weren’t feeling the change. For months the Black media wondered if J-Hud dropped the weight just to fit in or crossover, and a lot of her fans said she was just “too skinny.” But none of the negative comments have appeared to faze Hudson, who's said that losing weight feels wish gaining ten years of her youth back.Jennifer Hudson:

PGA Championship 2011

PGA Championship: The 2011 PGA Championship kicks off Thursday, August. Eleven from the Highlands Course at the Atlantic Athletic Club. It is the 1st major tournament for Tiger Woods since the Masters back in Apr, where he finished tied for 4th place. He needs to end no worse than tied for fourteenth at the PGA Championship in order to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs, which payout $10 million to the succeeder. Woods lately fired his long-time caddy Steve Williams later thirteen years of partnering together for tournaments. Williams took up with Adam Scott (they are pictured above) and commented later Scott’s acquiring at the 2011 Bridgestone Invitational that it was "that's the finest win [he's] ever had." He later apologized for the remarks. Tiger isn't amongst the experts' picks at ESPN. They have given the nod to Scott, Jason Day and Lee Westwood, who finished tied for third at the America Open in 2011.PGA Championship

Stock Market Today

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 512 points Thursday, erasing these year’s market gains, but the White House had little to say besides “markets go up and down. I do not have a particular reaction to the market. Markets go up and down,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said. There's no question that we have this economy has faced headwinds this year, a variety of them admitting the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the increase in oil prices, energy prices that resulted from the unrest in the Arab global and the situation in Europe, also,” Carney said. “So, our focus has to be on the things that we control which is to take the essential measures. Today’s 4.31 percent drop put the Dow below 11,500 and is the worst one-day loss since Oct 2008, when the Dow slid by 679 points. But the stock market also did something it has not done in more than thirty-three years: decline for 9 straight sessions. Today’s drop is the worst since February. 22, 1978, when Jimmy Carter was president, Tomorrow the Obama administration will release its job creation and unemployment figures for July.Stock Market Today:

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech: Virginia Tech carried on to be locked down as police searched for an armed man described walking about the Blacksburg, Va., campus Thursday morning. Police released a composite sketch on the school internet site of the human who was sighted before today by 3 babies attending a summer camp at the school. Campus alert continues in effect,” read a statement posted on the school internet site at 1 p.m., Eastern Time. “We recommend that students, employees, and others on campus continue secured indoors. Classes are cancelled for remainder of the day. Students are asked not to come to campus. According to before bulletins posted to the internet site, the 3 children reported a white man, 6 feet tall, with light brown hair holding what may have been a handgun. They say the weapon was covered by a cloth or covering of some sort,” according to the statement. “He was walking fast in the direction of the volleyball courts.   He was wearing a blue and white striped shirt (stripes were vertical), gray shorts and brown sandals.  The subject had no facial hair or glasses. Police asked that anybody with info call the Virginia Tech Police Department at 540-231-6411 or 911. The Roanoke Times reported that in addition to the message on its internet site, the university sounded its emergency sirens and issued an emergency alert by phone and e-mail. Folks were advised to stay indoors until further notice. The university was fined by the Department of Education before this year for waiting too long to notify students later the Apr 16, 2007 campus shooting in which Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at the university, killed thirty-two people and wounded dozens of others earlier committing suicide. The shooting began at 7:15 a.m., but Virginia Tech didn't release a notification until 9:26 a.m.Virginia Tech: