diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 0fa1ed5c..ade2ebed 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 <script src="js/compliments/compliments.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 <script src="js/weather/weather.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 <script src="js/time/time.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
+<script src="js/news/news.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 <script src="js/main.js?nocache=<?php echo md5(microtime()) ?>"></script>
 <!-- <script src="js/socket.io.min.js"></script> -->
 
diff --git a/js/config.js b/js/config.js
index 18948ad6..a8676bc6 100755
--- a/js/config.js
+++ b/js/config.js
@@ -32,10 +32,8 @@ var config = {
             'I\'d like to kick you in the teeth, but why should I improve your looks?',
             'If I had a face like yours. I\'d sue my parents!'
         ]
+    },
+    news: {
+        feed: 'http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml'
     }
 }
-
-// var feed = 'http://feeds.nos.nl/nosjournaal?format=rss';
-//var feed = 'http://www.nu.nl/feeds/rss/achterklap.rss';
-//var feed = 'http://www.nu.nl/feeds/rss/opmerkelijk.rss';
-var feed = 'http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml';
diff --git a/js/main.js b/js/main.js
index 54a1c958..df645416 100755
--- a/js/main.js
+++ b/js/main.js
@@ -26,9 +26,6 @@ function roundVal(temp)
 
 jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
 
-	var news = [];
-	var newsIndex = 0;
-
 	var eventList = [];
 
 	var lastCompliment;
@@ -180,31 +177,6 @@ jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
 
 	weather.init();
 
-	(function fetchNews() {
-		$.feedToJson({
-			feed: feed,
-			success: function(data){
-				news = [];
-				for (var i in data.item) {
-					var item = data.item[i];
-					news.push(item.title);
-				}
-			}
-		});
-		setTimeout(function() {
-			fetchNews();
-		}, 60000);
-	})();
-
-	(function showNews() {
-		var newsItem = news[newsIndex];
-		$('.news').updateWithText(newsItem,2000);
-
-		newsIndex--;
-		if (newsIndex < 0) newsIndex = news.length - 1;
-		setTimeout(function() {
-			showNews();
-		}, 5500);
-	})();
+	news.init();
 
 });
diff --git a/js/news/news.js b/js/news/news.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3b29a457
--- /dev/null
+++ b/js/news/news.js
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+// A lot of this code is from the original feedToJson function that was included with this project
+// The new code allows for multiple feeds to be used but a bunch of variables and such have literally been copied and pasted into this code and some help from here: http://jsfiddle.net/BDK46/
+// The original version can be found here: http://airshp.com/2011/jquery-plugin-feed-to-json/
+var news = {
+	feed: config.news.feed || null,
+	newsLocation: '.news',
+	newsItems: [],
+	seenNewsItem: [],
+	_yqURL: 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql',
+	_yqlQS: '?format=json&q=select%20*%20from%20rss%20where%20url%3D',
+	_cacheBuster: Math.floor((new Date().getTime()) / 1200 / 1000),
+	_failedAttempts: 0,
+	fetchInterval: config.news.fetchInterval || 60000,
+	updateInterval: config.news.interval || 5500,
+	fadeInterval: 2000,
+	intervalId: null,
+	fetchNewsIntervalId: null
+}
+
+news.buildQueryString = function (feed) {
+
+	return this._yqURL + this._yqlQS + '\'' + encodeURIComponent(feed) + '\'';
+
+}
+
+news.fetchNews = function () {
+
+	// Reset the news feed
+	this.newsItems = [];
+
+	this.feed.forEach(function (_curr) {
+
+		var _yqUrlString = this.buildQueryString(_curr);
+		this.fetchFeed(_yqUrlString);
+
+	}.bind(this));
+
+}
+
+news.fetchFeed = function (yqUrl) {
+
+	$.ajax({
+		type: 'GET',
+		datatype:'jsonp',
+		url: yqUrl,
+		success: function (data) {
+
+			this.parseFeed(data.query.results.item);
+
+		}.bind(this),
+		error: function () {
+
+		}
+	});
+
+}
+
+news.parseFeed = function (data) {
+
+	var _rssItems = [];
+
+	for (var i = 0, count = data.length; i < count; i++) {
+
+		_rssItems.push(data[i].title);
+
+	}
+
+	this.newsItems = this.newsItems.concat(_rssItems);
+
+	return true;
+
+}
+
+news.showNews = function () {
+
+	// If all items have been seen, swap seen to unseen
+	if (this.newsItems.length === 0 && this.seenNewsItem.length !== 0) {
+
+		if (this._failedAttempts === 20) {
+			console.error('Failed to show a news story 20 times, stopping any attempts');
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		this._failedAttempts++;
+
+		setTimeout(function () {
+			this.showNews();
+		}.bind(this), 30000);
+
+	} else if (this.newsItems.length === 0 && this.seenNewsItem.length !== 0) {
+		this.newsItems = this.seenNewsItem.splice(0);
+	}
+
+	var _location = Math.floor(Math.random() * this.newsItems.length);
+
+	var _item = news.newsItems.splice(_location, 1)[0];
+
+	this.seenNewsItem.push(_item);
+
+	$(this.newsLocation).updateWithText(_item, this.fadeInterval);
+
+}
+
+news.init = function () {
+
+	if (this.feed === null || this.feed instanceof Array) {
+		return false;
+	} else if (typeof this.feed === 'string') {
+		this.feed = [this.feed];
+	}
+
+	this.fetchNews();
+	this.showNews();
+
+	this.fetchNewsIntervalId = setInterval(function () {
+		this.fetchNews()
+	}.bind(this), this.fetchInterval)
+
+	this.intervalId = setInterval(function () {
+		this.showNews();
+	}.bind(this), this.updateInterval);
+
+}
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