If you saw Kory Wheeler on the season premiere of American Idol Wednesday night, then you saw someone LOCAL you can root for!  It said he was from Nashville because he’s been living there a few years chasing his dream and working in a coffee shop on the side. His singing gave Jennifer Lopez goose bumps. He had a nice segment on the show! We’re so excited for him.

Harry Connick, Jr, Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban will be back for their second year together as judges with Ryan Seacrest as host.  Tonight the show travels to Nashville on the opener of the season. This is the first year without original judge, Randy Jackson.

This guy’s 4 month old Shiba Inu pup gets so excited when he’s about to be fed. He’s trying to teach him to wait, but every time the pup hears the food go into the bowl, he gets happy feet.

What if you gave $100 to someone homeless.  Where would they go, how would they spend it? One young man finds out when he follows the man he gave the money to. Find out what the homeless vet does with the money.

Jimmy Stewart is probably best known for his role in “It’s A Wonderful Life”, but he did another Christmas made for TV movie in 1980. He did this in one take because he was so emotional afterwards. He told them he could do other takes, but this will be the right one. The movie is called Mr. Krueger’s Christmas. #ShareTheLove

The sales employees of W Hotel in Minnesota really get in the holiday spirit with a cubicle decorating contest. Angela Westfeild had the help of her hubby turning hers into a wintery log cabin complete with a decorated Christmas tree and snow on the roof. Any co-worker that “visits” her cabin also gets cookies or candy. They used cut carpet tubes for the logs. It took them 18 hours to build.