As we get closer to the debuts of American Idol 7 on Jan. 15, my apologies for not posting this past week. But I’ve got a great excuse: I had no power.
No, I didn’t forget to pay the electric bill. The plains states were hit hard by an ice storm that rendered millions of us [...]

I thought for sure this would have been a spoof story, a fake, something from theonion.com or the like. However, in grand weird-news tradition, this story involving a former Idol finalist involves state fairgrounds (meaning, I presume there was a fair going on).
From the nationalledger.com:
Mike Walker reports that the “American Idol” sweetie Kellie (Pickler) was [...]