You should go back to your first method on the news articles and check that there actually is existing news articles.
Here:
PHP Code:
<?php
$query = mysql_query("SELECT title,story,author,published FROM news LIMIT 5");
if ( mysql_num_rows( $query ) === 0 )
{
echo "No news articles";
}
else
{
while($show = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
?>
<div class="body-container-bubble">
<div class="body-container-header grey"><?php echo $show["title"]; ?></div>
<div style="padding:5px 0;">Posted <?php echo date("M d, Y",$show["published"]); ?></div>
<div><?php echo $show["story"]; ?></div>
<br />
<div style="font-weight:bold;">- <?php echo $show["author"]; ?></div>
</div>
<?php
}
}
?>