Help adjusting code.

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I have the following code and I'm trying to figure out the best way to include Latest News: in the code so that is displays like:

 

Latest News: The story with link

 

loadingMessage = "Loading news ...";
pauseWhenMouseOver = false;
fetchErrorMessage = "Error loading data ...";

function getAJAX() {
  var httprequest=false
  if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { 
    httprequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
    if (httprequest.overrideMimeType) {
      httprequest.overrideMimeType('text/xml')
    }
  } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { 
    try {
      httprequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
    } catch (e) {
      try {
        httprequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
      } catch (e) {
      }
    }
  }
  return httprequest;
}

function showTicker (xmlfile, divId, divClass, delay, fadeornot) {
  this.xmlfile = xmlfile ;
  this.tickerid = divId;
  this.delay = delay;
  this.isMouseOver = 0;
  this.pointer = 0;
  this.opacitystring = (typeof fadeornot != "undefined") ? "width: 100%; filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.alpha(opacity=100); -moz-opacity: 1" : "";
  if (this.opacitystring != "") {
    this.delay += 500;
  }
  this.opacitysetting = 0.2;
  this.news = [];
  this.ajaxobj = getAJAX()
  document.write('<div id="'+divId+'" class="'+divClass+'"><div style="'+this.opacitystring+'">Latest News: ' + loadingMessage + '</div></div>')
  this.getXMLfile()
}

showTicker.prototype.getXMLfile = function() {
  if (this.ajaxobj) {
    var instanceOfTicker = this;
    var url = this.xmlfile + "?time=" + new Date().getTime();
    this.ajaxobj.onreadystatechange =function() {
      instanceOfTicker.initialize();
    }
    this.ajaxobj.open('GET', url, true);
    this.ajaxobj.send(null);
  }
}

showTicker.prototype.initialize=function() {
  if (this.ajaxobj.readyState == 4) {
    if (this.ajaxobj.status==200 
      || window.location.href.indexOf("http") == -1) {
      this.contentdiv = document.getElementById(this.tickerid).firstChild;
      var xmldata=this.ajaxobj.responseText;
      this.contentdiv.style.display = "none";
      this.contentdiv.innerHTML = xmldata;
      if (this.contentdiv.getElementsByTagName("div").length==0) {
        this.contentdiv.innerHTML = fetchErrorMessage;
        return;
      }
      var instanceOfTicker = this;
      document.getElementById(this.tickerid).onmouseover = function(){
        instanceOfTicker.isMouseOver=1;
      }
      document.getElementById(this.tickerid).onmouseout = function() {
        instanceOfTicker.isMouseOver=0;
      }
      if (window.attachEvent) {
        window.attachEvent("onunload", function() { 
          instanceOfTicker.contentdiv = instanceOfTicker.ajaxobj=null;
        });
      }
      for (var i=0; i < this.contentdiv.getElementsByTagName("div").length; i++) {
        if (this.contentdiv.getElementsByTagName("div")[i].className == "message") {
          this.news[this.news.length] = this.contentdiv.getElementsByTagName("div")[i].innerHTML;
        }
      }
      this.contentdiv.innerHTML = "";
      this.contentdiv.style.display = "block";
      this.rotatemsg();
      //setTimeout("this.getXMLfile()", 10000);
    }
  }
}

showTicker.prototype.rotatemsg = function() {
  var instanceOfTicker = this;
  if (this.isMouseOver == 1 && pauseWhenMouseOver) {
    setTimeout(function() { 
      instanceOfTicker.rotatemsg()
    }, 100);
  } else {
    this.fadetransition("reset");
    this.contentdiv.innerHTML = this.news[this.pointer];
    this.fadetimer1 = setInterval(function() { 
      instanceOfTicker.fadetransition('up', 'fadetimer1')
    }, 100);
    this.pointer=(this.pointer<this.news.length-1)? this.pointer+1 : 0
    setTimeout(function() {
      instanceOfTicker.rotatemsg();
    }, this.delay);
  }
}

showTicker.prototype.fadetransition = function(fadetype, timerid) {
  var contentdiv=this.contentdiv;
  if (fadetype=="reset") {
    this.opacitysetting = 0.2;
  }
  if (contentdiv.filters && contentdiv.filters[0]) {
    if (typeof contentdiv.filters[0].opacity == "number") {
      contentdiv.filters[0].opacity = this.opacitysetting*100;
    } else {
      contentdiv.style.filter="alpha(opacity="+this.opacitysetting*100+")";
    }
  } else if (typeof contentdiv.style.MozOpacity != "undefined" && this.opacitystring != "") {
    contentdiv.style.MozOpacity = this.opacitysetting;
  } else {
    this.opacitysetting = 1;
  }
  if (fadetype=="up") {
    this.opacitysetting += 0.1;
  }
  if (fadetype=="up" && this.opacitysetting>=1) {
    clearInterval(this[timerid]);
  }
}