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It's a huge 'get' for Katie Couric.She is sitting down with the 'Runaway Bride' Jennifer Wilbanks, and her fiancee John Mason, for an exclusive primetime interview June 21.Parts of this interview will air on Tuesday and Wednesday's 'Today' show.Why Katie? An emailer asks and answers: 'NBC was instrumental in getting the book deal done for the bride that wasn't.'

Judith Regan is about to let the ink dry on a six-figure book deal with "Runaway Bride" Jennifer Wilbanks. The deal also includes television movie rights and network interview (both likely with NBC).

Per Fox News...

CNN breakin news says... "Runaway bride" Jennifer Wilbanks pleads guilty to felony charge of making false statements to police. Details soon.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks (search) has been released from a mental hospital and has turned herself in to the county courthouse on Thursday to face criminal charges related to her disappearance.

My wife and I just saw a strange object in the sky. It was round and stayed in one spot than it moved fast. It had 2 shooting stars coming from it. We heard no sound than a rumbling. We tried to take pictures, too dark. Wondering if anyone say this. Mid-Coast of Maine. Very odd.

ATLANTA - Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks has agreed to pay $13,250 to the city of Duluth, Ga., to help pay for the costs the city incurred searching for her, the mayor said Tuesday. The city attorney notified Mayor Shirley Lasseter that a written agreement for compensation had been reached. The city was expected to receive a check from Wilbanks on Tuesday, Lasseter said. In accepting the agreement, the city will have to write off about $30,000 in other costs searching for the bride-to-be, who disappeared April 26, four days before her planned wedding. "We're very appreciative they were willing to...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - A warrant has been issued for runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks, but officials don't expect her to report to police while undergoing psychiatric treatment. The warrant was issued Thursday, the day after a grand jury indicted her on a felony charge of making a false statement and a misdemeanor count of making a false police report. Since her return to Georgia from New Mexico, she has entered into psychiatric treatment. Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said he will wait until she completes treatment before asking her to turn herself in. "The earliest I would expect anything to...

Jennifer Wilbanks, the notorious runaway bride of Duluth, Georgia, was indicted Wednesday on two charges of lying to the police, and could face up to six years in prison. Some, no doubt, will find these indictments to be overly harsh. After all, can't a girl change her mind? Other prospective brides have been known to get cold feet before their weddings, so why should Ms. Wilbanks be so signally punished? Besides, her lying to the police was just the frantic response of a woman caught in an embarrassing pickle — though a pickle of her own making. Who could blame...

Saying that the Joint Chiefs and combatant commanders “strongly support” ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), General Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has stated that the measure “ensures the ability of the US Armed Forces to operate freely across the vast expanse of the world’s oceans under the authority of widely recognized and accepted international law.” [1] But would our military leaders support the treaty if they knew that the activists behind it were also instrumental in promoting the International Criminal Court (ICC), which could prosecute and imprison American troops and military...

Runaway Bride Indicted for Making Up Story Woman Claimed Abduction After Disappearing Days Before Wedding By DANIEL YEE, AP LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (May 25) - Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks was indicted Wednesday for allegedly filing a false police report claiming she had been kidnapped, charges that could mean up to six years in prison. A grand jury indicted the 32-year-old woman on one count of making a false police report, a misdemeanor, and one count of false statement, a felony. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, said Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter. The other...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Runaway Bride Jennifer Wilbanks is indicted with making a false statement and reporting a false crime.

Conan is about to do a skit on Jennifer Wilbanks and her husband! Using the talking heads thing! This should be GOOD!

Wow, did you hear the latest on the runaway bride? Turns out she was going to New Mexico to visit an ex boyfriend to get some action before her wedding. Todd Kendrick, a CPA, said, “she liked sex,” and added, “It wasn't serious. It was what it was,” referring to their brief, but steamy, relationship. Kendrick never did hook up with Jennifer this time, but stated that “we broke up when she started freakin’ out on me, I mean who wants to have sex in a hot tub filled with Cheetos®?” Sources report that Kendrick said Wilbanks had a healthy...

  -- explore the new feminism -- introduction | interaction | information   ifeminists.com > introduction > editorials   Runaway Bride Lost in Junk Journalism May 11, 2005 by Wendy McElroy, wendy@ifeminists.net Veteran newsman Sam Donaldson announced it. Jennifer Wilbanks -- the Runaway Bride -- proved it. "Network news is dead." Tabloid journalism used to be a guilty vice enjoyed by people waiting in supermarket lines. They now dress it up as evening news, but even good journalists cannot infuse the supermarket stories with substance. In fact, they don't seem to be trying. Elements of the Wilbanks story are...

May 16, 2005 -- TAOS, N.M. — Jennifer Wilbanks wasn't just running away from her wedding, she was running toward something — an old paramour with whom she had a steamy sexual relationship. The bolting bride set her sights on New Mexico sometime during her three-day cross-country sprint from the altar because it's the home of a short-lived fling, several sources told The Post. But if Wilbanks harbored hope of reigniting an old passion, she would have been sorely disappointed. "I would have turned her ass in, no question," former flame Todd Kendrick told The Post. "And then," he joked,...

Hot Sauce Cashes in on Bride's Cold Feet May 14, 2005 2:46 PM EDT ATLANTA - Maybe hot sauce is the cure for cold feet. "Jennifer's High Tailin' Hot Sauce," a nod to the saga of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks, has sold briskly since its debut Wednesday. "I'm in the hot sauce business and this is the hottest thing I've got right now," said "Pappy" David Ryan, who runs Pappy's Peppers in Lawrenceville, Ga. and says he's sold 10 cases of the private-label sauce. He's not the only one cashing in: Herobuilders.com, a Danbury, Conn.-based manufacturer, has sold out of...

Wilbanks told cops of forced sex with rotten-toothed Hispanic man MAY 12--Before admitting that she simply fled west to avoid her super-sized Georgia wedding, Jennifer Wilbanks gave cops a graphic account of her purported sexual abuse at the hands of her abductors, a Hispanic man with rotten teeth and his heavyset blonde girlfriend. The kooky claims of the 32-year-old "Runaway Bride" are memorialized in the below Albuquerque Police Department reports. After surfacing on April 30 in New Mexico, Wilbanks spun her story for FBI agents and Albuquerque cops, who eventually confronted her with inconsistencies in that account. Wilbanks then admitted...

Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks' fake story of abduction and sexual assault in a van headed from Georgia to New Mexico contained precise and graphic details of the alleged crime, according to police documents released Wednesday. According to a police summary of the April 30 interview with Wilbanks, she claimed she was abducted April 26 "by two individuals, a 'Hispanic male' and a 'white female,' and thrown in the back of a van. Her hands were then tied with a rope, she told investigators. "The individuals placed her on her right side on the floor of the van and made her...

ATLANTA — Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks, whose three-day disappearance led to a nationwide search and more than a week of tabloid headlines, has entered a medical treatment program. The location of the program and its likely duration were not disclosed. Wilbanks "entered a highly regarded, inpatient treatment program on her own volition to address physical and mental issues that, she believes, played a major role in her 'running from herself,' as she described in a public statement last week," family spokesman Sammy Smith wrote in an e-mail. Wilbanks initially told investigators that she had been abducted, a story that quickly...