Getting there
I see you've got ads in the blank space to the sides. That's good, so long as you drop the ad above the masthead and in the articles.
I also see that you've removed the useless pictures from some of the articles.
Woo, hoo. Progress.
Now nail the menu to the top of the page, get rid of the ginormous picture in the top tease, make all of the article_img pictures either small or get rid of them, and we can be happy.