There's a simple solution to this. Assuming you're using informers, or even the $last_news$ works fine, because they have a template adjustment. Using floats. If this is a template for $last_news$, go to Customize Design > Under Site News, go to Appearance of Entries and paste the following code:
Code
<div class="column">
<div class="image">
<img src="imageurl.jpg" alt=""/>
<?$RSTARS$('12','i.png','1','float')?>
</div>
<div class="desc">
<h4>$TITLE$
<span class="poster">posted by $USERNAME$</span>
</h4>
<p><b>Added On</b>:$DATE$<br/><b>Category</b>:$CATEGORY_NAME$</p>
<p><b>Description</b>:$MESSAGE$</p>
</div><div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
For the rest of it, you should modify the Module Settings for site news to make this appear correctly. By adding a text limit to the description and also the number of entries that appear on a page should be somewhere along the lines of an even number.
Here's the last part you should add in Customize Design > SIte Pages, anywhere you would like to place it. Just so long as it's between the body tags.
Code
<div class="twocolumn">$LAST_NEWS$<div style="clear:both;"></div><style type="text/css">
.column {float:left;width:48%;margin-right:8px;display:inline-block;height:200px;overflow:hidden;}
.image {width:115px;float:left;}
.image img,span.poster {display:block;width:100%;}span.poster{font-size:11px;font-weight:normal;}
</style></div>
And it shows when I show you my website soon. 
