JQuery :: Pass Variables From Multiple Triggers?

I have multiple triggers and I am trying to pass variables via a "rel=" tag (which are unique id's) for each trigger I can get most of it working, problem is that since there are multiple triggers with id="newsTrigger" only the first listed trigger works Using PHP/mySQL. An example trigger is:

while loop{
echo '<span id="newsTrigger" style="font-size:0.8em;" rel="'.
$rowNewsid[$counter].'"><a href="'.$rowNewsPermalink
[$counter].'">'.substr($rowNewsHeadline[$counter],0,40).'</a></span>';
}

The above outputs a large number of rows with the same span id of "newsTrigger". When a user mousesover any of the newsTrigges I am trying to get an ajax dialog to load up content based on the id that is being passed through the rel tag. How do I do this? The javascript so far is:

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#newsTrigger").mouseover(function() {
var newsid = $(this).attr("rel");

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