I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you asking if it's possible to have nothing but the news as the home page? If so, I don't think it's possible without editing the index php file yourself..
Goto
www.vbadvanced.com they seem to have a much newer version available along with mods and add-ons. I wish I'd known this before I installed this but it looks like the writer was too lazy to post it here even though 1.1 is about 5 months older than the newest version. it was my bad that I came here for all my hacking needs first I guess....