For a simple news type system another choice would be the
CMPS Articles Module by TomM for
vBadvanced CMPS.
Example:
http://www.coolscifi.com/?pg=article
The articles are pulled from a forum that you specify and then you can turn off & on some options (like showing the attachment as the thumbnail, etcetra). For that example page I gave I created a forum that is "inactive" so that it doesn't show up on the forum home page and then I specified it to be the source of the articles.
For a quick & simple article system it actually works pretty good.