Get money then. News scripts are very simple, text-file or database-based (text-file more so). Here's a script which might show news text only:
<?php
$dbconnection = mysql_connect ("localhost", "username", "password");
mysql_select_db ("iemc_database", $dbconnection);
$news = mysql_query ("SELECT text FROM newstable");
$newscount = mysql_num_rows ($news);
for ($i=0; $i > $newscount; $i++) {
$newsitemtext = mysql_result ($news, 0);
print $newsitemtext;
}
print "Done!";
?>
That should work. Not checked, of course, but it's only an example.
BBCode like bold and italic, things which have exact equivalents, are very easy to do, you just, for example, replace "[bold]" with "<b>" in the news post. Voila.