Basically I want to be able to use a one of my YAF forums in the category "Site Discussion" called "News" as a way to connect with the front page (homepage) of the site to display a few of the newest news articles each with a title, image, and a short blurb of what the post is about. Also I want them to have a link that connects to the news post in the forums.
An example of this from another site is http://allisfighter.com/
As you can see in the above site in the "Today's Top Stories" section it shows 4 news posts (1 main, and 3 other top stories) and if you click on them it links to the news post (which is also accessible via the forums in the news section).
This is basically what I want to incorporate into my site, but using the YAF forums, note an admin console is also needed to do this, I have a serperate admin console that I will set-up for it basically that's when you write it and from there it displays on the front page and in the forums.
Thanks in advance!