Hi,
I would go search for a Free Scripting page and do a search for PHP or Javascript file for News or Blogs and get one that suits your needs and download it and modify to you needs the use the script iin a place holder. That would give what you want exactly and you could use for other purposes. By doing that all you would have to ass to your site daily is the news files. I did see one for aa Faltfile news script (doesn't require a database file)
JIm