RE:RE:RE:Update - thought I would have heard something by nowYou're welcome. I just realized that I had pasted the info without fixing the format so it would be more readable. Here's a trick to make it readable on here (from designing websites).
This only works with Chrome. Right click on any "featured news link' that is covering the text in my previous post. The right click produces a drop down menu. Click on "Inspect" in that menu. A window will open either to the side or bottom of your page with the page code in it. Because you clicked on a "featured news link" the code (the "a link") will already be selected and highlighted in the "Inspect" window. Simply keep tapping the backspace key (delete) on your keyboard and one by one the featured news links will disappear. Once they are gone, you can close the inspect" window (x top right). It's temporary until you close or refresh the browser page.
You can do this on any website... eg. get rid of those pesky popups that won't let you see what's behind unless you sign up, lol. Shhhh..