Would it be possible to make it so a brief headline like it shows up in the Headlines section, automatically stream right into one of the forums that we specify?

You can see a Forum Feed example here:
http://www.w3reports.com/newsfeed.php but this one is for vbulletin.

Could something like this be added to NewBB? This way when a user clicks on "more...", the story opens up in a new page, and then they can discuss it in the forums. It would make things a lot faster.

This wouldn't replace the news module or anything like that, it would remain like it is right now, users with proper permissions can still post news stories like they can right now.

Need something like this for a XOOPS based website.