JS completely stopped loading but Files are found

You’re testing if it’s NOT the home page (your news page) before outputting your block of javascript, so your quicksand code never gets output to page:

if (!is_home() || !is_front_page()) {

I don’t see any code anywhere that creates the nivo slider.

This block needs to reference jQuery, not $:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $(".anyClass").jCarouselLite({
      auto: 800,
    speed: 1500,
    });
});

should be:

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
    $(".anyClass").jCarouselLite({
      auto: 800,
    speed: 1500,
    });
});