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,
});
});