Engadget breaking news like

Hi there,

What i’m trying to do is something like engadget website
did in the sidebar with he widgets “breaking news” and “Features”.
In the “breaking news” its categorized through TAGs but the thing is how do i do that including the photo?
I was thinking to do a normal post and them use a blogroll which i can add my links with photos and so i think it would work……

But the thing is in my website i have in this bar 2 widgets 1 recent post
2 links(blogroll)
in blogroll i have 2 categories..
2.1 PARTNERSHIP LINKS
2.2 MENU

and i want this “breaking news” to be the first widget then, recent posts and the blogroll to be the very last widget because them i will insert a ad between them.

Thank you Beto