changed _pages to pages and removed include pages from config file. turned out this wasn't necessary.

pages/news/news.html

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+---
+title: News
+sidebar: home_sidebar
+keywords: news, blog, updates, release notes, announcements
+permalink: news.html
+toc: false
+folder: news
+---
+
+<div class="home">
+
+    <div class="post-list">
+        {% for post in site.posts limit:10 %}
+
+
+    <h2><a class="post-link" href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h2>
+        <span class="post-meta">{{ post.date | date: "%b %-d, %Y" }} /
+            {% for tag in post.tags %}
+                <a href="{{ "/tag_" | append: {{tag}}/">{{tag}}</a>{% unless forloop.last %}, {% endunless%}
+                {% endfor %}</span>
+        <p>{% if page.summary %} {{ page.summary | strip_html | strip_newlines | truncate: 160 }} {% else %} {{ post.content | truncatewords: 50 | strip_html }} {% endif %}</p>
+
+
+
+        {% endfor %}
+
+        <p><a href="{{ "/feed.xml" | prepend: site.baseurl }}" class="btn btn-primary navbar-btn cursorNorm" role="button">RSS Subscribe{{tag}}</a></p>
+
+<hr />
+        <p>See more posts from the <a href="{{ "/news_archive/" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">News Archive</a>. </p>
+
+
+</div>