The crash recovery code in /etc/rc.d/rc.news in the inn package depends on being able to determine that inn crashed because /var/run/news/innd.pid exists before innd is running. But /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit blows away /var/run/news/*! This means that whenever the system crashes and comes back up, News ends up in an inconsistent state, with article numbers being reused, bogus overview data for the reused article numbers, etc. Yuck.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8550 ***