Transform blog.php into archive-ish page

Hello world,

I’m relatively new to this so a little help will go a long way…

I need to transform this page from a blog page that displays all posts and has featured image thumbnails into a page that only displays ‘category_name=news-events’ and eliminates the featured thumbnail. I want all the post content to display right after the last post. But each post still has a Title and meta data. More of a classic blog style. Hopefully that makes sense…

<?php
/*
	Template Name: CatBlog
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="casing">

<div class="incasing">

<div id="content">

<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query('paged='.$paged);
?>
<?php while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<div class="title">
	<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
</div>
<div class="postmeta">
	<span class="author">Posted by <?php the_author(); ?> </span> <span class="clock">  <?php the_time('M - j - Y'); ?></span> <span class="comm"><?php comments_popup_link('0 Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></span>
</div>

<div class="entry">

<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><img class="postimg" src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/timthumb.php?src=<?php get_image_url(); ?>&h=500&w=980&zc=1" alt=""/></a>
<?php } else { ?>
	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><img class="postimg" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/dummy.png" alt="" /></a>
<?php } ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>

</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<div class="clear"></div>

<?php getpagenavi(); ?>

<?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?>

</div>

<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

<div class="clear"></div>
</div>	

<?php get_footer(); ?>