How do I get just the first entry with a 'for' loop? I have this this code -

{% for entry in craft.entries.section('news').first() %}
    &lt;div class="container" id="featured-news"&gt;
        &lt;div class=col-md-6&gt;
            &lt;h2 class="news-title"&gt;{{ entry.title }}&lt;/h2&gt;
            &lt;h3 class="news-date"&gt;{{ entry.postDate.format('F d, Y') }}&lt;/h3&gt;

            &lt;p&gt;
                {{ entry.body }}
            &lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;

        &lt;img class="col-md-4" src="images/pic-block-pic1.jpg" style="float:right;"&gt;

        &lt;div class="col-xs-12" &gt;
            &lt;a href="{{ entry.url }}" style="float:right; padding: 20px 0px 20px 0px"&gt;READ FULL STORY...&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
{% endfor %}


I thought the .first() would pick up just the first news story, however it is returning the same container several times.

I then want to return all other entries elsewhere, so what should I include in my code below to do this - 

&lt;div class="imgOverview"&gt;
    &lt;ul&gt;
        {% for entry in craft.entries.section('news').find() %}
            &lt;li&gt;
                &lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="images/pic-block-pic1.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;div class="imgOverviewOverlay"&gt;&lt;a href="{{ entry.url }}"&gt;&lt;span&gt;{{ entry.title }}&lt;small&gt;{{ entry.postDate.format('F d, Y') }}&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
            &lt;/li&gt;
        {% endfor %}    
    &lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
As you'll only ever be working with one entry I wouldn't bother with the for loop for the first part of your question. Just set a variable with your featured news article. Something like this (not tested though):

{% set featuredArticle = craft.entries.section('news').first() %}

&lt;div class="container" id="featured-news"&gt;
    &lt;div class=col-md-6&gt;
        &lt;h2 class="news-title"&gt;{{ featuredArticle.title }}&lt;/h2&gt;
        &lt;h3 class="news-date"&gt;{{ featuredArticle.postDate.format('F d, Y') }}&lt;/h3&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        {{ featuredArticle.body }}
        &lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;img class="col-md-4" src="images/pic-block-pic1.jpg" style="float:right;"&gt;
    &lt;div class="col-xs-12" &gt;
    &lt;a href="{{ featuredArticle.url }}" style="float:right; padding: 20px 0px 20px 0px"&gt;READ FULL STORY...&lt;/a&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;


EDIT: Then for the second part of your question this other answer tells you how to exclude an Entry:

How can I exclude the current entry when I've structured my syntax like this?

So from the other article, you'd do:

{% set entries = craft.entries({
  section: 'news'
}).id('not ' ~ featuredArticle.id) %}