How to add content type as a menu item child without displaying the link in the menu? I recently found menu block module, which displays my submenu very nicely. Here's the menu hierarchy:

Home
About
News & events
-- News
-- Events
Contact


So when I go to the News &amp; events page and from there to the News page the submenu displays just fine. But when I open a piece of news in the News page (which is a view displaying content from the News content type) the sub menu disappears. I'd like to show the submenu like the piece of news I just opened would be a child of News menu item. The problem is how to this without actually displaying all the news links in the menu. I know that there's a way to disable menu links but haven't found a way to disable them by default when adding new content. 

What would be the best way to implement this kind of hierarchy?
If your path aliases are something like, e.g., example.com/news/node_alias, you could use the menu trail by path module. That way, you don't have to add the nodes to the menu to achieve this: the News item remains active on subpaths of /news/*.