I have my news page set up so that it also displays a Search bar by first having:

<div><?php
$static = 'true'; #this is the important part
$search = true;
include 'news/index.php';
?></div>

When I put in a search criteria (e.g., UFO) the results that are shown are correct, but the problem is that if I click on one the main news page is re-displayed, not the article.

The URL shown is not a friendly URL, but otherwise correct (e.g., http://www.spyglasshill.com/blog.php?id=3)as if it were going to display the correct article. But it's the main news page that is shown.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I figured it out, in case anyone else has this.

The problem is that I was using Friendly URL's. You need to go into the Admin>Options>Templates and select your template. Then got down to Search Results and change

<a href="?id={id}">{title}</a>

to

<a href="http://sitename.com/news/{id}-0-{friendlytitle}">{title}</a>

Not sure why, but you do need your sitename in the path, as well as the other code.