How do you remove the story from the home page ? The drag and drop widgets are not working either

Hi,
If you want to remove the “The big story” section in the slider on the home page, you can log in to Dashboard > Widget > DW Focus: Slider widget.
See the screenshot: http://prntscr.com/4nl5bh
Also, If you want to remove the carousel list on the right hand in the slider widget, you can add the following code to the style.css file:

.news-slider .carousel { width: 100%; }
.carousel-inner { width: 100%; }
.attachment-slider-thumb.wp-post-image { width: 100%; }
.news-slider .carousel-list {display: none; }

– About accordion or tabs widget, you can log in to Dashboard > Appearance > Widget, then try again drag & drop widget into accordion or tabs widget.
If you still face there issue, please deactivate  all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one and let us know if you find the problematic plugin(s). Maybe there is a conflict in plugins.
If you still face there issue, you can send me username & password of your site for further checking (via private answer).
Hope this helps !