Hard News / Soft News Leads
11-14-13
Exercise A: Rewrite the following leads to make them more effective.
2. The wind storms yesterday knocked over power lines causing blackouts in Rosemont, broke branches off trees throughout the area, toppled an oak tree in Fairmont and knocked over some garbage cans. Power was off in Rosemont for six hours before the Rosemont Electric Company was able to restore service to the about 800 affected homes.
Wind storms yesterday caused serious damage to areas of Rosemont and Fairmont and left 800 homes without power for six hours.
3. Maria Ramero, 23, of 154 East Lansing Blvd. in Riverdale, and her daughter, Jessica Ramero, 4, of the same address, were killed when their car collided with a milk truck at 4:13 p.m. at the corner of Wayne and First streets in Riverdale yesterday.
A Riverdale woman and her 4-year-old daughter were killed yesterday afternoon when their car collided with a milk truck at an intersection.
4. Hancock High School met Caldwell High School for the state women’s basketball championship yesterday at Caldwell, and Caldwell won in double overtime by a score of 52-50.
Caldwell High School won the state women’s basketball championship yesterday in double overtime with a score of 52-50 over Hancock High School.
6. Jury foreman Henry Norton announced yesterday that Lawrence Addison, 28, was guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths last fall of Frieda Krump, 16, Jon Hayworth, 17, and Linda Robbins, 16, all of Berkeley.
A man was convicted by a jury yesterday of first-degree murder after he shot and killed three Berkeley teens last fall.
8. About 100 policemen from the state police barracks in nearby Canton under the direction of State Police Capt. Roger Thomas used machine guns and tear gas to regain control of the Danbury State Penitentiary at 3 p.m. yesterday from a group of rioting prisoners who had been demanding improvements in prison conditions.
Nearly 100 state police officers used machine guns and tear gas to regain control of the Danbury State Penitentiary yesterday afternoon after a group of rioting prisoners demanded improvements in prison conditions.
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Exercise B: Write nontraditional leads for stories based on the following collections of information. In each case you are writing for a newspaper dated tomorrow and read in the town where the events occurred.
1. At the age of 44, Emilia Staunton Grant was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer. Doctors operated but told her she would be lucky to live two more years. That was 51 years ago.
Mrs. Grant celebrated her 95th birthday on Thursday at the Elmira Gardens, a Mansfield nursing home, surrounded by 25 family members. The celebration was complete with a cake, three feet in diameter and stocked with 95 candles.
2. Last Friday began like any other. Dominic Zaretti stopped for coffee and a $1 state lottery ticket at Sam & Louis’s luncheonette before returning to his job as a taxi driver in Hamilton, as he does every Friday.
Today, Zaretti won the $12 million lottery and became the largest lottery winner in state history.
3. Nude bathing isn’t prohibited on French beaches, which is most likely why many Americans assume it is widely accepted in France. Recent studies, however, prove this assumption to be wrong.
A recent poll conducted by Mark Nhu Research revealed that the vast majority of French adults have not or would not bathe nude on a public beach.
4. Nancy Rafferty, a 27-year-old graphic designer, claims she’s “always had expensive tastes.” This statement was never more true than when she “purchased” Park Place and Boardwalk in last night’s first-ever Monopoly tournament in Vineland.
Rafferty beat out 24 other contestants in Thursday’s tournament, qualifying her to enter the state Monopoly contest next month at the capitol. The grand prize? A week’s paid vacation to Atlantic City.
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Local Politics Story
GRANBY, Conn. -- Forty-six percent of eligible citizens have voted for one of three candidates in the election for a position on the Granby Village Council, and 96 percent of those votes have been counted so far.
Douglas Jermack, 46, Glen Armaleo, 52, and Sandra Liscomb, 34, have been campaigning for the council’s only available seat. As of now, Independent Liscomb has received 124 votes, incumbent Democrat Jermack 4,729 votes, and Republican Armaleo 6,412 votes.
Jermack, reached at his home, congratulated Armaleo for his campaigning efforts and said, "I have already conceded defeat. Frankly this hurts pretty bad, but I'll be back."
Armaleo said of the 1,683-vote lead over Jermack, "We've come a long way, baby, ya know. I'll tell you, I'm ecstatic."
Liscomb could not be reached for comment.
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