1. A new shopping center will bring 11,000 jobs, millions of dollars in tax revenue, offices, and a residential area.
Critics fear it will also bring crime, traffic and pollution, destroying their quiet way of life.
2. Should elderly drivers be tested more frequently?
3. People in shorts and T-shirts packed the courtroom. They appeared relaxed at first and perhaps slightly annoyed at being summoned to court.
Circuit Court Judge JoAnn Kaeppler took her seat and began asking the visitors, one by one, why they failed to pay the court costs and fines she had imposed as punishment for crimes such as drunken driving and theft.
The courtroom visitors grow visibly worried as Kaeppler, 44, sternly continued.
Some visitors frowned. Others fingered their wallets.
They had figured it out. If they didn't have the money, they were going to jail. Immediately! Right then!
4. Retirement may be hazardous to your health.
6. Are you missing any jewelry?
7. It's 8 a.m., do you know where your cat is? You may need to check.
8. The suspect tore through a homeowner's fence, ripped down a clothesline with his teeth, slammed head-on into a travel trailer, then bolted down the street.
9. Police had a description of the offender: Male, black hair, brown eyes, 715 pounds.
10. Four years ago Christine Belcuor went to a doctor to have an annual check-up that included a mammogram. Eight months later doctors informed her that she had breast cancer.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Belcuor and her husband, Paul, testified against five doctors for failure to detect cancer in her breast.
11. Is the City Council putting the cart before the horse by depending on a $100,000 grant from the State Recreation Development Assistance program?
12. "It was a dumb mistake, I admit it. But I didn't hurt anyone but myself, and I don't think I should have to go to jail." Those were the words today of a 20-year-old accused arsonist.
13. A petition signed by all 23 students in a philosophy class calls their faculty member a tyrant who "cursed, insulted and intimidated students, causing some to cry and others to flee.”
14. Boom! Beep, beep, beep, beep, boom!
These are the repetitive sounds outside campus dorms every weekday, starting as early as 6 a.m. The shrill sound of jackhammers pierces the quiet air; lumbering front-end loaders haul away debris; foremen shout orders to dirt-covered workmen, hammering, digging, scraping. All in the name of progress.
Critics fear it will also bring crime, traffic and pollution, destroying their quiet way of life.
- Upcoming shopping center will bring 11,000 jobs and millions of dollars, also crime, traffic, and pollution.
- It is a summary lead
2. Should elderly drivers be tested more frequently?
- This lead is designed well, and it doesn’t need to be changed.
- It is a question lead
3. People in shorts and T-shirts packed the courtroom. They appeared relaxed at first and perhaps slightly annoyed at being summoned to court.
Circuit Court Judge JoAnn Kaeppler took her seat and began asking the visitors, one by one, why they failed to pay the court costs and fines she had imposed as punishment for crimes such as drunken driving and theft.
The courtroom visitors grow visibly worried as Kaeppler, 44, sternly continued.
Some visitors frowned. Others fingered their wallets.
They had figured it out. If they didn't have the money, they were going to jail. Immediately! Right then!
- Circuit Court Judge JoAnn Kaeppler imposed court costs and fines as a punishment for the visitors, and who will not pay will go to jail immediately.
- It is umbrella lead
4. Retirement may be hazardous to your health.
- It is a teaser lead, and no need to be changed.
- The paragraph is long and detailed, it should be shorter and contain the important information
- The decision of the court made Jim Picott happy as Marilyn slammed the door.
- Umbrella lead
6. Are you missing any jewelry?
- The lead is perfectly fine and it doesn’t need to be changed
- It is a question lead.
7. It's 8 a.m., do you know where your cat is? You may need to check.
- Question lead
- Do you know where was the cat at 8 am ?
8. The suspect tore through a homeowner's fence, ripped down a clothesline with his teeth, slammed head-on into a travel trailer, then bolted down the street.
- Descriptive lead
- Do not need to be changed
9. Police had a description of the offender: Male, black hair, brown eyes, 715 pounds.
- Descriptive Lead
- Overweight male suspected of crime
10. Four years ago Christine Belcuor went to a doctor to have an annual check-up that included a mammogram. Eight months later doctors informed her that she had breast cancer.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Belcuor and her husband, Paul, testified against five doctors for failure to detect cancer in her breast.
- Shock lead.
- Patient sews 5 doctors for negligence
11. Is the City Council putting the cart before the horse by depending on a $100,000 grant from the State Recreation Development Assistance program?
- Question lead.
- Is the City council depending on a $100,000 grant?
12. "It was a dumb mistake, I admit it. But I didn't hurt anyone but myself, and I don't think I should have to go to jail." Those were the words today of a 20-year-old accused arsonist.
- Descriptive lead
- The 20 year- old accused arsonist admits his mistake.
13. A petition signed by all 23 students in a philosophy class calls their faculty member a tyrant who "cursed, insulted and intimidated students, causing some to cry and others to flee.”
- Descriptive lead.
- Cursed, insulted, and intimidate students to complain.
14. Boom! Beep, beep, beep, beep, boom!
These are the repetitive sounds outside campus dorms every weekday, starting as early as 6 a.m. The shrill sound of jackhammers pierces the quiet air; lumbering front-end loaders haul away debris; foremen shout orders to dirt-covered workmen, hammering, digging, scraping. All in the name of progress.
- Shocker lead
- Boom! Beep, Beep, boom!