These are a few of my favorite ledes:
Three bodies, two counties, one case, no suspects.
Tuesday morning, investigators found two burned bodies in the trunk of a smoldering car in southern York County and a 17-year-old boy shot to death in northern Lancaster County.
"The next big question would be how these murders are related to each other," said York County Sheriff Bruce Bryant. "We can't say. We don't know yet. But we believe there's a connection, and that connection would be their affiliation with each other. They were acquaintances."
But, he added, "We don't believe they did this to each other."
Read what Poynter's Chip Scanlan
has to say about this lead...
Somebody saved Sharon Sojka's life, but she doesn't know who.
(The News-Times, Oct. 11, 1994)
James Roach was driving in South Carolina when what to his wondering eyes should appear, but a yellow hazard sign depicting one red-nosed reindeer.
Sometimes it pays to be a pushy parent.
If Shawn Simmons hadn't insisted that doctors X-ray his daughter Taihesha before releasing her from the hospital Monday night, the 5-year-old girl might be walking around right now with a bullet still lodged in her head.
If Brooklyn were its own country -- as some believe it should be -- then everything would have worked out.
But because it isn't, when Borough President Howard Golden arrived in the Republic of San Marino in Italy to sign a sister-city agreement, he got quite a shock. San Marino -- despite its location in the heart of Italy and its population of only 23,000 -- is not, in fact, a city, but a country.
"We realized we're not allowed to make a treaty with a country," said Golden. "Only the United States can make a treaty."
Malvin Marshall headed to the hospital with his mother last month to be treated for depression. Instead, he spent the past six weeks in jail.
For the last time yesterday, Maura Lener brought her three children to church with their father.
Joining them were more than 5,000 firefighters, friends and family members, who gathered in Staten Island for the funeral services of firefighter George Lener, who died Wednesday from injuries sustained while battling an arson fire.
Under the guise of a meditation group, a secretive cult with hundreds of followers has been recruiting Wesleyan students since the spring.
When the Fourth of July celebrations get under way this weekend, former prisoners of war will not be celebrating. Despite their patriotism, they'll be ducking for cover.
For these World War II veterans, the fireworks and other noisy celebrations revive traumatic memories they have been struggling for nearly half a century to forget.
Throw 10 municipal leaders into a room full of money and see what happens.
That's what local leaders fear they'll face under Gov. John Rowland's block-grant proposal.
Eat your heart out, New Milford.
Wait, check that. Eat the heart out of New Milford.
Thirteen gingerbread-house replicas of buildings around the Town Green will be auctioned off . . .
