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City Beat

1.     A Chinese cuisine located on 480 Parkside was found with live mice and rodent dropping that led to the suspension of their license late yesterday.

2.     Colonial High School biology teacher fails student because she wouldn’t dissect worms, fogs, and fetal pig because of the student’s religious belief.

3.     Orthodontist in Rock Hill recently found out he has AIDs and shuts down his practice and sends letters to patients securing that he followed the CDC guidelines.

4.     “I could make better money stealing,” said Mark Johnson after his arrest saying he estimates that he broke into about 300 homes during the last 12 months.

5.     Passengers of a single engine aircraft were taken to the Regional Medical Center yesterday after it crashes at Rock Hill’s airport shortly after 4 p.m.

State Beat

1.     Legislation was proposed to the state senator today requiring newspapermen to sign the editorials they write so people know the writer’s identity.

2.     State Senator Karen Simmons proposed a ban on disposable diapers to the state senate saying “Without a ban disposable diapers will fill up landfills causing problems long after the babies have babies”.

3.     With an increase in women in jail, Richard Clair head of SC State Department of Corrections testifies that incarcerated women are not having the same opportunities than men to participate in programs that would better their lives.

4.     New law stiffens check bouncing penalties, sending them stern messages and liability to pay three times the face value of each bad check.

The body of a news story

1. Kalani Bros. Bakery Suspend 
• Health inspectors visited the Kalani Bros. Bakery the past few weeks and what they found was very disturbing.
• To protect the health of the public, the health officials temporarily suspended the Kalani Bros. Bakery because of the bad conditions of the bakery. They were asked several times to correct the health violations but each inspection they kept finding more problems.
2. More people, no money
• 12 county officials have looked into the matter of the rapidly growing county and the possibility of enforcing an “impact fee” for each time a new house is built in the area.
• For the past 3 months the county officials have tried to solve the growth problem that is affecting the county. With the growth of new residents moving in and houses being build, there has been a shortage of safety workers and a need for bigger sewer systems, jails, better roads, schools, and more teachers. 
3. No more junk food 
• State Legislature enacted a law that would affect all elementary, junior high, and high school vending machines to no longer serve foods with high sugar content.
• Vending machines in the local elementary, junior high, and high school’s will no longer be serving junk foods like candy bars, gum, and soda but juices, jerky, toasted soy beans and other products that don’t have a high sugar content.
4. Police officer saved by bullet proof vest
• With the help of a bullet proof vest, Thomas E. Richardson lives to spend time with his wife and two young children. 
• Responding to a call about a suspicious man loitering  behind a restaurant on 640 Aloma Avenue, officer Thomas E. Richardson steps out his patrol car and without warning the man shoots four shots toward him, two in which struck Richardson. He is alive today because he wore a bullet proof vest. By wearing the vest the bullets just knocked the air out of him.  
5. Project Reassurance
• The elderly need a lot of care and their children need assurance that their parents or grandparents are ok. With Project Reassurance it you will know that the elderly are being looked after with a plan to make sure they are doing alright.
• Dorothy Morvcheck, a clerk, and tow aides, wait by the phone between 7 and 9 am waiting for a phone call from those who are 65 and older or any person that lives alone over 55. If they do not call by 9:15 am they will dispatch the police to go check on them. This method have saved three lives, including the life of a woman who police officers found lying on the kitchen floor of her home after having suffered a heart attack. 
6. Stealing corneas

• An unusual lawsuit involving a deceased 31 year old's family and the illegal removal  of her cornea.
• A woman's family who died two years ago at age 31 had her corneas removed from her eyes. When her relatives learned of the action, they objected on the grounds of their religious beliefs. A Supreme court ruling on the case said, the state law violates a family's right to decide the disposition of a love ones remains.

 

Multimedia

Multimedia is great way to give out information.With video, animation, pictures and  other media, you can be intrigued by what the site wants to tell you just by clicking on the site.

The Washington post does this wonderfully with a piece called Refuge: 18 Stories from the Syrian Exodus. Once you click on the site you see an animation of people walking then the animation turns in to the picture that you see of one of one of the girls that was interviewed. I wanted to learn more about this young girl and why she seems sad.

If you click left or right you would see a story about a person struggling.

 Dania the girl in the picture was at her home in Syria when it got bombed. As she was left dangled and a cousin left without any legs, the rest of her family perished on the scene.

If you would click the top right corner you can hear her talking to another woman in her native language. There are also videos and pictures of her interview and where she was bombed. Scrolling down some more, you would see some more of the animated people giving an visual on how many people are Syrian refugees.

Writing Leads

1. 250 students stand in front your school this morning protesting the burning of an American flag held on campus grounds that happened last Friday by a Journalism Professor's class.
2. Controversy stirs your school's campus over the First Lady of the United States delivering the school's commencement address for the spring's graduating class. Students who are petitioning against this says, "...that woman should be honored for their achievements, not their husbands".
3. Coming into their Freshman year of college most are worried about the new life as a college student but a problem that some Freshman tend to focus on is the gaining of weight most know as the. " the Freshman 5," "the Freshman 10," "the Freshman 15" or even "the Freshman 20."
4. A heated, controversial debate has occurred at your school. A reporter for the school's student paper uncovered that some of the money from the school is being invested in tobacco companies. With the conflicting message to both the students and public the board of Regents plan to discuss the topic.
5. Medical researches conducted an unusual surveyed 1,044 women and learned that 1 in 10 had on abortion.
6. Five students of your school's Sigma Kappa Chi fraternity are being investigated for hazing which put two put two students in the hospital.