Italian newspapers

headlines from Dec, 2008 Left: The race for gifts paralyzes Lecco Lecco [the soccer team] defeated during the last minutes Center: Nurse at Manzoni [hospital], native of Lecco, dies on the Medale [local cliff face] Roads and trains in chaos [from holiday traffic, presumably] Right: Eluana: the decision [belongs to] the Udine clinic [this is [...]

Upper left: Health: “golden” consultations at the hospital and local health authority: they spend 2.3 million Departments and services at the Manzoni [hospital] up for bidding by private interests? Tragedy: mother of three dies in the crash Left: Free gift: the map of the pre-Alpine lakes 350 thousand euros to the extortionists: gas station owner [...]

Goodbye to the widow and historic pharmacist Degradation at Bione [a local sports complex] – teams in revolt Offerings stolen from the Capucin [friars] Tragedy: Worker at Fiocchi [a factory] tries to kill himself, his mother wants to save him and dies Black Thursday on the trains and Trenitalia threatens price increases

Mar, 2008 Lecco – Minors mistreated, three arrests Dervio – The students plant trees “Massacred” with blows his two children: arrested [massacrato di botte means severely beaten, but not literally massacred] Sells her shop to cure her sick child in Canada Lecchese [resident of Lecco] donates bone marrow and refuses a reward of 700 thousand [...]

Three newborns dead in 20 days. 80 year old saves a peer [person of the same age] from the lake. Here is the partner of the Lecchese bank. Station plaza – all ready for the new parking. Maxi fender-bender on the “superhighway” – three wounded.

Too lively: the janitoress insults and threatens the children – Writings and drawings defame the principal of Grassi high school Mystery of the millionaire inheritance – Goodbye to a Lecchese pharmacist – Dies at 34 years, leaving four children Shootout at the cemetery and in Pescarenico: one wounded – From today and for six months [...]

The above recent newspaper headlines in Lecco read: Corruption in court: is it now the turn of professionals and banks? – Lecco [team] beaten at Leganano: third consecutive defeat Manager attacked and “massacred” with blows in downtown Lecco [NB: He didn't die - massacrato doesn't mean killed.] – Young [man] found dead at Lecco [railway] [...]

The Assessor [a position in municipal government]: “I’m gay and I don’t hide [myself]” “I’m selling a kidney to pay the loan sharks” Professor Valsecchi, pillar of Badoni [a school], dead The [Teachers'] Council of the [Liceo] Classico Votes No-Confidence in the Principal [Private] “high” parties become a problem (sballo refers to getting high, whether [...]