Countries Beginning with I

Lecco: Beats/strikes [female] companion – arrested

Pasturo [a small town in the mountains]: party in a mountain cabin, dies at 22 years. [We know from the local grapevine that the cause of death was probably a drug overdose. The young man dropped dead at the dinner table at a New Year's party among friends.]

Left:

• Savings: countdown: January 3 the sales begin, but some are already giving discounts
• Falls into a creek and his friend saves his life
• Happy birthday Riccardo! The great Cassin turns 100 [Italy's "greatest living mountaineer," a native of Lecco, turned 100 on January 2nd. There will be a statue etc.]

Center:

• Taxes: The tax police discover 31 total tax evaders.
• Another raid of vandalism, walls full of graffiti
• Survery: choose the Lecchese of the year

Right:

• Lecco: the struggle against [tax] evaders and loan sharks
• Lecco: 15-year-old robbed by gang of bullies

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 a Terry Schiavo-like case, much debated this year in Italy]
• Goodbye to Notaio Messina [a notaio is something between a notary public and a lawyer]
• Crash: 17-year-old in critical condition

Left:

• Incredible: the [local boating club] goes to the America’s Cup, and the city government asks them for 264 thousand euros
• Trains and roads are disgusting: Lecchesi protest
• Soccer: Lecco loses and closes the last round of andata [? soccer term I don't know]

Right:

• Hospital: they weighed one kilo between the two: Sofia and Vittoria win the challenge of life
• Airoldi & Muzzi increases fees by 200 euros per month