Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 9

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 euros

Vandals raid the Resinelli [a tourist area on the mountain above Lecco]: the shocking photos Vandalistic Raid at Resinelli [a local ski resort]: the shocking photos [note that choc = shock, not chocolate]

Tax fraud: troubles for Sergio Longoni

Free gift: the volume "In dialect you say it this way"

Sting: garbage tax goes up 30% for homes, shops, garages, and warehouses

Lecco ever more expensive: price increases for pasta and milk

Alone, depressed, and without work, architect takes his own life