Saturday, September 6, 2008

Leads 1

A local couple who sued for injuries suffered during a traffic accident in March, were awarded $150,000 yesterday, by the Butte County Court.

Forecasters are expecting another snowstorm to hit the Sierras today. The storm is part of a series of snowstorms.

According to police, three firefighters were injured while 41 families evacuated a six-story building that caught fire today. The building was located at 204 Union Ave.

2 comments:

camccune said...

1) Very close; just needs a couple tweaks:
A local couple who sued for injuries suffered in a March traffic accident was (not were) awarded $150,000 in damages yesterday in Butte County Court.

2) OK

3) Start with "Three firefighters were injured" (that's the news!), not "According to police." You can put the attribution at the end.

And how about: Three firefighters were injured today while evacuating 41 families from a burning six-story building at 204 Union Ave., according to police. That combines your two sentences and tightens it up.

Sadia's JOUR 61 Blog said...

Thank you for the help! I appreciate it. Do we receive grades on all three assignments or just leads 2 and the top news story because I did not see a score for this assignment?