Basic News Writing

Who is involved? AISD employees, Schools
Who does/did the situation affect? Teachers, AISD employees
Who said so? AISD School Board

What?
What is happening? School district is making budget cuts
What did happen? AISD is going to fire teachers
What are the consequences?Teachers are lossing their jobs
What is different about this? Cuts are mainly affecting teachers and janitors
What are the choices? No choices

When?
When did or will this happen?A couple weeks ago
When was this discovered? When the school board had meetings about the budget for next year

Where?
Where did or will this happen? At the budget's forum

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? To balance the proposed $688 million 2011-12 operating budget.

How?
How did it or will it happen? AISD will cut employees.
How much does it cost? $94.4 million
How many people does this affect? 1,153
How do you feel about this? It's sad because they'll probably fire a lot of good teachers and it's sad that they didn't pay attention to the budget until it was too late

Velarde testifies he received HGH injections from Bonds' trainer

Who?
Who is involved? Randy Velarde
Who does/did the situation affect? Randyand his team.
Who said so?

What?
What is happening?
What did happen? Randy bought performance-enhancing drugs
What are the consequences? He was charged with four counts of lying and one count of obstruction for telling a grand jury in 2003 that he didn't knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.


When?
When did or will this happen? From 2003 until now
When was this discovered? Court

Where?
Where did or will this happen? San Fransisco

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? He wanted to be a better baseball player

How?
How did it or will it happen? Randy bought steroid pills and injections from Greg Anderson
How much does it cost? he paid $500- $800 for each injection
How many people does this affect? Himself and his team
How do you feel about this? I think that it's stupid, if you're on a pro baseball team obviously you're good at it. If you want to get better, train harder. It's stupid to risk losing your entire career over trying to take the easy way out of getting better.

Radiation levels in seawater off Japan plant spike to all-time highs

Who?
Who is involved? Japanese
Who does/did the situation affect? Japan's population, their ecosystems
Who said so? Scientists, meteorologists
 
What?
What is happening? The amount of the radioactive iodine-131 isotope has surged to 4,385 times above the regulatory limit.
What did happen? The contamination may be coming from a leak 
What are the consequences? Negative; impact impact on people's health
What is different about this? It's not normal to have these levels of radioactive elements
What are the choices? No choice really, the only choice is to try to fix it

When?
When did or will this happen? Earthquake was April 7th
When was this discovered? A couple weeks ago

Where?
Where did or will this happen? Japan

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? Magnitude 7.4 earthquake on April 7th

How?
How did it or will it happen? The contamination is coming from a leak into seawater
How much does it cost?
How many people does this affect? worldwide
How do you feel about this? They need to try to fix this as soon as possible. I think nuclear power is stupid because it's so volatile and crap like this happens, and now there's radiation everywhere.