write one lede for each set of facts. The assignment should be typed and double-

write one lede for each set of facts. The assignment should be typed and double-spaced. Use proper spelling, grammar, punctuation and AP style. Keep each lede to a single sentence of 30 words or less. Remember, you don’t have to include every fact that is included here in your lede.
The city is sweltering under a heat wave. Temperatures hit 100 degrees-plus for the past week and humidity levels remained between 70 and 90 percent each day. Authorities have been cautioning people – especially the very young and the elderly – to stay inside in air conditioning and avoid exertion outside in the sun. Escambia County Health Department officials held a press conference today to announce that three people died in the past two days because of the heat. All three were elderly and lived in downtown Pensacola. Two of the three were a married couple. Victims were: Betsy Aaron, 86, 310 Front Street, Apt. 2, a retired teacher who taught elementary school for more than 30 years; Jeffrey Swanson, 84, a retired mechanical engineer who worked for the city of Pensacola for many years, and wife, Teresa Swanson, 79, a retired accountant, both of 1219 Pine Street. In both cases, relatives discovered the bodies after not being able to reach the victims by phone. The city recently distributed fans and small air conditioning units to elderly people who met certain qualifications and both Aaron and the Swansons received the fans and AC unit. When police entered both residences, the fans and AC units were found in their original boxes – none had been used. EXAMPLE LEDE: Escambia County Health officials held a press conference Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021, recommending people stay inside during a heat wave, citing three heat-related deaths of elderly residents.
A study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that patients of sleep-deprived faculty surgeons face an 83 percent increased risk of complications, citing massive hemorrhage and organ injury as the most common examples. They defined a sleep-deprived doctor as one who had had less than a six-hour opportunity for sleep between procedures during a previous on-call night. And general surgeons who performed elective surgery during the day after working the previous night had a 171 percent higher risk of serious complications, the same study found. Today, the executive committee of the American Hospital Association issued a statement urging medical hospitals to have written policies in place to lower the chance of sleep-deprived doctors doing surgery and possibly harming a patient.
The dead body of a 44 year old man was pulled from an explosion at a furniture store. His name isn’t gonna be released yet. Gas caused the explosion in Milton, Florida. A female worker at the store is still missing. Rescuers will search into the night. The store’s owner, Paul Franks, age 64 was pulled from the wreckage shortly after the explosion. The event occurred at about 9A.M. Franks was in serious but stable condition at the University of Florida hospital’s burn unit. He was listed as critical earlier in the day. Before the explosion, a Consumers Energy gas worker was 2 blocks away investigating the reported gas leak.
Destiny Alexander is a vice president with Regions Bank in Pensacola. She is divorced and the mother of two children: daughter, Primrose, age 10; and son, Schuster, 8. The children visit her once a month. Schuster was injured in an accident Saturday afternoon around 2 p.m. The boy was struck by a train. Police said Alexander and her son were riding bikes along Market Street in downtown Pensacola when the mother decided to take a shortcut across the railroad tracks. The boy is on life support at Baptist Hospital in critical condition. Witnesses said the mother saw the train coming but crossed anyway and then encouraged her son to follow. Schuster’s bike got caught on the track and as he tried to free it, he was hit by the train. Police arrested Alexander on charges of assault, reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and failure to obey a train signal.
Five women have been arrested in Mississippi, three in Arizona, six in New Mexico, 7 in Louisiana, and 9 in Florida. Police found that all these women were involved in a drug trafficking scheme that spanned from California to Florida. Police also seized over 1.5 million dollars worth of drugs and $400,126 in illegal drug money. After receiving a tip from a neighbor of one of the women in Arizona, police there began investigating and reported it to the FBI. From there the FBI took over. All these women face Federal charges and it is believed that even more may be involved.
A home at 2814 Hardy Street was burglarized between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon. The owner of the home is Jason Kepler, a principal at Thames Elementary School in Pensacola. Kepler said no one was at home at the time of the burglary. Neighbors reported seeing a truck parked in the driveway during the afternoon hours yesterday and thought maybe repair people were doing something inside the house. Taken from the home were items totaling about $10,000 in value including a diamond ring, two pistols, approximately $1,000 in coins, a 65-inch flat screen television, a sewing machine and a silver coffee service.
The city council has decided that because they have received so many complaints about noise in local apartment buildings that it is now against city code for anyone living in an apartment community to have a stereo in there home. Local complex managers support the ban saying that they to are sick of complaints. Owners are concerned because they see that this could cause them to lose tenants and money. Local apartment residents feel that their rights are being violated. A spokesman for a local group of residents who are against the ban on stereos say that people pay too much to rent apartments to not be allowed to be entertained in their own homes. The group plans to sue the city if this code is not reconsidered and turned over in the next two weeks.
The U.S. Department of Justice is calling identity theft the crime of the 21st Identity theft is the illegal appropriation of another person’s personal information – Social Security card number, driver’s license number, credit card numbers, etc. – and using them to drain bank accounts or go on a buying spree. Justice Department officials say it is the fastest-growing crime in the United States. The Federal Trade Commission estimated the dollar loss to businesses and individuals last year was in the billions. The number of victims nationally is running as high as 750,000 a year. In Pensacola, the number of victims totaled 2,000 during 2016.
Researchers at University Medical Center in Jackson, MS, base the theory that unexplained weight loss in older people might be an early signal of Alzheimer’s disease, appearing several years before the memory lapses that define the illness, on their study of 820 retired dock workers and caregivers aged 75 on average who were followed for up to 10 years. Otherwise healthy participants whose body- mass index fell the most were the most likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. Study co-author Dr. David Bennett, director of the UMC Alzheimer’s Disease Center, says the results raise the possibility that the disease attacks brain regions involved in regulating food intake and metabolism, as well as memory, and that weight loss is an early symptom.
Gary Hubbard, superintendent of the Escambia County Public School District, announced a new program for the local school district. It’s called the “Tattle-Tale program,” and involves paying students to tell on their classmates who bring guns or drugs to school or those who violate other school safety rules. The program is in response to an incident last month in which a high school student was found carrying a loaded handgun at Pensacola High School. “We think if we can get students to keep us better informed, we can avoid some of the catastrophes that have occurred in schools across the United States,” Hubbard said.