Basic News Writing

Austin district holds community budget forum tonight

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

What?
What is happening? AISD is making cuts
What did happen? AISD laid off employees
What are the consequences? Alot of employees lose their jobs
What is different about this? Job loss
What are the choices? Firing teachers or looking for a different way to save up money.

When?
When did or will this happen? Last week
When was this discovered? They've been having meetings about budgets

Where?
Where did or will this happen? Last week's budget forum

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? To 'discuss the district's cutting 1,153 jobs, which is necessary', officials said, 'to balance the proposed $688 million 2011-12 operating budget'.

How?
How did it or will it happen? School board will vote on whether to fire employees or be in debt.
How much does it cost? $94.4 million
How many people does this affect? A lot. 
How do you feel about this? I feel that AISD should have paid better attention to money issues before this happened.

Velarde testifies he received HGH injections from Bonds' trainer

Who?
Who is involved?  Barry Bonds, Randy Velarde, Greg Anderson, Jason Giambi, Jeremy Giambi, Marvin Benard
Who does/did the situation affect? Velarde, team, fans, coaches, the whole professional baseball community
Who said so?

What?
What is happening?
What did happen? Velarde purchased performance-enhancing drugs
What are the consequences? is 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.
What is different about this?It's cheating and the players are famous, so it's interesting to sports fans.
What are the choices? Maybe jail..?

When?
When did or will this happen? Wednesday
When was this discovered? 2003

Where?
Where did or will this happen? San Francisco

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? Team members got caught taking steroids.

How?
How did it or will it happen? They'll go to court and go on trial
How much does it cost? $500-$800
How many people does this affect? Not too many
How do you feel about this? I feel he should be punished and it's dumb.

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

Who?
Who is involved? Hidehiko Nishiyama, Michael Friedlander
Who does/did the situation affect? Japanese people 
Who said so? Scientist.

What?
What is happening? The levels of radiation in ocean waters off Japan's embattled Fukushima Daiichi plant continue to skyrocket
What did happen? Tsunami and the earthquake
What are the consequences? Poisoned seafood
What is different about this? It's dangerous for the environment
What are the choices? Find out where the radiation is coming from.

When?
When did or will this happen? Now
When was this discovered? March 11

Where?
Where did or will this happen? Tokyo, Japan

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? Nuclear plants exploded

How?
How did it or will it happen? Nuclear plants exploded
How much does it cost? 25 trillion yen ($300 billion)
How many people does this affect?
How do you feel about this? I feel devastated that this happened and I hope they are able to contain the radiation.