The following are real strange headlines from various newspapers.

This document layout is copyright 1997-2003 Steven Ward (me).

I would like MORE. So if you have any just drop me a line to the address below.
On Thursday, September 07, 2000 this list exceeded 1000 headlines.

Unlike other headline lists on the web, this list is updated on a monthly basis and where possible I have listed the paper where the headline origniated.

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  1. "Light" Meals Are Lower In Fat, Calories -- Huntington Herald-Dispatch, November 30
  2. L.A. Voters Approve Urban Renewal By Landslide
  3. Labour Councillors Worried About Disappearing Trains
  4. Lack Of Brains Hinders Research -- The Columbus Dispatch, April 16
  5. Lack Of Water Hurts Ice Fishing
  6. Landlord Sentenced to Die for Eating Tenant -- Reuters headline
  7. Landmines -- Diana On Last Leg Of Trip -- Bbc Ceefax
  8. Lansing Residents Can Drop Off Trees
  9. Large Celestial Object Stuns Astronomers -- New Scientist
  10. Larger Kangaroos Leap Farther, Researchers Find -- The Los Angeles Times, November 2
  11. Latin Course To Be Canceled - No Interest Among Students, Et Al.
  12. Law Prohibits Swearing Around the Dead -- AP headline
  13. Lawmen From Mexico Barbecue Guests
  14. Lawyer Calls Soul As Witness
  15. Lawyer Frees Own Killer -- News 0f The World
  16. Lawyers Give Poor Free Legal Advise
  17. Lazy, Fat Dragons To Go On Crash Diet In Zoo
  18. Legal Actions Aim To Prevent 'Anorexic And Alien Body' Being Built -- Irish Times.
  19. Legislature Follows the Law, Does Little
  20. Legless Priest Steals Armless Man's Wife -- News 0f The World.
  21. Lennon Guitar sells for £20,000. No Strings Attached. -- Liverpool Daily Post and Echo
  22. Lesbian Cow Study Udderly Serious -- Brisbane (Australia) Courier-Mail headline
  23. Lesbian Ex-Nun Witch Hits Bad Spell In N.Y. -- New York Post
  24. Lesotho Women Make Great Carpets -- Unknown Source, Quoted By John Preston, Sunday Telegraph.
  25. Less Formal Orthodox Church Sought -- AP headline
  26. Let The People Decide On Drugs -- Observer
  27. Life Means Caring For Hospital Director
  28. Lightning Strikes Worshippers
  29. Limp Bizkit Singer: Money's Not All
  30. Lingerie Shipment Hijacked -Thief Gives Police The Slip
  31. Lions Elect New District Governor
  32. Lions Put On Dog Show -- West Briton (Cornwall)
  33. Lions Say That Was Then, This Is Now -- Johannesburg Citizen
  34. Lions Still Preying On Aliens -- The Star And Sunday South African Times
  35. Lisa Hall Wins Worst Hole Contest -- Ely (Nevada) Daily Times
  36. Listen Up, Your Dog Wants to Tell You Something -- Reuters headline
  37. Living Saint Laid To Rest --Examiner
  38. Lizard Re-routes Queen's Plane -- D. Telegraph.
  39. Llama Drama Ding-Dong. -- Liverpool Daily Post and Echo
  40. Local High School Dropouts Cut In Half
  41. Local Man Has Longest Horns In Texas
  42. London 4800 Nurses Short -- Evening Standard
  43. London Bus Goes Down Well In Moscow -- Dundee Courier.
  44. Londons Homeless To Live In Admiralty Arch - The Times
  45. Long Island Stiffens For Lili's Blow - Newsday
  46. Lord's Mother Suing Diocese
  47. Lost Scissors Found In Woman -- Guardian.
  48. Lost Trees Found In Scottish Highlands
  49. Low-Cost Rabies Shots To Be Offered In Transylvania -- Ashville Citizen-Times
  50. Low Wages Said Key To Poverty -- Newsday, July 11
  51. Lung Cancer In Women Mushrooms
  52. Lutherans OK Pact With Episcopalians -- AP headline
Many thanks to Richard Edkins, Jon Hall, B G Dorgan and Hawkmoon for submitting quite a few headlines, Andy from Seagate for the trash compacter story, Colin Matthews, Mike Wilson, Jennifer Woodmansee, Newt, Dave Monk, David Cook, Lynda Featherstone, John McBride for informing me of my Googlewhack "Malaysian Gyrator" [ GoogleWhack ], Anna Tickle, Katy Smith, Jim Ness for the Air Head Fired source, Debbie Carter, Terry Shea, Steve Cawood of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo.

Special thanks to [ Randy Cassingham ]

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