Tag Archives: Italian culture

Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 18

Vandals raid the Resinelli [a tourist area on the mountain above Lecco]: the shocking photos [note that choc = shock, not chocolate]

Tax fraud: troubles for Sergio Longoni

Free gift: the volume “In dialect you say it this way”

Sting: garbage tax goes up 30% for homes, shops, garages, and warehouses

Lecco ever more expensive: price increases for pasta and milk

Alone, depressed, and without work, architect takes his own life

Italian newspaper headlines

Scandal: young girl has sex at school in exchange for cell phone recharges

Albanian severely beats the owner of Bar Roma

The marathon crowns the Lecchesi: problems for the course signage

Tragedy: he shoots himself, but the bullet hits his mother. He is in life-threatening condition [“end of life”]

Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 17

Lecco – Minors mistreated, three arrests

Dervio – The students plant trees

“Massacred” with blows his two children: arrested [massacrato di botte means severely beaten, but not literally massacred]

Sells her shop to cure her sick child in Canada

Italian newspaper headlines

Lecchese [resident of Lecco] donates bone marrow and refuses a reward of 700 thousand euros

Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 15

Three newborns dead in 20 days.

80 year old saves a peer [person of the same age] from the lake.

Here is the partner of the Lecchese bank.

Station plaza – all ready for the new parking.

Maxi fender-bender on the “superhighway” – three wounded.

Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 14

War between gas stations: “My distributor [gas pump] set on fire by a colleague.”

Attempted rape – she hits him “below the belt.” [Good for her!]