It has become common in the ongoing quest to capture the most outrageous headline. But an old term you may barely remember from freshman English class has come back BIG TIME in your local news: alliteration. Here is a sampling of what's going on from one local tabloid station in Boston, Massachusetts:

Raising the Wreckage - Retrieving a crashed airplane from Boston Harbor

Suing the City - Family of a police officer -- victim of friendly fire in Providence, RI

Tropical Trauma - Tropical Storm Allison floods Houston

Ragtime Returns - The famous show visits Boston

Workforce Worries - Will you be laid off soon?

Testing Trucks - Massachusetts law enforcers crack down on unsafe tractor-trailer trucks

Brave Bra - A woman wearing a breast-enhancement bra is spared life-threatening wounds when her bra protects her chest

Date with Death - Timothy McVeigh counts down his days

Streaker Strikes - A streaker interrupts a conference in Britain

Serial Streaker - See above

Senate Shake-up - Jeffords defects from the GOP

Senate Switch - See above

Sox Sale - Red Sox go up for sale in Boston

Bono's Battle - Sonny Bono advocates 3rd world deb relief

Matador Mauled - The headline tells the entire story

Bush Busted - Jenna Bush caught with a fake ID

Suspected Sabotage - After some Boeing planes had internal wiring cut

Clamming Calamity - Parasites in some NE clams

Wounded Whale - A whale off the coast of New England tangled in fishing nets

Steeple Struck - A church in Natick, MA is struck *twice* ny lightning when severe storms march through the area

Train Tragedy - A train derails

Flooding Fears - Heavy rains threaten neighborhoods near a river

 

... more on the way...