Headlines asking “Should Blago Stay or Should He Go?” and “In Blagojevich Case, Is it a Crime, or Just Talk?” topped stories on Tuesday morning’s home pages. Impeachment proceedings for Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who on Tuesday morning was being referred to as “Blago” on sites such as Yahoo! News and Fox News, are now underway.
The majority of local news sites Tuesday morning featured stories about the weather and tight budgets around the holidays. Among the perennial winter stories, though, was a hidden gem.
On its home page, The Honolulu Advertiser ran a photo of a young Korean immigrant holding her head to show the damage her ex-boyfriend caused when stepping on it in an act of abuse. The related story is one of a seven-part series that breaks down domestic abuse in Hawaii’s homes through written, audio and visual storytelling.
One of the stories in the series talks about battered women who leave their houses to escape violence and end up on the beach, a place that some consider a refuge.
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