I guess if it bleeds, it doesn’t necessarily lead.

Prime example: The Tuesday print edition of the Gannett Star.
Top left corner story: Illness keeps adoption scammer out of prison: Carmel woman gets home detention for bilking 6 couples out of $100,000.
Bottom left corner story: Widow regrets backing plea deal in fatal mauling.
In both cases, the defendants got home detention. In the first case, it was two years; in the second case, one defendant got 180 days, the other got 90 days.
Which of these two stories ACTUALLY deserved to be splashed above the fold?
And, is it really a more heinous crime to defraud people than it is to be responsible for their deaths? You’d certainly think so given the lengths of the sentences.
Full disclosure: I have met Vika Farahan and my wife is a friend of the family. With that understood, I strongly agree that Vika ought to be punished in some way for her actions, but at least Vika wasn’t responsible for anybody’s horrific death.
BTW, although both of these stories are on the front page of the print edition (City Final), you have to scroll way down to “local news” on the front page of the website to find them, at least at the moment.