CHAPTER 40
At the Lakeville Examiner morning staff meeting, the editors and reporters were pitching stories to Hank Reynolds for the next edition. The usual local stories included school funding problems, a rash of car thefts, public transit debates, and high school football. The stories they all really wanted in on were the upcoming elections and the child pornography crackdown.
Hank looked up from his note and began handing out the story assignments.
“The politics desk will continue to cover all the elections. Richard will handle the specific assignments. I’m going to handle the McKay trial with help from Wendy, who has already begun looking into the case. Maureen and Andrew will cover the other trials.”
Associate Editor Paul Schmitz asked, “Why the focus on the McKay case and so lit
