Examples of skedlines in a news budget

OBAMA-BUDGET
WASHINGTON — The Senate is likely to reject a White House-backed plan to establish a bipartisan task force to recommend steps to curb the deficit, even as lawmakers digest the news that President Barack Obama wants a three-year freeze in the domestic budgets they control. By Andrew Taylor.
AP Photo.

JOBS TAX CREDIT
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's push to create jobs includes a new tax credit for small businesses that add employees, an idea that has appeal as the nation struggles with an unemployment rate topping 10 percent. It is an idea, however, that fell flat in Congress when Obama first proposed it last year because lawmakers didn't know how to target the credit effectively. By Stephen Ohlemacher.
AP Photo.

HAITI-EARTHQUAKE
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Tidy rows of tents on a soccer field provide an island of relief for 500 earthquake survivors amid a sea of squalid settlements filled with hundreds of thousands homeless. Camp residents and workers urgently call for more tents, saying they feel the pressure from those left out in the cold. By Jonathan Katz and Ben Fox.
AP Photos. AP Video. Multimedia.

LEBANON-PLANE CRASH
BEIRUT — The pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff flew in the opposite direction from the path recommended by the Beirut control tower, Lebanon's transportation minister says. All 90 people on board are feared dead after the plane went down in flames during a night of lightning and thunderstorms. By Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam.
AP Photos. AP Video. AP Graphic.

IRAQ
BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber kills at least 18 and injures dozens more in a strike against a police crime lab in central Baghdad, a day after several hotels were hit by suicide attacks, officials say. By Adam Schreck.