Here is a variety of news reports written at the start of my journalism career. I spent nearly my first four years in journalism working as a reporter first at The Lompoc (Calif.) Record and then The Daily World (Aberdeen, Wash.) before transitioning to page design and editing roles.
Unfortunately, much of my writing was done in the pre-digital, pre-Internet days, so it was not easy to save all of my work. As you'll see in the links below, a lot of my reporting work is only available because I was able to save (and carry from place to place for several decades) some old newspapers—including ones saved by my grandparents, who would subscribe to the papers I worked at so they could read my stories.
Also, looking at these years later, I'm a little disappointed to see as many typos as there were in far too many of these stories. I've generally cleaned these up as I have spotted them in the re-constituted text, but they still appear in the original document scans beneath the story.