From an article on the rave scene in Manchester: The Mancunian candidate
From an article on a week at City Hall beginning with a funding hike for the ailing bus system: Sick transit’s glorious Monday.
From a Detroit News article a few years about the new no-smoking policy at Tiger Stadium, where the attendance (coincidentally) had been low for the last few years - Tigers: No butts in stadium seats
My dad wrote that one, so I’m probably biased. 
I gotta hand it to the New York Post, who ran this headline when Fred Astaire died: Taps for Fred Astaire.
I just wish, when Gloria Swanson had cashed in, that someone had had the wit to run Sic Transit Glora Swanson.
Two British ones:
When minnows Caledonian Thistle beat scottish football giants Celtic:
Super Cally go balistic, Celtic are atrocious.
And from when the then Lady Diana was courting the Prince of Wales, he fell off his horse playing polo and she ran to comfort him:
Di ran at sore-arsed Rex.
My single favourite appeared in either Time or Newsweek. It was a short (negative) review for the 1988 Burt Reynolds/Kathleen Turner comedy *Switching Channels*. The movie is a remake of *His Girl Friday* (1940), with the reporters moved from a newspaper to a television station.
The headline: Weakened Update
I’ve always suspected the reviewer deliberately panned the movie so he could use that headline.
A close second is the various uses of “UnPresidented” immediately after the 2000 election.
British local newspaper reporting on a football match, where Exeter City were beaten by a late goal from Reading’s German striker Uwe Hartenburger, who had come into the game as a substitute player –
“Exeter sunk by German sub”
Here’s one that is quite possibly an urban legend, but sticks in my mind nonetheless. It concerns an escaped patient from a secure ward at a psychiatric hospital, who rapes two laundry workers and flees the scene –
“Nut screws washers and bolts”
Virgin Blue airline’s executive is given the power by its board to acquire $A 3.6 b in new aircraft: Virgin given head.
Ignore that swish city unit - I’m a country member says Costa
Headline in today’s Chicago Tribune on an article regarding the decline of full-body tattoos in Japan:
Japan’s full-body tattoos a dyeing art amid scorn
In a local newspaper:
“Muslims Prey in America”
I assumed it was an accident, and was supposed to be “Pray”.
My all-time favorite, in the NY Times, believe it or not: for Salvador Dali’s obit.
“So long, Dali, it’s been surreal.”
This is supposed to be from WW1 :
" French Push Bottles Up Germans ".
I think this this was unintentional but it makes a good headline.
For my high school newspaper, the editor wrote this headline for a soft article on Astrology:
Do Heavenly Bodies Influence the Actions of Men?
I assumed it was intentional, but she never admitted it.
For my high school newspaper, the editor wrote this headline for a soft article on Astrology:
Do Heavenly Bodies Influence the Actions of Men?
I assumed it was intentional, but she never admitted it.
In the Chillicothe Gazette (Ohio):
“Investigators Probe Cause of Student Rashes”
I had to read it again to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating.
“British Left
Waffles On Falklands.”
“Scotland Yard Seizes Bad Czech.”
Not puns, but…
Seattle sports headline for UW vs Oregon women’s basketball game: “Husky women stomp Ducks”
San Francisco radio - musical background to Alex Bennett’s Radio Obituaries when Margaret Hamilton died - “Ding Dong the Witch is dead”… I almost drove off the side of the 101!
There was a famous British explorer called Dr Fuchs. He is behind the wonderful:
Dr Fuchs off to the Artic again.
In my high school paper (The Glen Bard) on a story about a teacher’s musical instrument building hobby:
Bard Biologist Erects Organ In Basement
There was a terrible one in my local paper last year on September 12th…
“The Mourning After”
grumble grumble…
So I’m working for a political publisher a few years ago, right?
We run a story about a poll that contrasts President Clinton and GWB. The story shows that Clinton would beat GWB handily in a general election.
One of our junior editors got away with this headline:
‘Clinton licks younger Bush’
I thought the publisher was going to have a heart attack.