Not a good start

It took me two reads of the first paragraph to understand what the writer was trying to say. On first read I thought everyone in the court room was 17 years old (note the absence of hyphens). On second read, after also reading the next two paragraphs, I realized that everyone in the court room was 17 years older (note, again, the absence of hyphens). But wait, the victim is also in the court room but is not 17 years older. Is it because she was given some eternal-youth potion and will forever remain 25? No, it's because she is in a coffin in a cemetery. So then the except the victim bit isn't true because she's not actually in the courtroom. What an utterly ridiculous first paragraph. From "No 'faint hope' for murdered grad student" on Canoe online on January 21, 2011.

struck and killed by lightening; when the lightening struck

The opening sentence of this article ("Woman killed in mountaintop proposal" on Canoe online on June 8, 2010) contains a misspelling of lightning. One might think it's a typo, but three paragraphs later the writer attempts the word again

and again sticks an E where it doesn't belong. Zero-for-two on spelling lightning in an article about a woman getting struck by lightning.

Odd tricyle

I saw the above in "CNews headlines" at the bottom of an online article on August 10, 2009. It caught my eye for the wrong reasons. I clicked it and up came an article with the exact same text used in the large headline:
It's an odd spelling of tricycle. Odd and incorrect.

police say she then she put a

-- "Wedgie as good as handcuffs in suspect detention" on CNews (cnews.canoe.ca) on February 17, 2009

Only one she needed. Omit the second one.