A flurry of fatals, Pt. 2

You incorrectly reported facts

Like here, regarding the vagrants proposal:

Tired of vagrants' negative image, businessmen are raising money for bus tickets to send vagrants to a city where they have family through an ordinance passed by Mayor Datoli.

First, the information given to you said businessmen would raise the money; not that they are or they did.

Second, the mayor did not pass an ordinance; she said she would introduce one next week.

Here, you misinterpreted data:

Shacking up with your partner lads to a 70 percent greater chance of marriage, but a 40 percent greater chance of divorce . . .

The data did not deal with greater/lesser chances; the percentages referred to the share of study sample size. If you had a 70 percent greater chance of getting married by first "shacking up" and the data you were given is otherwise correct, then you'd have a zero percent chance of getting married if you don't.

Make sure you say what you mean, and you mean what you say, and you understand what you are writing and know whether it adheres to the facts.