At the end of it the sheriff returned, bringing the unhappy news she feared.

The fact that this unhappy news arrives late and muted can be attributed in part to one other post-9/11 change.

Now his wife was on the phone, not just to tell me the unhappy news, but to ask me to be a pallbearer.

Mrs. Jackson distributed the unhappy news, and practically the whole county knew by noon.

Mr. Keno did not dwell on this unhappy news, of course.

It was clear that Minister Nowles did not want to give the three children the unhappy news himself.

The only unhappy news in April for many fund companies was a flow of cash out of money market funds.

"This is indeed unhappy news," the President said, shaking his head.

I am the bearer of unhappy news and evil tidings.

I am nothing but a nondescript physician, the bearer of unhappy news.