Man charged with attempted murder of officers

That's all you got? It is already acceptable to start sentences with such conjunctions (and, but). Some authorities, in fact, even defend that for some cases conjunctions will do a better job than more formal constructions. While it is acceptable to use such conjunctions to start a sentence, you should still use them carefully and efficiently, else your text might become choppy. Secondly, **many people still regard such usage as informal. If you are writing a formal piece or if you are not sure how your audience might react to conjunctions at the beginning of a sentence, you could substitute them with more formal terms.** As I was being informal, my purpose was served. I took more than English 101, "tard". Thank you, though. You must be one of the people who writes terrible reports :)