Around here they did exist, but were not so prominent, usually in a sidebar or topbar format. I think they were more common on slow news days, which both does a

Around here they did exist, but were not so prominent, usually in a sidebar or topbar format. I think they were more common on slow news days, which both does and doesn't make sense. They became more common overall as newspapers declined; how prominent they are now, I don't know, because the dead tree edition isn't worth reading anymore.