Wake-up Call

Here's a particularly confusing example of headline-speak from a story in this morning's local paper:

Accused in stabbing heads to trial

Since "accused" is usually a verb but is here a noun, and "heads" is often a noun but is here a verb (and since "stabbing heads" looks like a dreadful phrase of some sort, possibly an idiom), the whole headline is just a recipe for bleary-eyed early-edition confusion.