bad news vs mischance

bad news

noun
  • News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events. 

  • An irritating, troublesome or harmful person, situation or thing. 

mischance

noun
  • A mishap, an unlucky circumstance. 

  • Bad luck, misfortune. 

verb
  • To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate). 

How often have the words bad news and mischance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )