From the police blotter, Alaska edition

“A caller reported two groups of kids throwing snowballs at his house. The youths were advised to watch where they throw them from now on.”
–December 12, 1992, from “Best of The Skagway, Alaska, Police Blotter” published by the Skagway News.

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Drop Dead Punk

Coleridge Taylor is searching for his next scoop on the police beat. The Messenger-Telegram reporter has a lot to choose from on the crime-ridden streets of 1975 New York. One story outside his beat is grabbing all the front page glory: New York teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, and President Ford just told the city, as the Daily News so aptly puts it, “Drop Dead.”