From the police blotter: Woman wears motorcycle helmet in Mustang as dog runs round

“SUSPICIOUS—Received a call Tuesday that a woman was sitting in a Mustang wearing a motorcycle helmet and a white dog was running loose outside the car. The driver had bloodshot eyes, said she fell asleep and was wearing the helmet because of the setting sun hurting her eyes. She was released without incident.”
—Brainerd Dispatch, Brainerd, Minn.

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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.”