From the police blotter: The old 911 hang up

“911 HANG-UP—Report at 1:18 p.m. Sunday of a 911 hang-up call from the Grand Oaks Town Homes. Officers checked the area, but didn’t locate anyone.”
—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.”