Public Safety

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The week in crime: As someone whose own family Christmases are more likely to resemble the Griswolds' than, say, Kathie Lee Gifford's, I'm automatically sympathetic for those reports filed under the fraught title of "family trouble." Still, I've been doing this for a couple years now, and don't think I've seen quite so many as I did this year. Which isn't to say there were that many, only that there's a special sort of poignance over reading, in cop-speak, the account of a family fight that culminated in someone walking out with the dinner entree (ham), and realizing there wasn't even much of an alternative available, except for the ever-popular Chinese restaurant.

Other than that, a peaceful holiday all around, for the most part. Two men stole eight bottles of high-end vodka from a drugstore on Christmas Eve, which probably made for a merry and bright holiday. Until the hangover set in, that is.

Hope yours was great! See you in the new year. 

 – Nancy Nall Derringer

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