blotter
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He grew up in Latrobe, Penn., and got his start in journalism writing the police blotter for his local paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
This arrangement—the “four-way”—would recur throughout the history of blotter.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2024
Privileged Rockridge hardly seems the sort of neighborhood that would generate grist for the crime blotter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
A woman in her 40s driving northbound on Elliott Avenue West hit the man in the 600 block of the road before 6 p.m., police said in an online blotter post.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Colonel Cathcart sat down at his desk with a determined air and cleared a large neat space in his blotter.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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