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Duluth's off the hook

Posted at 9:15 AM on September 17, 2009 by Bob Collins (0 Comments)

Duluth is innocent in the story about a Niagara Falls family that says it got a phone call from a military-family volunteer in Duluth, informing them their son was killed in the war. I wrote about it on Tuesday.

Why would a family from New York get a call from Duluth about a soldier in Afghanistan? It turns out they wouldn't. The Duluth News Tribune found out the family reported the incorrect area code. It came from Houston.

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