When a Local Tragedy Becomes National News
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—Wendi Winters was assigned to report on Davis’ Pub on Friday. The owner, Kevin Colbeck, told me she had pitched them an interview about life at a beloved local hangout; the bar is like “the Cheers of Annapolis,” one bartender told me. These kinds of stories were a regular part of Winters’s beat. The 65-year-old veteran reporter most enjoyed writing her column on the “teen of the week,” her daughter told me, and a recent series on “off-limits” places.
But Winters will never write that story. On Thursday, she was one of five employees shot and killed at the offices of the , Annapolis’s local newspaper.Keith Cyphers, an insurance salesman who works across the hall from the paper, described what he remembers seeing through the glass doors of
