Now that I have comments, I can ask questions and actually get replies, so here goes…

This story about the little blond kid from “Family Ties” getting busted for a DUI made me wonder: How does someone pick a seemingly random police blotter item and match the person’s name to figure out that the person is/was a celebrity (and thus making it “news”)? Is there some sort of very large database of people (which includes their birth names!) so that when their names show up in a police report, the media gets alerted to it? Inquiring minds want to know.