Puzzling typos

As a copy editor, I understand and sympathize about typos and other errors. I’ve made some doozies over the years, and I’ve let others slip past me. I once edited temblor, a synonym for earthquake, to trembler. (What was I thinking?!?) But a typo on the television screen this morning baffles me. I don’t want to go all Eats-Shoots-And-Leaves on everyone, but a person would have to go out of his or her way to insert an apostrophe here.

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For the folks outside the Triangle, the building is Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, named for a member of the Reynolds family.

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