Squirrels: Writing With (AP) Style

Is it 5402 Andover Drive, or 5402 Andover Dr., with Drive abbreviated as Dr.?

Actually, it's 5402 Andover Drive, with Drive spelled out. Here is AP Style, under addresses:

Use the abbreviations Ave., Blvd. and St. only with a numbered address ... all similar words (alley, drive, road, terrace, ect.) always are spelled out. Capitalize them when part of a formal name without a number; lowercase when used alone or with two or more names.

So, if it was 5402 Andover St. or 5402 Andover Ave., you'd be correct to abbreviate. But it wasn't a street or avenue, which gets abbreviated as part of a full street address. It was drive, which does not.

AP Style has some silly inconsistencies. This is one of 'em. Still, AP Style is the baseline style system in the mass media world, so we do need to get used to all the rules, even if a few -- like this one -- seems pointlessly specific.

Also, in listing attribution, you only need one attribution in any graf where there is just one person being cited. So, if you have a graf citing only Brookes, you only need to use Brookes said once in that graf, no matter how long or short it is.