Bite Size News, Cops & Robbers Edition

• Over two dozen policemen from across MA to receive awards for bravery from Gov. Patrick today. [Boston Globe]
• Boston's #2 cop is close to being cleared in ethics probe and is returning to work. [Boston Herald]
• The SWAT team surrounds a Boston Police captain's home, because her overly generous shopping for needy children was thought to be imbalanced behavior. [Boston Herald]
• Does Mitt Romney take from the poor(ly informed) and give to the rich (i.e. himself and pols who supported him)? [Boston Globe]
• Did Outkast's Andre 3000 steal a cartoon idea from a Boston postal worker? [Boston Herald]
• Renovations at Copley Square T station put a giant crack in a wall of Old South Church. There is a contractor that's just made Santa's naughty list. [Boston Channel]
• Stats show clerical/administrative workers accounted for 1 in 6 of the state's jobless in October. [Boston Herald]
• Newport, R.I. socialite "Sunny" von Bulow has died after 28 years in a coma. (Claus von Bulow was in London at time of death.) [People]

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