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• The first African-American police officer in Boston was actually hired in 1878, not 1919. His name was Horatio Julius Homer. [Boston Globe]

• U.S. Army Specialist Scott Anthony Andrews of Fall River was killed in action in Afghanistan on Monday. [Fall River Herald News]

-- A Gardner woman allegedly attacked her 2-year-old daughter with a pair of scissors and tried to strangle her to death before being stopped by a passerby last night. [Herald] more ›

-- A 6-month-old child who had been kidnapped from his Gardner home overnight was found this morning in the trunk of an abandoned car. Paul Baez, Jr. was allegedly abducted from his crib by Jason Bisceglia, 19, a friend of the child's 20-year-old mother. No motive for the kidnapping has been advanced, but authorities suggested that alcohol and marijuana may have been involved. The child was taken to Heywood Hospital, where his condition is good. Bisceglia faces charges of kidnapping and child endangerment. [Globe] more ›