Andy Reid says son Garrett Reid lost eight-year battle with drugs

LOCAL HEADLINES

1. Reid: Garrett Lost an 8-Year ‘Battle’ (Inquirer)
2. Linder Tackling Chester’s Problems (Tribune)
3. Smash-and-Grab Burglary at Bensalem Beer Store (6ABC)

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TODAY IN HISTORY

• 1782 – General George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army, creates the “Badge for Military Merit,” which comes to be known as the “Purple Heart.”
• 1959 – From the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the U.S. unmanned spacecraft Explorer 6 is launched into orbit around the earth. It takes a crude picture of the earth’s surface and cloud cover from a distance of 17,000 miles.
• 1998 – A massive truck bomb explodes outside the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Minutes later, another truck bomb is detonated outside the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam, the capital of neighboring Tanzania.
• 1975 – Actress Charlize Theron is born in Benoni, South Africa.