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Red Substance Sprayed on Statues At Three Catholic Churches in Boston

John Cronin

An unknown red substance has been sprayed on statues at three Catholic churches in Boston at least seven times since mid-March, Boston police said.

Police are looking for a black woman who was seen by a parishioner of Most Precious Blood Church in Hyde Park attempting to spray a substance onto statues while the church was being locked up.

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Wrongful Death Lawsuit in Texting Suicide Case Dismissed, But Details Not Revealed

John Cronin

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a Mattapoisett man who killed himself after being urged by text to do so by a female Plainville teen-ager has been dismissed, but the mother isn't saying how the case was resolved.

Lynn Roy, mother of Conrad Roy, filed a $4.2 million lawsuit against Michelle Carter in 2017, about three years after her son killed himself in a parking lot in Fairhaven after having second thoughts about it.

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