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ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Police are praising a woman who did the right thing with a cash-stuffed wallet she found at a movie theater.

Michelle White, 27, found the wallet containing $3,000 Saturday night at the Spinelli Theater in Rochester. She turned it in to police Sunday morning after being unable to reach the owner by phone.

Police were able to find the owner, Cheryl Flanagan, 25, of Rochester. Flanagan says the money is going toward a new car.

Police investigate highway stabbing

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – Police said a 29-year-old man was apparently stabbed to death early Sunday after getting into a fight on a highway entrance ramp.

The man was traveling from some type of social event in a caravan of cars around 1 a.m., state police said. The cars stopped on the entrance ramp to Route 34 where a fight broke out and the man was stabbed, they said.

He was taken by a car to the West Haven V.A. Hospital, which called an ambulance to take him to Yale-New Haven Hospital. Police said he was pronounced dead after arriving in the emergency room around 2 a.m.

Police said they recovered forensic evidence from the scene, and have interviewed several witnesses. They did not release the victim’s name.

Man killed by lightning in Maine

ROME (AP) – A Rhode Island man was killed Sunday afternoon when he was struck by lightning while fishing on Little North Pond.

Authorities said Stephen Pimental, 49, of Pawtucket, R.I., was fishing on a boat with a friend when a storm hit around 3 p.m.

The men tried to wait out the storm in a cove, but officials say Pimental was struck by lightning while sitting on an elevated seat in the boat. His friend was not harmed.

Archbishop visits burned-out parish

WEYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) – A Roman Catholic parish that lost its 134-year-old church in a devastating fire last week received encouragement from Boston Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley on Sunday.

O’Malley celebrated Mass and performed a baptism in the school auditorium of Sacred Heart School, which was spared in the fire that destroyed Sacred Heart Church.

Damage from the seven-alarm fire, which started Thursday night, forced officials to demolish the building.

O’Malley also toured the rubble of the church and blessed and kissed the cross that sat atop its steeple.

O’Malley did not say whether or not the Archdiocese of Boston will help rebuild Sacred Heart. The church, in the Weymouth Landing section of the town about 10 miles south of Boston, survived a reconfiguration that is forcing more than 80 parishes to close.

“I have great hope that our God brings good out of evil and out of the suffering, this parish will grow stronger,” O’Malley told reporters

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