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LOWELL — White supremacist ideology was the last thought on Allison Vollmar’s mind when she scanned a QR code off a sticker pasted to a railing along Lowell’s Riverwalk. Later, she found swastikas marked on elevator panels in the Downes Garage in Downtown Lowell.

Robert Swan, an actor familiar from sometimes brief but noticeable roles in Hoosiers, Rudy and The Babe, died of cancer today. He was 78.