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A former morning WBZ-TV news anchor who left the Boston television station abruptly last summer has filed a lawsuit against the station claiming she was unfairly discriminated against for being white.

Longtime broadcast journalist Kate Merrill filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Boston against the station, network, parent company Paramount and two former morning news colleagues. She is represented in the lawsuit by Freiberger & Washienko LLC of Boston.

Merrill’s claim seeks unspecified damages for unlawful discrimination on the basis of gender, failure to adequately investigate her claims of discrimination, defamation, contract interference and failure to pay wages on a timely basis.

Merrill, in her complaint filed Aug. 5, says she

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