QUINCY — 500 people attended Maria’s Mission’s 3rd annual Triple Crown Night – a night of fashion, fun and philanthropy that was held to coincide with the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 4 at the Boston Quincy Marriott hotel. The night honors Marisa D. Federico, the former director of national sales at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, who was 35 when she was diagnosed in 2013 with stage IV, triple positive breast cancer. A…

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*UPDATED SOUTH BOSTON — NBC 10 Boston anchor Natasha Verma hosted a fashion show fundraiser on Sept. 10 at Publico restaurant in South Boston to raise money for a foundation she started when she was being treated for cancer last year. Now in remission, Verma, 24, was treated for stage 2 Hodgkin Lymphoma last year and has since returned to work on television channel. Since her treatment, she started the Verma Foundation to make “Cap…

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