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Woman Found On Park Bench Remembered As 'Ultimate Boston Girl' Woman Found On Park Bench Remembered As 'Ultimate Boston Girl'
Woman Found On Park Bench Remembered As 'Ultimate Boston Girl' A Boston hospitality professional died unexpectedly, leaving behind a bereft network of friends, family members, co-workers, and pets.  Melanie Ann DiVasta was found deceased by police officers around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4 near Atlantic Avenue and Cross Street, the Boston Police Department told DailyVoice. She was found lying on a park bench in Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, according to MassLive.  DiVasta, who passed away at age 47, combined her skills in the fields of software and hospitality in her job as a program manager for MGM Grand which she began last …

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by Morgan Gonzales
Lifestyle
Boston Ranks As One Of Nation's 'Rudest' Cities: Survey Boston Ranks As One Of Nation's 'Rudest' Cities: Survey
Boston Ranks As One Of Nation's 'Rudest' Cities: Survey They don't call them Massholes for nothing. A recent survey ranked Boston as one of the rudest communities in the country, with Beantown scoring in the top 5 behind some famously surly cities. The language e-learning site Preply questioned more than 1,500 people across the country to determine what city would earn the crankiest crown. Surveyors asked participants to rate cities based on a series of behaviors that most would consider rude, such as having your eyes glued to your phone, being noisy in a shared space, and refusing to let other drivers merge into traffic.  Ph…

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by Josh Lanier
News
Woman Says She Nearly Died After Picking Up Dollar Bill She Suspects Was Laced With Fentanyl Woman Says She Nearly Died After Picking Up Dollar Bill She Suspects Was Laced With Fentanyl
Woman Says She Nearly Died After Picking Up Dollar Bill She Suspects Was Laced With Fentanyl A woman tells a harrowing story of how she had to be hospitalized after picking up a dollar bill she found on a bathroom floor that she later said was laced with drugs. The incident took place in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday, July 10 when the woman, identified as Renee Parsons, a resident of Kentucky, said on Facebook that she, her husband, and child stopped at a McDonald's to use the bathroom when she picked up the dollar off the floor and put it in her pocket while holding her baby. “I see a dollar bill on the ground," Parsons wrote on Facebook and told WKRN ABC News 2 in Nashville. "…

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by Kathy Reakes