
Namu Sampath
Enterprise and Investigative Reporter at The Republican (Springfield, MA)
enterprise reporter @ the springfield republican/@masslivenews - send me tips! [email protected] likes/rts/follows ≠ endorsement • @COMatBU alum
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1 day ago |
yahoo.com | Namu Sampath
CHICOPEE — Dee Fernando, owner of Sri Lankan restaurant Island Spice, said her food truck caught fire Thursday morning while on the way to a catering event. Fernando was emotional as she relayed information to a reporter about what had happened. “My cousin was driving the truck, and I was in the back when it started smoking,” she said, in tears. The food truck, which has been up and running since 2022, is unusable, she said.
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1 day ago |
masslive.com | Namu Sampath
Dee Fernando at work at her restaurant, Island Spice, in Chicopee center. (Douglas Hook / The Republican, Filed)douglas hook
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1 day ago |
masslive.com | Namu Sampath
AMHERST — The Council on American-Islamic Relations and its Massachusetts chapter has named the University of Massachusetts Amherst a “hostile campus,” after its response to pro-Palestinian protests last spring and the year before.
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yahoo.com | Namu Sampath
AMHERST — The Council on American-Islamic Relations and its Massachusetts chapter has named the University of Massachusetts Amherst a “hostile campus,” after its response to pro-Palestinian protests last spring and the year before.
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masslive.com | Namu Sampath
SPRINGFIELD — Springfield police arrested a 53-year-old man who they say pulled a teenage boy into a park Friday evening and sexually assaulted him. After obtaining a warrant for his arrest, detectives with the Springfield Police Department’s special victims unit arrested Ahmed Ahmed Tuesday around 4 p.m. Around 8 p.m. Friday, a man “forcibly dragged” a 17-year-old walking on Hancock Street into Johnny Appleseed Park, police said in a statement.
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