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Kathy Reakes
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Kathy Reaks has worked as a reporter in the local news business since 1984, starting as a news clerk and working her way up. She spent 17 years at Florida Today in Melbourne, Florida as a general assignment reporter, crime reporter, entertainment reporter and restaurant critic. She worked four years at Hometown News as a general assignment reporter, then another two years at Spacecoast Daily in Cocoa Beach, Florida. She attended Eastern Florida State College in Melbourne, Florida.
'I Know This Much Is True': Here's New Premiere Day For HBO Series Produced In Area
Once planned to premiere in April, a much-anticipated HBO series filmed in the Hudson Valley staring Mark Ruffalo has been moved back a couple of weeks.
According to HBO, the series' first episode of, "I Know This Much Is True" will premiere on HBO at 9 p.m., Sunday, May 10.
Based on the book by author Wally Lamb, the series tells the story of identical twins, played by Ruffalo, and follows the trials, betrayals, and ultimately, the forgiveness, in their lives.
Much of the filming was done in the Hudson Valley, mainly Dutchess County, specifically in a Mount Carmel neighborhood in Poughke…
Missing Hudson Valley Woman, Fiancée Found Dead Inside Wrecked Car, Police Say
Police have found a vehicle with the bodies inside of a Hudson Valley woman and her fiancée who have been missing since April.
Stephanie Mayorga, 27, a Dutchess County native, and her fiancée, 25-year-old Paige Escalera, of Wilmington, South Carolina, were discovered in the vehicle crashed deep in a wooded area on Monday, May 4, said the Wilmington Police.
Mayorga, of Beacon, moved to Wilmington in March to be with Escalera. The Daily News, reported the two moved into an apartment together and had only lived there about a week before they went missing.
Police said at the time they wer…
Out Of State Man Nabbed For Attacking Person With Wrench, Fleeing Officers, Police Say
A 36-year-old out-of-state man was nabbed by police after allegedly attacking an area man with a wrench after entering his property.
The incident took place around 4:17 p.m., Tuesday, May 5, in Ulster County after police responded to a home on Route 9 in Saugerties for a report of a fight in progress.
When officers arrived on the scene the victim told them a man, later identified as Denis A. Shelagin of Spokane Valley, Washington, had entered his property, assaulted him with a wrench, and then fled the scene, Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra said.
A Saugerties Police K-9&nb…
Police Searching For Westchester Gas Station Armed Robber
Police are searching for a man who allegedly robbed a Westchester gas station at gunpoint and then fled with cash.
The incident took place around 12:45 a.m., Thursday, May 7, at the Mobil gas station located at 381 Knollwood Road in Greenburgh, said Greenburgh Police Lt. Kobie Powell.
The suspect displayed a handgun and demanded money from the register and safe, Powell said.
He then fled on foot, with the proceeds, east onto Tarrytown Road.
The suspect was described as being a black male wearing a dark sweatshirt, dark pants, white face mask, and gloves.
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