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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.
Tow Truck Driver Killed In Merritt Parkway Crash
A tow truck driver from an area company that has served Fairfield County for years, was hit and killed in a freak crash on the Merritt Parkway.
Corey John Iodice, 58, Seffner, Florida, was killed around 4:45 p.m., Wednesday, April 22, on the Parkway in the Trumbull area near Exit 47, said the Connecticut State Police.
According to police, the crash took place when Iodice, who was driving an Iodice Family Transport tow truck out of Fairfield, was attempting to load the disabled vehicle of a 25-year-old Bridgeport man.
While loading, a friend arrived to pick up the stranded man and was parke…
Covid- 19: Beloved Hudson Valley Family Loses Mother, Father, Daughter To Virus
A Rockland family that is well-known and loved throughout the community for its work to help others has lost three family members in a matter of days to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Charles Bullock Jr., 80, the first African-American fire chief in the county at the Central Nyack Fire Department, and a former star athlete at Tappan Zee High School, died on Monday, April 20, from complications from COVID-19.
His wife Lois Bullock, 80, who worked for the Nyack School District for some 23 years, had died on Friday, April 3, also from COVID-19.
The couple's daughter, Chanda Lori Bullock-O…
Long Island Man Who Worked As Security Guard Charged With Strangling Wife To Death
A Long Island man has been charged in the alleged murder of his wife earlier this year in Merrick.
John Gerges, of Merrick, was arraigned on Wednesday, April 22, with felony second-degree murder and violent felony strangulation, for the murder of his wife on Saturday, Feb. 22, said Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas.
According to Singas, Gerges allegedly strangled his wife, 58-year-old Marvat Gerges, during the early morning hours inside their Merrick home following a 3 a.m. verbal altercation over the bathroom sink.
Marvat Gerges, who was homebound by severe arthritis, …
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