Find Your Daily Voice
Saturday, may 10
65°
© 2025 Cantata Media
Kathy Reakes
Reporter
kreakes@dailyvoice.com
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.
Long Island Worker Killed When Truck He Was Riding In Backs Over Him, Police Say
A 59-year-old Long Island worker was killed after he fell off the rear of a truck he was riding in before the vehicle backed over him, police said.
Jonathan Kehoe, of Medford, was killed around 9:05 a.m., Wednesday, April 1, on South 4th Street in Lindenhurst, said the Suffolk County Police.
Kehoe was riding on the back of the sanitation truck, collecting garbage for the Village of Lindenhurst when he fell off the vehicle as it was moving in reverse on South 4th Street, police said.
He was then struck by the truck, driven by John Ciero, 37, of Lindenhurst, police said.
Kehoe was transport…
Covid- 19: Popular 'Star Wars' Actor Dies At Age 76
"Star Wars" actor and renowned voice coach Andrew Jack has died of the novel strain of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Jack, 76, was best known for portraying Major Ematt in "Star Wars: Episode VII -- The Force Awakens" and "Star Wars: Episode VIII -- The Last Jedi."
His agent, Jull McCullough, said in a statement, that he died on Tuesday, March 31, at a hospital in Surrey, England, as a result of COVID-19.
“Andrew lived on one of the oldest working houseboats on the Thames, he was fiercely independent but madly in love with his wife, also a dialect coach,” McCullough said.
He was unabl…
Man Barricades Himself Inside Long Island Home, Sets Fire, Police Say
A Long Island man was charged after allegedly barricading all of the doors of his home and then setting it on fire while inside.
Kevin Meyer, 31, of East Rockaway, was charged Monday, March 30, with various crimes following the event that took place around 11:49 a.m. on Elbert Place, said the Nassau County Police.
According to detectives, Meyer, while alone in his home, intentionally set fire to the residence and called 911.
Responding officers attempted to gain entry into the home but found all of the doors had been intentionally barricaded, police said.
When East Rockaway Fire Departme…
65°
