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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.
86 People, 10 Families Displaced In Two-Alarm Westchester Apartment Fire
Ten families were displaced, including 48 adults and 38 children, during a two-alarm fire in Westchester County.
The fire started shortly before 7 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 11, at 149 North Boardway, in Yonkers, said Yonkers Fire Department Assistant Chief Thomas F. Fitzpatrick Jr.
Fitzpatrick said firefighters quickly arrived on the scene and found heavy fire on the top floor of a 5-story apartment building, Fitzpatrick said.
Companies quickly stretched hose lines and began suppression efforts, he said.
"There was heavy fire damage on the top floor and water damage throughout," Fitzpatrick sai…
82-Year-Old Woman Robbed Of Purse, Car At Trumbull Mall, Police Say
Trumbull Police are on the hunt for a man who knocked an 82-year-old woman to the ground and then stole her purse and vehicle.
The attack took place around noon, on Saturday, Aug. 10, at the Westfield Trumbull mall as the woman was walking in the parking lot toward JC Penny, said Trumbull Police Lt. Brian Weir.
As she was walking, a man, described as being a Hispanic man in his 20s, allegedly pushed the woman to the ground, stole her purse and then fled in her gray Honda Accord, Weir said.
Witnesses told police they heard a woman screaming for help and a man running away with the vict…
Tomkins Cove Brother, Sister Busted For Fight In Rockland, Police Say
A brother and sister were arrested following a domestic dispute during which the sister allegedly hit another woman and the brother broke a window in a vehicle.
Sean Kelly, 34, and Kristin Kelly, 32, both of Tomkins Cove, were arrested Thursday, Aug. 8, following the dispute by Stony Point Police.
According to police, officers patrolling in Tomkins Cove were alerted to loud yelling and a disturbance on Rosetown Road, Stony Pont Police Lt. Daniel Hylas said.
After stopping, an investigation found that the brother and sister were having a domestic argument when Kristin K…
Teen Killed, Two Injured In I-95 Crash, Police Say
An 18-year-old was killed and two others injured during a crash on I-95 in Fairfield County after the driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle.
Destiny Arriaga, of Bridgeport, died following the crash that took place around 9:20 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 8, when the driver, of the Honda Accord she was a passenger in went down an embankment on I-95 in Stratford, said the Connecticut State Police.
The driver, Gilberto Jose Carpio, of Bridgeport, allegedly hit a metal beam guard rail on the right shoulder, sending the car hurtling down a steep embankment, state police said.
Carpio a…
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