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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.
Cabbie Robbed At Gunpoint, Hit In Head With Weapon In Nanuet, Police Say
Police are asking the public for help identifying two men who allegedly robbed a cabbie at gunpoint and then hit him in the head with the weapon.
The incident took place around 5:20 a.m., Thursday, July 11, on Spring Brook Road in Nanuet, said the Clarkstown Police Department.
According to police, the victim, a 58-year-old taxi driver, reported he picked up two men from Spring Valley and drove them to Spring Brook Road. After the men paid the fare, one of the men allegedly pulled out a "tan" handgun and demanded the cabbie's money, phone, tablet, and car keys, police said.
As the vic…
Fire Destroys Horse Barn, Apartment In Newtown
A Newtown barn and apartment were destroyed after a raging fire burned the structure from end-to-end.
The fire broke out around 5 a.m., Thursday, July 11, when the residents of the barn apartment at the Long Meadow Horse Farm on Meadow Brook Road, heard the "horses making noises," said Newtown Deputy Fire Marshall Steve Murphy.
The barn manager, who lives in the apartment, was able to release the 11 horses inside the barn safely, and arriving Newtown firefighters helped to release the remaining chickens and other animals inside, Murphy said. One cat was reported missing.
When all five New…
Former Northern Westchester Resident Found Dead In Cave Was Murdered, ME Says
The death of a scientist who graduated from high school in Northern Westchester in Greece has been ruled a homicide.
Suzanne Eaton, 59, who graduated from Byram Hills High School in Armonk in 1977, was found dead on Monday, July 8, said her employer, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany.
Eaton, a biologist, had been missing since Tuesday, July 2, when she was attending a conference in Greece.
Her body was found about 200 feet inside a Nazi bunker in Crete, Greece, by two people exploring the area, said the Daily Mail.
Medical examiners said Eaton wa…
Felon Opens Fire At Cops During Stamford Drug Bust, Police Say
A drug bust turned harrowing for Stamford Police Department officers when a man they were attempting to arrest opened fire while sitting in his vehicle, police said.
The incident took place around 3 p.m., Tuesday, July 9, when officers from the Narcotics and Organized Crime Unit were investigating a reported delivery of fentanyl and other drugs to Stamford, said Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin.
After spotting the suspect's car on Seaton Road, the officers were moving in on the vehicle when the driver, Lawrence Lynwood Moore, 30, of Bridgeport, allegedly pulled ou…
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