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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.
Man, Woman Drown Off Far Rockaway Coast
A man and woman were found dead on the shoreline of Far Rockaway beach Tuesday, July 9, after another person they were with called the police for help.
The couple, Keylon Ramsay, 28, and Umarie Chamble, 25, both of Inwood, were found around 10:20 p.m., in the area of Beach 9th Street and Seagrild Boulevard, after police responded to a 911 call from the third person, said the NYPD.
Officers removed both from the water unconscious and unresponsive and administered CPR before they were taken to Saint John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, where they were pronounced dead, the NYPD…
Cop Involved In Danbury Shooting Of Knife-Wielding Suspect Shot, Killed Another Man Last Year
A Danbury Police officer who shot and wounded a knife-wielding man last week also shot and killed another man threatening police with a knife last year.
Officer Alex Relyea, was identified Tuesday by Connecticut State Police as the officer who shot Aaron Bouffard, 31, on Wednesday, July 3, as he threatened numerous people with large butcher knives.
Relyea also shot and killed Paul Arbitelle on Dec. 29, 2018, after threatening officers and his mother with a knife, police said.
The shooting incident took place around 8:44 a.m., when Danbury Police Department dispatchers received several 91…
Pickup Truck Crashes Into Building In Holtsville, Injuring Two Employees
A driver of a pickup truck who suffered a medical emergency crashed into the front of East End Stairs and Railing Inc., in Holtsville, injuring two workers.
The incident took place around 9:40 a.m., Tuesday, July 9, at 194 Morris Ave., Holtsville, Suffolk County Police said.
According to police, the driver of a GMC Sierra pickup truck was in the parking lot of East End Stairs and Railing Inc. when they suffered a medical event and the truck veered into the building.
Two employees were injured when a truck slammed into a business.Holtsville Fire Department
The driver, who had to be remo…
Police: Man Wanted For Firing Multiple Gunshots Into Home Occupied By Children Found At Motel
A man who allegedly fired multiple shots into a Bridgeport home that was occupied by several children, one as young as 7 years old, was nabbed by police at a motel.
Randy Torres, 25, of Bridgeport, was arrested at the Motel 6 in Milford around 11:15 a.m., Monday, July 8, by members of the Bridgeport Police Detective Bureau's General Investigations Unit, Fugitive Task Force, Robbery/Burglary Unit, as well as the United States Marshals Service and Connecticut State Parole, said Terron Jones, spokesman for the Bridgeport Police Department.
Torres was responsible for allegedly firing multiple g…
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