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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.

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Police & Fire

Five In Custody After Merritt Parkway Stolen Car Chase With Two Crashes Five people were arrested after a car chase that included two crashes and a stolen vehicle. The incident started around 1 a.m. Friday when the Westport Police Department were called to the area of Hills Point Road for the report of a suspicious vehicle. Police discovered a black-colored Audi and determined it was stolen, the vehicle then took off and engaged police was in a pursuit in the town of Westport and got onto the Merritt Parkway northbound at Exit 41, said the Connecticut State Police. The stolen vehicle collided with another vehicle in the area of Exit 42, then co…

by Kathy Reakes

12/07/2018

Police & Fire

Middletown Man Found Guilty Of Assaulting Same Woman Twice A Middletown man was found guilty of assaulting the same woman twice during a jury trial. Eric Gilchrist, 40, of Middletown, was found guilty Thursday on two counts of assault and criminal contempt and for having violated a protective order issued for the woman, the Orange County District Attorney's Office said. During the trial, prosecutors argued that Gilchrist, who had dated and lived with the victim, assaulted her on at least two occasions. One of the assault charges stems from a July incident in which Gilchrist became enraged at the victim, who was with anot…

by Kathy Reakes

12/07/2018

Police & Fire

Man Charged With Violating Protection Order In Westchester A man already in jail on other charges was arrested again for violating a protective order earlier this year. Justin Martinez, 31, of Middletown, was arrested by Yorktown Police on Monday at the Orange County Jail on charges that he violated an order of protection on August 12 in Yorktown, police said. An arrest report says that police responded to a Yorktown home and met with a victim who reported Martinez had contacted them by phone and text, violating the order from Pennsylvania. An investigation found that Martinez had contacted the victim. Following his arrest, bail was set at $…

by Kathy Reakes

12/07/2018

Police & Fire

Woman Faces Attempted Murder, Others Charges After Leaving Baby In Hotel Toilet, Police Say A month after a newborn was found floating in a hotel room toilet in a pool of blood, the baby boy is doing "very well." "It's really the bright side of this story," said Town of Newburgh Police Lt. James Nenni. The story of the baby started around 10 a.m. on Nov. 1, when police received a call from an employee at the Budget Inn on Route 9W who found blood covering the room after entering to clean. Sgt. Ted Brucato and officers Julia Haight and Conner Stenglein raced to the hotel and entered the hotel room. Within seconds of searching for a victim, they found the baby boy floating in the …

by Kathy Reakes

12/06/2018

Police & Fire

Cemetery Manager Arrested For Disturbing Gravesites In Bridgeport Following a months-long investigation, a cemetery operator has been arrested on charges she dug up old graves to use them for new burials. Dale LaPrade, the operator of the Park City Cemetery in Bridgeport, was arrested on a warrant in regards to the disturbance of gravesites, said Terron Jones, spokesman for the Bridgeport Police Department. According to Jones, in September the Bridgeport Police Department Detective Bureau initiated an investigation after allegations were made of criminal conduct occurring at Park City Cemetery, specifically in regards to the disturbance of…

by Kathy Reakes

12/06/2018

Police & Fire

Car, Tractor-Trailer Crash Causes Fuel Leak, Snarls Route 6 Traffic A crash between a car and a tractor-trailer slowed traffic and caused a small fuel leak, but luckily no one was injured. The crash took place around 9 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of Route 6 and Union Valley Road in Mahopac, according to EMS officials. Numerous departments responded to the crash, including Mahopac Fire, EMS and Fire Police along with multiple units from the Carmel Police. After checking the drivers, attention is turned to the vehicles involved in the crash.Jack Casey Arriving units found the vehicles off the main road allowing traffic to proceed at a reduced spee…

by Kathy Reakes

12/06/2018

Police & Fire

Seen Him? Reward Offered For Dog Stolen From SUV At Golden Corral In Poughkeepsie Click here for an updated story: Found! Dog Stolen From Car At Golden Corral In Poughkeepsie Comes Home A local resident is desperate to have her dog back and is offering a reward in hopes that whoever stole the dog out of her car will take the money, no questions asked. Ajax, an all-black Shepherd, with a small white marking on his chest, was stolen between 6:30 and 7:15 p.m. Wednesday out of Beacon resident Jill Steeley's SUV while she was inside the Golden Corral in Poughkeepsie. Very distraught, Steely is offering $3,300 to have Ajax, her best friend since she received him five ye…

by Kathy Reakes

12/06/2018

Police & Fire

Family Loses Four Pets, All Belongings In Massive Suffern House Fire A Suffern family lost everything it owned, including four beloved pets during a massive house fire. The Suffern Fire Department said when they responded to the fire on Wednesday on Washington Avenue, they encountered heavy fires and worked for more than three hours before the fire was out. The department was assisted by numerous neighboring fire departments. The family, Debra McGhee, her brother and her three sons, 15, 22, and 24 years old, lost everything, including four of five family pets only weeks before the holidays, said a GoFundMe effort. The lost pets included a dachshun…

by Kathy Reakes

12/06/2018

News

Free Measles Vaccine Clinic Will Be Held At Palisades Center With 89 confirmed cases of measles in Rockland, the county Health Department will hold a free measles vaccine clinic at the Palisades Center. The clinic will be held Tuesday, Dec. 11, near Bed Bath & Beyond on the first floor in the West Court of the Palisades Center, closest to Parking Lot A from 3 to 6 p.m. The center is one of the locations visited by a person infected with the measles over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. During the clinic, the Health Department will be offering non-immune individuals who are 6 months of age and older one dose of MMR (measles, mumps, rub…

by Kathy Reakes

12/06/2018

Police & Fire

Middletown Duo Admits To Selling Drugs Two area men admitted to selling drugs in connection with their roles in the "Coke Wars" street gang. Traquane Dolson, 22, and Mason Milligan, 19, both of Middletown, pleaded guilty Wednesday. Dec. 5 to criminal sale of a controlled substance and conspiracy, said the Orange County District Attorney's Office. At the time that he pleaded guilty, Dolson admitted that on April 17, he sold cocaine near 148 Linden Ave., in the City of Middletown. Milligan admitted that on August 2, 2017, he sold cocaine in the vicinity of Low Avenue and Smith Street, in Middletown. Both admitted that …

by Kathy Reakes

12/06/2018

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