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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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News

Man Sentenced For Fatal Morphine-Impaired Route 22 Crash A 45-year-old Dutchess County man who was impaired by morphine when he crashed into another vehicle in 2015, killing a Kent woman, has been sentenced to one to three years in prison. Christopher Osborne Jr., 45, of Pawling, pleaded guilty in January to aggravated vehicular homicide for causing the crash that killed 63-year-old Jean Riccobon. Putnam County District Attorney Robert Tendy said the plea was with the consent and support of Mario Riccobon, the spouse of Jean Riccobon. " In sentencing the defendant, the Court acknowledged the compassion of the decedent’s surviving spouse,&q…

by Kathy Reakes

04/26/2018

Schools

50 Students Sickened At Upstate New York College Officials at an upstate college have confirmed that almost 50 students have come down with the norovirus on campus in the latest outbreak in the area. Hamilton College said in a statement Wednesday that an increased number of students were experiencing intestinal sickness and that the college had sent samples to a laboratory for testing, which confirmed norovirus. The news of the illness comes on the heels of another college, Western Connecticut State University, in Danbury, closing its doors on Monday when more than 100 students came down with the norovirus. WestConn reopened on Tuesday a…

by Kathy Reakes

04/26/2018

News

New Underage Drinking Bust Nets Another 100-Plus In Area The number of underage drinking busts are growing as area police continue to crack down on nightclubs and stores that sell to college students and other underage patrons. The first bust took place at Johnny Utah’s in Norwalk where police found more than 100 underage patrons, most Fairfield University students, followed by a bust on April 20 by Hamden police were another 100 underage people were found drinking at The Clubhouse on Whitney, according to Hamden Police Capt. Ronald Smith. Smith said the underage drinkers were nabbed when members of the Hamden Police Department Street Interdictio…

by Kathy Reakes

04/26/2018

News

Driver Whose Car Slammed Into Westchester House Was Drunk, Police Say The 29-year-old driver who slammed into a Westchester home on Wednesday was driving drunk, according to Irvington Police. Sonia M. Minchala-Juanacio of Danbury was charged with drunk driving, refusal to take a breath test, driving without a license, failure to stop at a stop sign, and failure to maintain a lane, said Irvington PD Det. Kevin Johnson. The crash took place around 3:20 p.m. Wednesday when Minchala-Juanacio, driving a 2013 Nissan Rouge, drove through a steel guardrail and slammed into a home at 3 Riverview Road near Circle Drive in Irvington, Johnson said. Minchala-Juanacio, al…

by Kathy Reakes

04/26/2018

Police & Fire

Police Nab Man For Attacking Store Employee, Stealing Goods In Greenwich Police nabbed a man who they said had ripped off more than $1,500 worth of goods from Sephora in Greenwich and then attacked one of the employees to get away. Dakari Smith, 20, of Brooklyn, was picked up Wednesday on a warrant in Queens Court for the robbery which took place in July 2017 at the beauty services store on Greenwich Avenue, said Lt. John Slusarz. During the robbery, Smith and two others entered the store with shopping bags and began filling them up with merchandise before being stopped by an employee, Slusarz said. Smith and the others then pushed the employee and grabbed her…

by Kathy Reakes

04/26/2018

Police & Fire

Bridgeport Transgender Woman Shot In Face, Arm A local transgender woman shot in the face and arm is in serious, but stable condition, Bridgeport Police said. The shooting took place around 2 p.m. Wednesday on Park Street, when the woman was targeted by a man she knows, said Av Harris, spokesman for the Bridgeport Police. Officers found the woman, who was unable to speak due to a broken jaw from a bullet, on the 200 block of Park Street, Harris said. “Look like victim was targeted by suspect,” he said. “She knows him.” The woman is being treated at a local hospital. An investigation into the shooting is ongoing, Harris added. This …

by Kathy Reakes

04/25/2018

Police & Fire

Police: Teen With Loaded Gun Refused To Put Hands Up To Stamford Officers Stamford police said a local teen put residents and himself in danger when he ran from officers with a loaded handgun and then refused to raise his hands when ordered. The unidentified 16-year-old, who police said is a chronic offender with numerous arrests, lead officers on a chase with a loaded semi-automatic pistol on Tuesday after officers attempted to stop him, said Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin. Conklin said members of the Narcotics and Organized Crime squad received information that two boys were carrying a gun on Lawn Avenue. When squad members and uniformed officers spotte…

by Kathy Reakes

04/25/2018

News

Person Hospitalized After Car Slams Into House In Westchester A vehicle slammed into a home in Westchester, sending at least one person to the hospital. The incident took place around 3:20 p.m. Wednesday when a vehicle drove into a home at 3 Riverview Road near the intersection of Circle Drive in Irvington, said Irvington Police Det. Kevin Johnson. Johnson said he did not have many details as the investigation had just begun, but did say an arrest may be pending. Building department officials were on scene to see if the home was structurally sound. This is a developing story. Check back to Daily Voice for updates.

by Kathy Reakes

04/25/2018

Police & Fire

Suicidal Man Holding Onto Walkway Over Hudson Railing Pulled To Safety In a dramatic rescue, a distraught man who had climbed over the Walkway Over the Hudson and was dangling over the water clinging to a railing was pulled to safety by City of Poughkeepsie police, and a firefighter. The incident unfolded around 3:40 p.m. Tuesday when City 911 received a call reporting a suicidal male on the walkway, at approximately mid-span, said City of Poughkeepsie Police Det. Lt. Matt Clark. A check of the walkway camera’s confirmed a man had climbed over the railing on the south side of the walkway, he said. A park employee and several officers began talking to the man…

by Kathy Reakes

04/25/2018

Schools

WestConn Reopens Amid Norovirus, Boil Water Notice Western Connecticut State University has reopened after officials closed the school Monday in the wake of more than 100 students sickened with a flu-like illness that has since been identified as the norovirus, according to university officials.Students returned to campus on Tuesday to find a water main break in Danbury had caused brown water and low water pressure at the school, but classes are still being held, said Paul Steinmetz, director, University Relations & Community Relations. Steinmetz said the news the illness was a norovirus was actually good news because it is not transmitt…

by Kathy Reakes

04/25/2018

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