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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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Two Sections Of 9W Closed Due To Downed Trees, Poles As the severe weather continues to intensify, downed trees and utility poles have closed two sections of Route 9W Friday in Rockland County. Stony Point Police Department advised that Route 9W from Main Street to Hastings Lane continues to be closed due to multiple utility poles down. Route 9W southbound is also closed in Orangetown due to a downed tree, police said. Both northbound and southbound lanes were closed early Friday as the tree blocked both lanes of travel south of I-87 in Orangetown, Orangetown Police said. Police did not have a time estimate of when the roads will reopen. …

by Kathy Reakes

03/02/2018

News

Attempted Shoplifter Sought In Riverside Greenwich police are on the lookout for a man who attempted to steal dozens of items from a local drug store. The event happened around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at the CVS on East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich Police said. Officers responding to the store said employees reported a black male, with at least one gold tooth, wearing red and black shoes and a "bubble-type" coat, dropped the merchandise on the floor when he was confronted by a store employee. Anyone with information is asked to call the Greenwich Police at 203-622-8000.

by Kathy Reakes

03/02/2018

Traffic

Two Sections Of 9W Closed Due To Downed Trees, Poles This story has been updated. As the severe weather continues to intensify, downed trees and utility poles have closed two sections of Route 9W Friday in Rockland County. Stony Point Police Department advised that Route 9W from Main Street to Hastings Lane continues to be closed due to multiple utility poles down. Route 9W southbound is also closed in Orangetown due to a downed tree, police said. Both northbound and southbound lanes were closed early Friday as the tree blocked both lanes of travel south of I-87 in Orangetown, Orangetown Police said. Police did not have a time estimate of …

by Kathy Reakes

03/02/2018

Traffic

Numerous Incidents Reported On Slick Area Roadways This story has been updated. Numerous accidents are being reported Friday morning amid the slick road conditions as a result of the Nor'easter. A stretch of the Taconic State Parkway was closed both ways between Bryant Pond Road and I-84 due to a large downed tree and multiple accidents until about 10 a.m., with traffic backed up to the Westchester/Putnam border. Separate crashes have been reported on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Northern Westchester. A crash involving an overturned vehicle is blocking the left lane southbound at Route 117 (Exit 43) at 9:30 a.m. Just a bit farther south…

by Daily Voice

03/02/2018

Police & Fire

Putnam Sheriff Names New Patrol Captain Putnam County Sheriff Robert L. Langley, Jr. has appointed Harry J. Tompkins as the new Captain of Patrol for the department. Tompkins has served in law enforcement with the New York City Housing Police Department, the Town of Putnam Valley Police Department, the Village of Larchmont Police Department and the Westchester County Police Department. His 28-year career in law enforcement ranges from highway patrol and the motorcycle unit to detective of general investigations. As a detective, Tompkins was assigned to work with the NYC DEA and went on to oversee the Northern Westchester Narc…

by Kathy Reakes

03/02/2018

Police & Fire

Two Students Charged In Threats To Hudson Valley Schools Two students were arrested in unrelated incidents for threatening area schools in the Pine Plains and BOCES school districts, according to the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office. The first incident took place around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when deputies responded to the BOCES Tech Center in the Town of Hyde Park for a report of someone making threats of “shooting up the school” via Snapchat, said Capt. John Watterson. After an investigation Magtalia Freeman, 17, was taken into custody and charged with making the threat, Watterson said. Freeman, a Pawling High School student who attends BOCES, …

by Kathy Reakes

03/01/2018

Police & Fire

Man Charged With Repeatedly Raping Girl In Fairfield County A Fairfield County man was charged Wednesday with repeatedly raping a girl from the time she was 6 years old until she was a young woman, according to Bridgeport Police. Orane Cole, 42, of 3412 Main St., of Bridgeport, was arrested Feb. 22 on a warrant constructed by Det. Walberto Cotto, said Av Harris, spokesman for the Bridgeport Police Department. According to the warrant, Cole was charged with aggravated first-degree sexual assault, first-degree unlawful restraint, and threatening. An extensive investigation involving detectives from two states, found he sexually assaulted the young wo…

by Kathy Reakes

03/01/2018

News

Coyote Attacks People, Kills Dog In Westchester Updated reports: One Dangerous Coyote At Large, Another Killed In Southern Westchester Coyote Ugly: New Westchester Attack Reported Drones Being Used To Track Coyote That Bit People, Killed Dog In Hastings Earlier report: Police are warning residents to be on the alert for a wandering coyote who may be rabid in Hastings-on-Hudson. The warning comes after three people were bitten and a dog was killed on Wednesday in the Village of Hastings, said Lt. David Dosin. The events unfolded around 3:50 p.m. Wednesday when the department received a call from a resident who reported being involved…

by Kathy Reakes

03/01/2018

Police & Fire

Stamford Man Nabbed In Bar Fight Wanted For Vehicular Manslaughter A Stamford man who was wanted by the Connecticut State Police for vehicular manslaughter was nabbed by local police following a bar fight. Ever Orlando-Reyes, 35, of Stillwater Avenue, was first arrested by Stamford Police on Monday for whipping a man with his belt during a bar fight, said Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin. Following the fight, in front of Reye’s Bar at 99 Stillwater Ave., Orlando-Reyes tried to run from police but was captured, police said. Following his arrest for assault, officers ran a background check and discovered that Orlando-Reyes was wanted on a warrant for t…

by Kathy Reakes

03/01/2018

News

Middletown Man Sentenced For Beating Death Of Man By Train Tracks A Middletown man who pleaded guilty to beating to death a man has been sentenced to two and one-half to seven years in state prison, according to Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler. Primitivo Sosa, 28, was sentenced by Orange County Court Judge Robert H. Freehill in connection with the beating death of a man near the train tracks in downtown Middletown on Sept. 3, 2017. Sosa admitted that at about 6:30 a.m., he was at the railroad right-of-way in the vicinity of Low Avenue and that he beat the 31-year-old man that he knew who had serious medical issues multiple times in the he…

by Kathy Reakes

03/01/2018

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