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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 Nabbed For CT Batting Cages Robbery
Police have arrested a Connecticut man in connection with a robbery at the Batter up Batting Cages in Hartford County last year.
New Haven County resident Jared Cardillo, 45, of Waterbury, was arrested on a warrant in Hartford County on Wednesday, Dec. 16, by the Southington Police Department.
According to police, on August 26, 2019, officers were dispatched to Batter Up Batting Cages, at 2060 West St. Southington, for an activated security alarm.
The business owner reported arriving on the scene and discovered forced entry through a bathroom door.
Upon entering officers…
Missing Long Island Girl Found
Update:
A Long Island teenager who went missing has been found.
Ariana Urias, 13, was last seen on Tuesday, Dec. 29 at 12:15 a.m. at her residence, located in Wyandanch, Suffolk County Police said.
Early Tuesday evening, police announced that she has been "located, unharmed."
Original report:
Police have issued a Silver Alert for a missing Long Island teenager.
Ariana Urias was last seen on Tuesday, Dec. 29 at 12:15 a.m. at her residence, located in Wyandanch, Suffolk County Police said.
Urias, 13, is 5-foot-1, 90 pounds with blue hair, brown eyes, and braces on h…
Two Nabbed In Assault, Theft Of High-End Collectible Sneakers Worth $4K In Westchester
Two Westchester men have been arrested for allegedly attacking and stealing a pair of high-end, collectible sneakers valued at $4,000 from a man who met to sell them the shoes.
The incident took place on Monday, Dec. 21, around 9 p.m., when the Hastings-on-Hudson Police Department received a 911 call from a resident of Brooklyn, reporting he was in the parking lot of The Andrus Home completing an arranged meeting with two other individuals regarding the sale of high-end collectible sneakers, valued at $4,000, said Chief David Dosin.
When the victim presented the sneakers to t…