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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.
3 Teens, 1 Armed, Charged In Hudson Valley Burglary
Police captured three Hudson Valley teens for an alleged burglary in progress, one with a loaded gun.
The incident occurred in Dutchess County in the Tompkins Terrace area on Wednesday, April 3, in Beacon.
According to the Beacon Police, officers responded to the area and found the suspects had fled, but they were able to obtain a description of the teens.
A quick search of the area turned up the suspects, where police found a 15-year-old had a loaded, illegal weapon, the department said.
The three arrested, a 16 and 17-year-old, were charged with criminal trespass. The 15-year-old w…
CT Man Charged With Killing Motorist In Hit-Run Crash
Almost a year after a hit-and-run driver killed a Connecticut motorist, the man allegedly responsible for the crime has been charged.
Dajon Marques Morris, age 20, of New Haven, was arrested on Tuesday, April 2, for the Wednesday, June 7, 2023, crime that killed a 42-year-old New Haven man.
On the day of the crash, Officer Christian Bruckhartd of the New Haven Police said officers responded to the intersection of Haven Street and Clay Street on the report of a car striking a motorcycle.
The car involved in the crash was described as a green-colored Honda Accord that fled the scene im…
'Pictures Began Shaking On Walls': CT Residents Share Earthquake Reactions
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake on the Richter scale centered in New Jersey could be felt all over Connecticut, according to officials and residents.
See related: 4.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hits New York, Connecticut, Northeast
According to the US Geological Survey, the quake, which occurred at 10:23 a.m. on Friday, April 5, was centered in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in the borough of Lebanon, about 60 miles west of midtown Manhattan.
Fairfield County resident Ashley Garrison, of Easton, said her pictures began shaking on her walls, and she ran outside, where the ground was shakin…