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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.
CT Man Follows Suspected Car Thieves, Gets Shot At, Police Say
Police are warning residents not to follow suspected car thieves after a man was shot at in Connecticut.
The incident took place in New Haven County around 1:40 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 5, when a Cheshire man reported he observed suspects in his neighborhood breaking into a car, said Cheshire Police.
Shortly after, while driving around looking for the men, the victim located the suspect's vehicle traveling north on Maple Avenue.
The victim continued following and eventually pulled up next to their vehicle and verbally confronted them, police said.
As the vehicle pulled away from the victim, o…
$50,000 Reward Being Offered In Fairfield County Double Homicide Case
Connecticut officials are offering a $50,000 reward in the 2011 double homicide in Fairfield County that left a man and woman in their 20s dead.
On Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, the Norwalk Police Department responded to the incident that occurred on Avenue B in Norwalk.
Rickita Smalls, age 22, and Iroquois Alston, age 27, both of Bridgeport, were found dead in a small dark car awkwardly parked on Avenue B, said Norwalk Police Lt. Terrence Blake.
Smalls, a 2007 graduate of Bassick High School worked in the bakery at Stop & Shop in Westport, and Alston, 27, who had attended Westhill High Scho…
Music Teacher Arrested In Westchester County For Having Students Pose In High Heels, Police Say
Police have arrested a music teacher for allegedly having young students dress up in high heels as he photographed them.
The arrest of Putnam County resident Stanley Indig, age 67, of Brewster, took place in Westchester County in Greenburgh after Greenburgh Police received a call from a resident on Tuesday, July 20 reporting the alleged misconduct, said Sgt. William Lugo.
According to Lugo, the caller he hired Indig to give private, in-home lessons to his daughters. It was alleged that the teacher, during the course of the lessons, would have the children wear and pose in wom…
CT Woman Killed On I-84 Penned Chilling Final Facebook Post
A Connecticut woman who was hit and killed while standing in the middle of I-84 left a chilling final Facebook post just a few days before her death.
According to police, Hartford County resident Melisa Doyle, age 33, of Manchester, was standing in the eastbound traffic lane when a 2009 Ford Focus SE struck and killed her around midnight on Tuesday, Aug. 3, near Exit 48B, the Capitol Avenue exit in Hartford.
Three days earlier, on Saturday, July 31, Doyle had posted to Facebook that she was going to walk by the water and hoped she didn't kill herself.
After hearing of her death, frien…
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