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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.
Seen Her? Hudson Valley Woman Has Been Missing For More Than A Week
The family of a missing Hudson Valley woman who hasn't been seen in more than a week is pleading with the public for help finding her.
Nicole Brown, of Orange County, went missing on Wednesday, Nov. 30 in the Monroe/Blooming Grove area, said Domingo Ramos, the founder of Hope Alive, an organization that helps search for missing people.
Brown, age 45, is a traveling nurse who is well-known throughout the area and is well-liked, said Ramos.
Being missing is very unusual for Brown who has children and is married, Ramos said. Her family is desperate to have her home.
Ramos, who was driv…
Pair Of CT Women Charged With Scamming Public Assistance Program
Two Connecticut women have been arrested and charged, in unrelated incidents, with stealing a combined $26,616 from a program financed by the state Department of Social Services.
Hartford County residents Amy Figueroa, age 30, and Tarina Martin, age 32, both of Manchester, were arrested by inspectors from the Chief State's Attorney's Office on separate warrants charging both women with larceny.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Figueroa received $21,691 in benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that she was not entitled to receive from December 2017 to F…
IDs Released For CT Man, Woman Killed After Car Crashes Down Embankment
Connecticut State Police have released the identities of two people killed in a single-vehicle crash.
The crash took place in New Haven County on I-91 in North Haven around 8 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 30 near Exit 12.
Police said a 2011 Hyundai Sonata was traveling northbound on I-91 when it passed the off-ramp and ran off the road to the right.
The car then traveled down an embankment and collided with a tree, causing the car to catch on fire, state police said.
State police said both the driver, identified as Brianna Sabol, age 26, of Milford, and the passenger, Anton Miguel Colon-Duf…
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