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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.
Police Warn Of Kids Illegally Operating Electric Bikes, Scooters, Cycles In Greenwich
Police in one Fairfield County town are warning parents that more kids are driving electric bikes, scooters, and cycles illegally on roadways.
What most don't realize, police say, is that you have to have a valid driver's license to operate the vehicles on roadways under state law, according to the Greenwich Police Department.
And sidewalks are roadways, police say.
The law defines motor-driven cycles as motor scooters, mopeds, or motorbikes with an engine size of fewer than 50 ccs, and a seat height of at least 26 inches, police said.
Mini-motorcycles (pocket bikes) are not motor-d…
Woman Admits To Stealing Nearly $94K Worth of Handbags With Accomplices In Hamptons
A woman pleaded guilty to grand larceny for her part in stealing $94,000 in handbags from a luxury retail store in the Hamptons.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced the guilty plea of Baseemah Davis on Tuesday, Aug. 16, for stealing from the Balenciaga store in East Hampton in March.
“The message here is clear, organized retail theft in Suffolk County will not be tolerated,” said Tierney
In addition to pleading guilty to grand larceny, Davis, age 34, of Newark, New Jersey, also pleaded guilty to criminal possession of stolen property and possessio…
1 Killed, 5 Injured In Head-On Hudson Valley Crash
One person was killed and five injured during a head-on, three-car Hudson Valley crash.
It took place in Orange County around 8:30 p.m., on Monday, Aug. 15 in Woodbury, on Route 6.
An initial investigation of the crash revealed that a 2021 Ford Explorer was traveling east on Route 6 when the driver of the vehicle, later identified as Rockland County resident Chaim Gordon, age 24, from Spring Valley, attempted to pass a Cadillac in front of him and crossed over the double yellow line and entered the opposite lane striking a 2003 Nissan X-Terra head-on, said Trooper Steven Nevel.
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8 NY Members Of Genovese, Bonanno Families Facing Charges, Including PD Detective, Feds Say
Eight New York members of organized crime families, including six from Long Island, are among nine men who have been charged by federal authorities with racketeering and related offenses.
The charging documents were unsealed on Tuesday, Aug. 16 in federal court in Brooklyn, naming the suspects, including a Nassau County police detective, from the Bonanno and Genovese organized crime families, said Breon Peace, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
“Today’s arrests of members from two La Cosa Nostra crime families demonstrate that the Mafia continues to pollut…
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