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Nicole Acosta

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nacosta@dailyvoice.com

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Nicole is a 4-time New York Press Association award-winning writer from The Bronx, New York. She graduated in 2019, with a bachelor's degree in Media Studies and Journalism from Mercy College.

Her passion for community storytelling blossomed during her time as the Managing Editor of her college publication, The Impact, where she covered local news in Westchester County. She’s experienced in all verticals of media. She loves to create engaging and unique content whether it’s through social media, copywriting, digital marketing, or public relations projects.

Nicole was a reporter at Daily Voice and covered Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania.

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News

Winner: Pennsylvania Lottery Ticket Good For $100K Sold In Lehigh County A Pennsylvania lottery ticket worth $100,000 was sold in Lehigh County. A Powerball with Power Play ticket for the Saturday, Aug. 28 drawing was sold at Top Star Express on Tilghman Street in Allentown. The ticket matched four of the five white balls drawn, 12-22-26-46-59, and the red Powerball 26 to win $100,000. The retailer will receive a $500 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

by Nicole Acosta

08/30/2021

Obituaries

Council Rock HS Grad, Bucks County Native Raymond Kruzick Dies, 31 Bucks County native Raymond D. Kruzick died on Aug. 13 at the age of 31. The Newtown resident was a 2009 graduate of Council Rock High School, according to his obituary. Kruzick was remembered for his "charismatic personality, belly laughter, and kind heart, always caring for those around him." He loved surfing, skateboarding, wakeboarding, dirt bike riding, cliff jumping, his obit says. He was predeceased by the late Daniel J. Mabin, and the late Raymond and Angeline Kruzick. He is survived by his mother Kathleen McKamey (Mabin) step-father Schaunn McKamey of Warminster, Pa., his f…

by Nicole Acosta

08/26/2021

Police & Fire

Family Affair: Philly Man Admits Attempted Armed Bucks County Bank Robbery With Sons A Philadelphia man admitted to an attempted armed bank robbery in Bucks County in which his two sons were his accomplices, authorities said. In Jan. 2018, Ronald DeWitt Vines, 47, was charged by Indictment for attempting to commit armed robbery of the PNC Bank branch on Buck Road in Holland in late 2017, according to Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams. On the day of the incident, Vines placed a handgun against the side of a bank employee’s head, forcing her to open the bank door as she arrived for work that morning, and then forcing her inside the bank, auth…

by Nicole Acosta

08/26/2021

Police & Fire

Berks Drivers Attack Each Other With Tire Iron, Screwdriver In Road Rage Fight, Police Say Two Berks County drivers were slapped with multiple charges after they attacked each other with tools during a road rage fight, authorities said. Federico Quiroz-Corona, 58, is accused of first attacking Antonio Hayden, 33, with a screwdriver and then hitting him on the head with a tire iron at the intersection of Berkshire Boulevard and Ridgewood Road on July 17, according to Wyomissing police. Hayden then hit Quiroz-Corona with a tire iron. Details surrounding the incident were not immediately known. Both men were charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, harassment, di…

by Nicole Acosta

08/26/2021

Police & Fire

State Police: ChesCo Man Exposes Himself, Masturbates Inside DelCo Wegmans Store A 22-year-old Chester County man was arrested on multiple charges for exposing himself and masturbating inside a Delaware County grocery store, authorities said. Shoppers and video surveillance confirmed that Thomas Worth, of Birmingham Township, "exposed his genitals and masturbated" inside the Wegmans store on Applied Bank Boulevard in Concord Township around 5 p.m. on Aug. 21, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Worth was taken into custody on Thursday and subsequently charged with stalking, indecent exposure, open lewdness, and related charges. PA State Police are urging any other …

by Nicole Acosta

08/26/2021

Obituaries

Bucks County Native Patrick Galloway Dies At 36 After 'Courageous' Battle With Cancer Bucks County native Patrick R. Galloway died on Aug. 23 at the age of 36 after a courageous 10-month battle with cancer. Galloway was a 2003 graduate of Conwell-Egan Catholic High School in Fairless Hills and later attended The American University in Washington, D.C., according to his obituary. The Levittown resident's obit remembered him as an intelligent, passionate person. He was father to Declan, 5, and Raegan, 2, his obit says. He is survived by his partner Taylor, his parents George and Cathy, his brother Connor and sister-in-law Sheri, his sister Mary Kate, his…

by Nicole Acosta

08/26/2021

Police & Fire

Berks County Man, Dog Fatally Struck By Hit-Run Drivers Police are investigating after a truck and two other vehicles ran over a Berks County man and his dog early Thursday morning, authorities said. A 68-year-old Robesonia man and his dog were crossing Penn Avenue from north to south when he tripped and fell in the crosswalk sometime around 4:40 a.m., according to a witness and footage obtained by the South Heidelberg Police Department. Video shows the man attempting to stand up, with his dog still attached to a leash. The man was then struck by a vehicle that was described as a straight body refrigerator box truck with a white cab and adv…

by Nicole Acosta

08/26/2021

Police & Fire

1 Dead In Prospect Park House Fire One person died in a Thursday morning house fire in Delaware County, authorities said. Fire crews responding to a home in the 100 block of Madison Avenue in Prospect Park just after midnight were advised of possible entrapment inside the home, officials said. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the flames shortly after arrival. A woman found on the first floor of the home was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Prospect Park Fire Company and CBS3. A dog also died in the fire, authorities told CBS3. Early this morning at Approx 0015 hours station 8 along with other de…

by Nicole Acosta

08/26/2021

Police & Fire

West Chester Standoff Ends In Arrest Of Man Accused Of Threatening Woman With Gun An early morning police standoff in West Chester ended Thursday with the arrest of a man accused of threatening a woman with a gun, authorities said. Officers responding to a home in the 100 block of East Gay Street around 5:30 a.m. on a report of a domestic disturbance found a woman who said that the father of her children, Roberto Quiles-Sanchez, entered her apartment and threatened her with a gun, West Chester police said. Officers were unable to contact Quiles-Sanchez. They subsequently evacuated the property and issued a shelter-in-place order for the surrounding area. The West Cheste…

by Nicole Acosta

08/26/2021

Police & Fire

Berks County Woman Dies After Slipping, Falling Under Moving Vehicle In Lehigh County A Berks County woman was killed in a car accident Wednesday in Lehigh County, authorities said. Cathy Lutterschmidt, 60, of Kutztown, died after slipping and falling under a moving vehicle at a property on Kern Street in Weisenberg Township around 7:40 p.m., according to the Lehigh County Coroner's Office. Lutteschmidt was pronounced dead by Deputy Coroner Rachel Tallarico at 8:55 p.m. that night, the coroner's office said. The cause of death is blunt force injury to the neck. The manner of death is accident. In addition to the Lehigh County Coroner's Office, this death is …

by Nicole Acosta

08/26/2021

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