Kathleen E. Carey, 37, has been a reporter for the Delaware County Daily Times since May 1998. She has covered a myriad of beats from Delaware County government and politics to education to the arts. She has been the Daily Times business writer since April 2007.She graduated from New York University in 1992 as a Trustee Scholar with a Bachelor of Arts degree in print journalism. While there, she was an intern in the New York City office of Newsday, where she counted among her interviews retired U.S. Army Four Star General Norman H. Schwarzkopf, who commanded coalition forces during the 1991 Gulf War.Prior to joining the Daily Times, Carey was a reporter for the Quakertown Free Press and the Lansdale Reporter. She was one of the few journalists selected to witness the Aug. 17, 1995 execution of Leon Moser, who shot his estranged wife and two children to death outside a church in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County on Palm Sunday 1985.She has covered three United States Presidents, including the 2001 inauguration of George W. Bush and the inaugural ball at Union Station. She also covered the 2000 Republican National Convention and its accompanying protests in Philadelphia.Carey has been the recipient of several regional, state and national awards from the Associated Press Managing Editors, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association.In 2005, she was part of a team that won first place for Best Young People's Coverage from the Suburban Newspapers of American for their work on the special section, "Bullying: Kids at Risk."In addition, Carey was named 2008 Eastern Pennsylvania Small Business Journalist of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.She lives in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby with her husband, Daily Times Online Editor Vince Carey, their three children and their two Pugs.This is her first trip to Iraq.