April Mendax is a special assignment reporter. Mendax earned an associate's degree from Greendale Community College while at Bayside High School, and then a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Sunnydale and did overseas work at La Dépêche Républicaine in Châteauvallon, France, before working for the The Quahog Informant, the Daily Bugle and The New York Daily Inquirer. She works on long-form news stories always published on April 1.