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My career in news has literally taken me across my home state of Texas and into Arkansas. I graduated college from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism and it was in Lubbock where I got my first job at KAMC, the ABC affiliate. I started as a 5:00 producer and reporter and then later became a full time reporter and fill-in anchor.
After nearly two years in Lubbock, I spent the next two years in Waco, Texas working for the ABC affiliate, KXXV, as a reporter and fill-in anchor. It is there where I met my husband Michael who was the Chief photographer at the station. My next move brought me to East Texas in Longview where I worked for three years as a weekend anchor and Longview Bureau Chief at KETK.
Then in 2004, I joined the KTBS news team to work in the Texarkana newsroom. We cover Bowie, Cass, Red River, Titus, Morris and Camp counties in Texas, plus McCurtain County in Oklahoma and Miller, Little River, Sevier, Howard, Hempstead, Lafayette, Columbia and Nevada counties in Arkansas. The KTBS Texarkana newsroom is the only newsroom in the Ark-La-Tex to bring Texarkana viewers their very own newscast with news from the Texarkana area.
Covering news has given me the opportunity to meet so many people and be a part of stories such as the Texas A&M bonfire collapse, the Branch Davidian lawsuit against the government, the Ft. Worth tornado, the Space Shuttle Columbia explosion, the Fourth Infantry Division leaving from Ft. Hood headed for Iraq and President George W. Bush's many visits to Crawford, Texas. | 