March 2008 Archives
7:55 AM Mon, Mar 31, 2008 | Permalink
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13 News Anchor Lasalle Blanks is enjoying a little vacation time, so I've been anchoring 13 News Daybreak in his absence.
This morning, Janet Roach and I were telling you about a car that had broken down near the runway tunnel, and one lane of the interstate was now blocked.
Well when we look a live picture from the scene you could see where someone had placed flares signaling that the lane was closed, at least t...
9:34 PM Fri, Mar 21, 2008 | Permalink
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If you happened to read my blog, "Reporting live from a plastic bubble," you know I managed break my big toe in 5 places in late February.
I now only have two weeks and some change left in my oh-so-fashionable walking cast. Thank heavens.
When the boot finally comes off, I look forward to buying new shoes, because I've been seriously wearing down the left ones.
Thanks to everyone who has been so sweet and discreetly ...
9:08 PM Fri, Mar 21, 2008 | Permalink
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Team Coverage. It's a term you hear pretty often on 13News. Putting multiple photographers and reporters on one story is sometimes the only way to cover all of the possible angles.
Wednesday afternoon, we at 13News rolled into a form of selfless team coverage I've never experienced before.
At 5 p.m., 13News photographer Andy Grossman and I were shooting "b-roll" (or cover video) for a story we were assigned to cover at a meet...
4:11 PM Tue, Mar 18, 2008 | Permalink
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Tonight we're working a story about someone stealing a fire extinguisher off a school bus and using it to smash through the window of an elementary school building.
At first glance, some said, what's the big deal? Well think about it. Teachers are struggling with smaller budgets, school systems are looking for ways to give teachers raises, and buy better books to better prepare our children for school. Yet, the schools are continuing t...
6:39 PM Fri, Mar 14, 2008 | Permalink
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At the time, I felt terrible for them. Two women devastated by the death of one man: Thomas White. He was found shot to death last June in his home in Perquimans County. His daughter, Katherine Ann White, showed us inside the home where her father was killed. She explained she and her mother came home and discovered someone broke into the house, stealing money and jewelry.
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5:19 PM Fri, Mar 14, 2008 | Permalink
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When I was working at my last TV station in Jackson, Mississippi and beginning to look to make a move to another station I was so excited to get a job offer in Hartford, Connecticut. I was there on a job interview, walked in the door and the station resembled a library, it was quiet, stuffy, very serious, people seemed unhappy, and were even rolling their eyes as the manager walked by. I wasn't looking forward to it, but it was a great ...
5:16 PM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink
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Our lives have changed so much these days, we're in a world where many of us mean well but just get caught up in our own lives. So many times when tragedy happens and we go to a neighborhood to get information so many people say, oh I've seen that person but never spoken to them other then to say hi.
Well today I'm covering the murder of a woman over the weekend in Virginia Beach, I was so pleased and surprised to walk up to do...
