Professional Experience

2014 to present: Anchor for WINK News This Morning. Previously worked at KMGH-TV in Denver, WSJV-TV in South Bend, Ind., and KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo.

Hobbies, Interests & Community Service

Enjoys participating in marathons and triathlons.

Education

The University of Missouri.

Likes best about Southwest Florida

As an island girl at heart, I'm thrilled to be back by the beach. While there are so many fantastic things about Southwest Florida, one of my favorites is Captiva, which holds a special place in my heart because that is where I celebrated my marriage.

Hometown

I don't have one. I've never lived anywhere longer than four years.

Family

Husband and two young children.

Memorable Assignments

Covering the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., and historic floods that destroyed parts of Colorado.

Interesting Fact

As the daughter of U.S. Navy parents, I've lived in 10 states, Guam and Sweden.

Punta Gorda Subway robbed

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – Police are looking for a woman who reportedly robbed a Subway on Saturday around 7:30 p.m. Officers said a woman walked into the sandwich shop in the 3900 block of Tamiami Trail. The suspect then went to the register pretending like she was going to pay for something. When the clerk […]

Clinic gives flu shot instead of birth control shot

SEATTLE- A woman claims a community clinic gave her a flu shot instead of a birth control injection, and now she is suing the federal government. Yesenia Pacheco filed the civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the government since the clinic is federally funded. Pacheco, who decided to keep the child, loves her 3-year-old […]

Multiple confirmed cases of Legionnaires in Lee County,

More Bronx buildings tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease

NEW YORK (AP) – Five more buildings in the Bronx have tested positive for the bacteria that cause the potentially deadly Legionnaires’ disease, though there is no sign that anyone has grown ill from the new sites, New York City officials said Saturday. Ten people have died in the largest Legionnaires’ outbreak in city history. […]

6 dead in Taiwan typhoon

BEIJING (AP) – A typhoon was pounding southeast China late Saturday, leaving more than a million homes without power after lashing Taiwan, where it downed trees, traffic lights and power lines, and left six people dead and four missing. Typhoon Soudelor hit the city of Putian in Fujian province late Saturday night and was expected […]

Fort Myers police investigate shooting

FORT MYERS, Fla.- Police are looking for any information about a shooting early Saturday morning. Officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 2100 block of Davis Court just before 5 a.m. Officers found a car that had several bullet holes, but no one was reported injured. Fort Myers police are working with […]

Sanibel man killed in crash on Summerlin Rd.

LEE COUNTY, Fla. – A 46-year-old man died after his motorcycle collided with a SUV on Summerlin Road. It happened Friday night around 9:30 p.m. Florida Highway Patrol said the driver of a Honda CRV was attempting to make a U-turn at Kelly Cove Drive and Summerlin Road. As the driver of the SUV pulled onto […]

Texas football player shot and killed by police

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – A police officer in suburban Dallas shot and killed a college football player during a struggle after the unarmed 19-year-old crashed a car through the front window of a car dealership, authorities said. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the dead man as Christian Taylor, of Arlington. Taylor was a […]

Subpoenas repeatedly sent to wrong person

LEE COUNTY, Fla. – A Cape Coral woman contacted Call for Action after she kept receiving subpoenas on her doorstep that were not for her. The woman asked she remain anonymous because the subpoenas left at her involved criminal cases, so we are calling her Tiffany for the purpose of this story. Tiffany said she […]

Chrysler mum on buyback details

LEE COUNTY, Fla. – In a statement from Fiat Chrysler Monday, it said they were still working out the details of the buyback. WINK News contacted Fiat Chrysler asking how customers should begin the process of the buyback and when they would receive their money. Below was the response emailed to WINK News. “Many of […]

‘Aggressive’ search underway for 2 teens on fishing trip

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) – The Coast Guard searched “aggressively” off the Florida coast and friends combed the shoreline Monday for any sign of two teenage fishermen, described as experienced boaters, who went missing three days earlier after setting out for the Bahamas on a stormy afternoon. What began as a teenage summer adventure – a […]