REPORTER BLOGS

You can take the girl out of Michigan, but I guess it’s true that you can’t always take Michigan out of the girl.

I’m one of the thousands trying to fly out of Detroit Metro Airport this morning.

The frenzy of Halloween with three kids was always intense, fun, exhausting, and sugar-fueled (me, eating all the Twix). Share your favorite Halloween parenting memories with me, I’d love to read them.

My 13-year-old daughter found me standing in front of my closet last night.

I’m beyond excited to return to Channel 4, in a role I’ve cherished for over 27 years. But first, let’s do some catching up!

It’s my first trip since mass cancellations and delays have plagued the air travel industry, so needless to say my fingers were crossed, hoping I could take the trip as planned on both my outbound and inbound flights.

The video and pictures from June 11, 1982 in Downtown Detroit are as unnerving as they are impressive. A fiery and bloody assault on the Buhl Building’s 8th floor that morning far outstrips anything the most creative Hollywood script writer could ever conjure.

The video and pictures from June 11, 1982 in Downtown Detroit are as unnerving as they are impressive. A fiery and bloody assault on the Buhl Building’s 8th floor that morning far outstrips anything the most creative Hollywood script writer could ever conjure.

“He still has seizures. He can’t be left alone. We need around the clock care.”

Trying to remember what happened 25 years ago is a difficult task. But the Red Wings winning their first Stanley Cup in 42 years feels like it happened 42 minutes ago.

It’s been a return to normalcy on Mackinac Island for the annual policy conference.

How can we continue to see blood splattered all over the walls of grade school classrooms?

Theresa Braxton was laid to rest today.

You get on and the buses are clean, the drivers professional, and everyone is friendly. It felt like a carpool with friends.

Local 4+ is a new way for you to watch hyper local news at a time that might be more convenient for you.

4-4 on Local 4! I’m super excited that we can finally share the news with you!

We are so excited to launch our streaming channel and the opportunity it gives us to give you more local news.

It feels good to be back in the swing of things!

We are 12 days away from the Tigers Opening Day at Comerica Park. Here’s why my trip to Spring Training this year makes me even more excited about Tigers baseball.

Many of you know Shamayim Harris from Highland Park (aka Mama Shu).

It was January of 1992, Russia’s first winter of democracy after the collapse of the Soviet system. I and my photographer, Chuck Musgrove, were walking across the historic stones of Red Square in Moscow.

Juwan Howard was heated when he joined the handshake line following the 77-63 loss to the Wisconsin Badgers Sunday afternoon

I have to hand it to you, Windsor. Sure, Canada has a reputation of being friendly and welcoming. Having covered the Windsor blockade since its inception last Monday when a half dozen or so drivers took a stand on Huron Church Rd.

Over the last four years, I’ve done quite a few stories on breast implant illness (BII). I’m as surprised as you are to find that I’ve somehow become the breast implant specialist at Local 4. But as stories sometimes do, this one first arrived through a friend.

For five and a half years, Philadelphia was my home away from home. It was the longest I ever lived in any one place over the course of my career, and it didn’t disappoint.

Did you hear the one about the Governor who had a surplus of money to spend?

Who would have thought that wearing two mismatched earrings would cause so much conversation -- and lift my self-esteem, as well!

If a reporter is lucky, in a long career, there will be a handful of stories that change her. On Tuesday, I reported on one that did.

Almost a year after the pandemic shut down the world, I walked into my bedroom and announced to my husband that I had fallen in love. AdThose weeks I had something to do before and after work, every single day—my stepdaughter and I would call Hell-Weeks. (Photo from Paula Tutman)I started with bronze precious metal clay and then moved to gray grog and then to Amaco white #25. I was lucky enough to find something good to learn during this horrendous pandemic year of learning so many bad things. When this pandemic stuff is over, and if we all do our part, this will be over soon, will I go back to my crazy busy life?

On Jan. 12, 2010, Grosse Pointe Farms police reported Matouk Romain walked out of her evening church service at St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church on Lake Shore Road, then walked across the street right into Lake St. Clair and killed herself. It is a mystery that has haunted Grosse Pointe Farms and Grosse Pointe Woods for more than a decade: What happened to mother of three JoAnn Matouk Romain? On Jan. 12, 2010, Grosse Pointe Farms police reported Matouk Romain walked out of her evening church service at St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church on Lake Shore Road, then walked across the street right into Lake St. Clair and killed herself. Here’s some Insider info from Karen Drew on producing the series and why she took on this story:Karen Drew and photographer John Pompeo. I have to admit, I have never reported on a story with so many twists and turns as the death of Joann Matouk Romain.