I was born in Baltimore, Maryland. I graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law and I have a B.S. Degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland.

I am married and I have two children. I have been in television news for more than thirty seven years. My first job was in New York City where I was a production assistant for Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and Harry Reasoner. I have worked in sixteen different markets, having sixteen different jobs.

I covered the New Hampshire First-in-the-Nation Presidential Primary in 1988.I covered the Challenger tragedy in 1986. I have covered rose bowls, super bowls, final fours. I orchestrated Christmas parades, Festivals, July Fourth Extravaganzas. I covered the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Moscow in 1987 and I covered the historic collapse of the Berlin wall in Germany in 1989. My coverage of the Pamela Smart murder trial paved the way for court TV.