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  • Amy Mearkle
    Amy Mearkle co-anchors WTAJ News this Morning and WTAJ News at Noon. Amy is a native of Bedford county and began her career at WTAJ in 1999 as the first Bedford County Reporter. In March 2001 she was promoted to co-anchor the morning and noon newscasts.
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  • Angie Boddorf Koehle
    Angie Koehle joined the WTAJ News Team in June 2009.  It's a homecoming for the Pennsylvania native.  Not only did Angie spend 5 years working in the region, she is from Jefferson County.
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  • Ashantai Hathaway
    Ashantai Hathaway joined WTAJ in April 2010 as a State College Bureau Reporter. Prior to WTAJ, Hathaway worked as a freelance reporter in the Washington D.C. area and worked at the U.S. House of Representatives.
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  • Barb Consiglio
    Barb joined WTAJ as the DuBois bureau reporter in January 2010 and loves the warm welcome she has gotten from everyone in Central Pennsylvania.
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  • Ben Manning
    Ben Manning is a General Assignment Reporter for WTAJ News and covers a variety of topics for WTAJ. He covers mostly stories for the evening and late night newscasts.
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  • Brian Thompson
    Brian Thompson is WTAJ's Weekend Meteorologist. He first joined WTAJ as an intern in May 2007 and later the same year joined the Stormtracker Weather Team.
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  • Carolyn Donaldson
    Carolyn feels that she is fortunate in that her position as a WTAJ NEWS anchor at 5pm, 6pm and 11pm weekdays allows her to reach out as a public personality and to serve her community both professionally and personally.
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  • Charlotte Ames
    Charlotte Ames is the area's only local Health Reporter and brings you the latest medical health news weeknights on WTAJ News at 5PM with her Healthcast report.
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  • Danielle Krout
    Danielle Krout joined the WTAJ News Team as a general assignment reporter in October of 2008.  Before coming to Central Pennsylvania, she worked in West Virginia.
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  • Dave Kaplar
    Dave Kaplar joined the WTAJ News family in 2009 as the News Director.  Originally from Ohio he started his career in Cleveland, before moving around the country to Dallas, Denver, Boston, and Portland, Maine.Read More About Dave  
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  • Jeff Preval
    Jeff is proud to be covering Centre County for WTAJ news. Before joining WTAJ, Jeff spent a year working in Centre County as a reporter-trainee for WHVL-TV in State College.
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  • Jody Gill
    Jody Gill is a Blair County native who started his career at WTAJ in August 1986 as a photographer.  Since 1996, Jody has been the satellite truck operator for several remote live shots.
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  • Joe Murgo
    Joe Murgo is WTAJ's Chief Meteorologist and you can catch him weekdays with the latest Stormtracker Weather at 5PM, 5:30PM, 6PM and 11PM.
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  • John Clay
    John Clay is the Managing Editor for the WTAJ newsroom. He is the co-anchor for WTAJ News weekdays at 5:30PM, 6PM and 11PM. John joined WTAJ News in 1998 as a reporter in State College.
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  • K.C. Kantz
    My broadcasting career began my sophomore year of college, when I was hired to do some Public Address work for The Erie Otters (Ontario Hockey League)
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  • Kevin Flanigan
    Kevin Flanigan has been with WTAJ for almost 20 years. Kevin is a General Assignment Reporter based in Blair County and also covers the business news throughout central Pennsylvania.
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  • Mike Mueller
    Mike Mueller made his way to Central PA via Harrisonburg, VA. Mike keeps the local sports scene covered here in Central Pennsylvania for WTAJ.
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  • Nick Foley
    Nick Foley is WTAJ's Sports Director. Nick is the newest face to WTAJ News and joins us from sunny Florida. Nick has been covering sports for the past 10 years and we welcome him to the WTAJ family.
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  • Patrick Schurr
    Patrick Schurr co-anchors WTAJ News this Morning along with WTAJ News at Noon. Patrick joined WTAJ News in November 1999 as a reporter before being promoted to anchor.
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  • Regina Miller
    Regina Miller is WTAJ's Stormtracker Meteorologist for the morning and noon newscasts. Regina returned to WTAJ in 2004 as a Weekend Weather Anchor while continuing her education and receiving her Certificate of Meteorology.
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