Linda Stouffer anchors Channel 2 Action News Saturday A.M. and Channel 2 Action News Sunday A.M. She files stories for Channel 2 Action News at 4, 5 and 6 during the week.
Linda comes to WSB-TV from the CNN Networks, where she worked for 12 years. As an anchor for CNN Headline News, Linda covered 9-11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, presidential elections, hurricanes Katrina and Rita and many other national and international news events.
Before her move to Atlanta, Linda was a reporter and anchor at WSVN in Miami, FL, where she reported on several hurricanes as well as major local news stories. She is a Texas native and graduated Magna cum laude with a double major at the University of the Incarnate Word. Her first television job was as a writer, then later reporter, for KMOL (now WOAI) in San Antonio, Texas. She covered, from day one, the Branch Davidian raid and standoff in Waco, Texas.
Linda is working to raise money for CureSearch for Children’s Cancer, her volunteer efforts include Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, SafePath Children’s Advocacy, and local education groups and schools.
A Coweta County woman is fighting to get her relatives' gravesites restored after a teenage driver plowed into a cemetery two months ago. "My son said, 'They can't even rest in peace,'" Michelle Klinger told Channel 2's Linda Stouffer. Four generations of the Watts-McCollough family are buried in historic Oak ...
A woman who survived forced prostitution as a teenager tells Channel 2 Action News she thought she wouldn't make it. "I realized that -- and this happened after many rapes and beatings from johns -- I realized that if I continued I would eventually be killed," Keisha Head told Channel ...
Police are working to bust a shoplifting ring they say targeted over-the-counter medicines. Investigators told Channel 2's Linda Stouffer the thieves have hit stores in Gwinnett, Barrow, Hall and Jackson counties. Officers said the thieves hit the Publix in Braselton twice over the holidays, taking high priced items like over ...
Workers in Newnan spent the day cleaning up around 48 grave sites that were damaged in a car crash. Cemetery Superintendent Jimmy Hemmings said it's a shame to see the cracks and deep scars on family monuments in the Oak Hill Cemetery. Hemmings said some are worth thousands and impossible ...
Channel 2 Action News went to some of the local businesses targeted in a big pill mill bust and found out more about the shocking amounts of prescription narcotics some pharmacies were selling. At D&B Pharmacy in Douglasville, workers told Channel 2's Linda Stouffer they were not allowed to comment ...
State officials say raids in seven counties Tuesday add up to the largest operation yet to crack down on pill mills and prescription painkiller abuse in Georgia. Doctors, clinic owners and pharmacists were arrested in the sting. Authorities said they are connected to the illegal distribution of oxycodone. All of those ...
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office is looking for new leads in an armed robbery that shook up a local mother. The woman, who asked not it be identified, was dropping off her child at gymnastics last week when a gunman threated her and took two wedding rings. "He was up ...
Just before midnight, police started ordering Occupy Atlanta protesters to leave Woodruff Park. Occupy Atlanta protesters were met with more police Tuesday night. Just after 8 p.m. Channel 2's Ryan Young was there when about 50 police officers arrived at Woodruff Park. Youn said police also started shutting down streets ...
Jane Weeks says she walks the trail along Medlock Park every day, even in the chilly autumn weather. "Every day. If I miss, I walk twice a day," Weeks told Channel 2's Linda Stouffer. "This is the best thing that's happened." The trail was created by the private nonprofit PATH ...
Occupy Atlanta protesters took their message on the move Tuesday with a march from Woodruff Park to the Bank of America building in downtown Atlanta. They chanted, "Banks got bailed out, we got sold out" as they left Woodruff Park with signs and homemade drums. They planned to rally against ...