Linda Stouffer anchors Channel 2 Action News This Morning from 4:30 a.m. to 7 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.
The phone is ringing off the hook at Dr. Michael Anderson's Canton pediatric office after a New York Times article put him in the spotlight. He's getting a lot of inquiries after the article implied he prescribes medicines to boost a child's school performance. Anderson said he would never prescribe ...
Testimony continued Tuesday in the case against Waseem Daker, accused of stalking and killing a Cobb County woman. The woman's son, Nickolas Smith, gave emotional testimony Tuesday, and described being stabbed more than a dozen times by a person whom prosecutors claim was the same man. "Felt like I was ...
A Gwinnett County man is accused of using a fire hydrant to fill his pool. According to a county police report, an officer found Thomas Prater’s garden hose hooked up to a fire hydrant on Five Forks Trickum Road to take water to his backyard swimming pool. Prater was charged ...
Channel 2 Action News learned that part of the 17th Street bridge in midtown Atlanta should reopen by the end of the year. The Georgia Department of Transportation shut it down after some of the fencing collapsed onto Interstate 75 almost a year ago. One significant safety change that will ...
A local assistance program may run out of food in days. Channel 2's Linda Stouffer found out the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry needs immediate help to feed families that have nowhere else to turn. On Wednesday, Atlanta's hungry can come in for expired bread. Kenneth Holloway came in ...
College student Aimee Copeland is getting support from famous actors, performers and a lollipop company with a deep connection. On YouTube, celebrities like Modern Family's Sophia Vergara are featured in get-well videos. "All I can do is say get well, stay strong, and you're going to get through this," said ...
Angry words once glued onto a page could help solve the murder of a Gwinnett County woman. Cold case detectives are revealing the evidence for the first time, and they need new leads in the 2008 death of Kay Wenal. "The letter was dusted for prints, also tested for DNA, ...
Atlanta police said a man escaped an attacker who jumped out of a trunk and tried to tie him up. The man was walking near Ponce de Leon Avenue NE and Juniper Street at about 4:45 a.m. Tuesday. Atlanta Police Communications Officer Kim Jones said the man was talking with ...
The Georgia Aquarium has a birth announcement, but it comes with some serious concerns. A baby beluga is in critical condition, and specialists are running 24-hour intensive care to monitor the baby's condition. William Hurley, chief zoological officer, told Channel 2's Linda Stouffer, "It's really very similar to an ICU ...
Sophia McGill is 6 years old. Her smile is bright and she's quick to give a hug. But she struggles with permanent brain damage from an incident prosecutors blame on abuse from her mother's former boyfriend. Monday, in a Jasper courtroom, Gerald Marcus Brantley accepted an arranged guilty plea on ...
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