S- Uh, what are some of your favorite stories that you've covered, uh, if whether it was, you know, i- in your original station or since moving over here?

Mm-hmm.

Um, well, I have been involved since 2009 in, like, the oi- opioid, when opioids were strong.

Uh, former Congresswoman Mary Bono and I, uh, worked together on a story.

Her son had gotten addicted to, uh, Oxycontin, and she wanted to come forward as a mom, um, and talk about it, and so we did that.

I had a neighbor who had her son kidnapped and taken to Utah, same kinda issue.

So like 2008, 2009.

if it wasn't for you-

How common is it for people to go missing in, in the Palm Springs area?

People go missing.

I, we hear about it all the time.

Elderly people with dementia, um, a runaway, you know, that sort of thing.

But in talking to the captain of the Palm Springs Police Department, he said it is rare for someone to go missing and for there to be foul play.

He wouldn't just miss this, and he wouldn't not call, because we had plans."

You know, and obviously at that point as a friend, I, I would of course, I'm neurotic and Jewish, I would assume that they were, like, trapped under a large piece of furniture or in a ditch on the side of the road.

I would never in a million years think, like, there was some nefarious criminal element around this person.

Here's Karen Devine, news anchor for KESQ.

Lisa DeMaria, she, totally described as tough and smart and well-read, and a hard worker, and a bulldog in the courtroom.

And in interviews with our TV station, she never held back, which I loved about her.

Because, you know, sometimes you get these generic reactions from attorneys.

Did you guys report on the controversy regarding Judge Downing?

We absolutely did.

When we heard about what Judge Downing said, it was a shocker.

You know how the places you hear a gasp in a courtroom? There was a gasp in the newsroom.