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Lori Fullbright

Lori Fullbright anchors News On 6 at 5 p.m. along with Craig Day and is the station's crime reporter. In addition to covering the crime beat, she has traveled all over the world covering news that affects Oklahomans.

Fullbright's reporting duties have taken her to Iraq to cover Oklahoma soldiers on the warfront; to Denver, Colorado for the Oklahoma City bombing trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols; London, England to spend a week with "Bobbies on the Beat;" to Atlanta, Georgia for the bombing at the Summer Olympics; Bosnia to show how Oklahoma soldiers were helping keep the peace; and to St. Lucia to work with officers there hunting for marijuana in the mountains .

Fullbright graduated summa cum laude from the University of Missouri-Columbia Journalism School with a broadcast journalism degree and a GPA of 3.98. Before joining the News On 6 team in 1992, Fullbright worked at KSPR-TV in Springfield, Missouri, KTVO-TV in Kirksville, Missouri, and KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri.

Fullbright is a two-time Emmy winning journalist who has received numerous awards and honors including best investigative piece awarded by Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters, 2008; SPJ award for investigative reporting, 2008; Tulsa Police Department Citizen's Appreciation Award, 2005; Tulsa's Sigma Gamma Rho Status of Women honor, 2005; Pinnacle Award winner presented by the Tulsa Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women, 2004; Best of Broadcast award for best reporter, 2003 and a Katie Award for coverage of a murder suspect who surrendered to her at the News On 6 studios. She was awarded an Emmy in 1999 for her coverage of the police shooting of Tulsa police officers Dick Hobson and Steve Downie and in 1995 for her reports on a fatal house fire in Skiatook.

Fullbright has also received the DARE achievement award and FHA/HERO Life Time achievement honor. She was a member of the board of directors for the Citizens Crime Commission from 1993 to 2003. During that time she served as alert neighbor chair as well as chairman of the board. Fullbright is also a former member of the board of directors for Operation Hope Prison Ministry. In addition, she has taught broadcasting classes at Tulsa Community College as an adjunct professor.

Lori is married to husband Kevin, who runs an Internet company.

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