Hometown: Girard, IL

High School: Girard High School

College: Illinois State University

Other Journalism Experience: WICS-Springfield, IL, WIFR-Rockford, IL, WICD-Champaign, IL, WPEC-West Palm Beach, FL, WTMJ-Milwaukee, WI

Started at Channel 3 on: July 2003

Q: What is your favorite part about living in Madison?
A: Wonderful, wholesome place to raise a family. There's always something to do.

Q: What is the biggest news story that you've covered?
A: Murder of Johnny Versace in Miami, 1996 and hunt for his killer Andrew Cunanan. It was surreal standing on the beach elbow to elbow with reporters from other countries speaking 100s of different languages -- all of us doing live shots.

Q: What do you like to do in your spare time?
A: Volunteer, read, scrapbook

Q: What is your family life like? Significant other, married, children?
A: Married, 3 kids

Q: What is your favorite kind of ice cream?
A: French vanilla

Q: What is your favorite place to vacation?
A: Anywhere with my husband

Q: Who is your hero and why?
A: My grandmother. She is the strongest and funniest woman I know. She has buried 3 of her 4 kids, and a husband, advocated for Muscular Dystrophy, and worked her entire life. It's where I learned my work ethic and commitment to family and community. Not to mention she's a fantastic baker.

Q: What was your favorite band when you were in high school?
A: Poison

Q: What is your favorite sport to play or watch?
A: Play: volleyball, watch: baseball

Q: If you could possess one superhuman power, what would it be?
A: Ability to teleport anywhere I wanted (no time wasted driving or flying)

Q: What are you really bad at that you’d love to be great at?
A: Horrible at mini-golf – my kids love to play with me.

Q: What is your most memorable travel experience?
A: Covering the Rose Bowl 1999. Because of a freak snowstorm in WI, our crews and all Badger fans were trapped in LA for a few more days. Needless to say – we continued to work – shooting stories about people sitting around the pool in their jeans/sweatshirts with their luggage piled beside them waiting for flights.

Q: What is the worst job you have ever had?
A: Age 16 - DJ'ing 5-8am on Sundays at a hometown radio station, especially reading the obituaries and funeral announcements.

Q: What is your favorite tradition around the holidays?
A: Dividing the tree ornaments between my kids. They love to hear the stories of where and when certain ornaments came from.

Q: What is your favorite book of all time?
A: The Shack

Q: What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
A: Your work will never love you as much as your family does.

Q: If you could relive any moment, what would that be?
A: The moment I met my husband.

Q: Where were you when Sept. 11, 2001 occurred?
A: On my way to a public relations training session, in my car. We never had the session, we all sat and watched the TV. I went to donate blood immediately – but the lines were hours long. We went to church that night.

E-mail Angela at abettis@wisctv.com.