When WWL-TV anchor Karen Swensen decided to retire from ... her own home was being destroyed. Swensen described to CBS News' lead national correspondent David Begnaud how much this impacted ...

Evening news anchors Charisse Gibson, left, and Karen Swensen work on the set at the WWL studio in New Orleans, Friday, July 19, 2019. Esparros said he “tried to talk her out of this with ...

NEW ORLEANS — Award-winning journalist and news anchor Karen Swensen will be "retiring from local news" at the end of the February sweeps period, it was announced Tuesday. Swensen, who has ...

In the sweltering Louisiana heat on Memorial Day, Karen Swensen, a former news anchor at WWL-TV, was arriving at a Louisiana Winn Dixie grocery store to shop when she spotted Dillon McCormick ...

“I think it’s great,” he said in an Instagram video Swensen posted online. “At my age it’s probably a miracle.” Former New Orleans news anchor Karen Swensen spearheaded the fundraisin ...

It was 90 degrees in a Winn-Dixie parking lot in metro New Orleans when Karen Swensen spotted ... As a former news anchor at WWL-TV in New Orleans, Swensen did what she knows how to do best ...

A former news anchor is coming to the aid of a Westchester family hoping to raise enough money to build a therapy pool for their young son facing a challenging genetic disorder. Karen Swensen ...

Former WWL Louisiana anchor Karen Swensen witnessed Dillon McCormick pushing carts on Memorial Day and decided that she could help by sharing his story. He told Swensen that he is working to eat ...

Dillon McCormick, a 90-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran. After meeting him on Memorial Day 2024, former news anchor Karen Swensen started a GoFundMe to raise money for him. As a former news anchor ...