Sarah Gardner Returns...

Sarah Gardner is back anchoring! This time at CBS 13 News, from 5-7 a.m. with Ron Hyde (former KCRA employee) and the news at noon with Nick Toma. According to a local source Gardner is only temporarily anchoring until Lisa Gonzales returns back from maternity leave which should be sometime this spring. After a year off TV, one of Sacramento's best Journalist is back on air.

Former Anchor Joins the Converstation

Former KCRA 3 anchor Sarah Gardner will make an apperance on News10's Live_Online chat room today during the 5pm newscast. Gardner and researcher director David Amaral for the M.I.N.D Institute will be talking about the care for children with autism and the latest advances in diagnosing the brain condition. They will be accepting any questions during the 30- 45 minute chat discussion. Gardner helped co-founder of the M.I.N.D Institute at U. C Davis along with her husband Chuck who is a housing contractor.

Sad News for long time KCRA Viewers

Sarah Gardner has been with KCRA 3 for the past 14-years, and on Friday Dec. 28th, 2007 will be her last day on-air anchoring after not coming to an agreement on her contract.

"We had hoped that Sarah would stay, but she decided for personal and professional reasons to move on," said Elliott Troshinsky, president and general manager of KCRA and My58. "We couldn’t reach an agreement that was satisfactory to both of us. We wish her all the best in the future."

"I love KCRA and love my job, getting to work with incredibly talented people," she said. "But it was one of those things where I wanted to make sure to give 100 percent to my family and 100 percent to my job, and the way things are now, it's impossible to do both." Released from the Sac Bee.

Gardner will definitely be missed on TV, but gladly will still be in Sacramento. Gardner and her husband Chuck are co-founders of the M.I.N.D institute at U.C Davis Medical Center
with the hopes of finding the cause and hopefully a cure for autism, Gardner's son was diagonsed with autism at an early age and her efforts have contributied to create an institute to find a cure.

Just a little history of Gardner, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1982 and worked at a DJ playing country music, later she moved into TV as a weekend weather anchor writer/producer at NBC-15's WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin. Gardner also spent time on the road as the local anchor of "PM Magazine" in Charlotte, N.C., traveling with the show to Europe, Egypt, Jamaica and Canada. Gardner has co-anchored with Kelly Brothers, Chris Riva and John Alston in the past. We wish Gardner the best in life!

New Nightly Anchor at 10 p.m.

At last KCRA hires an anchor for the weekday 10 p.m. My58 newscast. His name is Teo Torres and he comes from KRON 4 an independent station as a morning anchor in San Francisco, California. Teo will begin anchoring in January 2008 along with Sarah Gardner. Still no one to anchor the 6 and 11 p.m. newscast along with Edie Lambert, but Sarah and Edie make a great news team =)