A familiar face will soon be perched alongside Robert Hadlock on KXAN’s evening newscasts. Beginning Oct. 27, Leslie Rhode — better known to Austinites as Leslie Cook — will slide into the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. co-anchor slot vacated by Michelle Valles. Valles left the station last month after turning down a contract extension she deemed unacceptable. Rhode returns to KXAN, where she helmed the station’s morning and evening newscasts from 1995 to 2003, after relocating to Washington, D.C., to be with husband Patrick, who worked with President Bush. In D.C., she was a reporter and weekend anchor at ABC station WJLA. The two...
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