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Christine Metz (Special projects reporter)
Christine Metz is a special projects reporter and multimedia trainer for the News Center. Since coming to Lawrence in March 2007, Christine's stories have ranged from a look at the foreclosure crisis to the state's backlog of disability claims. Many of her stories focus on issues of regional and statewide importance.
Christine grew up in central Pennsylvania and graduated with degrees in journalism and economics from Lehigh University.
Her first newspaper job was in Steamboat Springs, Colo., where she covered everything from high school football to ski town politics. She later moved to Bend, Ore., to work as a city hall reporter for the The Bulletin.
When she is not in the office, you can find Christine outdoors running, biking and swimming. And, when the stars are aligned and Kansas is graced with enough snow, you might even catch her cross-country skiing.
Recent stories
- Motorists, cyclists share responsibility
- July 6, 2008
- For Randy Breeden, bicycling isn’t always a relaxing spin. Drivers have cursed him, buzzed by him and honked at him. Breeden, a 17-year bicyclist who racks up about 7,000 miles a year, has had many close calls. Some have been so close that they have raised the hairs on his arms.
- New venue, same old fun
- July 5, 2008
- For Wooseung Hong, it didn’t much matter if this year’s fireworks display was at Burcham Park or Clinton Lake. Last year after watching the show on television, he made a promise to his wife and two children that next Fourth of July they would partake in this very American tradition. So from a grassy field just below Clinton Lake’s Sesquicentennial Point, the KU student from South Korea sat on a blanket surrounded by 20 others from his home country and watched as fireworks danced in the sky and the crowd around him oohed and aahed.
- Armed robbery reported at home on Delaware Street
- July 4, 2008
- An armed robbery was reported in the 1200 block of Delaware Street early Friday morning.
- 6News video: Treasure all in the hunt
- June 22, 2008
- It might not come with the excitement of an Indiana Jones movie, but the thrills of possible finds on an archaeology dig have KU students and Lawrence residents venturing to north central Kansas this summer. 6News reporter Christine Metz has more.
- KU to analyze Republic County dig’s finds
- Artifacts uncovered decades ago will be among those studied
- June 20, 2008
- Kansas University has a $41,000 contract to study the remains from this year's dig.
- Thrill of the dig
- Archaeology can be tedious, but finds bring moments of excitement
- June 20, 2008
- For those who still have the big screen notion that archaeology digs come with treasure-hunting, fist-fighting, grave-robbing adventure, all you have to do is observe the amount of excitement generated from the discovery of a tiny gun hammer to know that while the dig comes with thrills, it is rarely of the Indiana Jones variety. The hook for the volunteers, professors and students who gathered in Republic County earlier this month are those instances when an artifact, however small, is plucked out among the dirt giving a new window into the lives of people who stood on the same spot generations ago.
- 6News video: Changes to impact foster care system
- May 18, 2008
- This spring the Kansas Department of Health and Environment introduced new regulations that will impact the five thousand children in the state's foster care system and the families that have them.
- Foster care: A home away from home
- Temporary stay can transition to adoption for some families
- May 18, 2008
- Henry and Tasha Wertin’s indoctrination into parenthood wasn’t quite what they thought it would be.
- KDHE updating regulations for foster care families
- May 18, 2008
- With running a day care, Tasha Wertin’s home is already under the microscope. As a foster care parent with her husband, Henry Wertin, it gets an even closer examination.
- Douglas County district judge has seen, heard it all
- May 18, 2008
- In this Douglas County courtroom, a dozen or so people routinely fill the chambers — lawyers, advocates, social workers. More often than not, the one person they are there to discuss is absent: the child.
Recent photos
Volunteers work to uncover an archaeology dig in Republic County.
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