Lisa Thomas Laury

The lips involved are closed tighter than a Ziploc bag, but local sources confirm that longtime Channel 6 anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury has been talking to Channel 3 about an anchor job. Thomas-Laury, 34, WPVI-TV's most visible female, joined the Cap Cities station in February 1978. Her contract is up Jan. 6. Sources at Fifth and Market say that Channel 3 is looking for a minority woman to perk up the less- than-electric Steve Bell, who's all alone at 11 p.m. now that Diane Allen works for Channel 10. Thomas-Laury had no comment yesterday.

Channel 6 news anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury was punched in the face last night outside WPVI-TV's studio near City Avenue by a man who told detectives that "voices" had told him to do it, authorities said. Thomas-Laury, 35, who with Marc Howard co-anchors the station's 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. newscasts, was taken to Lankenau Hospital after the 6:45 p.m. attack. She was treated for a scratched cornea and facial bruises and was released, said Robert Moore, a WPVI editor. "She's fine and in good condition," Moore said.

Action News reporter/anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury did not sway a Montgomery County jury, which last week found in favor of a doctor and Lankenau Hospital in her medical-malpractice lawsuit. Thomas-Laury, 56, and her husband, William , a physician, had accused the hospital and Clifford Pemberton of failing to diagnose her rare nerve disorder. The Mayo Clinic diagnosed and treated her for POEMS syndrome, the suit said. Thomas-Laury was out of work for 38 months before she returned to 6ABC in 2007.

Channel 6 anchorwoman Lisa Thomas-Laury probably made a wise decision to stay away from the sentencing of a former mental patient convicted of terrorizing her for more than three years. Thomas-Laury, who is African-American, missed a racial harangue that even defense lawyer Kirk Adams called "embarrassing. " Louis Perpetua, 55, using a racial epithet repeatedly, accused Thomas-Laury of stalking and harassing him for four years "in an effort to get me to give her an interview and co-write a book about O.J. Simpson.

Channel 6 anchorwoman Lisa Thomas-Laury testified yesterday that she started carrying a can of Mace last September and feared for her safety after she was told that a man who had been telephoning the station for more than three years, using racial slurs, and accusing her of harassing him, had threatened to cut out her tongue. Thomas-Laury, 45, who has been at WPVI-TV for 22 years, told a Common Pleas Court jury that when the caller telephoned the station on Sept. 29 to report that he was a few blocks from the studio, her life changed.

A medical-malpractice lawsuit filed nearly four years ago by 6ABC anchor-reporter Lisa Thomas-Laury moves along in Montgomery County Court as jury selection is due to begin Tuesday. Thomas-Laury, 55, and her husband, William , allege that doctors and Lankenau Hospital did not diagnose the nerve disorder known as POEMS syndrome. The Mayo Clinic diagnosed and treated her, the complaint says. She was out of work for 38 months before she returned to Action News , wearing leg braces, in January 2007.

The weightlifter held for trial on charges of attacking Lisa Thomas-Laury landed only one punch to the face - but what a punch - the Channel 6 news anchorwoman testified yesterday. In pointing out mental patient Gregory Taylor, 24, of Lawndale, as her assailant, she told Municipal Judge William J. King that she fell to the ground after the attack three weeks ago in the Channel 6 parking lot off City Avenue. Thomas-Laury testified at a brief hearing that her injuries caused her to be away from her Channel 6 post for "two weeks and a day. " She said she suffered a serious eye injury, along with facial bruises and a cut that required four stitches.

Mimi Brown, the WDAS FM (105.3) disc jockey who was shot late Tuesday, is the second radio personality wounded in the parking lot of a Lower Merion radio station in just over a year. Radio talk-show host Ted Watley, who had a show on WNWR-AM (1540), was shot several times by a man on March 8, 1996, as he sat in his car in the station's Bala Cynwyd parking lot. No one has been charged with that shooting. Yesterday, Loretta Edwards, 37, of West Philadelphia, was stopped by an off-duty Philadelphia police officer a few blocks from the station and charged with shooting Brown.

A Northeast Philadelphia man will stand trial on charges of assaulting WPVI-TV news anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury earlier this month in the station's parking lot, a Municipal Court judge ruled yesterday. After a 10-minute preliminary hearing at the 19th Police District, 61st and Thompson Streets in Overbrook, Judge William A. King Jr. ordered Gregory Taylor, 24, to appear in City Hall Room 875 on Feb. 26, when a trial date will be set. A short, stocky man dressed in blue jeans and a pink shirt, Taylor stood expressionless before the judge yesterday, just a few feet from the tall, elegantly dressed woman he was accused of attacking.

A man with a history of mental problems and a hobby of weightlifting today was ordered held for trial on a charge of socking television anchorwoman Lisa Thomas-Laury in the face on Jan. 4. "He hit me awfully hard," the $400,000-a-year newswoman said after the brief hearing at the 19th Police District, 61st and Thompson streets, before Municipal Judge William J. King. King allowed the defendant, Gregory Taylor, 21, to remain free on bail pending his Feb. 26 arraignment in City Hall.

Action News reporter/anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury did not sway a Montgomery County jury, which last week found in favor of a doctor and Lankenau Hospital in her medical-malpractice lawsuit. Thomas-Laury, 56, and her husband, William , a physician, had accused the hospital and Clifford Pemberton of failing to diagnose her rare nerve disorder. The Mayo Clinic diagnosed and treated her for POEMS syndrome, the suit said. Thomas-Laury was out of work for 38 months before she returned to 6ABC in 2007.

IF GERMANTOWN'S Kristin Haskins-Simms had to pick the "Project Runway" winner, she would choose Andy South , the freelance designer from Hawaii. Haskins-Simms was eliminated from the competition on Thursday's episode of the Lifetime design series but didn't seem to have any hard feelings when we spoke yesterday. "The show has given me great recognition for me and my line," says Haskins-Simms about her Strangefruit line that she'll show in October at Philadelphia Fashion Week.

A medical-malpractice lawsuit filed nearly four years ago by 6ABC anchor-reporter Lisa Thomas-Laury moves along in Montgomery County Court as jury selection is due to begin Tuesday. Thomas-Laury, 55, and her husband, William , allege that doctors and Lankenau Hospital did not diagnose the nerve disorder known as POEMS syndrome. The Mayo Clinic diagnosed and treated her, the complaint says. She was out of work for 38 months before she returned to Action News , wearing leg braces, in January 2007.

Marc Howard loves that his life has been full of serendipity. Consider: 25 years ago, a spot opened up at WPVI (Channel 6), whose 5:30 p.m. newscast was a close second in the Philadelphia market. The main evening anchor, a guy named Larry Kane, had decided to work in New York. His backup, Jim Gardner, was chosen to replace him. The assistant news director called Howard, whom he knew when they both worked in Hartford, and offered him the 5:30 p.m. coanchoring job. At the time, KYW (Channel 3)

Channel 6 anchorwoman Lisa Thomas-Laury probably made a wise decision to stay away from the sentencing of a former mental patient convicted of terrorizing her for more than three years. Thomas-Laury, who is African-American, missed a racial harangue that even defense lawyer Kirk Adams called "embarrassing. " Louis Perpetua, 55, using a racial epithet repeatedly, accused Thomas-Laury of stalking and harassing him for four years "in an effort to get me to give her an interview and co-write a book about O.J. Simpson.

The jury convicted Louis Perpetua of stalking Channel 6 anchorwoman Lisa Thomas-Laury, but it may take a psychiatrist's help to convince him that she wasn't harassing him, said his attorney. "Even now we cannot persuade him," said defense lawyer Kirk Adams yesterday, after Common Pleas Judge Anthony J. DeFino revoked Perpetua's bail and deferred sentencing until June 22. "He still believes Miss Laury is somehow harassing him," added Adams. "It's strictly something internal in his own mind.

After deliberating just an hour, a Common Pleas Court jury yesterday convicted a Chester man of stalking TV anchorwoman Lisa Thomas-Laury and making threats including cutting out her tongue. Louis Perpetua, 55, a former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard worker, stood expressionless as the jury announced he was guilty of stalking and harassment in making hundreds of daily telephone calls to Channel 6 between 1996 and October, often delivering racial insults and once claiming he was a few blocks from the television studio.

Louis Perpetua spent years telling anybody who would listen, from police officers to strangers on the street, that television anchorwoman Lisa Thomas-Laury was harassing him. The 54-year-old former shipyard worker from Chester, Delaware County, ordered people to tell the popular Channel 6 personality to leave him alone and stop trying to make him help with a book he claimed she was writing about the O.J. Simpson case. Sometimes he'd use racial insults, according to testimony yesterday in his stalking and ethnic intimidation trial in Common Pleas Court.

Channel 6 anchorwoman Lisa Thomas-Laury testified yesterday that she started carrying a can of Mace last September and feared for her safety after she was told that a man who had been telephoning the station for more than three years, using racial slurs, and accusing her of harassing him, had threatened to cut out her tongue. Thomas-Laury, 45, who has been at WPVI-TV for 22 years, told a Common Pleas Court jury that when the caller telephoned the station on Sept. 29 to report that he was a few blocks from the studio, her life changed.

Mimi Brown, the WDAS FM (105.3) disc jockey who was shot late Tuesday, is the second radio personality wounded in the parking lot of a Lower Merion radio station in just over a year. Radio talk-show host Ted Watley, who had a show on WNWR-AM (1540), was shot several times by a man on March 8, 1996, as he sat in his car in the station's Bala Cynwyd parking lot. No one has been charged with that shooting. Yesterday, Loretta Edwards, 37, of West Philadelphia, was stopped by an off-duty Philadelphia police officer a few blocks from the station and charged with shooting Brown.