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Stephen Stock

Within four days of joining the CBS4 I-Team investigator Stephen Stock was on the scene of one of the biggest law enforcement stories in South Florida's recent history. Four officers shot were by an assailant. Stephen's contribution, along with the rest of the CBS4 News Team lead to 2 Edward R. Murrow awards, one for the Newscast, the other for Spot News coverage.

In addition to the Murrow Award, within the year Stock had also garnered two Suncoast Regional Emmy awards for his investigations into cargo theft in the United States and medical mistakes where patients were billed by doctors anyway. Stock has also been featured in national investigative seminars for his work on close calls between airplanes in the sky and on the ground. While at CBS4, he's uncovered troubles in America's aviation security systems, violence in local schools, bad day cares, dozens of troubled bridges in South Florida, allegations of misuse of power in Miami Beach, double dipping at Miami's police department, FEMA storm unpreparedness and questionable use of federal tax dollars through the US Farm Bill.

Stock's investigative work has also won several prestigious national awards. He served as lead investigative reporter on WESH 2's 20-part series, "Building Homes: Building Problems," which examined the home building industry in Central Florida. That work earned Stock and WESH 2 News a George Foster Peabody Award. He also covered the space shuttle program for NBC, and was part of the team of reporters who won a Columbia Alfred I. duPont Silver Baton for coverage of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. His work garnered a citation as Best Investigative Report, Individual Achievement and Best in TV in 2005 from the Associated Press.

Prior to joining the CBS4 I-Team, Stock was the lead investigative reporter for WESH/Orlando.

While working at WESH, Stock was involved in a number of investigations, including uncovering tax fraud by Florida prison inmates, digging up the exact cause of hundreds of fires in Ford trucks and exposing problems with Florida's day-care system. His investigative work has prompted hearings by the U.S. Congress, as well as efforts to change state law in Florida.

In addition, Stock served as a contributing correspondent for NBC News, MSNBC and NBC News Channel, covering hurricanes, shuttle launches and other nationally important stories that happen in the Southeast. As a contributor to NBC, Stephen was there when federal troops stormed into a Miami home and took out Elian Gonzalez ending months of international standoff, he was one of the first reporters at Kennedy Space Center after the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry from space over the skies of Texas and Louisiana, he covered family of the young boy who nearly died after being bitten by shark bite in the waters off Pensacola Beach, he covered the death of Dale Earnhardt at the Daytona 500, the shoot down of the Brothers to the Rescue airplane off the coast of Cuba, and was there for a half dozen election cycles for every office from President to Governor to US Senator.

Through the course of it all, Stephen has covered 38 different named tropical storms and hurricanes including names such as Hugo, Andrew, Charley, Frances and Floyd. To cover these storms he's traveled from Louisiana to Punta Gorda, Florida, from Key West to Charleston, SC, Wilmington, NC and the Outer Banks. Stephen has also covered 37 different space shuttle launches at Kennedy Space Center and says "they never get old."

Stock was named an Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg in 2004. In addition to his most recent Emmy's Stock received six regional Emmy awards -- two for team efforts and four for individual stories. He has also won three Green Eyeshade Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists—including Best of Television in 2005—for his investigative work. He has also twice been named a finalist for the national IRE award.

Prior to joining WESH, Stock worked in Greenville, South Carolina, and in Wilmington, North Carolina as the Senior Investigative Reporter and anchor, and Roanoke, Virginia.

He's married to the lady, Lynn, who has put up with him for nearly 25 years and through countless assignments that has kept them apart. They have one super smart son, Michael, who plays in the Coral Gables High School Band and makes his dad look amateurish with his video and editing technology skills. The Stock family also proudly claims two guinea pigs as well.