Marla Tellez
Marla Tellez began working at FOX 11 in January of 2014. She anchors the noon newscast and provides reports for the 5 p.m. show. Tellez has become known for her weekly segment ‘Top Property’ where she tours Southern California’s many mega-mansions. Before working at KTTV, Tellez anchored the midday newscast for the NBC affiliate in San Francisco. Her broadcast career began behind-the-scenes first, as a news writer and then, a news producer in the Bay Area, where she was raised. Her on-air career launched when she landed a reporting gig for the CBS affiliate in Salinas. From there, she transferred to the CBS station in San Francisco as a correspondent and producer for the nightly show, Evening Magazine. In 2008, Tellez left California for an anchor opportunity in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That's where she got the chance to appear in the hit AMC show, "Breaking Bad." Over the years, Tellez has interviewed numerous high-ranking politicians, celebrities and covered the highly publicized Scott Peterson Trial. She’s also picked up two Emmy Awards along the way. Tellez has a political science degree from Sonoma State University, where she graduated magna cum laude.
The latest from Marla Tellez
Los Angeles restaurateur and high school teacher teaming up to help students with fellowship
The unlikely bond forged between Los Angeles restaurateur Mike Gordon and high school teacher Maynard Brown is as powerful as the college fellowship created by this blended brotherhood.
Students try to adjust to the new norm of Zoom classrooms
As part of our back-to-school report, we’re getting an inside look at remote learning with Fox 11’s Marla Tellez.
U-Haul stolen, Lakewood family searching for answers
The Hernandez family of Lakewood had packed up everything.
Woman, man fatally shot in Agoura Hills; Authorities investigating as murder-suicide
The LA County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a murder-suicide in Agoura Hills, officials said Monday.
From fighting fires to fighting racism, a conversation with LA County Fire Chief Osby
“When my Dad was a firefighter I thought they all just brought their own food to work. I didn’t know until later that you eat as a crew. But because he was African American, he had to eat by himself,” says LA County Fire Chief Daryl Osby.
Home featured in hit show 'Golden Girls' up for sale in Brentwood
The Golden Girls may be Florida girls, but their iconic ranch style home featured on the hit sitcom lives in LA’s exclusive Brentwood neighborhood.
Man diagnosed with COVID-19 2 weeks before nursing home told his daughter he had it, he died next day
A woman is suing a Los Angeles skilled nursing home for failing to inform her that her father contracted COVID-19. She says despite numerous calls to the facility to check on her dad as the pandemic worsened, she wasn't told until the day before he died, even though he was diagnosed two weeks earlier.
Local ER doctor's perfectly healthy wife battled COVID-19
Dr. Troy Pennington's wife, Loren, is a picture of perfect health - someone who runs five to seven miles a day. So, when the 31-year-old wife and mother contracted COVID-19, both were stunned.
USC grad suing LAPD claims she was arrested, hand zip-tied and caged in vehicle for breaking curfew
A recent USC graduate who was arrested for breaking curfew in a downtown Los Angeles George Floyd protest is suing LAPD, claiming inhumane and torturous treatment.
Young activist on front lines of Robert Fuller investigation related to historic 1979 LAPD deadly shooting
As the investigation into the hanging death of Robert Fuller in Palmdale continues, so does the Fuller family's fight for justice.