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Michelle Bandur, center, stands with colleagues in the newsroom of KCRA in Sacramento in a recent photo. The on-air journalist has signed off after 35 years in TV news but will remain in Sacramento, she said.<\/p>\n
Michelle Bandur via Facebook<\/p>\n
Emmy-winning KCRA-TV reporter Michelle Bandur has signed off after 35 years in television news, including the last four at the Sacramento station, she said in a social media post.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a ride I\u2019ve had being a TV News journalist since the late \u201980\u2019s. I\u2019ve enjoyed and learned so much being part of the changes over the decades in TV News from hairstyles, technology, social media, and the now direct connection to viewers,\u201d Bandur said in a farewell message posted to Facebook<\/a>. \u201cBut one thing has never changed \u2014 the storytelling, truth seeking and digging for answers. Journalism matters, more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n Bandur\u2019s last day at Channel 3 was earlier this month. She arrived in Sacramento nearly four years ago, where she was reunited with Ariel Roblin, KCRA president and general manager, who had been Bandur\u2019s boss at Omaha, Nebraska, ABC affiliate KETV.<\/p>\n The TV news veteran leaves behind work at the Sacramento NBC affiliate that included special reports on conditions for children in California\u2019s foster care system and national scoops in the case of Vallejo \u201cAmerican Nightmare\u201d<\/a> predator Matthew Muller.<\/p>\n Bandur won two Emmy Awards for daily news as well as team Emmy awards while at KCRA. Most recently, she reported on the state\u2019s elderly parole program<\/a>, which came under scrutiny after the release of David Allen Funston. He had been serving multiple life terms for the kidnappings, rapes and assaults of eight Sacramento-area children in 1995 before his scheduled release in February.<\/p>\n Funston was charged and rearrested by Placer County authorities in a 1996 case involving a Roseville child on the day of his release from state prison and remains in Placer County custody pending an April court date in Placer Superior Court.<\/p>\n Bandur is leaving television news but not retiring. She plans to remain in Sacramento after receiving \u201ca once in a lifetime opportunity with a unique company.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMore to come,\u201d Bandur said.<\/p>\n