Dawn Stensland

The former Philly anchor who was fired and sued after hacking into co-anchor Alycia Lane's emails, is trying to syndicate his own TV show.  

Can you handle the truth? Larry Mendte wants to know. The former CBS3 anchor, dismissed from the station in 2008 for tapping into coanchor Alycia Lane's e-mail, is trying to get back on the air as the host of a proposed TV series titled Coming Clean.  

DAWN STENSLAND will be leaving Fox 29 at the end of her contract, sometime before the end of the year, the station has confirmed. The timetable of her departure is being worked out, a spokeswoman said yesterday. Kerri-Lee Halkett will take over as co-anchor of "Fox 29 News at 10" with Thomas Drayton. Stensland, wife of fired CBS 3 anchor Larry Mendte, started at Fox 29 in December 2001. She worked previously anchoring at CBS 3.  

Can you handle the truth? Larry Mendte wants to know. The former CBS3 anchor, dismissed from the station in 2008 for tapping into coanchor Alycia Lane's e-mail, is trying to get back on the air as the host of a proposed TV series titled Coming Clean.  

Larry Mendte is apparently pushing a show Coming Clean to TV news execs, wherein news stories beneath headlines would be analyzed, with a removal of bias and spin. His treatment on YouTube got pulled because CBS objected to the inclusion of (copyrighted) footage of Mendte's anchor work on Philly's KYW-3. The story of Mendte's interaction with KYW co-anchor Alycia Lane inspired a plotline on Law & Order ["Law & Order" plotline follows Larry...  

Dawn Stensland will end her eight-year run as a main anchor at Fox29 by the end of the year when her contract expires, a station spokeswoman said yesterday.  

Can you handle the truth? Larry Mendte wants to know.