Sign Laura Wiki - Sign Laura Biography
Sign Laura is the wife of Christopher Sign. The return to ABC 33/40 is certainly a happy homecoming for Christopher and his family. Born and raised in Dallas/Ft. Worth area, Christopher first moved to Alabama after being recruited by Coach Gene Stallings. He played four years under Stallings and Coach Mike Dubose on a full scholarship for the Crimson Tide.
With the help of Stallings and DuBose, the University of Alabama graduate got his first job in Montgomery as a reporter where he got his first taste of politics. Then it was off to Midland/Odessa Texas where Christopher covered the oil & gas industry and many of the area’s top stories.
He left for Phoenix where he spent the next 13 years as a reporter and anchor, but the opportunity to rejoin ABC 33/40 as a weeknight anchor in 2017 was too good of an opportunity for him and his family to pass up.
That decision put him in a place where he could see his boys off to school in the mornings, watch them play baseball in the evenings, and take them fishing on the weekends. Chris was a tremendous leader in our newsroom. He worked with our reporting staff on a daily basis but also worked behind the scenes with the I-Team and with news managers on coverage of major events.
Sign Laura Age
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Sign Laura & Christopher Sign
Sign had three sons with his wife, Laura, whom he met at the University of Alabama in the 1990s, where he manned the offensive line for the school’s football squad and she starred as an All-SEC volleyball player, according to the local ABC affiliate.
Christopher and his wife, a former University of Alabama volleyball player, made their way to Birmingham working for ABC 33/40 as a reporter covering some of the most well-known stories in our state including the Brookwood deadly mine explosion. Christopher’s coverage of a deadly Tuscaloosa tornado earned him a national Edward R. Murrow award. He earned several other awards including an Associated Press and regional Murrow awards for his coverage of former Alabama Coach Dennis Franchione’s surprise departure from the University, Mike Price’s short tenure, and several other high-profile stories.
Christopher Sign Background
The award-winning journalist then moved to Phoenix where he worked for nearly 13 years. Most recently Christopher was a morning anchor for the ABC affiliate. Among the accolades in Phoenix, he won 4 Emmy Awards during his time in the Valley Of The Sun and recognized for breaking the national story of a secret tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton while Hillary Clinton was under the microscope regarding her email scandal shortly before the Presidential election.
Returning to Birmingham has been a goal for Christopher and his wife. It’s exactly where they wanted to raise their three young boys. You can often find them at the gym, the grocery store, enjoying Alabama outdoors, and watching whatever sporting event is on.
Christopher Sign Cause of Death
Christopher Sign, 45, was found dead by Hoover, Ala., police around 8:13 a.m. Saturday after cops received a call of “a person down” at his Scout Trace home, according to Al.com. The former college football player’s death is being investigated as a suicide, Hoover Lt. Keith Czeskleba said, according to the outlet.
“Chris was a tremendous leader in our newsroom,” wrote ABC 33/40, Sign’s outlet, in a Saturday tribute to the reporter.
“He worked with our reporting staff on a daily basis, but also worked behind the scenes with the I-Team and with news managers on coverage of major events,” the obituary continued. “You were very likely to get an email from him with a story idea in the middle of the night. He was passionate about journalism and showed it each and every day as he pushed himself and his colleagues to be the best.”
Sign’s Instagram account told the story of a devoted dad, with photos showing him spending quality time with his family as recently as last week.
Jamie Hale, the network’s sports anchor, tweeted the sad story with a message of grief.
“I can’t believe we have an article with this title,” she wrote Saturday. “It doesn’t feel real. We were in the office together last night cutting up like we always do. I don’t understand why,” Hale continued. “I can’t talk about you in the past tense. The grief today is unbearable.”
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Eric Land, the vice president, and general manager of ABC 33/40 issued a statement echoing the heartbreak. Our deepest sympathy is shared with Christopher’s loving family and close friends,” he said.
“We have lost a revered colleague who’s indelible imprint will serve forever as a hallmark of decency, honesty and journalist integrity,” Land added. “We can only hope to carry on his legacy. May his memory be for blessing.”
The Dallas-area native headed to Alabama in 2017 to anchor the ABC station’s evening news show, after working for a TV station in Phoenix.
While there, Sign broke the major 2016 presidential campaign news that Bill Clinton met with Lynch on the tarmac of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport while the then-AG was investigating the use of a private e-mail server by Hillary Clinton, the former president’s wife and the Democratic presidential candidate at the time.
Sign went on to write a book about the encounter titled “Secret on the Tarmac.”
“We knew something had occurred that was a bit unusual,” Sign told “Fox & Friends” in February 2020, ahead of the book’s release. “It was a planned meeting. It was not a coincidence.”
Sign went on to tell Fox that the investigation made his life a living hell, with his family receiving death threats.
“My family received significant death threats shortly after breaking this story,” he said. “Credit cards hacked. You know, my children, we have code words. We have secret code words that they know what to do.”
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