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Former News 8 reporter LaSalle Blanks finds strength after stroke

Former News 8 reporter LaSalle Blanks finds strength after stroke

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

News Channel 8
By Lisa Carberg
May 23, 2023

NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Reporter Lasalle Blanks covered Waterbury for News 8 like no one else.

With total passion and enthusiasm for telling stories, he also had a special way of highlighting the city’s youth doing great things. But, one day in 2021, Blank’s life changed forever.

“I couldn’t put any pressure on my left side, so I rolled over on my right and got out of bed, and when I tried to stand I literally started going like this,” Blanks said. “When you have a stroke, you don’t just collapse.”

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