KABC morning anchor Leslie Sykes has decided to retire after more than three decades at the Los Angeles ABC owned station.

Sykes joined the station in 1994 and worked as a reporter before eventually being named an anchor for the station’s 4, 5 and 6 a.m.

“Somehow, I blinked and I found myself here in this anchor chair, getting to wake up with all of you every morning and, boy, what a whirlwind it has been,” she said during her on-air announcement Wednesday.

Leslie grew up in Compton. After graduating from Spelman College in Atlanta, Sykes took a job as a desk assistant at Fox owned KTTV before landing her first on-air job in Hattiesburg, Mississippi at WDAM. She’s also worked at WVUE in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“Working here at Eyewitness News has been the privilege of my life. This

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